First off, a bit about Don. He deleted his old YouTube channel (because he does things like that) and has started a new one. The back story: the other day, a song just ‘came’ to him. He wrote it, recorded it in one take, and posted it on Facebook. It has had an amazing reaction, from all sorts of people, including me. I reposted his post to my feed and the raves continued.

Anyway. I love this song. It is powerful in its simplicity. Here is the link to his YouTube channel. And here is a link to a free download. It’s called “I am a Rocket.” I hope you like it.

He amazes me.

Now, back to egg cups.

On the left: a chicken pulling a cart. This one has the original sticker on it, “Made in California.” Love this color combination.

In the middle: a goose pulling a cart. Beautiful, in a lustreware finish.

On the right: an official Carleton Walking Ware egg cup. From England.

Three enchanting egg cups:

On the left, a bunny rabbit outside his cottage home. Another “window” egg cup. I love these colors.

In the middle: one that I found last year, around the same time I was posting the egg cup tour. It’s marked Japan and it’s another variation of the bunny rabbit with a cottage home. This one is much bigger than the first, as you can see. It’s beautifully painted and has a lot more detail. Made in Japan.

On the right: one of my favorites – two rabbits holding up an egg cup. Another find during my first few months of collecting.

I think we’re about to move into non-figural egg cups on Wednesday.

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.

Friday – cooler than earlier in the week, but the rain has left and the sun is shining. Looking at the next ten days, I see temps in the 40s, then 60s, then 30s. All over the place. The other night we heard the peepers! They usually appear around mid-March, but this was earlier than usual, most likely because it had been very warm. We were so excited! But the next day the temperatures really dropped and we didn’t hear them last night. We probably won’t until it warms up significantly.

It has begun: another tour of the egg cups. I am pulling from previously used photos because I can’t count on the light these days and I don’t want to pull them out of the cubbies. Yes, I’m lazy.

Here are four of my favorites. Four egg cups from Japan and marked “Japan” on the bottom. On the left, a dog wearing a hat and dressed in a suit. then a little boy dressed as a cowboy, a rosy-cheeked little boy with a blue hat, and another little boy wearing a clown suit, with his little dog at his side.

Here we have Humpty Dumpty sitting on a brick wall. Made by Mansell – a company in England. I found this one pretty early on in my collecting.

I was first enchanted by figural egg cups. The majority of my egg cups are figural in nature because they’re whimsical and charming and you know how much I love whimsy. Since they are the bulk of my collection, that’s what I’ll concentrate on during this tour.

Thanks so much, my friends.

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

On Monday, as the skies stayed sunny all day and the temperature soared, we took some time to sit on the glider and walk around the property. It was so lovely! As we reached Tuesday, the euphoria had worn off and we realized it was just too darned warm. (We’d even had trouble sleeping the night before.) One more day of overly warm temperatures today and then back down to the forties, which is where they should be.

But it was nice for about 24 hours. And every speck of snow has vanished.

The landoudou girls were redressed yesterday. I took them outside for a photo but, even thought the sun was shining, the light was not cooperating. I now realize that there are no leaves on the trees or any of the plants that surround the porch and that makes it harder to take a picture. I’ll just have to wait a month or so.

I really haven’t had much of a desire to redress any of the girls. They look good in what they’re currently wearing and that’s fine with me.

I finished Practical Magic  yesterday. What a perfect book! I really loved everything about it, so much so that I’m sorry it’s finished. I absolutely recommend it.

Question: Do you want an egg cup tour this year? I just realized that Easter isn’t all that far away. Let me know.

Today, we go grocery shopping. There’s very little in the larder and we’ve put it off long enough.

That is our exciting day.

But truly, quiet and as-peaceful-as-we-can-make-it days are what we most prefer. We’ve had very busy, active lives for many years, traveling for work, being gone 12 hours a day, quite often being apart while one of us was away working, and it was mostly wonderful. But now? We’re happy to be home here in our little cottage.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.