STEPHANIE WRIGHT is shown here with some of her custom-made wood signs at the space she used to have at Country Charm in Battle Ground before they closed. Wright’s business, All The Wright Words, offers custom vinyl decals, lettering, wood signs and more.
THIS COOKING SIGN is one of the most popular selling wood signs made by Stephanie Wright of All The Wright Words.
CUSTOMERS WHO purchase items from All The Wright Words can have custom wood signs made, custom vinyl decals and lettering and more.
A few years ago, 26-year-old Stephanie Wright decided to buy a vinyl decal of a large tree to put on the wall of her youngest daughter’s nursery.
She ordered the decal online, but when it finally came, Wright said the quality was terrible.
“That’s when I said, ‘I’m not going to do this again, I want to make these myself so I can do whatever I want and know that the quality is good,’” Wright said.
That’s when Wright began making her own custom vinyl decals for her Battle Ground home. Her husband, Scott, helped her get all of the supplies she needed.
After a while, friends and family who came over to Wright’s house started to notice all the vinyl decals, wall words and more that she had made and put up around her home.
“Everyone who came over would say, ‘I want you to do this for my house,’” Wright said. “I started just doing vinyl lettering for people at first, but then I had people tell me they were renting or wanted to give something as a gift, so they wanted it to be removeable, so I started doing wood signs.”
In March 2013, Wright started her business All The Wright Words, offering custom vinyl lettering, store front vinyl, vehicle vinyl, decals, wood signs and personalized drinkware. Working out of her home, business soon picked up so much for Wright that she and her family – including husband Scott and their two young daughters, Sidney, 4, and Skylar, 2 and one half – decided to move to Ridgefield last year to a home that had a larger working space.
When Wright started making vinyl decals and lettering to sell through her business, she said it was more personal orders, people wanting decorations for their homes. However, business grew and she started offering outdoor vinyl for storefronts and vehicles. She has created vinyl lettering for several different storefronts in the Battle Ground area, including A Vintage Gathering, the old Little Cups & Grownups building and others.
Wright also decided to start selling her products on Etsy, a popular website used to sell/buy handmade or vintage items. She said this was when her business really started to blow up, and her items have already been shipped to 44 of the 50 states.
During the 2014 holiday season, Wright said some of her most popular selling items were “family established” wood signs, a cooking wood sign that reads, “My cooking is fabulous even the smoke alarm is cheering me on” and a few others.
Aside from the woods signs and vinyl decals, Wright also offers personalized drinkware, including personalized water bottles for people and businesses and clear tumblers. She said she gets a lot of orders for the drinkware at the beginning and end of the school year, as a lot of people like to put teachers’ names on them and give them as gifts.
Also, with the beginning of the new year, Wright said she sells quite a few of the tumblers due to people with New Year’s resolutions to exercise and drink more water.
For those interested in getting a vinyl decal, lettering or wood sign made, Wright said everything is completely custom and can be made to the customer’s specifications. Customers pick out the font and the colors for the vinyl, and Wright works with them to perfect it until it’s ready to be cut out. If it’s a wood sign someone wants, Wright keeps large quantities of wood in stock, cuts it down to the size a customer wants, sands it, paints and can give it a decorative edge.
When it come to vinyl, Wright said she offers 18 different indoor colors and 22 outdoor colors.
This year, Wright said she plans to add a color-washing option for wood signs, so instead of customers simply picking a black or white sign, they can get a black sign with a white over it that she said she hopes will appeal to the “shabby to chic” customers. Also, she would like to start doing heat transfer with iron-on letters.
Customers can expect to see their custom orders from Wright in only two short business days. She said even during the holiday season, she was able to maintain a two-day turnaround for most orders, only going as high as four business days. During the first two weeks of December, Wright sold 273 wood signs.
Although Wright did previously have a space to sell her items in Country Charm in Battle Ground, she said it was hard because most of the items she makes are custom. She was able to have some items pre-made to sell at the store, but the items weren’t always exactly what everyone wanted. In the distant future, she said she is hoping to have some sort of retail space.
Anyone wishing to order vinyl decals, lettering, wood signs or personalized drinkware from All The Wright Words can do so through Facebook, www.facebook.com/allthewrightwords; through the website, www.thewrightwords.com; or on Etsy, www.allthewrightwords.etsy.com. Contact Wright at (360) 597-5856.
