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The Finish

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I had to make sure I got these gems into the mix for this year’s egg cup tour. They were a gift from my friend Judy, and I love them. I keep them in the kitchen on the little shelf below my cupboards so I sometimes forget to include them. Aren’t they adorable?

I hope you had a lovely weekend. I spent some of my time yesterday working on the garden beds, cleaning up more debris, getting wet and muddy in the process. With all the rain we’ve been having, I have to grab those windows of opportunity when I can.

This morning, we’re off to buy a new wheelbarrow – much needed. My little cart I was using last year is currently being used to house excess Item 4 (gravel) and I fear the muddy and heavy gravel has ruined it forever. I need something bigger anyway. Then, when Don takes Rick and Doug to the bus station (they’re off on a trip) I’ll go buy some mulch. There were an alarming amount of weeds growing in the big garden bed and I cleared most of them yesterday. I have to get that mulch down in the next 24 hours.

And to close out our little tour, one more shot of the egg cup cubby.

I have to get moving.

Happy Monday!

 

A Rainy Saturday

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Goodness, it rained all night long and it’s still raining! We have a flash flood watch up for this area of the Hudson Valley. We’re always fine, as our little cottage sits well above the river across the street. Everything is getting greener and greener – and it is  April – so showers are welcome.

A bit of an egg cup potpourri today.

On the left: a wooden egg cup with a porcelain top given to me by my mom, Devon Ware – a gift from a fellow blogger who was born in Devon (the other side says “Laid Today,”) an egg cup from Prague – a gift from Don, a flowery egg cup found at the flea market in Paris, a lustreware bear egg cup – a gift from my friends Lynne and Sean, and a Cottage Ware egg cup from England.

There are four more that I’ll share tomorrow. I’m determined to because I love them but often forget to show them because they’re on display in the kitchen.

And…drum roll…here they are:

The gang’s all here!

That’s Bashful to the left of Snow White – I couldn’t get his name in the shot.

Oh heavens. I love them!

I love all my egg cups, but I have to admit I have favorites. Some of the figural egg cups that I collected at the beginning of this adventure are now almost impossible to find. I even remember the bidding wars that I got into in order to nab them! We lived in a rental cottage on the other side of the Hudson River when we first moved East. I started collecting in 2002. I would sometimes sneak out of bed in the middle of the night to go into the next room to use the computer to bid on an egg cup. It was the early days of eBay and there was no PayPal, so I would send money orders to the sellers. After receipt, they would put the egg cup in the mail, resulting in a long wait until the package was in my hands.

It was awfully fun.

I think the first egg cup in the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs series that I bought was Doc. I’ll have to go back and check. And Doc was my only Dwarf for several years. Grumpy or Bashful next? I’m not sure. That will be a good mini-project: putting a chronology together. And of course, I can figure it out by consulting this blog, which I often do when I want to remember what I was doing or buying or planting. Just checked: the second dwarf was Dopey!

We watched The Quiet Man  last night. Believe it or not, it’s the first time we’ve seen it. What a wonderful movie. John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara are terrific, but my favorites are Barry Fitzgerald and Victor McLaglen. Certain elements of the plot – the woman as “property,” John Wayne dragging Maureen O’Hara through endless fields despite her repeatedly stumbling in the grass – wouldn’t fly today. I cringed a bit as I watched those scenes. But it was filmed in 1952; another time, another era. (I should know, it’s the year of my birth!)

I hope you’re having a lovely holiday weekend.

Happy Saturday.

More Egg Cups & A Special Delivery

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Today – Double Egg Cups. Double egg cups are made with two cups; the smaller one is for eating a soft boiled egg out of the shell, the larger for eating an egg in the shell.

Back row, left: an egg cup from Hankscraft, a glass egg cup I found this year, a brown transferware cup by Mason’s Vista/England (one of the first egg cups I purchased), a flow blue egg cup.

Front row, left: a lovely egg cup from France that I found in San Diego, a flowered egg cup (reminds me of Clarice Cliff designs) that I found in a local shop, a rooster egg cup made by Holt Howard in 1961, and another transferware egg cup with no mark – maybe Johnson Brothers? I’m not sure.

We have a new member of the egg cup family. It arrived in yesterday’s mail:

You’re not seeing things. It’s Sleepy!!

He’s in perfect condition. That red dot on the cup is paint under the glaze, so it’s original.

Remember that auction where the price for Sleepy was way over the top? About $350 or more, if I remember correctly. I watched that auction daily and, of course, there were no bids. The auction ended. The next day, it was back up, this time with an opening price of $75.00 American. (A Canadian seller.) I watched it every day for 6 days. There were others watching, as well. On the final day, which was last Wednesday, I made sure I was home in time to watch the last hour of bidding. I waited until the last minute to bid, and, since there were no other bidders (what?) I won! Couldn’t believe it. Truly, I thought I’d be in some sort of bidding war because this dwarf is the hardest to find. In 17 years of watching eBay – 17 years! – this is the only time I’ve seen it up for auction.

Also, there are two different Sleepys out there.  There’s this one, which is the right one, the accurate Sleepy, and another one that looks exactly like Sneezy down to the hand to the nose. The only difference is the name. I don’t know why that happened. Did they break the mold and have to resort to using Sneezy’s mold? Anyway, that one is more common. So, to have the real deal is just thrilling! I’m going to keep my eye out for the faux-Sleepy, as well, because it would be fun to include it in my collection.

This is the most I’ve paid for a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs egg cup. Previously, I think I paid $55.00 for Snow White – also hard to find. But it was worth it. If I hadn’t grabbed the chance I might not have had another opportunity.

Huzzah! After 17 years of searching, I have them all! A photo of the whole gang will be forthcoming.

That delivery yesterday and the news that Gardener’s World (with Monty Don) is again available on BritBox made my day. Thank you to reader Lani for alerting me! Watching Gardener’s Diary  is like meditation for me. I immediately feel my shoulders dropping. It helped relax me in the midst of all the coverup activity coming from the WH and the Attorney General yesterday, so that’s saying something!

More tomorrow when we’ll be winding down our little egg cup tour.

Happy Friday.

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