It's time to par-tay!!!!
Marty over at
A Stroll Thru Life is having another cloche party. This time it is a Summer cloche party.
As usual, I am fashionably late to the party. But I'm ready to have fun. So let's get this party started!!!!
I must warn you though, I am a party girl. So you will find lots of photos as I have a ton of cloches plus I've already decorated them all twice this summer.
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This cloche sits on my china hutch. Here is it all decorated for summer.
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Lucky for me, my son loved collecting shells when he was a kid. So I have lots to decorate with.
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And here is the same cloche decorated for the 4th.
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You will see that most of my "summer" cloches" are decorated with sea shells.
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The pencil starfish is looking a little tarnished. That is what happens with German Glass Glitter.
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The Patriotic version of the same cloche.
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I think this might be my favorite cloche of the summer.
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I googled vintage beach images to find this one. I love it!
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For 4th of July I placed a simple paper fan with a patriotic sticker. Super easy.
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I have a couple of cheese dome cloches on my hutch. This one I filled with sand and what else? Shells, of course. This starfish is a fake one. I bought some at Kohl's a few years back.
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Same cloche for the 4th. I placed some cheapo dollar necklaces, a tarnished pencil starfish, another paper fan with sticker & a cookie cutter shaped like the United States.
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Here is the other cheese dome. My cheese domes are hard to photograph for some reason. I placed a bunch of old vintage wheels inside.
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Hubby & I just found the wheels this past weekend at a thrift store. Not sure what we will do with them, but I kind of like them under glass.
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For my patriotic version, I placed a bunch of toothpick flags inside a vintage flower frog.
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My apothecary jars currently. I'm still loving my number balls. And the dominoes remind me of vacation with my parents. And I love the old clothes pins.
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And here is what it looked like earlier in the month. Patriotic tootsie rolls from Dollar Tree and some Patriotic clothes pins I found on eBay.
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This apothecary jar is filled with white shells.
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I've been collecting them since I was a little girl. Who am I kidding? They came from Marshall's a few years ago.
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Normally this apothecary jar is filled with my letter balls. You can sort of see them in this photo.
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I love my purple coral & pencil starfish.
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They were actually some my son collected. But I stole them from him.
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For the 4th, I had these cute patriotic salt & pepper shakers I found on eBay.
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Another shell under glass. I never did take any photos of how I had it decorated for the 4th.
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A few years ago I scored a bunch of old bottles off of eBay for $10.00 for 10 of them. They look fabulous under glass.
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Another fake starfish from Kohl's.
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The sea glass came from Dollar Tree.
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For the 4th this cloche was actually in a different spot. I placed a patriotic creamer I found at the thrift store inside along with a flag star stick I picked up from Tai Pan Trading.
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Inside this cloche I placed my small collection of silver baby cups. Obviously I'm too lazy to polish them up for you. But I like them tarnished.
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I did add some more shells! And a dried out sea horse. But it's sort of creepy. Not sure I'll keep it there.
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I only have 5 silver baby cups. But it's a collection.
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For the 4th I placed a patriotic print a couple of flags & filled the bottom with:
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Firecrackers!!!! Luckily I don't have small children in my house. And the men in my house left them alone this year.
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I just dumped a bunch of larger shells into this cloche.
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I placed a small Uncle Sam box inside this cloche with a paper fan I found on Martha Stewart website.
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And finally we have reached my last cloche.
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I found this print off Google as well. Isn't is cute? It's actually the cover to a Little Golden Book.
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And this is what it looked like for the 4th. Almost identical to the other cloche. The box Uncle Sam is sitting on is a little different.
Well there you have my summer cloche collection. I still need to finish up my summer mantel. Hopefully I'll get it done before summer ends. But here in SoCal, summer doesn't really end until sometime in October. So I have plenty of time.
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Linking to:
Summer Cloche Party @ A Stroll Thru Life