St. Patrick's Day Collection

It's easy to be green on St. Patty's day! Here are our picks.

1.Peridot Oval Cabochons,  2. Vintage Emerald Green Beads,  3.Emerald Green Clovers 4.Scrolled Bar Brass Stamping 5.  Jade Carved Flower Cabochons, 6.Green and White Tatting Thread,  7. Emerald Chaton Roses

For more check out our supplies shop.

Our Valentine’s Day Jewelry Collection

Looking to add a little romance to your Valentine’s Day? Or any day for that matter! Here are our picks.

1. Rainer Raindrops in "Tea Rose", 2. Pearl Filigree, 3. Queen Anne (earrings), 4. Queen Anne (necklace), 5. Sheer Bliss, 6. Burgundy Rose, 7. Seattle Rain in Pink

For more selections, check out our designs shop.

Visions of Baked Goods

We are in full holiday spirit at Bumbershoot Designs and Bumbershoot Supplies and at our home.

I'm shipping everything from Bumbershoot Designs priority mail to US customers until Dec 21, so you can receive your purchases by Christmas. 

A big thank you to all my customers, and my best wishes for a happy and joyous 2010!

At home, I’ve been working on our annual holiday goody tins, thirty five of them.

I love being able to share the Christmas spirit with my friends, familly and neighbors, in this way.

I also love the yummy treats!!!

"Double, double toil and trouble..."

Here’s a collection for all your Halloween needs. You can find all of this at Bumbershoot Supplies.

Or check out one of our fantastic Halloween kits.

But hurry! Halloween is just around the corner!

Kittens and pearls and flowers, oh my!

An update on several items...

First, and most importantly, I celebrated 15 years of being a mother on May 13, Emma's 15th birthday. What more can I say?

Second, our kitten foster babies. They are growing like weeds, trying to scale the baby gate blocking them from my office, eating each other's tails, eyes still interesting shades of blue, still completely and totally adorable as only kittens can be! Emma has some GREAT pictures on her blog, the blue sheep knits, here are some links:

Sisters, sisters

Under Pressure, and...

Our one little boy, who is now going by the name Freddie, is so people friendly, he allowed Emma to dress him in a (supposed to be) baby cap she knitted, see his picture here:

The Curse of the Koigu

Third, while I work on preparing my paper arts for prime time, I've introduced to Bumbershoot Designs a new line of jewelry made from vintage faux pearls. Below is a convertible necklace-bracelet, with an optional tie made of vintage French ribbon from - yes it is truly written on the spool- 1943.

Head on over and have a look!

And fourth, flowers. I've just received an order of hand painted, Japanese, acrylic flowers for Bumbershoot Supplies. Vintage 1940's to 1950's. They just don't make 'em like this any more. These will be listed over the coming week, on both Artfire and Etsy, but here's a preview. They are spectacular!

And my current personal favourite, the daisies....

St Patrick's Day Sale

Bumbershoot Designs is going to hold its first sale! Tomorrow, Mar 17, we will ship any and all of your purchases for free! 9 am until 9 pm Pacific time. We're listing new items in the shop today and through tomorrow.

We observe St. Patrick's Day because Jim's grandfather and namesake, James Cummins, was an Irish immigrant from Garrick-on-Shannon. He landed at Ellis Island, roomed in New York with Brian Mulroney (no, not the past Canadian Prime Minister, although all of us in-house Canadians loved the idea) and eventually made his way to Butte, Montana, where he was a well liked newspaperman.

We will be eating Jimmy's potato soup and soda bread tomorrow!