Bumbershoot Designs and Supplies October 2013 Special for Newsletter Subscribers

Autumn leaves OR jack-o-lanterns and Halloween bats, free with purchase!
 

This October we couldn't decide which vintage cabochons to give our newsletter subscribers, so we're giving them their choice! If you can't wait for Halloween, then you might choose the vintage foil backed smilin' jack-o-lanterns and fanged bats. Or perhaps you love how autumn turns the leaves into shades like our vintage ruby and topaz cabochons.

Our newsletter subscribers can choose one of these samplers, free with any purchase at Bumbershoot Supplies or Bumbershoot Designs.  See your October 1 and October 15 newsletters for details and the coupon code.

Also, don't forget your 1-time free shipping offer that you received when you signed up for our newsletter.

And YES, you can combine specials. So you can have the vintage cabochons of your choice, plus the free shipping code you received upon signing up for the newsletter in the same order!

Not yet a newsletter subscriber? You can read past issues and you can sign up right here and get your free shipping and vintage cabochon sampler at your next purchase!

Bumbershoot Supplies Vintage Bead Giveaway With Beading Arts

Want some free vintage beads? Head on over to Beading Arts, Cyndi Lavin's blog, where Bumbershoot Supplies is sponsoring a giveaway! Cyndi has used some of the beads in the above photo to make an embellished skeleton key pendant, for which she will be posting a tutorial, check it out. The rest of the beads are up for grabs!

Leave a comment on Cyndi's blog so she knows you are interested.

The winner will be selected on Oct 19, 2011.

The day I pulled together this selection of beads, it was a glorious fall day in Seattle, a beautiful blue sky, gorgeous red orange dahlias outside my window, and just a hint of frost to come. Those were my inspirations for this particular color palette. You can learn more about the origin of this selection of beads in this blog post on Cyndi's blog.

Vintage Design Inspiration Board #16 with Creativity Quote

Life is a great big canvas

and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

~Danny Kaye

Inspiration Board #16 features:

vintage straw millinery leaves (Paris, France,

wrapped with embroidery floss and vintage Czech button)

vintage mother of pearl buttons (USA)

vintage pearl leaf bead drops (Japan)

vintage glass mirror leaf cabochon (Western Germany)

vintage plastic leaf charms

vintage red glass leaf cabochon

paper wrapper from vintage sequins

twine from original boxes of vintage buttons

embroidery floss

vintage linen tea towel

stamped with Thicket Birds stamp by Memory Box, black StazOn ink

and embellished with French knots

mounted on 4x5 inch gallery wrapped canvas base

 

 

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

New at Bumbershoot Supplies. Vintage Rhinestone Jewels, Settings and More!

My records show that we have added 33 new items and restocked 3 at Bumbershoot Supplies since our Sept 15 newsletter.

We've been busy! 

While there are lots of lovely new additions in all of our shop sections, in this post I'll focus on our new settings for cabochons and rhinestones and some of the new vintage rhinestones we now have in stock.

We've begun stocking settings, both glue on and prong, for our vintage cabochons and vintage rhinestones.

We have added some new vintage settings and filigrees, and we are now offering new vintage-style settings, both pronged and glue in.

We have this frame style....

And this lace edged filigree style, both in 3 sizes, 18mm round, 18x13mm and 25x18mm. These come in this dark antiqued brass patina finish, a nice complement to the vintage cabochons and rhinestones and a great color for fall designs.  

We also now have pronged settings in 18x13mm size in both octagon and oval shapes. Looking for other sizes and finishes?  Stay tuned as we continue to expand our stock in this area. We are having several items specially plated and antiqued, and it is our goal to have antiqued finish settings to fit all of the vintage cabochons and vintage rhinestones that we offer. 

In addition to continuing to expand our settings, I have many new items sitting here in front of me, waiting for their turn to make it into Bumbershoot Supplies, including some vintage Japanese mercury glass beads, vintage French sequins, vintage jet mourning beads, some lovely shabby pearl chain, plus yet more rhinestones.  I'll keep loading over the coming week and provide another update next Friday.  We provide a more comprehensive update every 2 weeks in our newsletter, so that is also a really good choice for learning about new vintage items as they arrive at Bumbershoot Supplies.  Plus, we provide our newsletter subscribers with free shipping and other bonuses. You can see our past newsletters archived on our website and sign up there too.

Until next time, wishing you a happy and art-filled weekend! 



Autumn in the Pacific Northwest. A Sensory Treat

It's officially still summer, but it already feels like autumn here in the Pacific Northwest. I'm originally from southern Ontario, and fall in Seattle is quite a different experience. I find it starts sooner - I already see lots of yellow and falling leaves in my walks around Discovery Park.

Fall here is a bit softer, visually and in terms of temperatures, not the abundant blazing colors of my Canadian past, but still beautiful, and continuing along its mild path, right through late November's American Thanksgiving. And fall is delicious, with the harvest coming in from both Western and Eastern Wasington and the best apples all year round available right now.

Not to mention the flowers...

On Etsy, MrKittysSoapShop curated this lovely treasury celebrating the magic that is autumn in the Pacific Northwest.

I'm thrilled my "Seattle's Bluest Skies" bracelet from Bumbershoot Designs was included.  This is a truly Seattle-inspired design, for more about this jewelry design, see this blog post. And the sky in Seattle today is just exactly this shade of blue...

Three Muses. Music.

The challenge this week at the Three Muses is "music".  This is an artist trading card (ATC) featuring a vintage sheet music background, distressed and painted. A pressed Japanese maple leaf from my collection is adhered on top, with a bit of stamping and a transparency sheet covers the entire card, and is held in place with brads.

Sometimes in the autumn, the leaf colors are so intense, they seem to me to vibrate and I think maybe the leaves are singing - a leaf song.