GUEST  TOWEL

WINE  BOTTLE  WRAP

 Fall has arrived and so has holiday entertaining.  One of our favorite hostess gifts to give is a bottle of wine wrapped in one of our unique guest/kitchen towels.  These are so easy to put together and your hosts will love it!

First, lay out one of our fun guest towels and fold in half .

Second, lay a bottle of wine on the folded guest towel on the reverse design side then wrap around the bottle.

Third, use a rubber band and wrap around the bottle and guest towel near the top (but not neck) of the bottle.  Fold the top part of the guest towel down covering the rubber band and you are finished!   

Your hosts will think you are a creative genius!

This will work with all our seasonal guest/kitchen towels.

Have fun and come in the shop today and let us inspire your creativity.

GET  YOUR  HAUNT  ON

How do you add spice to your Halloween table?  This year we got our design inspiration from our spooktacular jute Halloween table runner with its vintage Halloween icons.  We next added a dark plate and accented it with a deep red napkin and used vampire teeth for napkin rings.  To complete our look we added some of our zany Gathered Traditions pumpkins for humor.  Your guests, children, and grandchildren will love this!  Come in to Evelyn's today and let us inspire your creativity!

Please join us Thursday, October 13, 6pm-8pm, for our

WITCHES'  NIGHT  OUT

Wear your favorite witch hat for discounts throughout the shop.  We will be serving our delicious blood orange martinis and bites as you shop for fun Halloween and Fall decor.

Bring all your friends and fly in for all the fun!

LET  THE

SPOOKTACULAR  FUN

BEGIN

 

Get in to the Halloween spirit

with our ghoolishly fun

Halloween gifts and decor.

 

 

Fun masks

 

Joe Spencer's Gathered Traditions

 

All you need for fun Halloween entertaining.

 And be sure to join us for our 7th annual

WITCHES  NIGHT  OUT

Thursday, October 22nd, 6pm-8pm

Wear your favorite witch hat and fly in for 

our famous blood orange martinis and all the fun!

 

Please join us

Thursday, September 10, 2015

6pm-8pm

for our exciting

FALL  &  HALLOWEEN

OPEN  HOUSE

Enjoy our famous bellinis and delicious nibbles

as you preview the very best in

Fall & Halloween gifts and decor.

This is one event you will not want to miss!  

It's that wonderful time of year

you have been waiting for!

The time has finally arrived for our 6th annual

WITCHES'  NIGHT  OUT

Join us Thursday, October 9th

and enjoy our delicious blood orange martinis

and ghoulishly good bites

as you shop for unique Fall and Halloween decor.

Wear your favorite witch hat for special discounts.

Bring all your friends and fly in for all the fun!

DON'T BE AFRAID!!

DON'T  BE  AFRAID!!

 

Our entire stock of Halloween at Evelyn's is

50% off the original price!!

But hurry, this is for 2 days only..

Wednesday & Thursday.

Fly in today before it all vanishes!!

 

Join us for

Downtown Barnwell's

FALL/HALLOWEEN  FESTIVAL

 Thursday, October 17th

5pm-7pm

On The Circle in Historic Downtown Barnwell

Costume Contests, Pet Costume Contests,

Children's Activities, Trick-or-Treating at Participating Merchants,

Late Shopping, and more!

Be sure to stop by Evelyn's for all the fun and festivities!  

WITCHES  NIGHT  OUT

 

 

Be sure to join us this Thursday, October 10th,

6pm-8pm 

for our spooktacular

Witches Night Out

Be sure to wear your favorite witch hat for special discounts. 

WITCHES' NIGHT OUT FUN

Thanks to all the witches that flew in to our frightfully fun Witches' Night Out. We had so much fun and are already planning next year's fun event!

We loved all the unique and fun witches' hats, jewelry, and accessories you wore!

We hope you all had as much fun as we had!

WITCHES' NIGHT OUT RECIPES

Everyone loved our ghoulishly delicious appetizers we served at our recent Witches' Night Out and we are happy to share the recipes:

SWAMP GOO DIP (Charleston Cheese Dip) 1/2 C. Mayo, 8oz. Cream Cheese softened, 1C. Grated Sharp Cheddar Cheese, 1/2 C. Grated Monterey Jack Cheese, 2 Green Onions Finely Chopped, Dash of Cayenne Pepper, 8 Ritz Crackers Crushed, 1 Package Bacon Bits. Preheat oven to 350. In a medium bowl, mix the mayo, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, monterey jack cheese, green onions, and cayenne pepper, and bacon bits. Transfer to a shallow baking dish. Top with cracker crumbs and bake for 15 minutes or until heated through. Serve with your favorite crackers.

WITCH EYE BITES (Water Chestnuts Wrapped in Bacon) 2- 8oz. Cans Whole Water Chestnuts, Drained, 10oz Soy Sauce, 1 lb. Bacon Cut Into Thirds. In a medium bowl, marinate the whole water chestnuts in the soy sauce 6 hours to overnight. Preheat oven to 350. Wrap each water chestnut in 1/3 bacon slice and secure with skewer and arrance on a large baking sheet. Bake for 12 to 17 minutes, or until the bacon is lightly crisp and evenly browned. Serves 8

TOAD HAIR CAKES (Coconut Mini Cup Cakes With Cream Cheese Frosting) 1 Package Coconut Cake Mix, 1/2 Cup of Butter, 8oz. Cream Cheese, 16oz. Powder Sugar, 1tsp. Vanilla, Sweet Coconut Flakes. Prepare cake mix according to package directions. Fill mini cupcake liners with prepared cake batter. Bake according to package directions. Let cool. To prepare the cream cheese frosting, beat together softened butter, softened cream cheese, and vanilla. Slowly add powder sugar. Frost mini cup cakes and sprinkle with flaked coconut.

CREEPY CRAWLING CRUSTACEANS (Marinated Shrimp) This recipe has been previously posted. Click on Recipes below to locate this one. It is from Holiday Evening of Design, September 2011. Enjoy!!

WE'RE BACK FROM MARKET

We are back from the 2012 Winter Market in Atlanta & had a wonderful buying trip. This was a very busy & crowded market that gives me the impression that the businesses had good 4th quarter seasons and ready to showcase a lot of great new product.

One of the highlights of the market for us was attending a seminar by Mary McDonald and Nathan Turner from Bravo's Million Dollar Decorators. They gave a insightful and humorous seminar on what inspires them when they are designing beautiful living spaces.



The main focus on this market for us was Christmas, Fall, & Halloween 2012. You are going to love all the wonderful collections we will be showcasing at our Fall and Christmas Open Houses.


We didn't forget about Spring. Many of our spring collections were bought in July 2011 and are arriving daily. But we did fill in on a lot of the new colors & themes that were so popular at market. Butterflies were everywhere and on everything from ceramics to scarves & jewelry.

Colors this spring are going to blues, lavenders, and tangerines. Neutrals in grays, blacks,and khakis are also very popular.


We also don't want to forget about the bright pinks, greens, and blues we will showcase with our new Lily Pulitzer collections arriving soon.

We are busy planning our Spring & Easter Open House. Our shop will be filled with wonderful collections that will inspire you to add to your home. Our Spring & Easter Open House will be Saturday, February 25. Be sure to put this date on your calendar & join us for our famous peach bellinis!

We hope to see you in the shop soon.

WE'RE OFF TO MARKET

It's hard to believe that we will soon be off to market again. Every January & July we head to this country's largest market, Americasmart, in Atlanta to be the very best in gifts & decor. This market in Atlanta provides us with everything we could possibly want to see & find. And, we are excited to see how some of our favorite showrooms have remodeled. We gain such wonderful inspiration from our vendors that we will bring back to the shop. And it provides us with the perfect opportunity to talk with other retailers & pick up some great ideas from them.


Although we bought the majority of Easter & Spring in July, we will still be looking for great fill-ins to brighten up the shop.



The majority of our buying will be Fall, Halloween, and Christmas. Yes, we buy these holidays in January to ensure we will get the product we want to showcase in the shop. The majority of these items will be sold out by the time we return to market in July. I have already planned all the themes for our Christmas trees & decor of the shop. It is sure to be one of our best ever!


I'm really excited about going to a seminar with 2 of Bravo's Million Dollar Decorators, Nathan Turner and Mary McDonald. They will be discussing interiors, entertaining, & party planning. It should be great!

We will be closed Friday, January 13th, through Monday, January 16th. We will be back on Tuesday, January 17th and will let you know about all the wonderful things we find.

RECIPES FROM OUR HOLIDAY EVENING OF DESIGN

We had so much fun at our recent Holiday Evening of Design benefiting the Barnwell County Museum. Many people asked us to post some of the recipes they loved.

MARINATED SHRIMP 2lb. peeled, large raw shrimp 1 1/2 C white vinegar 1 C vegetable oil 1/2 C sugar 1/4 C capers, undrained 1 1/2 tsp celery salt 1/2 to 1 tsp salt 1 md.size red onion, sliced & separated into rings 1. Bring 6 cups slated water to a boil; add shrimp, & cook 3 minutes or just until shrimp turn pink. Drain & rinse with cold water. Peel shrimp, leaving tails on. Devein, if desired. 2. Combine vinegar & next 5 ingredients in a shallow dis; add shrimp alternately with onion. Cover & chill 6 to 24 hours, turning often. Drain shrimp mixture, discarding liquid, before serving.

APPLE & MAPLE TARTLETS 2- 8oz. Cream Cheese softened 1/2 bottle Rothschild Farms Harvest Apple & Maple Sauce 1/4 C. sugar 50 to 60 phyllo pastry shells 1 can Apple Pie Filling 1. Mix softened cream cheese & apple & maple sauce together. Add 1/4 cup sugar. 2. Fill pastry shell with cream cheese mixture. 3. Place apple pie filling in food processor & puree. 4. Top each pastry with pie filling.

Hope you enjoy! Check back soon for all our pictures from our wonderful Holiday Evening of Design.

FALL HOME DESIGN

Fall is finally here and now is the time to bring all its beauty & glory into your home. I recently spoke at a homemakers group & showed several ways to bring fall throughout your home.
I first decorated the dining room with an eclectic mix of "country" pumpkins, magnolia leaves, feathers, & hydrangeas. The dining table is outfitted with beautiful magnolia garland that is layered with a feather & natural grass garland. Several country pumpkins were mixed in the garland along with gold gilded magnolia cones. Two Asian ginger jars were filled with fresh magnolia and dried gold painted oak leaf hydrangeas. The buffet is decorated with a pheasant feather & natural grass wreath & gold magnolia cones. A glass cake stand is in the center with a beautiful pumpkin tureen filled with natural magnolia leaves & gold painted oak leaf hydrangeas.
I next decorated a hunt board with an antique tole tray topped with a terracotta pot. I added a great orange berry garland around the pot & cascading around the tray. I next added a wonderful ceramic pumpkin in the center of the pot & added some fall leaves to complete the fall centerpiece.
I love Halloween, so I wanted to show how to bring "classy" Halloween into your home without it being too childish or too scary. I took a weathered bird cage and added lichen branches & dried purple beauty berry branches. To complete the look I added a fabulous black raven to watch over your home.
I didn't want to forget Christmas, so I showed how to decorate a coffee table. I took one of our new rustic metal deer centerpieces and wrapped the inside & outside with a great new glittery pine garland that has silver, gold, & bronze ball ornaments attached. I then filled the center of the basket with over sized gold & silver pine cone ornaments and acorn mercury glass ornaments. To complete the look I added two extra tall candle holders with 18" candles for festive drama.
Always remember to add layers of texture, color, & height to your decorating & you can make your own home look professionally decorated! Happy Holidays to everyone!
Please remember to come see us for our wonderful Christmas Open House Sunday, November 7th, 1:30-6:00. Come see how we transform the shop into a winter wonderland.