Botanic Bleu: Christmas Eiffel Tower Book Covers

Have you ever been to France and

tried to buy Noël (Christmas) themed

books, cards, or postcards?

One late September, early October

I was in Paris and tried to find

Noël-themed items.

No luck.

Sales clerks looked at me quizzically,

with a puzzled look that said,

"Don't you know it is not Noël season?"

They tsked, tsked as they shook their heads

and said, "No, we do not have any Noël

__________ (insert children's books,

postcards, greeting cards)."

So, what's a French-loving, Christmas-loving,

girl to do?

Make her own!

Christmas Eiffel Tower

Book Covers

My friend, Debbie at Confessions of a Plate Addict,

showed how she creatively covered some books

with an Eiffel tower print.
See Debbie's excellent instructions
if you would like to cover books, also.

Of course, I pinned her covered books to my Pinterest board called Design Ideas,

thinking one day I'm going to cover some books like that.

Then I discovered the Noël-themed Eiffel tower print at
the Etsy shop, Graphicals.

A Noël-themed print...just what I was looking for in Paris.

The books I used are all the same height, but vary in thickness.

The Eiffel Tower print I used is asymmetrical,

but works just as well as a symmetrical print.

The white iron Eiffel Tower can either be a bookend for the books or

the books can elevate the Tower.

The paper used to cover the books is white craft paper from Michaels

that has a subtle textured white-on-white striped design.

The celery-colored twine that binds the books together for stability

is from the Container Store.

Instead of adding a wax seal directly to the book cover,
I created a wax seal on a piece of kitchen waxed paper and
carefully lifted it from the waxed paper after the seal was cool.

The fleur-de-lis wax seal is glued to the twine so that the seal will
not break when the twine is moved.