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Books and Egg Cups

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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.

 

Flowers, Egg Cups, and a Puzzle

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It’s lilac time. And crabapple time, but we’ll talk about that in the next post.

And the leaves are popping out on the maple trees. The forsythia is in full, golden bloom.

A couple of rogue daffodil plants have popped up next to the grape hyacinth. I’ve been tracking them for a couple of years. This year, for the first time, there are buds that are just about ready to open. I think they’ll be the same kind of daffodil that blooms in the big garden bed.

I sorted out the shed yesterday, rearranging and fixing thing. I gave it a good sweeping, as well. I’ve also been clearing out more of the garden beds, which I’ll continue to do today. But only a bit at a time, because even when I really budget my time, my back still ends up aching.

More egg cups. The double egg cups are Harlequin, from Homer Laughlin. I found a couple of them and Margaret, a reader of the blog. sent me the others.

In front of them, new egg cups that my dear Judy sent to me. What came first the chicken or the egg? They’re adorable.

Glass egg cups: Jadeite and Milk Glass.

And miniature egg cups in Dove Cottage.

Reader Kathy sent me a puzzle which I just completed. It’s a copy of a print done by someone I’ve followed for a long time – Angela Harding. She carves linocuts and is also a printmaker. Her love of nature is apparent in everything she does. (She lives in England.)

Here it is with everything finished but the sky. (I forgot to take a picture of the completely finished puzzle.)

This one was challenging! Thank you so much, Kathy.

And timely. Don just saw a bunny rabbit!

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

 

Harper’s Easter Greeting and More Egg Cups

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Harper wishes you a Happy Easter.

She wasn’t happy. I heard the words “Oh, go suck an egg.”

So there you have it.

I did some work outside yesterday and it amazes me how quickly I get tired out at this age. My first attempt at clearing a small garden bed, potting the pansies, pruning some bushes, and I end up coming in the house with a very sore back, crying and frustrated that I can’t do what I used to do. Thank God for comforting Don, who rubs my back and understands.

I know. The solution is to not take on as much as I used to and/or find a way to do it in smaller doses. And I’m trying, really.

Today, it’s supposed to reach 85 degrees. It’s one of those freakish spring days when the temperature soars and everyone is uncomfortable. It will be about 20 degrees cooler tomorrow. I’m going to run by the nursery this morning to see if there are more plants available. Maybe with the holiday weekend and people coming north for the weekend they’ve set out more stock. Doesn’t hurt to try!

Two morning glory egg cups from the flea market in Paris and two egg cups from Abbey Road in London.

Humpty Dumpty (from England) and two very kitschy egg cups that have salt and pepper eggs.

A bunny carrying an orange egg cup, a scottie dog egg cup, two bunnies holding up an egg cup (another of my favorites) and. a bunny with a pipe leaning against his egg cup cottage.

The first egg cup was made in California, two chicks on a teeter totter (I may have shown this one before in this series) and a beautiful goose pulling an egg cup.

I have a few more to show you and I’ll do that on Monday. I may not get to all of them, but I’ll do the best I can.

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday and Happy Easter.

 

 

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