My pal, Beth, and I have always said, since our early days of junking together, “everything looks better under glass.” We used that line as a joke sometimes, but it also was a good sales tool. Plop a cloche over some odd item and all of a sudden it is elevated to a highlighted piece that gets a customer’s attention.
I use glass domes around my house, to sell at Juju, and in holiday crafts. Though this find wasn’t exactly a cloche, it was transformed into one with an abandoned silver sugar bowl lid and some ribbon.
There were three of these lampshades, one broke, the other got a similar treatment with a Santa display inside. (That one sold before I snapped a pic.)
Too bad that the 3rd one broke, I was looking forward to making more. These could be used as free standing cloches, if not glued together on a stand with a scene inside like I’ve done with this one.
I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled for interesting shades and lids to piece together so I can make more domes to place over items in my booth.
So darn creative! I’m always so impressed!