SOCS – Mugs

 

For Linda’s challenge:

The Friday Reminder and Prompt for #SoCS Oct. 26, 2024

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Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “mug.’” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

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Here are a few of the coffee mugs we have. We tend to like the ones with pictures, or sayings on them, and also mugs from places we’ve been, or have some meaning for us.

Mugs are a pretty simple idea for gift giving, too. We always appreciate a new one.

I was thinking though, when did mugs become so popular? I know years ago my parents didn’t drink coffee from a mug, though in later years they did.  On old TV shows and movies, they didn’t use mugs. They all had nice coffee ‘cups’ and saucers. Do people still do this, or is it all mugs all the time now? And I guess the difference is the shape and the amount of coffee/or tea each will hold.

I remember my granny always had her coffee in a cup, but then would pour it a little at at time into the saucer and sip from there. First though she’d blow on it to cool it down. We always called that ‘saucered and blowed’. Later on I found out that this is a pretty common saying and thing to do, especially in the older days gone by. I tried it once, and it was okay, but too easy to spill hot coffee on yourself.

This is my coffee cup. I drink my coffee from this midnight blue coffee cup with a white alien face on it. It also says Roswell New Mexico. That’s where I bought it when we visited Roswell and the UFO Museum.  It’s kind of hard to see here, but on the midnight blue sky cup, there are tiny white stars. (click on photo to enlarge)

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This is one of our coffee mugs we use every day. It is from Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, and has a picture of a blue flying bat, and the words in yellow, “Bats need friends too!” on a black background.

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I got this mug as a gift one time. It had designs drawn on it that you were supposed to color in with the markers you got with the kit. It was fun to do.

I decided I’d painted enough on my coffee mug, so went ahead and finished up with the baking/setting of the colors.

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This was another mug I painted. It was a plain white one. I painted the words Peace on one side, and Love on the other in blue. Then added some blue and yellow dots around the rim & bottom.

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

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