common ground : Creating an Autumn Cloche

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Creating an Autumn Cloche

Happy First Day of Fall!

My last post I shared the Dining Room with a mini Home Tour; if you haven't seen that post you can catch it HERE. I focused on the Dining Room table with a large urn with fall natural elements, but I also shared the buffet with several cloches dressed up for Fall. So today I thought I'd focus on the grouping of cloches that celebrate fall and a few others that in the past I've put together for the Autumn Season.

The beauty of creating a cloche display is that it can be simple or more layered and dynamic. Since I was putting together several for a buffet display I kept them more simple. The larger glass domes accommodated small ironstone compotes with mini bouquets in late summer and fall faux blooms. I already had created the mini bouquets, so it was easy to just place them on a base and cover them.

I've had this perfect little velvet bejeweled pear for years. It's sitting on a bed of moss in a small silver handled basket. You'll see that little pear featured in so many of my fall cloche vignettes. The amber glass cake pedestal is vintage, and I really love using it in the fall.

Back in the early days of vintage décor blogging there was a fun little trend of making cupcake stands. We would find glass candlesticks at flea markets then glue a plate on top. And magically we had a cupcake stand!

This precious little lamby I've had for many years, and he's appeared each and every season, every year, since I've started blogging.

And here's another favorite critter of mine; a paper mache squirrel that my younger daughter bought for me one year. He's another character that has made the blog rounds, yearly. He's made several cloche displays through the years.

Amber Glass for Autumn Displays

Here's a post from last year, when our vintage group shared how we use our pieces of amber glass. The amber pedestal is a favorite base for fall cloches.

Scenes from the Late October Dining Room

I have to admit I have an affinity for small rodents, so I tend to collect squirrel and chipmunk figurines. I'm not sure how, but somehow when I was in grade school I had a white rat, which was approved by my parents, kept in a large bird cage. Not to mention the several hamsters the girls had growing up... Here is a chipmunk featured in a fall naturals cloche. (And the velvet pear is there, too.)

The Fall Dining Room and Needlepoint Pumpkins

Here is one of my treasured little needlepoint pumpkins featured in this cloche. I find myself using natural elements like moss, leaves, sticks and vines as a base or filler in my cloches.

Styling My Buffet for Fall

This grouping was in the dining room at our last house. These fall cloche displays hold moss baskets, clay pots, birds and the famous velvet pear.

Fall Birdies

Flirting With Fall

I used smaller cloches and lambs for this fall display on a tole tray in the dining room at our original blogging house.

Harvest Under Glass

This is a early fall cloche display in the living room at that same house. A blogging friend sent me this amazing dried sunflower head that I placed under my large glass dome on a silver platter. It made for a wonderful fall look.