This is my very favorite mug.
Mostly cause I had to be quite crafty to get my mitts on it.
(no, I didn't purloin it but the hint of theft was wafting about)
I don't use it every day though.
This is the mug I use almost every day.
I use it cause it holds the full dose of coffee I need every morning. The WH mug holds only half of what the Powell's mug does.
What's your favorite mug? Is there a story about why? Do you use it every day?
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I have quite a few self-designed writer and reader mugs in my Etsy shop and I wish I could post some pictures here but I'd get sent to Cakoon anyway...
But, but... if you'd ever like to take a look, please feel free. For the US, I now also have my first black one there and the colours on it really pop out lovely.
Plus, I can personalise them for you.
Christmas is coming, you know. 🎄🎄🙏
My favorite mug is an octopus one I got at an author event with Gail Carriger (if you haven't read her books, they're great!). Though tea, not coffee, is my fuel of choice...
I'm gonna make a bet and say that I have the weirdest cup. I drink tea in the morning, and I like to sit down at my desk with a really big cup. Not a normal size one, then get a refill. One big cup. I use a 2 cup measuring cup to heat the water in the microwave, then just toss my bags in, and that's what I use. The measuring cup.
When I'm trying to appear a bit more civilized, I use a mug my sister Manitta made. The handle is in the shape of a leaf - gorgeous. She was a marvelous potter (passed in 2016).
I have 2 favorite mugs that I generally alternate between daily. One came courtesy of Elizabeth Warren's campaign store and says, "Persist! But first, coffee." The other is one I custom ordered when I was promoted at my then-job and features one of my favorite lines from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan books: "Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me." I used that mug at work to help me stay grounded, until I quit and now have it at home. It still helps keep me grounded. :-)
My Sisters in Crime mug is my favorite. Alas, I don't drink coffee. Or tea.
So, my container of choice is a Big Gulp cup filled with Mountain Dew from 7-Eleven a couple of towns over. They're trying to teach me Urdu, bless their hearts. I clearly have enough trouble with English.
My favourite mug is a pottery one in the shape of a tree stump with a face - it reminds me so much of The Faraway Tree stories. Every time I look at it I have to smile. So rather than drink out of it I have it on my desk so I can see it all the time (I'm actually thinking of growing a plant in it instead).
The mugs I use all the time are the ones I have received at the Romance Writers of Australia conferences. And neither coffee nor regular black tea fill those cups, rather rooibos or peppermint teas instead.
We were at the Columbus Zoo. We actually saw the Pallas cats--they almost never come out of hiding--and got photos of them. Now my favorite coffee mug has four photos of Pallas cats on it.
I have a few commemorative mugs. They sit in a cupboard and bring memories back to my mornings.
I drink out of a little one cup mug, that way I drink it while it is still hot. It also reminds of all of those little shots of cafe con leche that blasted me onto the road of a working day.
I use a thermos for my coffee because it takes me forever to drink it and I like it to stay hot.
My favorite mug says Reach for the Stars and it has a field of stars inside it. It's the first thing I see in the dish cabinet. I never use it, but it inspires me every day.
My favorite is purely decorative. It's a replica of Clark Griswold's moose antlers mug from Christmas Vacation that he drinks eggnog with. For actual use, I've switched over to Yeti and knock off style travel mugs because I'm a very slow coffee sipper in the morning. It's more about the ritual for me than the actual coffee. But I'm partial to my "I like pig butts and I cannot lie" one.
My favorites rotate over the years as likes and interests change. My current favorite is my latest find in a small gift shop in the mountains of Ruidoso, New Mexico. It has a picture of a beautiful cactus and the phrase "I'm Huggable."
A long time ago -- we're talking in another millennium -- I ordered a set of 4 mugs from the Quality Paperback Book Club, each with a caricature of a person or character in literature: Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Moby Dick, and Sherlock Holmes. I still have them and can't choose which is my favorite.
It's a crafty, handmade mug my daughter made for me in Asheville at one of those crafty places. I have quite the collection of wonderful mugs she gave me. I drink a lot of coffee and I love collecting mugs. One of my favorites is a writer's mug that reads "Please do not annoy the writer. She may put you in a book and kill you." with a picture of an overflowing bookshelf on it. So very me.
My favorite is my Snow Leopard mug I got back in the 70's when the Snow Leopards first arrived at the Bronx Zoo. It's survived intact through every apartment move all these years.
Every morning I drink coffee from one of the four large mugs (a matching set, brown and cream decorated with cave-dwelling drawings of animals) that I bought decades ago when I first went away to graduate school. My daily reminder of a new beginning.
Because I am the Owl Princess, I have a plethora of owl mugs and use them frequently.
But the most special, literary mug I own was designed by my friend and cover designer, Kevin Slattery who passed away in 2015. It shows one of his paintings of Emily Dickinson holding a guitar, with the words, "She did not sing as we did/It was a different tune/Herself to her a music"
After reading my first published book (which contained some happenings that had been only slightly changed to protect the guilty) my daughter gave me a mug that reads "I am a writer. Anything you say or do may be used in a story."
Beth, or as Nora Ephron's mother told her, "Everything is copy." I love that.
Love that too, Kitty!
I still use every morning a big cup and saucer that my mum gave me years ago. It's royal blue which was mum's favorite color. I very rarely drink coffee, so I'm in the camp of tea drinkers. Mostly it's green tea, but I switch it up from time to time with Darjeeling, Orange Pekoe, Earl Grey, or a blend of other teas leaves. I have a few teapots I love, one of my favorites is an elephant with a little bird on his back that my brother gave me one year for Christmas.
My favorite mug (that I have two of, one at home and one at work) is a metal travel mug from Redbubble. It's got a black plastic lid with a very secure flapper that covers the drinking hole (is there a better, uh, word for that?) and it is yellow, and then has my most favorite Jersey Devil illustration that I have ever seen on it, full body in three-quarter pose, one front clawéd hand slightly raised, bat wings spread (poised for fight?) horned head thrown back, mouth open and tongue out, either vocalizing or perhaps scenting the air. (if you google "karmabees jersey devil" you can see it too)
A friend gifted me a mug that says, "I am silently correcting your grammar." And I am, though I am not one for snark or judgment. However, that mug holds the most coffee of all of ours and is perfect for days I need extra caffeine. Otherwise it's a toss-up between the Haunted Mansion mug my husband gave me to celebrate my ghost story, and a Paramount Studios mug -- for some reason coffee tastes better in that one.
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