New on Pinterest: Vintage Seattle Board

Did you know that 2012 is the 50th anniversary of the World Fair in Seattle?

To see images from that era as well as other vintage images of Bumbershoot Designs and Supplies' home town, scroll down for a few photos and visit our Vintage Seattle board on Pinterest.

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Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, The Sound of Water

red bridge over waterfall, Kubota Gardens, Seattle

At the ancient pond

a frog plunges into

the sound of water

~Basho

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, At the Edge of a Petal

Al's plum blossoms, across the street from our house at Greenlake, Seattle

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
~William Carlos Williams

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Pink Camellias

pink camellias, our garden at Greenlake, Seattle

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

~Hans Christian Andersen

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Spring Tulips

tulips at the Pike Place Market, Seattle

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, To A Snow-Drop

snowdrops, Discovery Park, Seattle

Lone flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they

But hardier far, once more I see thee bend

Thy forehead, as if fearful to offend,

Like an unbidden guest. Though day by day,

Storms, sallying from the mountain-tops, waylay

The rising sun, and on the plains descend;

Yet art thou welcome, welcome as a friend...

~ from To A Snow-Drop by William Wordsworth

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, First Signs of Spring at Discovery Park

very first blossoms appearing at Discovery Park, Seattle, Jan 31, 2011

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees,

Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.

~William Cowper

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Winter Thoughts

bare trees and view of the snowy Olympic Mountains from Discovery Park, Seattle

In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

~ Albert Camus

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Leo's Dahlia

Leo's dahlia, our garden at Greenlake, Seattle

Should I pluck it,

My hands

Would defile the flower;

I offer it, as it stands,

To the Buddhas of the Three Worlds.

- Empress Komyo, Japan

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Rainy Fall Color Inspiration

rainy day fall color inspiration, the alley behind our house at Greenlake, Seattle

The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain.  This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency.

~Susan Allen Toth

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week. Yellow Leaves, Greenlake, Seattle

yellow maple leaves, Greenlake, Seattle

That time of year thou mayst in me behold

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,

Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

~William Shakespeare

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week. Autumn Leaves

...reading amidst the autumn leaves, Japanese Garden, Seattle...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

~George Eliot

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Autumn Leaves Discovery Park

autumn leaves, Discovery Park, Seattle

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

~Albert Camus

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Daisies and Driftwood at Discovery Park, Seattle

daisies and driftwood, Discovery Park, Seattle

Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea,

A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.

~William Bliss Carman

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Sunflower

(sunflower with bee, our garden)

Bring me the sunflower crazed with the love of light.

~Eugenio Montale

Suessical Jr. The Musical, a Seattle Children's Theatre Summer Season Production Opens Tonight!

Where are you going to be tonight? 

Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday nights, we are going to be in Whoville and in other parts of the wonderful world of Dr. Suess.  Seattle Children's Theatre (SCT) Summer Season Production of Suessical Jr. begins tonight at 8:15 pm with shows Friday and Saturday night, also at 8:15 pm. 

The word on the street is that tickets are selling fast, so go here to purchase online if you are interested.

We have a personal connection to the Mayor of Whoville, shown above during the rehearsal process, in the red shirt.  Outside of Whoville, he is known as Eric :)

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Wisteria at the Japanese Garden

wisteria, Japanese Garden, Seattle

Perhaps it is possible

to be gentle no matter what, to seek not restraint

but surrender entirely, to turn

from the snarling reproach not into the keening

dismissal of hope but to whatever bright

fluttering is next, the bright fluttering

of wisteria petals...

- From "Fuschia" by Charlie Smith

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Pink Poppy

poppy, from our garden

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.

~Georgia O'Keeffe

Monday in Seattle. Picture and Quote for the Week, Emma's Rose

Officially called "Sheer Bliss", but known at our house as Emma's Rose, in our garden

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows

Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,

With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

~William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

 

Studio Snapshot. Packaging Tips, Use a Big Needle

Nestled in with the nature collection, hand crocheted flowers, bits of beautiful glass, is a very, very big needle. Easy to locate, I use this needle every day to package up jewelry for customers at Bumbershoot Designs.

I love to wrap packages and Bumbershoot Designs, being a boutique with unique and limited edition jewelry pieces, offers wrapping as special as the jewelry.  I use this very big needle to "sew" the tags, paper flowers, and vintage bead onto each package. Usually the bead is a vintage teardrop bead, or as I think of it, a Seattle raindrop.