Summer Cloche Party

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.

This cloche sits on my china hutch. Here is it all decorated for summer.


Lucky for me, my son loved collecting shells when he was a kid. So I have lots to decorate with.


And here is the same cloche decorated for the 4th.

You will see that most of my "summer" cloches" are decorated with sea shells.

The pencil starfish is looking a little tarnished. That is what happens with German Glass Glitter.

The Patriotic version of the same cloche.

I think this might be my favorite cloche of the summer.


I googled vintage beach images to find this one. I love it!

For 4th of July I placed a simple paper fan with a patriotic sticker. Super easy.

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.

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.

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.


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.

For my patriotic version, I placed a bunch of toothpick flags inside a vintage flower frog.


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.

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.

This apothecary jar is filled with white shells.


I've been collecting them since I was a little girl. Who am I kidding? They came from Marshall's a few years ago.

Normally this apothecary jar is filled with my letter balls. You can sort of see them in this photo.

I love my purple coral & pencil starfish.


They were actually some my son collected. But I stole them from him.

For the 4th, I had these cute patriotic salt & pepper shakers I found on eBay.

Another shell under glass. I never did take any photos of how I had it decorated for the 4th.



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.

Another fake starfish from Kohl's.

The sea glass came from Dollar Tree.

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.

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.

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.

I only have 5 silver baby cups. But it's a collection.

For the 4th I placed a patriotic print a couple of flags & filled the bottom with:


Firecrackers!!!! Luckily I don't have small children in my house. And the men in my house left them alone this year.

I just dumped a bunch of larger shells into this cloche.


I placed a small Uncle Sam box inside this cloche with a paper fan I found on Martha Stewart website.


And finally we have reached my last cloche.

I found this print off Google as well. Isn't is cute? It's actually the cover to a Little Golden Book.


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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Summer Cloche Party @ A Stroll Thru Life

Spring & St Patrick's Day Cloches

It's Party time!!! And a cloche party at that. You know how I love my cloches.

It is so hard trying to think up different ways to decorate them. I went pretty simple this time. But then, don't I always? I'm continuing with my green theme.

So here are my spring and St Patrick's Day cloches.....



We will start off with the table that sits behind my sofa. I have placed two of my cloches here.


I placed a leaf decor ball I made on top of a candle stick. And then placed a candle ring at the base.


Under this cloche I placed a thrift store urn with a green decor ball on top.

To the left of my couch sits an antique trunk, a freebie from my sister in law. You know, one of those, "Oh, are you going to get rid of that? I'll take it". On top of the trunk I have this antique tray I picked up at the thrift store. The tray makes placing things on the trunk much easier. On the tray I have three, yes you heard me right, three cloches.

Another thrift store urn (a small one) with a small decor ball I picked up from Dollar Tree a few years back. The two birds came from Target last year. They were Christmas ornaments. I placed them on a bed of split peas.

This is my newest cloche. It's not really a cloche as it doesn't have a handle or knob on top. I think it is actually part of a light fixture. In fact, I was going to make a light out of it. But for now, I'm using it as a cloche. I have this glass dome covering another flower ball I made that is resting on top of another candlestick. The green birdies came from Micheal's last year. The black base is some sort of kitchen tin I picked up at the thrift store a couple of weeks ago. I liked the texture & that it was painted black. I think it is a tart tin, but I turned it upside down to use as a base.


I made this cloche out of a glass dome I found at a thrift store. I glued a glass knob to the top. I've made a couple of these. I placed a vintage bottle inside with a shamrock pick I've had.

I tied this charm to the bottle with twine. The charm was an eBay find from a few years back. Love the shamrocks.

Last year I grabbed a few rocks from outside & wrote "Kiss me I'm Irish" on them with a black Sharpie pen. They are my blarney stones. Placed everything on a bed of split peas.

For some reason, I have a hankering for soup. How about you?

Now we will move on to my hutch. I've already shared these when I did my hutch post earlier in the week. But let's look at them again.


This is Liam. I just caught him last week, from eBay. He is such a charmer.

On the base of my hutch I have a couple of glass cheese dome cloches and some apothecary jars.

Under this cheese dome I placed this crown from Michael's. I love how the heart shapes on the crown make shamrocks.

The inside of the crown is filled with fake gold coins with a leprechaun hat on top.

Did you think I'd keep real ones in there? Gold coins that is. I wish. But then I wouldn't be that dumb. Gold is expensive now.

How I wish my coins were real. If they were, do you think I would be here? Heck no! I'd be in Ireland trying to find a real leprechaun and a real pot of gold. And why Ireland & not Paris? Don't you worry, I'd be going to Paris as well. But I've already been there once. So I'd go to Ireland first, as I haven't been there. But I would definitely stay a week or so in Paris before coming home.


I added a touch of green to my apothecary jars.

Here is the right side.


This is another cloche I made by gluing a glass knob to the top of a thrift store glass dome. I placed some moss balls I had on hand. They came from Michael's, last year. And added a skeleton key I had laying around.

Under this cheese dome I added some moss rocks that came from Dollar Tree, last year. I hung this Irish blessing plaque from the knob.

And finally we have the little cabinet that sits at the end of my kitchen cabinets.

I did nothing different to the large apothecary jar. Still holds my letter balls. Which by the way, I still love.


But I did manage to capture a couple of more leprechauns. I've had these two for a couple of years now. They came from eBay as well. Their names are Siobhan ("shiv + awn", the Irish version of Joan) and Seamus ("shay + muss", the Irish version of James).

So there you have this years spring & St Patrick's Day cloches. I had great plans on adding some cute tags. But you know me, I decided I'd rather watch American Idol then to make tags. The lazy me always seems to win out.

Now be sure to stop by A Stroll Thru Life to visit all the other party goers.