You spend half your life just covering up (your coffee table)

There are some craft projects that make me go “Whoa!” and some craft projects that make me go “Nice!” But there are very few craft projects that make me go “YEAAAAH!” This is one of that last kind.

I’m not usually so much a coaster girl (I’m more of a ‘all horizontal surfaces of my furniture have at least one light circle’ girl), but this project, done by Jeanne Lombardo over at the Philly Makes blog, is utterly Boss.

Having coasters that feature young Bruce Springsteen’s ass would probably increase party coaster usage at least 300%, and just think what a delight it would be to put the set back together at the end of the night.

Some other albums I thought might work well as jigsaw-type coasters:

My personal preference would be one in which each individual square had a lot of teeny details that a coaster holder may not have noticed when observing the cover as a whole. The Rolling Stones’ “Some Girls” is a good one for that, as are Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” and Architecture in Helsinki’s “Places Like This.” I mean, good god, just look how awesome every single individual square of “Dangerous” is on its own!

Or something super EPIC in that fantasy/metal way:

Or you could go for one like Lemon Jelly’s Lost Horizons (which has helped me get innumerable papers done over the years, thanks, Lemon Jelly!) in which each square could be its own little painting, although your chances of coming across this in the vinyl section of a thrift store are low:

And finally, Roxy Music’s “Country Life,” because who doesn’t like boobs?