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Egg Cups, Part 5 and Some Music

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I woke up this morning in an edgy mood. So I’m going to mind my words! Heaven knows where I would go if I let it all hang out.

Do you remember my story about the CBC radio show, Disc Drive? I spoke about listening to it in the afternoons when I was visiting everyone back home in Detroit/Dearborn. The host, Jurgen Gothe, was extraordinary and compiled playlists covering so many different kinds of music. Five days a week from 3 – 6 pm, his soothing voice and sense of humor carried us through the end of a work day. And I learned so much.

Anyway, I obsessively tried to track down two special CDs he recorded: Disc Drive and Disc Drive II. After a few months, I found Disc Drive II through a site called Discogs, where people list CDs and LPs that are out of circulation for sale. They are rated as to their condition. My experience with them was very positive. That disc (which had never been opened) arrived quickly and it was fabulous. Also, if you search for something and find it’s out of stock, you can sign up to get an email when it comes back in stock. So, I did that for the first disc, and promptly forgot about it.

The other day, I got an email from them and the first disc was in stock! Both of these CDs have been out of production for years.) I immediately bought it before anyone else could snatch it away.

It’s simply wonderful. A great selection of music, including Gershwin. I hear Jurgen’s voice and my shoulders immediately drop. So now, I have them both. They will be treasured, that’s for sure.

Today’s egg cups.

1.   A lovely little cup where the cup becomes a sort of cart, hauled by a member of the chicken family. It’s California pottery (still has the sticker, which is a big deal in collecting) and was made in Rio Hondo, California. I love the cream and pink combination. It looks very different from any of my other cups.

2.  A pig sitting at a table preparing to dine on an egg. This little treasure is one of my favorites. I found it in my early collecting days. It was made for Tiffany and it’s Staffordshire pottery.

3.  A lustreware egg cup with a cute little bear carrying the cup. Plus, a pretty flower. It was made in Japan and was a gift from my friends Lynne and Sean, who live in Toronto.

More work to do today.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

Art, the Girls, and Egg Cups, Part 4

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Second day of Spring! Fittingly, I happened to look outside yesterday afternoon and four robins landed in the yard. Two pairs. Hurrah! It seemed like they’d just arrived from somewhere else, but I might be reading into that. We watched them, entranced, as they looked for food, right on the very first day of Spring.

This morning is sunny. My mood, as of yesterday, is so much lighter. I’m sure some of that is due to the knowledge that Spring has arrived. It’s also warmer and sunnier and I know it isn’t a mid-winter fluke, but the harbinger of what’s to come. I was talking to a friend yesterday – it happened to be her birthday – and she said the same thing. She felt a lift in her spirits and her mood.

We moved the sheet music cabinet upstairs to the office yesterday. As impossible as it might seem, we managed to cram yet another item into that space. We switched it out with a table that was next to the overstuffed chair. The table went to the wall at the top of the stairs. While playing with that space, we moved the big framed poster that was on that wall downstairs to the gallery wall and hung the beautiful watercolor that had previously hung above the music cabinet in its place.

Eventually, we want to fill this whole wall with art and take advantage of those high, skylight-lit spaces.

Pippa urging Mei to go outside with her because it’s Spring.

Both girls had been wearing sweaters, so they needed a change of clothing. Mei is rocking her Crocs.

Egg cups, part 4:

1.   An adorable pig holding up an egg cup. Made in Japan.

2.  A goose pulling an egg cup. This one is beautifully painted. Made in Japan.

3.  Another Fanny Farmer egg cup. I have two of these – I believe they were a gift from a reader.  You can sort of see the words Fanny Farmer on the base (in brown.)

4.  And another favorite, this little girl in a bunny costume holding a polka dot egg. I am always smitten by this cup.

I’m off to start in on some more research.

Stay safe.

Happy Tuesday.

Part 3: Egg Cups

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It’s sunny and it’s 28 degrees, but it will get into the 50s today. Even warmer in the coming days.

Happy first day of Spring!

More and more birds are singing every morning. I am going to keep my eyes open for the appearance of a robin. I suspect they’re already around. I just haven’t seen them.

The wind was relentless yesterday – a full 24 hours plus nonstop. Thankfully, today is much quieter.

I have a lot of dialect research to do today as I ended up just resting yesterday. But I’m feeling energetic today and ready to tackle pre-rehearsal prep.

Let’s see, who do we have here?

1.  A happy, smiley running bunny. That’s a pale blue color on the cup, it’s just hard to see in the morning light. Made in Japan.

2.  I love this one. The egg has a pearlescent luster glaze. That’s a mama duck and her baby. It’s beautifully done. Not sure, but I’m betting it’s made in Japan.

3.  Another ‘house’ egg cup with two little chicks playing on a teeter-totter (that’s what we called them in my neighborhood.) Charming little cup.

4.  A petite egg cup with a rabbit holding up the cup. It’s quite old and very heavy.

I haven’t really done a little egg cup tour in a couple of years and I’m enjoying the process of getting them out of the cubby and rediscovering how lovely they are. I took a quick gander at eBay yesterday. There are some figural egg cups there, but the pickings are slim. I don’t like new figural egg cups as a rule because they are clumsily made and don’t have the detail found on the vintage cups. There are some exceptions, but not many. True of a lot of things, right?

Time for another cup of coffee, a little work on the puzzle, and then – down to business.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

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