Bumbershoot Designs and Supplies May 2016 Special for Newsletter Subscribers

Vintage Cloisonné Earring Kit, free with purchase – Our gift to newsletter subscribers during the month of May is a new earring kit featuring wonderful vintage cloisonné beads with our own antiqued brass findings! Celebrate May flowers with these charming floral beads. Make up the kit and give it as a Mother's Day gift, or give your mom the gift of a DIY creation. Or just treat yourself! 

During May we will send all necessary components to make the earrings shown in the photo above. 

Our newsletter subscribers can receive this kit, free with any purchase at Bumbershoot Supplies. See your May 1 and May 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 earring kit 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 earring kit at your next purchase!
 

New on Pinterest: Millefiore Glass, A Thousand Flowers

Millefiore, Italian for "a thousand flowers" is a glass working technique used to create swirling floral patterns in glass pieces. Often seen in beads, there are also many beautiful larger glass pieces that use this technique. On our Pinterest board, "Thousand Flowers" we've been pulling together some of our favorites. Check out these images:

Source: liveauctioneers.com via Bumbershoot Designs & Supplies on Pinterest

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May Flowers at Bumbershoot Supplies. Petite Brass and Enamel Flowers Back in Stock

Great news! We are thrilled to be able to once again offer several versions of the beloved tiny brass and enamel flowers we have carried in the past.

Truly we did not think we would see these again, but our supplier has made the last of their stock available to us so we can once again provide them to you.

All you see here, back in stock at Bumbershoot Supplies and Bumbershoot Supplies on Etsy.

Have you been over to Bumbershoot Supplies for a visit lately?

We've been busy - more than 90 new and 32 restocked items in the last 2 weeks (we stopped counting...)!

Come on over and see all the new vintage lovelies!

Venetian Flowers on Wire: History and Provenance of Flowers at Bumbershoot Supplies

We are very excited to have recently purchased many vintage glass flowers and leaves on wire for your designs and inspiration!  We will be loading these up at Bumbershoot Supplies over the coming weeks.

The first flowers now available at Bumbershoot Supplies, shown in this blog post, are Venetian in origin.  We were fortunate to purchase a large lot of vintage glass from a local estate, including these flowers.  Because the flowers were part of an estate collection, we were able to learn their history. These particular Venetian flowers were originally purchased in Venice in the 1920's.

These lovely flowers just happen to be in Pantone's color of the year for 2012, tangerine tango.  Vintage corals are a wonderful way to capture this color in your designs, see my blog post here.

We're excited to have these Venetian flowers to offer because vintage glass flowers on wire are becoming increasingly rare. Within that rarity, it is more common to see vintage Japanese glass flowers on wire, so these Venetian ones are quite special. We will have at least 12 different colors available, perhaps more once we finish all the sorting :)

We have many more vintage glass flowers and leaves on wire to offer, including Venetian, Japanese and some Czech. I hope you enjoy seeing our flower collection unfold over the coming weeks!