~ U for umbrellas and unique. It’s the time of year when we hope we don’t need to use rain umbrellas but I do use umbrellas a lot in the garden. One year I turned an umbrella into a display for the spring. The old saying April showers bring May flowers was the theme for this unusual wreath/display. Did you know an old fashioned word for umbrella is bumbershoot? I love unusual and unique words. But I do have rain umbrellas. My fun umbrellas are from my teaching days. It was important to cheer things up on rainy days when meeting
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Boots and Bumbershoots
Garden Projects, The Garden 2018, and Whimsy.
boot planters, garden journal 2018, U, umbrellas, and wreaths.
boot planters, garden journal 2018, U, umbrellas, and wreaths.
~ Bumbershoot is the old fashioned name for umbrella. I love unusual words. I decided to turn that umbrella upside down, add some spring things and make a bumbershoot display instead of the traditional wreath. I have several umbrellas but didn’t want to use one for the display because I will most likely need it for those rainy days that will be coming soon. A trip to the dollar store is always fun and this time I was looking for an umbrella. I had recently purchased some forsythia branches thinking I would do a wreath. I added some ribbon that
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