Tea Party Cloche

I love a cloche. I look for the glass domes and bases any time I am at a store or thrifting. They don’t have to come as a matched set, either. If anything looks like it could be a base for a cloche, especially if they are wood or marble, I will pick it up. The same for the glass domes. I have some that are questionably cloches and more than likely a candleholder or part of an old clock. I simply clean the marble bases and paint or stain the wooden ones.

I decorate seasonally and definitely for Christmas and Easter holidays. This next little project was a Spring cloche I created, but could also be Easter.

I found a tall glass dome and a wooden base. I painted the wooden base white (although now I’m thinking I might change it to green or strip it back to a natural wood) and distressed the edges. I can’t remember exactly what I paid for each, but they were thrift store finds, so not much. I then went on the hunt for some tea cups. I found two at a thrift store for $2 each. They were the perfect demitasse size. I looked for weeks for the third cup with no luck, so finally broke down and made an EBay purchase for the third. It was $18! Not really what I wanted to pay, but these projects can’t just hang around forever.

The little mushroom birds I bought for 25 cents at Goodwill (four of them) and the porcelain eggs (also four of them) I purchased at an antique booth for $1. I bought some wax dots from Amazon (here) and used these to “stick” everything together. Rather than purchase a gazillion cloches (which I easily could) I put mine together in a way that they can be easily disassembled and used for another display/season.

And, finally, here is the result.