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Book the Halls: Bookish Holiday Decor

Raych Krueger

Staff Writer

Raych has so many kids (like, two, but they’re super young, which makes it seem like there are more of them) and this really cuts into her reading time. She’s using her degrees in Early Childhood Education and English Literature to teach the toddler to read to the baby so she can get back to her trashy Victorian sensation novel, or whatever. She’s also teaching her kids to travel and eat broadly, mostly through example (Do As I Do is super important, you guys), and hasn’t gone a year without hopping on a plane since she was a teenager. She recently moved from the Canadian coast to the Canadian prairies, where it gets hella cold, and if not for the internet, she’d surely be dead. Blog: Books I Done Read Twitter: @raychraych

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Nov 28, 2016

I just wanna load my house with holiday décor but it’s already full of books so we can just turn the books into décor, it’s fine. Here go. General wintry things: Make a snowman of books! the pin Source Make a snowman of books, more differently! the pin Everyone is always making trees out of books when they COULD be making cozy fireplaces! the pin Source People are always making trees out of books, though: Remember like two years ago when the towering stack of books shaped roughly like a tree was such a novelty? I love this new thing of just like slumping books on top of each other. the pin Source Use only green books for some mild verisimilitude! the pin Source Just like STACK A BUNCH OF PAGES (this one has the potential to look EXTREMELY DIY if you don’t have some real artistic moxie). the pin Source Here’s a leetle one if you don’t trust yourself. the pin Source If you’re doing a book advent calendar (if you’re not, why aren’t you), stand your books up tall and slap some numbered stars on them! the pin Source We’ve many of us made Christmas trees in our youth by folding down the corner of each page of a Reader’s Digest and then spray painting the whole of it green, but I like the sleek, modern look of these skinny duders. the pin Source Things that aren’t trees: This is where it gets EXCITING. This Christmas diorama INSIDE a Christmas book is some Christmasception and I am literally dying from how much I want it. the pin Source While we are on the subject of me dying. This vintage book house village! *fans self* I am unable. the pin Source I’m not taking this one on, YOU take this one on. (Link is for etsy pattern if you legit want to take this one on.) the pin Source Use vintage book covers as part of your décor! This is the kind of Extremely Tacky that I can fall in with; I get very MORE IS MORE around the holidays. the pin Ornaments and garlands &c: Book page wreaths are pretty common, but this one kicks it up eleventy notches with RUFFLING and GREENERY. Soooooo pretty. the pin Source Book page ornaments are likewise a dime a dozen but this library due date one is DARLING. Do it yourself, or pick up a ceramic one from zazzle. the pin Source Make little bows and then make a garland. Alternately, just slap bows on ERRRRRthing. the pin Source Speaking of garlands. This garland is just folded pages! I can fold pages. the pin Source Books just booking: Books are so versatile! Hang your stockings on ’em! the pin Source Stick all your holiday cards in ’em! the pin Source Leave ’em out like regular but let ’em wear fancy seasonal jackets! the pin Source Hannukah is bookish, too: Look at this ridiculously lovely book menorah! the pin Source This one is a lot more Doable At Your House and way less Gonna Burn The Place Down, Probably (in the previous guy’s defense, he does mention using a flame-retardant substance). the pin Source

This menorah, which folds up into a prayer book, was found in the ruins of the Lodz Ghetto. I almost didn’t include it because it made me feel a bunch of feelings and this is a light-hearted home décor post with exclamation points, but history must be remembered, right?

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How are you making your holidays more bookish? Any of these look doable to you?

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