Monday, November 5, 2012

New Here? Welcome & Where to Start!

Thank you so much for visiting!  We recently changed the layout of our blog to better serve (we hope) our readers.   We will now be posting to the following categories on different pages:

all things pet and let's be pets! related and 


To read posts in any category, just click on the page at the top of the blog.  

If you'd like to read what we posted before the change, please just scroll down or click through the Blog Archive on this page.  

Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)

let's be pets! (lbp)

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Wordless Wednesday (a Blog Hop!)

Ruby:

Staying Wordless is hard!  See you soon.  

Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Wordless Wednesday


Hoping for some Lucky Charms.

See you next week!  


Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Wordless (sort of) Wednesday


Please follow our friend @CarmaPoodale on twitter & retweet for Zen.  You can also share this to twitter from the buttons below. We hope he gets home soon.








Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Wordless Wednesday (a Blog Hop!)

Happy Wordless Wednesday!

One of my all time fav pics courtesy of Relay's House
(aka @poochieproject),  http://www.poochieproject.com/
           

Do you know where this is from? :)

 Staying Wordless is hard!  See you soon.  

Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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P.S. If you don't know already, we are celebrating National Adopt A Shelter Dog Month by donating 75% of our profits at www.letsbepets.com to the shelter of each buyer's choice!  We are also featuring favorite shelter dogs available for adoption on our features page, so please email yours to me at contact@letsbepets.com (no purchase necessary to be featured!)  Please spread the word!






Saturday, September 29, 2012

Social Saturday

This morning while my dd is at our neighbors (and while I should probably be doing other things), I decided to join "Social Saturday" along with Lisa from The Pennington Point (a fantastically inspiring blog from a woman with 9 children ages 22-5) and her friends.    

This is my first time doing this so we'll have to figure it out together.  I think it might be similar to the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop we do, but I'll find out shortly!!

P.S.  I was supposed to link to our facebook page in the photos on Lisa's blog but I linked to this blog.  So, if you are here visiting from Lisa's blog, you can link to our facebook page by clicking here.  Our twitter and pinterest links are below.  I'll be back with a HomeTalk link!   

Here is the HomeTalk Link!


Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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pinterest

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Wordless Wednesday
Can you believe it is Wednesday again?  Boy time flies!!  This is Simon:
Photo Courtesy of Uttermost Co.
Staying Wordless is hard!  See you soon.  

Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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Monday, September 24, 2012

What Fun We're Having! 

Not too long ago we were working "regular" jobs and not having all that much fun.  Today we have 2 great stores and are having lots of fun!   Thank you everyone for making this possible!  We will be sending some personal shout-outs as we go along.

We are working on our plan for this blog.  If you have any suggestions, please comment or email me (Lyvonne) at lyvonne@essentialsenterprise.



Lyvonne

the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Wordless Wednesday
This time both the essentials inside (ei) and let's be pets! (lbp) team gets to join in the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop!!  


the essentials inside home decor by Uttermost
Photo courtesy of Uttermost Co.

Staying Wordless is hard!  See you soon.  

Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012


Wordless Wednesday

Shhh...don't tell the essentials inside team that the let's be pets! team is joining in another Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop!!  







Staying Wordless is hard!  See you soon.  

Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Wordless Wednesday

Today the let's be pets! team is joining our fantastic new pet blogger friends in their Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.  (the essentials inside team is jealous!)




Staying Wordless is hard!  See you soon.  

To see the other blogs on the Blog Hop, start on BlogPaws.com!  

Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Posting before Friday...We're getting better! 

Maybe not that much better since I just realized we should really be adding a title to our blog posts!  :)

Hope you all had a great weekend and first half of the week.  We do have some great news for each store and while I'm typing that out I'll try to think of "something [else] (good) to know about us"!

let's be pets news (www.letsbepets.com)
We've decided enough with the dogs, let's celebrate some cats!  Just kidding - we still love our puppy dogs.  But we do love and want to celebrate cats too and have kicked off Cat Week at let's be pets!  It is kind of like Shark Week except very different and with cuter, fluffier animals.  Please come visit!  

the essentials inside news (www.essentialsinside.com)
At the essentials inside, we have a section called "rooms worth a view."   We are growing the section now and have some fantastic rooms in store!   Stop by to see our newest additions: a lovely dining room by Interior Decorator Kimberly Fletcher of Spectrum Design Group and a beautiful living room from homeowner Laviza Shariff.

something [else] to know about us:
To save you from scrolling through, so far we've told you...we love Tony Robbins, Ed (my other business half) is writing me a movie (and I'd like a tv show too) and Ed LOVES cats but is allergic to them.   (I guess that's really more about him (Ed) than us but that's what happens when he lets me write the blog. :))  For today, "something else to know about us" issssssssss...I'm trying to think of something good......we both like the cancelled tv series Arrested Development.  I'm not sure what that says about us or whether it is something "good" but it is something!

Any other Arrested Development fans out there? 

Thanks for visiting us.   Have a great rest of the night.

Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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Friday, August 24, 2012


Wow is it Friday again already?  What a fun and fast week!  I'll just run through some highlights!   

Since we are writing this blog for you to get to know us a bit better, I'll start with some more personal fun.

My dear daughter turned 9 this week and, as usual, celebrated on more than one occasion.  We also got to dog sit for our favorite doggie friend Ruby.  Ruby got to go shopping with us to spend birthday money.  Here is the b'day girl and her dbff:




As for the stores, it was a busy week with more inventory updates.  We still have more work to do on that front but it is not a very exciting blog topic.   We do have some great things planned for next week at both stores.  At the essentials inside (www.essentialsinside.com), we will have some more Rooms Worth a View to share!   At let's be pets! (www.letsbepets.com), we're going to be celebrating cats.  Be sure to check out both stores on Monday - I'll share the links here too!

Hope you have a great weekend!!  Thanks for visiting.


Lyvonne

the essentials inside

let's be pets!

by essentials enterprise, llc

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Friday, August 17, 2012

Happy Friday everyone!  We are finally settling down after a wonderful week and fabulous evening.  Don't tell the let's be pets! team but I visited a competitor tonight for something other animal related that we don't carry at let's be pets!.  Don't tell my daughter either since what I bought is for her birthday.  :)  

Hope you had a great week too and we wish you a wonderful weekend.  


Lyvonne

the essentials inside

let's be pets!

by essentials enterprise, llc

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Hello and Happy Wednesday August 14th!  For what I will now term our "usual", we'd like to share news from both stores (www.letsbepets.com and www.essentialsinside.com) and give you "something [else] to know about us."

let's be pets news (www.letsbepets.com)
We extended Beagle Week until Friday, August 17th.  Come visit

In addition, we'd like to join in with our pet blogger friends and offer our own "Wordless Wednesday" pic:


Not sure this counts since we actually have words.  :)


the essentials inside news (www.essentialsinside.com)
We are working on inventory at the moment.  Not at this exact moment of course since we are updating the blog (but maybe at the moment you are reading this).  :) As we do this, we are sharing some favorites on our facebook and pinterest pages.  Hope you can join us there too.


something [else] to know about us:
Since I am updating the blog today, I will tell you something else to know about Ed (ha!).  He is allergic to cats but loves them so much that he doesn't care.   He just took his allergy medicine before our trips to the Delaware Humane Association and was happy to sit in their cat room (sneezy, but happy).   Winston is his favorite & is actually for adoption at DHA.  Here is Winston:

    

See you next time!  Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday! 

Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Hello and Happy Tuesday August 7th!   We'd like to share news from both stores (www.essentialsinside.com and www.letsbepets.com) and give you "something [else] to know about us."

let's be pets news (www.letsbepets.com)
We've declared 8/7 - 8/14 "Beagle Week" at let's be pets!  Come visit

the essentials inside news (www.essentialsinside.com)
At the essentials inside, we have a section called "rooms worth a view."   We are growing the section now and have some fantastic rooms in store!   Stop by to see our newest addition: the inspired kitchen by Melodie Church for Terry Stevenson


something [else] to know about us:
Ed, my other business half who now lives near San Francisco, is a writer and has promised to write a movie for me.  I would be ok with a tv show too.  :) I'll keep you updated on his progress.  

Hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday! 

Lyvonne
the essentials inside (ei)
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc (ee)

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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Wow, it's Thursday again!  Boy time travels fast when you run two businesses.

I am a bit disappointed that it is already August.  But you can't stop time, right?  Though I remember a tweet that came across my feed that said if you want to slow time to a crawl, get on a stairmaster.  Maybe I'll try that.  Do you think it works on an elliptical machine too 'cause that's what I have.

Hope you are enjoying your week so far.   Talk to you soon!

Lyvonne
the essentials inside
www.essentialsinside.com

let's be pets! (lbp)
www.letsbepets.com

by essentials enterprise, llc

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Good afternoon everyone and Happy Thursday!  We'd like to share news from both stores (www.essentialsinside.com and www.letsbepets.com).  We're also trying to decide on what to "feature" on our blog and thought today we'd start with "something to know about us."

let's be pets news (www.letsbepets.com)
As you know, we joined paws with Jasmine the world famous "shopping dog" (and her human C.J.) for a fantastic thank you giveaway raffle for Jasmine's current and future fans!! If you missed it, you can see Jasmine and her friends here.

We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the  giveaway is Carma Poodale Allen!! (Yes, "poodale" is spelled correctly).  Please check out our announcement at www.letsbepets.com  Click on the main photo to learn more about our winner!

the essentials inside news (www.essentialsinside.com)
At the essentials inside, we have a section called "rooms worth a view."   We are growing the section now and have some fantastic rooms in store!   Stop by to see our newest addition: the templeton bedroom.

something to know about us:
We love to listen to Tony Robbins.  I don't know if you like him, but we love him. He is incredibly motivating and inspiring.  Listening to him helps keep this start-up journey wonderful and fun!

We want to see him in person but haven't yet.  I (Lyvonne) am super excited to have met @lynneknowlton on twitter.  She went to a Tony Robbins event last week.  I can't wait until she blogs about it at www.lynneknowlton.com!  She hasn't yet but I'll keep checking!



Hope you all have a wonderful Thursday!

Lyvonne
the essentials inside
let's be pets!
by essentials enterprise, llc
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Friday, July 20, 2012

Our thoughts and prayers are with those in Aurora, Colorado.

-Lyvonne, Ed, and
the essentials enterprise team

Monday, July 16, 2012

Happy Monday everyone!   As you can obviously tell, we are just getting started and, like most new bloggers, have a lot to learn.  Since the best way to learn is by doing, we're just going to jump right in (2 months after creating the blog.  :-))

If you've looked at our profile, you know that we are two great friends who have been lucky enough to create two wonderful stores where we get to share some of our favorite things with the rest of the world!  You can see our favorite things here: www.essentialsinside.com (exquisite home accessories) and here: www.letsbepets.com (cool pet and owner supplies).

Today we've got exciting news at let's be pets!  Take a look: www.letsbepets.com (be sure to click on the picture for more information).

Thank you for joining us at the beginning of this journey!  We'd love to hear any tips you may have for new bloggers or any questions you may have for us.

See you tomorrow!

Lyvonne
the essentials inside &
let's be pets!
by essentials enterprise, llc
www.essentialsinside.com
www.letsbepets.com




Thursday, May 24, 2012

our first post

Today my best friend (Ed) and I (Lyvonne) enter the blog-o-sphere (or whatever they call it these days)!

Lyvonne
www.essentialsinside.com
www.letsbepets.com
by essentials enterprise