Fine silver guitar pick necklace with nautical water ripple pattern is a perfect Father’s Day.

This wonderful piece has just been added to our Etsy shop, in plenty of time for Father’s Day and the summer wedding season, it’s perfect for Dad’s, grad’s, groomsmen’s and bridesmaid’s gift’s. The hand sculpted silver pick comes with a 30″ long stainless steel ball chain, and is made with eco-friendly recycled silver.

Great one of a kind Father’s Day jewelry, handcrafted in heavy eco-friendly silver.

One Loom Studio’s Father’s Day collection is all about keepsake’s for men. The pieces of silver jewelry are rugged and strong, they look great on even the toughest of guys, but can be engraved with your own secret message.   

Eco Friendly Jewelry from One Loom Studio Now Featured at Green Bride Guide Wedding Shop

One Loom Studio is dedicated to providing couples with the most innovative, ethical, and exciting green jewelry for their weddings. We are pleased to announce our new relationship with the Green Bride Guide.

The Green Bride Guide website http://www.greenbrideguide.com was launched in 2009 by environmental lawyer Kate Harrison after her book, The Green Bride Guide, How to Create an Earth- Friendly Wedding on Any Budget, became a best-seller in the wedding category (Sourcebooks, 2008). The Green Wedding Shop, which launched on Earth Day 2012, is the most popular eco-wedding destination in the country and features hundreds of sustainable wedding day items, including handmade favors, recycled paper invitations, and eco-couture gowns and accessories. Each product features a detailed description of what makes it green.

One Loom Studio was created in 2009 by artist and designer Jessica Farber-Robinson, who studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. She had a clear mission to make eco-friendly jewelry that was both beautiful, and affordable for brides and grooms everywhere. Her work uses recycled silver and her own sustainably grown plants to create a line of unique nature inspired jewelry.

“We are thrilled about our new collaboration with One Loom Studio. With 2.5 million weddings a year in the United States, every choice makes a difference. When brides buy One Loom Studio’s products, they decrease the impact of their wedding on the planet and help support the green economy,” said Kate Harrison, Founder and CEO of Green Bride Guide.

About The Green Bride Guide

Green Bride Guide is the premier green wedding destination, with over 250,000 couples using the site every year. The Wedding Shop http://www.greenbrideguide.com/wedding-shop features items made by small businesses and independent artisans, including eco-friendly wedding invitations, favors, and receptions decor. The site’s Green Wedding Registry has over a thousand home goods and other gifts, hand-selected for their quality and environmental savings. For further informations on the Green Bride Guide™ go to http://www.greenbrideguide.com

Photo’s of rustic fine silver jewelry taken by: Jessica Farber from One Loom Studio

Rustic fine silver organic inspired leaf jewelry from One Loom Studio.

Photo Credit Jessica Farber One Loom Studio

This simple DIY flower arrangement is remarkably elegant and perfect for daytime events like baby and bridal showers, and they would be perfect for a spring themed birthday.

Real Wedding of Andreia and Luís. Photo’s Courtesy of André Teixeira, Brancoprata

How to make your own boutonniere from oncewed.com Amethyst gold teardrop luxurious necklace from Zsa Zsa Bellagio.

Red, pink and purple classic country, Grecian urn floral arrangement. Photo courtesy of Tradesy.com

Vintage Alabama school-house wedding with fall bridal bouquet. Originally from http://www.100layercake.com/

Magical Night Time Country Wedding. Photo’s Courtesy http://www.lovetheschultzes.com/

Stunning Night Time Country Wedding Featuring White, Pink, Peach and Cream Decor. Photo Courtesy of http://a-wedding-scrapbook.tumblr.com/post/42377222866

A collection to help you create the perfect Valentines Day.

This collection features a few of the very best in handmade and on vintage Etsy. These wonderful vendors want nothing more then to help create the perfect Valentines Day, for you and that special someone in your life. It features: WyomingCreative, Catbooks1940s, michiemay, joyneckwear, TaylorMade2pt0, OhLaLaPaper, TrueValueVintage, friendlygesture, MonsieurFox, sixthandmain, BeautySpot, MissMittensVintage, dottirosestudio, klaradar, AliciaBock, and  VintageScholar.  These are just a few of the amazing shops found on Etsy so come and explore.

Gemstones in every color.

Wedding season is on it’s way, but before it get’s here when love is in the air, it’s time to start thinking about planning that perfect custom engagement ring. This year colored stones are a big trend in both wedding and engagement rings, especially Emerald Green, the Pantone Color of the Year.

Unique Engagement Ring with Emerald Green Detail

When planning your custom engagement ring you want to know exactly what your options are, from the cut and color of your stones, to the setting of your dreams.

Garnet Engagement with gold leaves.

That’s why I wanted to talk to you a little today about stones. Stones that can be set into PMC have to be perfect, no fractures at all, and high rating number on the mohs scale, they should also be tested in the studio they are going to be used in. Some stones can be fired in one studio, but won’t survive in another, though most do work along the PMC guidelines.

Silver Ring with Sapphire Cabachon

The stones above can all be torch fired in Precious Metal Clay, and come in a host of different shapes and sizes, to create your dream piece. From the Beautiful White Sapphire that most resembles the diamond with its amazing refractivity, it’s one and only downside is that large size stones are hard to find, to the White Topaz. Sparkling and clear as water, and luckily available in larger sizes. Lovely Emerald green stones are available in the form of an incredibly rich green Chrome Diopside, and the Aquamarine colored Green Topaz makes for a beautiful piece. Blue Sapphires, red Garnets, Rubies, bright green Peridot, constantly shifting Alexandrite, bright yellow Chrysoberyl, and lovely Moonstone complete your ever expanding palette.

Wedding band with leaf imprint.

So come over to http://www.OneLoomStudio.com and lets get started making you the ring of her dreams! Maybe we even have something for you too.

Evans Coghill Landsford Farmhouse

Model Shown: The Landsford
Builder: Evans Coghill Homes
Designer: Forester Kinney Interiors

We recently covered the new building development in Rock Hill SC, called Riverwalk. Known for its outdoor activities and shopping developments, Riverwalk will bring much needed growth to the area. One of the new builders coming to Riverwalk is Evans Coghill Homes. While only 12 years old, Evans Coghill has made its reputation as a preferred builder of traditional looking homes in the Carolina’s. They’re a designer of right sized custom homes, and strive to be exactly what the buyer wants. That means focusing on living to scale, homes that use materials economically, and environmentally well, where square footage is never wasted and luxuries are always plentiful.

A white and red nautical kitchen with green couch and co-coordinating living room.

These are homes for customers looking for an extremely high quality purchase, not just the lowest cost per square foot. Quality seems to be something many buyers forget about when they’re shopping for a new home. Often swayed by a low sticker price they forget about the extras you see in a model, that makes the home you want, the home you’ll get. While an Evans Coghill home has a higher sticker price, it comes with an almost endless list of included features. Items like granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors,* crown moldings,* baseboards, as well as their Environments for Living package, which includes low VOC paints, low energy windows, and energy efficient heating and cooling systems, are just a few of the base features that are usually add-ons when you build with other companies. Evans Coghill also has a state of the art online presence, that will make it easy to build your home from far away. That way you always know that your decisions are being followed, even if you can’t be on site all the time. Additionally a portion of the profits from each home goes to Habitat for Humanity, making these great homes for people as well as the environment!

This neutral green living room has red and orange accents.

Most of the homes in the Rock Hill collection are either Craftsman in style or Traditional American Farmhouses. The homes feel perfect in this part of South Carolina. The area used to be full of farms and factories, so the slight rustic feel seems to be a nod to the locations previous use, but inside the model home every finish is luxurious, from the extra tall ceilings, to the wider then normal entry hall, that leads you from the front door into the beautiful red and white model kitchen.

Cream country kitchen with red nautical accents.

The living room, dining room, and kitchen, in this house are in an open floor plan, giving the space a very casual feel. This is not a home with a stuffy formal living and dining room. This is a space for people who like to have the entire family together. I loved the warm and whimsical nautical themed kitchen. The extremely large pantry is great for a family, and the breakfast bar makes for quick easy seating.

A cream and red country style breakfast area.

The wainscoting on the island is a great trend detail that is everywhere this season, and the matching chairs at the breakfast bar and the dining area pulls the two spaces together. You can even walk out to the large covered patio from the dining and master bedrooms.

A Tuscan style bedroom with red and gold fabric’s and dark wood and leather finishes.

The master bedroom is large for the size of the house, it also has a double tray ceiling. You could easily fit any, but the largest bedroom set in the room, it’s only downfall is that there is one medium-sized closet in the room.

Cream walls, dark wood and a light granite make for a lovely bathroom.

What makes up for the lack of closet space in the bedroom, is the shower. You can see it reflected in the mirror, it’s at least a 7 ft long walk in, all tile shower, complete with seat and multiple shower heads! Oh yes, I wanted to stay and take a shower right then and there. This is a signature Evans Coghill shower, you can see it in quite a few of there houses, and I think it probably draws in quite a few buyers.

The study is finished with gold walls, and deep teal floor length drapes.

The study was right at the front of the house, it’s a beautiful room, full of light from the windows on two sides of the building, and has lovely dark honey hardwood floors. The white built-in bookshelves on the back wall set of the creamy paint, and if it was my home I would close in the room with French doors.

The game room in the loft has a fun exterior style awning on the wall.

This upstairs loft areas has one of the cutest wall treatments for a family game area that I’ve seen in a while. Reminiscent of an exterior, the wall has been built out to have a real roof awning that matches the house’s exterior, complete with shingles. Bold artwork highlights each square of siding.

Bright and colorful gym.

Instead of a fourth bedroom the designer chose to put in a gym, with yoga mat, ballet bar, mirrored wall, stationary bike, and vertical shelving. The brightly colored bike themed valances make for a really playful area, while one entire wall is open to the loft making it easy to convert this a large space in case you would like to alter the use later.

Neutral teal bedroom for her with birds and art nouveau detail.

The last two bedrooms are both off of the loft area and share a bathroom. The first is perhaps my favorite spaces in the house, this room is designed with a teen girl who has very sophisticated tastes in mind. The bedding has teal and green flowers with brightly colored birds on it, giving the room an extremely serene feeling matched by the art and mirrors on the walls.

Neutral guest bedroom in blue and green with branches.

The last bedroom is a guest room done in neutral colors, with large dresser. Each of the upstairs bedrooms has a good sized closet and easy access to the bathroom.

The house was beautifully decorated by design team Forester Kinney Interiors! To find out more about Evans Coghill Homes at Riverwalk contact Rodney Jones rjones@evanscoghill.com.

*Denotes that material will be in living areas.

Other articles about building in Rock Hill or Evans Coghill:

Craftsman Cottages Coming to Rock Hill

Charlotte Home A Rama