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show me your coffee mug

Posted by salgal (My Page) on
Fri, Jun 15, 12 at 10:12

I'm a sucker for mugs...this is my current favorite.
It is a pottery mug made at Colonial Williamsburg.

Let's see yours!


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This is my one cup of freshly ground coffee that I drink every morning.


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An oversized mug my 27 year old daughter made for me when she was 8. I just love it. She recently moved back home (sigh) and was surprised I still use it on a regular basis.

I guess she thought I told her I loved it and then used it only when she was around so as not to hurt her feelings. :-)

I'm kind of shocked it has survived all these years and will be heartbroken when it finally goes to that big coffee house in the sky.

Jodi-


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Jodi, LOL on the big coffee house in the sky. We can all hope there is one. :-)


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I drink iced coffee or my version of a mocha frappachino so I don't use a mug. I have 2 Tervis insulated glasses that I love. I got them at Bed bath and beyond, I have the handles for them and matching lids and straws.
One has a fleur de lis (I collect all things fleur de lis) and the new one is called Mexican peacocks, it is beautiful bright colorful cartoon like birds all over it.

I have to confess I am a collector (my husband says horder) of water bottles, sports bottles, cute insulated glasses. I have a cabinet full. But I have to continually carry water with me every where due to the Sjogren's disease, I am always drinking.


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I love the way she decorated your mug, Jodi! She's very talented.

Here's mine, nothing special:


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Oldgardener, love your mug shot. :-)


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Nice mugs. I don't have a picture but I like handmade pottery mugs that hold no more than 8 ouces. Bigger than that, my coffee gets cold. A mug has to feel right in my hand and the rim where I put my mouth has to be smooth, no rough spots. I currently have 3 that I rotate.

jude


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Jodi, I love that you still use your mug. When it finally "crosses over" - you'll know it was better to use than to sit in a box in the closet!
Oldgardner - I like the folk scene on your mug.
Jude, sometimes on a really cold day, I will put water in my mug and heat for a couple minutes in the microwave. Dump the water out and replace with hot coffee....that way the mug is preheated and doesn't absorb heat from the coffee

I also rotate my mugs. Many have significant memories for me...where they came from and who gave it to me.

One of my favorites got chipped - it has my name on it and a roadrunner. My Mom and Dad gave it to me when they returned from a New Mexico vacation. I use it now only to mix cornstarch when I am cooking

I also love my princess house cafe style glass mugs...


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Jodie...can't believe your daughter was only 8 when she made that mug. It's lovely.


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Georgysmom, she didn't actually make the mug, she painted it herself at one of those do it yourself ceramic studios that little girls often have their birthday parties.

Even her signature has held up well.

Jodi-


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Gift from my daughter 2 years ago for mother's day. Has an Irish blessing on the back.


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This is the back.


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My friend gave me this a couple of Christmases ago with a matching pie plate. I probably had it a year before I used it but now I use it every morning. It's a bit bigger than normal but I like my coffee weak.

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My cameras disappeared over 20 years ago - foster kid who was short of money suspected.

But one was an old 35 mm. model that used film, so it would have taken some finagling to have provided you with my mug shot, even were it still here and operational.

So a verbal picture will have to do.

Daughter gave me an oversized one, about three years ago, that's about the average height, but bigger around, so it is reasonably efficient at preserving the heat. When I get absorbed in some interest, though, on occasion some time elapses between drags/sips/whatever you want to call it. In which case, some treatment in the microwave brings the contents back up to a condition that one considers appropriate.

It has a desert scene, largely in variations of beige and brown, as a background, with large raised letters "A r i z o n a" in fairly large letters, darker brown, going pretty well all of the way around the mug.

Some would only want the dark brown of unadulterated coffee within ...

... but my preference is for some sweetness (more than I have available on the inside) ..

... and some cream (being a long-ago graduate of the farming training school of hard knocks) ...

... so the liquid inside of my (exterior) mug is rather a beige colour, that complements some of that on the outside of the mug.

As to what colour it may be on the arrival inside of my mug ... no one has ever investigated that ... but I assume it to be similar to the colour that it was in the (exterior) mug.

ole joyfuelled ... with a little help from coffee, from time to time


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