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Feeling creative, or on a budget? You can now buy our wooden wall letters unpainted. Priced from £2.10, they’re available in a range of our most popular fonts, and four sizes.

A few tips for painting your wooden letters:

Apply a primer coat – there are specialist mdf primers available, but any wood primer will do. Let it dry thoroughly, and then give it a light sand, especially on the edges of the letters….mdf will fur up on the cut edges when you apply paint, so a light sanding (known in the trade as ‘de-nibbing’) is recommended to get a good finish. Don’t want to have to buy primer specially for painting your letters? Some of our customers have reported getting good results using just a coat of white emulsion paint as a primer coat. Our advice would be to make sure it’s dry, and sand it well.

Now you’re ready to paint! We’re often asked what the best type of paint is – there’s no right answer to this, as you can paint primed mdf with almost any type of paint – acrylics, water based, spray paints, metallics, craft paints, even good old wall paint. It’s important though to build up light coats, and of you want really good results, give a light sand with fine sandpaper between coats.

Finally you might want to seal your letters with a coat of clear varnish.

You can buy our unpainted wooden letters here on the website.

Just a couple of pics of one of our recent projects – we’ve worked with English Heritage several times in the past, and our most recent work for them is these large gold and silver letters for their Christmas Trails at Framlingham Castle and Audley End House.

English Heritage have an array of festive family days out where children of all ages can explore and discover the magic of Christmas past and present.  With Santa, story telling, reindeer trails, pantomimes, carol singing, traditional crafts and hands-on activities, it all sounds fab. Anyone at Framlingham Castle or Audley End House keep an eye out for our letters!!

Our new range of wooden lettering for Xmas ‘09 is now available to buy via the website!

When we first made Christmas wooden letters a few years ago, we made individual painted NOEL letters, which at that time were really quite hard to find. Now though you can buy them everywhere from B&Q to ebay! So this year we’ve created some  lettering that’s a bit more quirky and unusual.

The “its Christmas” in particular has been designed very much with the aesthetics of the fonts in mind. We’ve juxtaposed traditional serif, Art Deco, ornate curlicue, and utilitarian blocky fonts, played round with the sizes, and the result is an original piece of contemporary Christmas decor.

This years Noel letters are script style, cut from one piece, rather than the more conventional individual letters. Much more of a nod to the traditional here, and if you do want to buy individual NOEL letters, you could buy the 4 letters via our free-standing letters page, and we’re also offering them unpainted here on the website.

Our “Let it Snow” with the big snowflake O is fun! It’s finished with an iridescent glitter, which doesn’t show up very well in the photos, but looks fab, especially with candles or fairy lights glittering on it. Oh, and everyone whose seen it ends up with the old Dean Martin song stuck in their head. Altogether now “Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful….”

We’re offering unpainted NOEL letters for sale this Xmas – feeling crafty, or on a budget, these are perfect, and priced at just £14.99 for the set of 4.

Sadie over at the gorgeous Cotton Rose blog has blogged about her purchase of a set of our unpainted wooden Noel christmas letters…and taken some FAB photos (puts ours rather to shame!!)

We can’t wait to see how Sadie decorates them!

We had a call last week from Fred at Last Exit in London to make some free standing wooden letters to be used as place holders for a catering event on a yacht on the Thames. They needed several hundred painted wooden letters, we have been busy indeed!

The event was filmed by the BBC for a new TV series that is due to air in the new year, we’ll keep you updated as we get more info about it, but needless to say, we’re very excited!

Our new range of wooden lettering for Christmas 09 will be available very soon to buy on the website – everyone’s working like troopers at the minute getting the stock levels built up, photos taken, uploaded to the website etc.

But we’ve a sneak peek to show you of one of the products…this promo postcard has just been sent to the printers, and Ali’s little bubba looks so cute in it, we just had to share it with you:

And we’re diggin’ that reindeer hat!

Edited 1st Nov to add that our christmas wooden lettering is now available to buy via the website!

Anyone a fan of Desperate Housewives? We noticed some fab wall lettering on a recent rerun of the last season of the Housewives. We’ve got some screen shots here…it’s Susan in her new job as a junior school Art teacher…

We think the letters might be pvc rather than wood – the mouting brackets (you can kind of see them in the photo below) are commonly used with plastic signage. They look amazing though, we absolutely love how the thin letters sitting out from the wall creates an illusion of depth.

You can create a similar look using our Plain font letters as shown in the photo below – we don’t have the mounting brackets, but this is something we’re most definitely going to look into, will keep you posted!

Our wooden letters spelling out PLAY are shown here in 10 inch Plain font. To create your own set, click here on the website, and just type in your letters and choose from our huge selection of fonts, colours and patterns to create the look you’d like. And don’t forget, if you want to go bigger than the 12 inch size offered on the site, we can do this! Just drop us an email or give us a call with your requirements.

We thought maybe our customer was having fun with Kirsty Allsop’s WOW letters idea when this order came in:

However, it turns out they were a gift for Rachel Williams’ cousin, who apparently invented the word “wowzers.”

Rachel explains “I ordered the word “wowzers” as a birthday present for my cousin. It’s a word she thinks she invented – we all use it now to describe crazy situations to express shock like . . . . . “WOWZERS” there is alot of vodka in this drink!!! -she loved the present!”

We’ve no idea if Rachael’s cousin really invented the word wowzers, any ideas, just post a comment!

We had a phone call from a customer recently (the afternoon before she was due to go to hospital for a C-section!), wondering why we didn’t do animal print patterned wooden letters. Well, why not indeed? We’re pleased to announce our new range of animal print patterns is now available via our design-your-own letters wizard. Sophie above is shown in Plain font, uppercase 8 inch size, price £5.99 per letter.

Baby Max was born next day as planned (congratulations Julia!)

Here are the wooden wall letters we made for Max (font is Dohnut, size 10 inch lowercase)…apologies for the bad camera flash on the photo.

And, while we’re on the subject of little boys called Max and wild things, any fans of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild things Are”, be sure to go see the movie adaptation, out in the cinemas next month.
We can’t wait!

We must admit, we were rather perplexed when we recently received a spate of orders for the word “WOW”.

It’s not a word we’d made before, and not something we’d ever considered putting on a wall. But, it turns out the lovely Kirsty Allsop featured wooden lettering spelling out “WOW” in her recent TV series Kirsty’s Homemade Home.

We didn’t make the wooden letters featured in Kirsty’s show, but they do have wow factor!

Here’s just some of the variations our customers came up with using our fonts and colours:

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We LOVE the fun pink curly letters!!