Welcome-Open House Update

Well, we did it! We had our big Anniversary Open House, AND it didn't rain. Just a little eLLeMeNOPea trivia here: We opened our business in the Fall of 2006. At our Grand Opening Open House, in November, it poured rain, over the two day period we had the party. The next year, 2007, two big Open Houses, April: RAIN, September: RAIN. So we decided to just have one Open House a year, in honor of our business anniversary. Here we are, 2008, and we did it- NO RAIN- YEAH!!!!(That might have something to do with the fact that we are in a drought-however, it did rain this last weekend, so if we had scheduled it just one week later...)

Happy day! The party was a HUGE success, thanks to all of our customers who attended. We had a great time visiting and showcasing our new products, such as our door vinyl, featured here ON MY FRONT DOOR! Don't you just love it? It comes in a set with 4 additional seasonal door greetings (you customize the colors of course!), we will have it on our website to order within the next week or so. As a special thanks to all of you who did attend our Open House, we will be emailing you with a special customer appreciation gift.

Since we only have these once a year, we try to make them big and grand. Its the one time a year you can come and see EVERYTHING that we sell. We can't take all of our product to every party that our customer's host for us, but here, at my house, we bring it all out. Some products we will never sell online, and some unique products we have made that will only showcase once. It was awesome day. If you missed it, SORRY...but you really missed out! Rest assured, not only will we have another Open House next year, but we will have our new products available to buy online within the next week or so. I'll show a few pictures on my next post of some of our new products.

The most wonderful time of the year?!

THIS can only mean ONE thing: When you see a photo like this one above, and this one below:

And this other one (Boy, does it smell like Home Depot to anyone else, but me??)...

We are gearing up, people! eLLeMeNOPea is gettering ready for our 2nd Anniversary Open House celebration! Woot! Woot! Its going to be fun for all. We have new product that we are showcasing SPECIFICALLY for our Open House. It is up with the latest and greatest in home decor, with new vinyl designs and new home accent pieces, you will not want to miss this. I mean, look at all of this wood. There will be a lot of goodness being made with this wood. We will also have a variety of gift ideas for Christmas and other holidays, some available to take home that day. We are working hard to be ready for our Open House, here in Sacramento, on September 27th, from 9-3pm. If you have ordered from us before, you will be getting your official postcard invite in the mail next week. Consider this your official "Save the Date" invite, until the real one arrives. If for some reason you don't get yours, don't think we've forgotten you. A lot of times, little postcards get lost in the mail. Please drop us a line and we'll gladly forward you the information.

We have a home decor party coming up next week on Sept. 17th in Lodi, CA. We are very excited and grateful to our hostess with the mostess, for opening up her home to us- for the second time. She hosted a party for us two years ago, when we first opened our business. What a great friend! If you are interested in hearing about the hostess benefits available for hosting a home decor party at your house, please email us at info@ellemenopea.com. We are currently booking parties for 2009.

And, just a reminder, only one more week left to use our Grand Opening coupon code. Offer expires 9/20/2008. Take advantage of the discount while you still can.