Naked books

Coco + Kelly's blog introduced me to Coralie Bickford-Smith. She is the very talented senior cover designer at Penguin Books and boy does she make some pretty stuff.

Looking at this is motivating me to do what Alexis did with her books on her bookshelf one evening.  Though I'm nervous to do it myself...for what reason, I don't know.  I think my books would look much sexier on the shelf like this:

{Fern and Feather}