While frantically working on a dual Tablescape Thursday and Cloche Party post last night, and suffering from blog block I might also add, my internet connection disappeared. Poof! It was gone. A little pop up message was saying something was unplugged, so I checked every cable I could find, while crawling around on my hands and knees, and Zip! Nothing! So I retired to a bubble bath to regroup. One last check later and still no internet. I was irritated now and called Comcast. Shortly after I began pushing numbers, the power went out and the house was dark. Hmmm, what to do now? I wonder if Comcast caused the outage? I sat in the dark for a bit, then gave up and went to bed. The power finally came back on about 7 hours later and it was morning. Well morning came and went, and I'm well into the afternoon. I've scrapped the idea of a dual post, and began editing the post I started yesterday for Marty's Cloche Party.
So, without further adieu, Welcome to Marty's Cloche Party!
Several of the lovely blogs I read have cloche collections, which I've drooled over on numerous occasions. After seeing all the marvelous vignettes that I could create if only I had a cloche, I was on a mission to find one. Unfortunately I wasn't able to locate one until Christmas was over, but what a perfect cloche I found. I was in Pier 1 looking at Christmas ornaments when I suddenly spied the cloche. I had to move tables and chairs and it was look out for anyone who got in my way! That baby was coming with me! Once I got it home, all my grand ideas fled. Oh my, what do I do with it now? I tried a little of this, nope, and a little of that, nope... Then I found a sweet little cake pedestal at Marshall's. It fit very well and the elevation made it seem more important. It lives on the piano and I usually rotate figurines in it. I'm sure all the creative ideas shared at the party will inspire new wonderful vignettes!
(Click on photos to enlarge.)
My first Pier 1 cloche has a sweet humming bird figurine in it. (I have the hardest time with glare when I try to photograph a cloche. I think it's time for a new camera.)
The little mini cloche covers fresh plums and sits on a sweet little blue and white stripe plate that I found at a thrift store a few years ago.
My latest treasure! I've looked at the wire cage/cloches at Michael's for several months and finally bought one. It's just so sweet with the little bird on top. I bought 3 daisies to use with a candle in it. It's just too cute. (I hope you think so too!)
A last look.
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HERE to visit Marty for the list of the other cloche party participants.
Enjoy!
Diane
Welcome to Outdoor Wednesday, hosted by Susan at A Southern Daydreamer.
See the house on the left? We lived there for 20 years. We bought our next door neighbors house 10 years ago. Our son bought our old house and remodeled it. Pretty cool, huh?
I've alway loved houses with front porches and suggested to my husband several times that we add a porch to the front of our house. (Well, actually I nagged at him constantly). Whenever I found a picture, I'd show him. One day I found the perfect porch picture in an advertisement. I cut it out and stuck it on the refrigerator. Our porch is very similar to that little inspiration picture. I just wish the flower beds were a little wider... ☺
Susan, thank you for hosting this fun weekly event. You can visit A Southern Daydreamer to see the other Outdoor Wednesday posts, by clicking HERE.
