Today I’m sharing a few quick decor ideas using a cloche. When referring to a cloche, I mean anything with a glass dome. Don’t be concerned about finding a real deal cloche! Stores like HomeGoods, Marshall’s and TJ Maxx always have pretty glass domed cheese boards or even a footed glass domed cake stand would make an amazing cloche!
A cloche makes a great gift too! If you use a glass domed cheese board, the recipient could use it for Christmas decor and then use it as it was intended. I don’t know if it’s because a cloche reminds me of a snowglobe, but putting an object under glass seems to make it magical! So, here are a few cloche ideas – some are from this year and some from many years ago. I hope you enjoy and will think about popping something ordinary under glass to capture the magic!
Easy Christmas Cloche Ideas
This concrete bunny on a bed of moss with some artificial snow sprinkled around it makes a whimsical Christmas cloche. This is my only traditional glass blown cloche. I just use a dinner plate as a base when I use it like this.
This decorative cloche is from Pottery Barn years ago. It’s tall and narrow and has a black wood base. I use it almost every Christmas. This year I kept it simple and popped a white bottle brush tree inside on a base of moss. I love the contrast of the green moss with the black base and the white tree!
This is a small domed cheese board I picked up at HomeGoods earlier this year. The dome is hand blown. I found these cute paper house ornaments at Kmart of all places and added some Dollar Tree white bottle brush trees, and a tiny deer that I got at 70% off at AC Moore. Make a base of fluffy faux snow and add any tiny houses, they are everywhere this year, and some mini trees, etc. For a small cloche like this, look at ornaments because they are the perfect size.
This one is from last year. I used these little woodland animals and a paper Christmas tree under my large domed cloche (the one in the first picture here). I used the wooden base of my three tiered stand for this one.
This one is from my very first Christmas tour! It’s the tall Pottery Barn cloche and this time I used a small vintage look santa, sheep and bottle brush tree.
This is one of my all time favorites. I used my large cloche again for this. The base is a pewter serving plate and I put a wreath around the base (you can see a bit of it in the back reflection. Then I popped this tiny footed planter in the middle of the pewter plate. I filled the planter with some faux grass and then popped the little silver bird into it. Then I used silver Christmas ornaments in a variety of sizes to fill around the base of the planter. It makes a statement, but was super easy!
This is another fun thing you can do if your cloche has a knob handle. Tie something around the handle. Here I tied a vintage skeleton key to the handle with some satin ribbon. You could use any small ornament. I hope that I’ve inspired you to bring out that domed cheese board, glass domed cake stand, large glass jar, etc. Have fun!
Thanks for sharing these sweet cloche ideas. I really think everything looks so much prettier under a cloche. 🙂
I agree! Merry Christmas!
I never get tired of looking at cloche ideas. Thanks for sharing!!
You take simple ideas and create something beautiful.
Thank you for the beautiful ideas! I’m going to use them, I have several cloches.
Nancy
Thanks for sharing these adorable cloche ideas 😍😍😍
Great ideas! I love them all!
Great cloche ideas!! I use a couple & it keeps the cats from playing with what is inside!
Once again, beautiful ideas!! I should work at copying you very closely. Your advice is always perfect ,l like the satin ribbon and the key on top if there’s a “knob”. I may put one thing away and exchange it for a gifted cloche I’ll put some already owned little paper houses inside and snow. I know I have satin ribbon and a key!!!
I really like your ideas for cloches, makes a wonderful display!
Wow!!! What some beautiful ways to display items
These are lovely (and very inspiring! I’m going to try one). Merry Christmas to you and yours, Doreen!
Beautiful!
Did you make the paper tree in the woodland themed cloche?
No. I purchased it last year at a local shop. Maybe check on Pinterest? You might find a tutorial for something like this?
You are so talented and thank you for these beautiful cloche ideas for Christmas! I have 3 cloches and didnt know what to do with them. Thank You!
As I look at all of your wonderful examples, I am struck how simple and clean looking each idea is. Then when you cover them with the glass…..
The each become magical!
You indeed have been blessed with a gift.