CELEBRATING MOMS

Moms are the ones who are always there for us when we are happy, sad, sick, or just need someone to talk to. This Mother's Day let Evelyn's help you thank your mom for all she does for us all year long. Some of our favorite gifts are our collections of:

*Beautiful Decorative Pillows

*Vases & Cachepots for beautiful flowers & plants from the garden.

*Luxurious soaps in many luscious fragrances to pamper herself.

*Gorgeous Journals & Photo Albums for all her favorite memories

*Aromatique Lotions & Shower gels for that great spa experience.

*Shelley Kyle wonderfully fragrant perfumes that are as unique as your mom.

*Susan Shaw handmade intaglio and vintage style jewelry.

*Southern Gates Palmetto Jewelry

*Cinda B Bags & Travel Accessories in a wonderful collection of colors & patterns.

*Vintage Style Aprons for the mom who loves to be a true chef.

*Sterling Silver Picket Fence Children Charms, Charm Bracelets & Charm Necklaces.

*Aromatique Fragrance Diffusers & Candles

And so much more!!

Visit us today and let us help you choose the most unique treasure for your mom. Monogramming & beautiful gift wrapping are always complimentary at Evelyn's. Visit our website for more great gift ideas http://www.evelynsjewelry.com/

EVELYN'S SPRING EVENING OF DESIGN

Thank you to everyone who attended our sold-out Spring Evening of Design. We raised $800.00 for The Barnwell County Arts Council for its many cultural arts programs it brings to Barnwell County.

After enjoying some of our favorite wines & delicious appetizers,our guests learned many great tips on exciting table settings, floral arranging, & entertaining. And this time we showed easy ways to compose great tabletops & bookcases. Everyone went home with many great ideas to rearrange their cherished belongings. Any many of you went home with some unique accessories for your home.

As promised, the following are some of the recipes of our delicious appetizers:

TOMATO-CUCUMBER SALAD TARTLETS

1 pt.grape tomatoes,halved

1 md. cucumber, peeled, seeded, & cubed

1/4 c. fresh chopped parsley

1/2 c. crumbled feta cheese

1/4 c. basil Parmesan vinaigrette

1 (9oz.)package frozen pastry shells

Mix first 5 ingredients. Fill thawed pastry shells just before serving. Serve immediately.

CREAMY PESTO CHEESE TORTE

1 lb. cream cheese

1 C. traditional pesto sauce

1/2 C. butter

Rothschild Farms Raspberry Hot Pepper Preserves

Whip cream cheese & butter. Add pesto. Line spring-form pan or 3" tall cake pan with plastic wrap and press mixture into pan. Cover and chill overnight. Un-mold on tray and top with raspberry hot pepper preserves. Serve with baguette slices or crispy crackers.

BEEF AND ASPARAGUS BUNDLES

Asparagus spears

Bibb lettuce

Red Bell Pepper (cut into thin strips)

Thin sliced deli roast beef, halved

Rothschild Farms Blooming Onion Dill Sauce

Snap off and discard tough ends of asparagus. Cut asparagus tips into 3.5" pieces. Cook asparagus in boiling water to cover, 2 to 4 minutes or until crisp tender; drain. Plunge into ice water to stop the cooking process: drain and pat dry with paper towels. Arrange roast beef, lettuce, asparagus, bell pepper & top with dill sauce. Roll up & secure with bamboo skewer.

We hope you enjoy! Come in the shop soon & let us inspire you to create a beautiful home. Be sure to see more pictures on our facebook page.

SPRING BLOOMS

Spring Flowers are now blooming and there is no place more beautiful than springtime in the south. Azaleas are in full bloom now and our iconic magnolias, hydrangeas,& roses will soon be in bloom. Evelyn's has so many ways to show off your "prize-winning" blooms. You will love our collection of flower sacks. Simply add water, flowers, & hang your flower sack on your door & you will be the envy of your neighbors. You will also love showing off your blooms in our collection of handmade vases in wonderful shades of green, white, and aqua. Come in the shop today & let us help you choose the perfect vessel for your Spring blooms.

Visit our website http://www.evelynsjewelry.com/ to see all our collections.

HIPPITY, HOPPITY, EASTER'S ON ITS WAY

It's Spring and that means Easter will soon be here! We have so many great ways to bring Easter into your home & so many wonderful Easter gift ideas that you will love.

Our unique terracotta rabbits are great to use all spring & summer in your garden. They make wonderful centerpieces for your table when surrounded by potted plants & flowers.

Bring a vintage touch to your home with our glittered Spring rabbits in various sizes. A grouping of these rabbits on a buffet with fresh flowers arranged in silver & crystal vases, creamers, & julep cups will make everyone think of all the wonderful Easters they treasure.

And, don't forget the children. Our fabulous Easter bunnies in their Easter finery will bring delight to every child on Easter morning. We even have plush chicks that chirp, ducklings that quack, and lambs that baaaaa. And for the child in us all we have musical bunny ears that are sure to delight us all!

Come see us soon and let us inspire you this Easter. You can always see us on our website, www.evelynsjewelry.com to see a sampling of our great Easter treasures!

I'm Loving Turquoise

Many people have asked me what colors do we see at the market that are the new "must-have" colors. Although there are many new trend colors shown at market (you will start seeing a lot of purples & oranges in home decor magazines) we love the turquoise & aqua colors the best. These are soothing colors that can easily be mixed into many decor styles. Home decor colors get their start from the fashion runways (remember all the purple gowns worn at the golden globe awards). Aqua & turquoise are big this season in fashion, jewelry & home decor. The aqua tones are almost a neutral that look great with browns, sea greens, reds, pinks, corals, and many more. If you do not want to change everything to this color, try accenting with these colors. A throw pillow or a beautiful piece of pottery in aqua is a perfect accent you could add to your home. And, don't forget to add these colors to your wardrobe and jewelry. Many of our jewelry designers have added a lot of this color to their collections. Come in the shop today and let us show you how you can add these two great colors to your life. We love these colors so much we have changed our gift wrapping and packaging to these colors!

OUR JANUARY ATLANTA MARKET TRIP

We braved the Atlanta ice & snow to attend this country's largest gift & home furnishings market. This is a market comprised of 4 buildings each with 14 to 20 floors of permanent & temporary showrooms. We found so many great treasures you are going to love! We added many great new lines that fit the Evelyn's experience. Our major goal was to buy Christmas 2010 and we succeeded with great style & panache. We bought with our Spring Open House (February 27th) and our 3rd Evening Of Design (late April) in mind. These are two events you love and we have outdone ourselves for these two events. The following is a snapshot of our week in Atlanta. I wish we would have had more pictures for you, but my camera's battery died on the 1st day. Hope you enjoy!

Day 1 (Friday)

We left Barnwell at 4:30am with much concern about the weather. I watched the weather channel all evening checking the Atlanta weather. The interstates were fine and we didn't get into any icy conditions until we reached our 14th street hotel. The sidewalks still had ice on them and our bus could not make it up the hills at the market. We got to the market by 9:00am to a market of yesteryear. There were so many buyers & everyone was so upbeat about their business. Showroom were full of buying customers & we were glad we had made appointments with our key vendors. The first day is usually set aside for getting a feel of the current trends, colors, & designs. We went to 2 seminars. Our first seminar was on holiday decorating. We picked up great ideas that we will share with you during our open house and evening of design. Our second seminar was with Kathryn Ireland (she was first to admit she was Not the swimsuit model) on entertaining. She is a designer who designs homes for the wealthy in California and many movie stars (Reese Witherspoon bought her home). I can't wait to share her ideas with you at our Evening of Design! We shopped until 7:00pm then went to the 10th Anniversary party for Willow Tree Angels designer Susan Lordi. We got back to the hotel around 8:30pm & I planned our agenda for Saturday.

Day 2 (Saturday)

We caught the 8:15am bus and arrived at the market by 8:30am. Not much traffic on the roads because of all the ice. I began by looking through several of my holiday showrooms to complete our holiday look. We had a 11:3o lunch appointment with my major holiday vendor and bought Christmas, Christmas, and more Christmas. Expect classy, elegant, & unique twists on Christmas this year from us. I had another appointment with a Halloween vendor that you all love! We added so many wonderfully creepy creatures from our Joe Spencer line. These will debut at our Fall/Halloween open house in September and they sell out FAST! We wrapped up our holiday buying and prepared ourselves for the many events planned by our vendors. We were lucky to see some of our favorites & some new people: Jim Shore & his wife, Tony Curtis, Meredith Baxter, Cinda Boomershine, Shelley Kyle, Susan Lordi, Kathryn Ireland, and many more. We stayed until 8:00pm and arrived back at the hotel by 8:30pm to go over invoices, budgets, & Sunday's appointments.

Day 3 (Sunday)

We once again took the 8:15am bus to arrive at the market by 8:30am. Today was the day to buy home accessories. You will love the colors of aqua, golden yellows, rustic reds, and worn whites that will be predominate this Spring. There were other "trendy" colors that we passed on (lavenders and oranges). Styles include vintage & time worn looks complete with Fleur De Li's & crowns. Our garden looks will include apple greens & mercury glass complimented with many bird and butterfly designs. You will love these looks and want to add pieces to your decor! We arrived back to our hotel by 6:30pm and went to our one of our favorite restaurants, Einstein's.

Day 4 (Monday)

We took the 8:30am bus and arrived at the market by 9:00am. This was a busy day for us since it was our last shopping day. Today we added to our delicious gourmet food lines including our famous martini mixes (the new watermelon martini is yum!). We then had an appointment with Caroline who showed us a great new line of entertaining & home decor items that we plan on using for our evening of design. We also added many new colors to our popular woven placemats & patterned fabric napkins. It was fun to see her & meet her mother & sister-in-law. We went to the temporaries and added to our popular J&I, and Susan Shaw jewelry lines. I hope these will arrive before Valentine's since I know you all would love to receive these from Cupid! We then did our tour of High Design. I love to go through this juried collection of vendors who show cutting edge designs. As mentioned before, the people are as unique as the product they sell & they didn't disappoint this market! We actually found a great line of handmade jewelry based on nature that we plan to introduce for Mother's Day. We constantly search out made in USA products and this new line in all made in USA. We wrapped up the day buying all those beautiful scarves you love in wonderful spring colors. We left the market by 6:00pm and went to another one of our favorite restaurants, Houston's.

Day 5 (Tuesday)

We left Atlanta exhausted, but excited about all the wonderful treasures we found. Please be sure to put Saturday, February 27th on your calendar for our Spring and Easter Open House. We will be serving our famous bellini's, and delicious munchies as you preview the best in Spring and Easter decor.

We hope to see you in the shop soon so you can see all the unique finds we found with you in mind! Also, check out our updated website for great gift ideas: www.evelynsjewelry.com

IT'S MARKET TIME

It's hard to believe that it is market time again for us. This is the time of year we buy our Christmas, Fall, & Halloween for 2010. We also buy many treasures to make your home fabulous! With Valentine's coming soon we will add great new handmade jewelry, luxurious bath products, stylish handbags, and fashionable scarves. You will want it all! We will be closed Friday, Jan 8th, through Tuesday, Jan. 12th. Yes we are going to travel through the Atlanta snow to bring you the best treasures we can find. We hope to see you in the shop soon. In the meantime, check out our updated website http://www.evelynsjewelry.com/