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Eggscellent

March 29, 2018 at 10:33 am by Claudia

Rain is on the docket for today and tomorrow. The gray skies get me down, but rain will bring green grass and buds on the trees, so I can’t really complain.

And we continue:

Another little niche in the house where I stash more egg cups. By the way, I counted them yesterday. I have more than 70! I don’t have all of them on display, but most of them are.

Starting from the left: from my blogging friend, Linda – this guy has a salter in his tail; the next two are from Japan, a little boy and a cowboy; the wooden egg cup was a birthday gift from Don and Scout, the next two I found online, I don’t think they’re old, I just liked them; and a cottage ware egg cup from England.

Another view of the cottage ware egg cup; the next egg up is from Devon and was a gift for my blogging friend, Mary; the Chambéry egg cup from France has two groundhogs in the design, so you can see why I wanted it; and the last two are plain, utilitarian egg cups that I’ve had for quite a while. Last year I made the bunny egg cozies for them. Mom and son.

Tomorrow – all the egg cups that are scattered here and there around the house. I’ll gather them together and photograph them.

If you celebrate Easter, what are your plans for that day?

I’m feeling better every day, but I’m still coughing off and on. If I feel better on the weekend, I might head into the city to spend some time with my honey. Having him here for one day spoiled me! I miss him. The cottage alway seems less homey when he’s gone.

Happy Thursday.

Egging Me On

March 28, 2018 at 10:10 am by Claudia

We’re in that in-between time here in the Hudson Valley. It looks like the worst of winter is gone. It’s slowly getting warmer. But the landscape looks bleak.

It will be a few weeks before I can begin cleaning up the garden beds; that leaf mulch needs to stay there a bit longer to protect the plants. The waiting game has begun.

But I’m sure happy that winter seems to be on the way out the door!

More egg cups. It’s so hard to get a good photo of this little shelf that I found years ago in an antique shop. It hangs on a wall in the den, between two windows. There’s a table and lamp in front of it. And it gets very dark in that corner. Thank goodness for photo editing options!

Full transparency: this little shelf holds some of my favorite egg cups.

On the top shelf – One of my largest egg cups, a guy with a top hat. The head is a salter and is lifted out to access the egg cup. This would have been one of a pair of egg cups, one for salt and one for pepper. I suspect the little cherub next to it is really a toothpick holder, but I have made it an honorary egg cup because it’s so adorable. Then there’s Humpty Dumpty, with an egg that Don brought back from Prague serving as his crown.

Middle shelf – One of my favorites, the bunny artist painting the egg. (Middle-of-the night bidding war.) Next, a pig getting ready to dine on an egg (made for Tiffany). And then, one of my 1939 Walt Disney dwarfs, Grumpy.

Bottom shelf – Three more dwarfs: Dopey, Doc, and Bashful. And some little wooden ducks/chicks that I found in an antique shop several years ago.

The search for the remaining three dwarfs and Snow White is ongoing. It’s taken me 16 years to collect the four that I have!

In other news…Don told me the ‘critic’ from the New York Times got so much backlash about his/her review of Escape to Margaritaville, that he/she felt compelled to write an op-ed defending the review. I don’t mind saying that I laughed gleefully when I heard that bit of news. It’s alright not to like something. We don’t all agree. But to write in a mean-spirited manner, to make it personal? That’s not what a respected critic does. That’s not what anyone who calls themselves a critic should do.

I cancelled my subscription over this one. I was already on the fence about it, due to all the “Hillary’s emails” crap they published leading up to the election, but this sent me over the edge. Bye bye, New York Times. And that sorry excuse for a critic can kiss my tush.

Happy Wednesday.

A Visitor and More Easter Egg Cuppery

March 27, 2018 at 9:42 am by Claudia

A guy I know who is temporarily living in NYC came home for 24 hours. Just what the doctor ordered! He’s here now, but I’ll soon be taking him to the bus station for the trip back to the city. We’ve had a lovely time.

But then, he’s a lovely guy.

By the way, if you want to see a ‘feel-good’ movie, watch Wonder, starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay. Cried my eyes out in the best possible way.

Today, we look at the egg cups that are on the mantel that is right above my desk. These are all figurals and they make me smile every single day.

The bunny on the left is named Scout – she reminds me of Scoutie: the facial expression. the eyes and the big pink ears. Bunnies frolicking, chicks on a seesaw, and a dog – so much lovely detail.

Love the little girl in a bunny costume and the bunnies holding up the egg cup. There’s my childhood egg cup and a bunny standing outside his egg cup house.

Here we have hens and chicks and a scottie dog and two dogs holding up an eye cup and bunnies and a pig.

And, of course, there’s the Lamb with the Party Hat and lovely thimble with a cow on top sent to me by a blogging friend, Susi, who lives in Amsterdam.

A couple of the egg cups are here as the result of successful bidding wars in the middle of the night. I was younger then.

You know, of course, that looking at all these egg cups makes me want to hop on over to eBay and see what’s out there.

Happens every year. Like clockwork.

Happy Tuesday.

Eggscellent

Egging Me On

A Visitor and More Easter Egg Cuppery

Lambs Like to Party

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