We were fortunate enough to find more antique wood carpenter letters & numbers and have just updated the shop with them. I’ve spoken with a few of our antique friends in the business and some of them feel that this style of wood handicraft dates as far back as the early 1900′s. They certainly are unique and really stand apart from the modern day craft store versions. There’s a wonderful wood patina to them and I love the use of finishing nails rather than glue. You can really appreciate the craftmanship that went into them, sometimes assembling up to 7 individual little pieces for one single letter (as in the “S”), all the while ensuring that they can each stand on their own – even the “P”! I also have a great affinity for these because I once stumbled upon a “J” that I bought for Janet when we first started dating…many years ago.

Saw these on Poppytalk,
Beautiful little houses by mummysam, get yours in her etsy shop right here.

We have small bathroom in our bedroom that we’ve never used. Not once. Maybe because our main bathroom is bigger and that’s also where Holly has her baths, brushes her teeth, etc. and we’re always together anyway. But no more. I’ve made it my mission to make this bathroom so appealing, so enticing so….awesome, we’d be silly not to use it. My mission: Submarine-themed bathroom.

I’m taking my inspiration partly from the movie, The Toy, with Richard Pryor (one of my favorite movies) and partly from what I think a submarine-themed bathroom should be (and yes, Janet does get worried sometimes that she may have married a 5-year old boy).

There is a scene in the movie that takes place in the Bates mansion bathroom (where Richard Pryor takes a bath with Eric Bates with their clothes on) and the bathroom is outfitted with amazing model ships behind museum glass display cases. This bathroom is, of course, gigantic, but it’s a good starting point and I’m going to work off of that. Here are some pics of the blank slate bathroom as it stands today, crisp and clean. Please definitely post with any suggestions you may have. Currently I’m on the lookout for a periscope.