In the words of Lauren from She Moved to Texas: MONOGRAM ALL THE THINGS. Monograms are awesome in so many ways. Not only are they really pretty and stylish, but for those of us who board we understand that personalization can help prevent things from growing legs and wandering away. Put down your Sharpie, people – there is now a better way.
My featured business this week for the Small Business Spotlight series is Personally Preppy. If you have Instagram you have probably seen one of their fabulous helmet monograms by now, which have absolutely blown up in popularity over the last few months. They also offer glove monograms, breeches monograms, monogrammed whips, cell phone cases, etc etc. Just about everything a monogram lover could possibly dream up. The best part is that everything is very affordable – you can go crazy and stick a monogram on everything without breaking the bank. See their full line-up on their Etsy store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PersonallyPreppy
As soon as I first saw their helmet monogram I knew I absolutely had to have it. I opted for black since it would be more subtle on my show helmet, but still a really cute and fun way to personalize it. As soon as I had that, I ordered a monogram for one pair of my show breeches and my show gloves. Last week I ordered a light blue monogram for my “junker” schooling helmet. Because… awesome.
You aren’t limited to only the things you see in their store. If you can dream it, they can probably create it. Custom orders are no problem. In fact, I am getting ready to submit my fourth (addiction much?) order, for a custom heat transfer to go on a new fly bonnet. We won’t talk about how many fly bonnets I have either.
If you’ve read any of my Small Business Spotlights by now, here’s the fun section you’re expecting: words from the business owners!
Tate & Kir, best friends, and sisters began Personally Preppy while Tate was pursuing her MBA and while Kirsten was a freshman, both at Salve Regina University. While growing up in Westchester, NY we began horseback riding at a young age, and got hooked into the horse show world after our first Walk-Trot class! Our parents, both successful entrepreneurs, consistently encourage us to find an idea, and be strong business women. Together, as a team, Tate & Kir ran pony camp to help pay for their horse shows. While working in the industry, and being avid horse show girls, we recognized that everyone has similar clothes, and equipment in the horse world. We agreed that monogramming would be a fun, yet classic way to let our preppy style shine in the ring. Today, Kir and Tate are thrilled with the consistent growth of the company, and continue to add new, quality products with a strong attention to customer satisfaction.
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I want it all. Monograms for everything!
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I’m seriously considering monograms for my grooming buckets and brushes…
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Love their stuff! I still need to iron on the monogram on my breeches.
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Love them!!! Great spotlight 🙂
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Oh boy, more fun things to buy!
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Buying fun things is… fun. Especially when they’re cheap and you can put them EVERYWHERE.
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I bought monograms from them and can’t wait to put them on my crop and dressage whip!
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After seeing this spotlight I am really feeling a need to monogram all the things!
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I love all of it. Kind of makes me sad though that my Samshield is the velvety kind so I can’t get the monogram 😦
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Have you done your fly bonnet yet? Does it stick well to the crochet? That is something that didn’t even cross my mind, but I just might have to steal the idea!
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I actually just got a bonnet that has a little patch of fabric on it, so that’s where I’m gonna do the heat transfer. I don’t think I’d bother trying it over just the crochet part, it stretches too much.
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Mine came earlier this week and I heart them!
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Ok, another question. Do the heat transfers do well in the wash for saddle pads and such? Was thinking this might be a fun way to monogram my saddle pad instead of doing embroidery.
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I’ll be able to answer that better in a month or so. Before yesterday the only heat transfers I had were on my show breeches, so they’ve only been washed once since I put them on. We’ll see how the one on the saddle pads holds up. I’m not expecting a super long life span but we’ll see what happens.
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any update on durability? just discovered these and wanting to go on a monogramming spree!!
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The ones on my horse’s boots got annihilated (not surprising). The glove ones and helmet ones have lasted well, the breeches not so much but I didn’t apply it correctly either, so I can’t say that’s their fault. I will say that PP orders started taking forever to receive when they exploded in popularity, so I ordered more monograms from elsewhere.
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