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Hello, Friends! We hope you are enjoying a marvelous midsummer! Evilena’s is now accepting Fall items for consignment.  We are also welcoming transition pieces to bridge that season between Summer and Fall…with it’s warm days and cooler evenings.  Speaking of Transition… One of our missions at Evilena’s Red Dresser is to help people through times of transition.  This subject is so important to Evilena’s that we have included it in our store creed. We are dedicated to helping our customers during seasons of change and transition. Sometimes transition is expected. Sometimes it comes as a surprise.  Transition may be welcomed...

    Divine Detours Have you ever planned out your day “to a T”, only to have a roadblock or a detour pop up and thwart your perfectly planned day? A flat tire, a traffic jam, a sick child, an unexpected visitor or phone call that needs immediate attention – any one of those scenarios or some other delay can throw us off kilter and leave us feeling frustrated, running behind, and sometimes, overwhelmed. Do you believe that God guides your steps each day?  Do you believe that He sustains you while you sleep, and that He wakes you up...

Well, friends, here we are at the end of another year! The hustle and bustle of the holiday season is upon us, and soon we will flip the calendar over to 2022. As each month passed in 2021, we all experienced the ups and downs of “normal” life.  Every day unfolds with surprises amid the routine. The ordinary is punctuated by the extraordinary and the unexpected.  A text message, phone call, or a letter in the mailbox can change the entire trajectory of our day, can’t it?   We can lay out the best of plans, and sometimes circumstances fall right...

“Living In Color” Imagine, for a moment, if our world was only black and white. There are lovely hues of whites, grays, and blacks, and of course, there’s nothing as classy as a little black dress...but oh, what a pop of color does for the soul!  How wonderful it is that God created COLOR! Just think of the lovely contrast between green leaves against a bright, blue sky.  Or tall, dark green pines set against the rich sedimentary layers of red, purple, and gold in the rocky face of a mountain.  We use color to describe many things other than...