Summer Cloche Party!!!

While your reading this I'm probably sitting on a beach somewhere listening to the sounds of waves crashing on the shore!  Yep!  That means I'm on vacation this week! 


Well, I just couldn't go on vacation and miss Marty's Summer Cloche Party.  Especially, since I searched high and low awhile back for a glass cloche dome.  At the time I was looking, it seemed everyone was out, now they are back in the stores again, everywhere!  Isn't that always the way it is?  Any who, I really wanted to participate.  So, I hope you'll join me and several others here @ http://astrollthrulife.blogspot.com/ for my first cloche party.

For this party Marty challenged us to use our summer decorations.  My first thoughts were no problem!    However, I really wanted to do something special.  I started thinking about what I love about summer.  Trouble was, everything I thought about I didn't have items small enough to fit in the cloche.  So, I used my creative side and made a few.  I decided the best place to put my summer cloche was on my screened porch because that's another thing I love about summer.  Time spent on the porch!

So, come on out, I left the lemonade and watermelon out for you to enjoy while you check out my cloche, okay? 

Here it is, I hope you enjoy!

Now I'm really not trying to rub it in that I'm not here and at the beach, okay?

This is my theme.  This is what I love about summer!

I decided to use this piece of fabric I had in my box of excess fabrics, as my backdrop since it's very tropical!

I made this sign out of piece wood we had laying around in the garage.  It's pointing the way for you..

to the beach of course! 

And it's a beach with an adirondack chair and umbrella no less!

Yes, I know it's kinda tacky but I really had fun making this adirondak chair.  I used popsicle sticks from a great BIG box I have of them purchased back when the boys were young.  We used to need them for all sorts of projects and stuff.  A glue gun, a drink umbrella, and little craft paint and I was happy!

A strip of yellow fabric made a nice beach towel.  Then I added a little bit of sand and shells to finish it up.

These metal palms are actually attached to a votive base.  Rarely use it but just can't seem to part with it.

I hope you enjoyed your day at the beach with me...

...Ooops!  I mean, visiting my cloche!  I'll see ya when I get home!

Thanks for stopping by and please leave me a comment if you do!

Hearing from you is what makes these parties fun!

Mary