You know how much we love umbrellas, bumbershoots, brollies and parasols, right? We're in the midst of April showers here in Seattle, a...

  Here at Bumbershoot we love rubber stamps. We use them in our mixed media art all the time. So we thought it would be fun to make ou...

I am getting ready to celebrate a very important day for me, the anniversary of the day I became a mother.  My darling daughter Emma turns ...

At Bumbershoot Supplies , we offer a lot of hand painted vintage celluloid flower cabochons and charms.  Our celluloid flowers were made i...

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 Ca...

tulips at the Pike Place Market, Seattle Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

snowdrops, Discovery Park, Seattle Lone flower, hemmed in with snows and white as they But hardier far, once more I see thee bend Thy fore...

very first blossoms appearing at Discovery Park, Seattle, Jan 31, 2011 Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cr...

Early 1900's antique post card... Although I regularly sell vintage and antique post cards at Bumbershoot Supplies , there are a few t...

This is is one of my button bracelets , in clear spring shades of pink, white and green. It has lots of really beautiful and special vintag...

These tags are my offering for the Wednesday Stamper challenge blog, where the theme this week is "Spring".  Luckily for me, I h...

Completed wedding order...

(tulips, Pike Place Market) By the pixies' magic power do my tulips always flower... ~Maud Keary

My first ever posting for the  Wednesday Stamper challenge blog, where the theme this week is "doodling".  For this ATC, I stain...

This ATC was made for the Mixed Media Monday theme of "not just black and white".  It celebrates the return of spring to the Pac...

(tidepooling, minus tide, Carkeek Park) ...it's always ourselves we find in the sea. ~ee cummings

(Al's Plum Trees, N 68th St) Plum blossom bursts in the south wind why do I feel so full of joy? ~Song Sunam

Two days ago, Emma, Eric and I visited Seattle's Japanese Garden. It is one of my favorite places in Seattle. I always come away feeling...

Well, it's been busy since I posted last week. 1. Six new designs are in the Etsy shop, a total of 62 items currently, and remember to c...

We use tins of beads to prop up the cards we use to display our necklaces and earrings in the shop. Very high tech! Emma saw and took these...