Mockingbird Hill Cottage

More egg cups:

A leaping bunny.

Sorry for the repeat, I just wrote about this cup in the previous post.

Two adorable chicks playing on a teeter-totter just outside their house – another of the window egge cups.

A bunny dressed in orange and blue holding up an egg cup.

A gentleman egg cup. This is a tall egg cup. In some versions of this egg cup, there are holes in the head that enable it to function as a salter. Mine doesn’t have them. Also, he’s supposed to be holding a walking stick, but that was missing when I purchased it.

A beautiful goose egg cup from France. I found it in a local shop and I was amazed that it hadn’t been damaged.

A little cherub holding an egg cup. Love this one.

I’m running a little late after my second night of not enough sleep.

Let me know if you’re still interested in seeing the egg cups – there were only two comments on Wednesday.

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

Cold and sunny today, with a gradual warmup starting tomorrow. I’m hearing some bird song in the morning, which is a good sign. On Monday we had high winds and lots of rain but it was warmer in the evening than it has been and the peepers reappeared. “Peepers! One night only!”

More egg cups:

A very tall egg cup on the left, handmade from a Holland Mold. It was a gift from a reader. I love that face. (Too tall for the cubbies, so it sits on a different shelf.)

Another bunny with an orange cup on his back.

One of the first egg cups in my collection. This is a rooster egg cup by Holt Howard. It was in perfect condition until it fell one day. I had to glue it back together.

One of my favorites on the left, another egg cup made for Fanny Farmer. It’s very heavy and I’ve read that it was made by McCoy – whether that’s actually true or not, I don’t know. The paint is in perfect condtion, which is very rare. And the words Fanny Farmer are inscribed on the bottom edge of the cup.

Two dogs holding up an egg cup. This one is so whimsical and the design at the top of the cup is charming.

Momma duck and babies – this one is beautifully designed and painted. The cup has a lustreware finish.

A Walking Ware clone egg cup. I have two of these, one is an actual Walking Ware cup from Carleton in England. This one isn’t, but I love it anyway.

Have to get the car inspected today. Fingers crossed! Don is leaving in just a few minutes.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

 

First off, I cannot recommend the movie adaptation of Hamnet  enough. If you remember, I wrote a love letter about the book. It is one of my favorite novels ever. Don also read it (he’s normally a nonfiction guy) and loved it. And you know I usually avoid film adaptations of my favorite novels because I want to protect the characters my imagination created while reading the book and because I’m invariably disappointed in the casting. I read enough raves about this movie adaptation that we decided to go for it. We watched it Saturday night. It is stunning, in every way. Maggie O’Farrell co-wrote the screenplay and it shows. It is simply beautiful. We felt as if we held our breath through the entire movie, it was that gorgeous and powerful. A wonderful cast, but Jessie Buckley, Jessie Buckley, Jessie Buckley! – on my god – she deeply inhabits the role of Agnes (Shakespeare’s wife). I don’t when I’ve seen anything as powerful and rich as her work in this film. Needless to say, we were thrilled when she won the Oscar. She absolutely deserved it.

Rain today, and a line of severe thunderstorms this afternoon. Maybe even a bit of snow. I’m not looking forward to it.

More cuties.

On the left is the egg cup that started my collection. It was a gift from my godparents when I was a child. Made for Fannie Farmer, it features two chicks. Somehow, I held onto it for decades and it followed me from apartment to apartment. When I saw it in an article on collecting egg cups in Martha Stewart Living, I realized that there was a whole world of charming figural egg cups out there. And once a collector, always a collector.

A bunny egg cup that I’ve always believed to be the bunny version of Scout – same mischievous look in the eyes, same pink ears.

A bunny standing outside a house. There are many egg cups with this window motif, all of them different from each other.

A pig holding up an egg cup.

A duck carrying an egg cup with an orange rim on her back. Lustreware finish.

A pig preparing to dine on an egg. It’s Staffordshire pottery made for Tiffany. I love this one.

A little girl in a bunny costume holding a polka dot egg cup. She has the sweetest face!

There will be more.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.