Mockingbird Hill Cottage

I finally got some sleep last night. The past two days were really hard to get through. It rained yesterday and it’s very foggy today but I heard the peepers again last night. It’s so charming, they peep and the bullfrog responds. So we hear high notes and very low notes and it’s magical.

On the left, from Cottage Ware in England, a little house.

An egg cup with its own saucer that I found at the flea market in Paris.

From my friend Mary in England. It’s from Devon and it’s called Devon Ware. I love this one so much!

On the right, two very old egg cups marked Germany. Bluebirds. I love anything with a bluebird so I snapped these up.

On the left, my most expensive egg cup – but really, it’s priceless. Don bought it for me in Paris.  It’s tiny and quite beautiful. Very Art Nouveau in design.

There are more figurals coming but I have to take some photos this weekend. Because I’ve done these tours so many times, some photos have repeats of cups I’ve already shown, so I’m going to sort through what I have and haven’t shown.

Stay safe.

Happy Saturday.

 

 

More egg cups:

A leaping bunny.

Sorry for the repeat, I just wrote about this cup in the previous post.

Two adorable chicks playing on a teeter-totter just outside their house – another of the window egge cups.

A bunny dressed in orange and blue holding up an egg cup.

A gentleman egg cup. This is a tall egg cup. In some versions of this egg cup, there are holes in the head that enable it to function as a salter. Mine doesn’t have them. Also, he’s supposed to be holding a walking stick, but that was missing when I purchased it.

A beautiful goose egg cup from France. I found it in a local shop and I was amazed that it hadn’t been damaged.

A little cherub holding an egg cup. Love this one.

I’m running a little late after my second night of not enough sleep.

Let me know if you’re still interested in seeing the egg cups – there were only two comments on Wednesday.

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

Cold and sunny today, with a gradual warmup starting tomorrow. I’m hearing some bird song in the morning, which is a good sign. On Monday we had high winds and lots of rain but it was warmer in the evening than it has been and the peepers reappeared. “Peepers! One night only!”

More egg cups:

A very tall egg cup on the left, handmade from a Holland Mold. It was a gift from a reader. I love that face. (Too tall for the cubbies, so it sits on a different shelf.)

Another bunny with an orange cup on his back.

One of the first egg cups in my collection. This is a rooster egg cup by Holt Howard. It was in perfect condition until it fell one day. I had to glue it back together.

One of my favorites on the left, another egg cup made for Fanny Farmer. It’s very heavy and I’ve read that it was made by McCoy – whether that’s actually true or not, I don’t know. The paint is in perfect condtion, which is very rare. And the words Fanny Farmer are inscribed on the bottom edge of the cup.

Two dogs holding up an egg cup. This one is so whimsical and the design at the top of the cup is charming.

Momma duck and babies – this one is beautifully designed and painted. The cup has a lustreware finish.

A Walking Ware clone egg cup. I have two of these, one is an actual Walking Ware cup from Carleton in England. This one isn’t, but I love it anyway.

Have to get the car inspected today. Fingers crossed! Don is leaving in just a few minutes.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.