Picture of the Week

(Waterfront view, Alki beach.)

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.

Picture of the Week

(Fantastic camellias, outside the Japanese Garden.)

Our Valentine’s Day Collection

For the crafty among us, we present our picks for all of your Valentine's Day needs!

1. White Rose Hearts, 2. Pink and Yellow Rose, 3. Pink Rose, 4. Pink Rose Cabochons, 5. Brass Heart With Pearl, 6. Italian Lucite Heart, 7. Filigree Heart

Look for more in our supplies shop.

Picture of the Week

(Beautiful orchids at Woodland Park Zoo, Rain Forest House.)

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!!!

faith, trust and a little bit of pixie dust

You may recall that our son Eric is performing in Seattle Children's Theatre's production of Peter Pan.  On Thanksgiving weekend, while he was singing, dancing, flying and fighting pirates, all with teddy bear in tow, I was working on a quilt square for a fundraising quilt for SCT.  There were requirements in terms of size, fabric, and the basic need for a two dimensional product that could go on a bed, which I'm sure makes sense to those of you who are quilters, but for an art quilter/mixed media person like myself, was a real challenge. I have an art supply shop for a reason...

There are many layers of meaning for me in this quilt square, but I'll explain one, since everyone except Eric has asked "What is the 2 for?"   It's the second star on the right....

Christmas Past

Last night I watched my first Christmas movie of the year. It was The Bishop’s Wife. Watching it made me think of all the Christmases of years gone by.

 

When citrus fruit and nuts where special gifts, and when people really did deck their halls with boughs of holly.

a satsuma by any other name..

I am ill.  This is what my husband brought to tempt me:

Isn't it perfect? 

As we approach the holiday season, it reminds me of the apples and oranges we children always found at the bottom of our Christmas stockings, and which still appear in our stockings year after year.  What a thrill it must have been to see such a jewel in your stocking centuries ago.  As we head into the American Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, today I give thanks for the California farmers and the many others along the way, right up to and including my husband, who played a part in delivering this beautiful get-well satsuma to me.

New, Old, Always Beautiful

When I photograph supplies for Bumbershoot Supplies, I like to include photos of how these vintage treasures look when they arrive, so you can see what I see, perhaps feel a bit of the excitement I feel.  The new old stock, new since it has never been used, old since it was made many decades ago, is stored in many ways.

Sometimes wired....

Or bundled...

Or in cotton or tissue wrapping....

Sometimes the wrapping itself is a wonderful surprise....

New and old, both at the same time, always beautiful.