It’s sunny today but very cold. A cursory glance at the forecast shows nighttime temps at below freezing for at least the next ten days.
I’m reading There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak. I’m about 150 pages in and it’s extraordinary. In the meantime, I’m headed for trouble as all four books that I had on hold at the library have arrived at my local branch. Two of them are new, which means a limited checkout time, and the book I’m currently reading is over 400 pages long. I will most definitely be reading a lot in the coming week. Isn’t it funny when every book, even books that appeared to have lots of people waiting in the queue, appear within a couple of days of each other?
Obviously, I will be stopping by the library today.
The tour continues:
A sweet little Scottie dog holding up an egg cup. It’s another cup that I found in the first few years of collecting. He’s in perfect condition. I love the blue collar. Marked Japan.
A wooden egg cup which comes from Italy and a company called Sevi. These egg cups are adorable and I want more of them. It’s rare when you find both the egg cup and the knit cap that came with it. I have a reader of the blog to thank for that as it was a gift from her. The knit cap functions as a cozy.
My wooden sailor egg cup. Don found this one in an antique shop and Scout decided to give it to me for my birthday. I researched this one. He was part of a series of egg cups that were sold by Woolworth’s in the 40s. Like the Sevi egg cup, he came with a white sailor cap. Alas, I don’t have it, but I’d sure love to find one.
I found this egg cup during one of my middle of the night bidding wars on eBay. We lived in our first rental cottage then and I had just discovered the world of figural egg cups and – you won’t be surprised by this – I was obsessed. A chicken and a duck and/or chick are on either side of an egg cup. The chicken is eating and the chick seems to be playing. Marked Japan.
The center cup is one of my favorites and I rarely, if ever, see it these days. An artistic rabbit is painting an egg. He’s even holding a palette. Marked Japan.
On the right is an egg cup given to me by Linda, a longtime reader of the blog. It’s absolutely adorable. What you can’t see is the tail, which is removable. It functions as a salter and has holes for salting and a cork to keep the salt in.
You know this little tour is good for me, too. It reminds me of what I have and how much I treasure these little beauties. It’s all too easy to walk by the cabinet and take no notice of what’s inside.
Stay safe.
Happy Saturday.
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