Mugspiration
On Friday, Lena Corwin posted this charming pic of vintage mugs on her shelves.
I’m such a copycat, I just couldn’t resist photographing my collection of vintage mugs over the weekend.
Actually, that Marimekko ripoff is not a vintage mug, and those teeny ones are, in fact, eggcups.
So in the interests of accuracy, here’s a mugshot (snigger) of each genuine vintage number:
Over the years, we’ve had many vintage mugs in our flat but some have collided with the floor and consequently lost a limb, and now must sadly serve a less glamorous function in my study. 
Enough of this – I’m supposed to be working! I have seven illustration deadlines this week, and a holiday on the horizon, and still I choose to spend hours blogging about mugs? Go figure.
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POST UPDATE :
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de vliegende koe
Heather I think it‘s a glamorous function for a mug to hold your pencils and scissors! I love the white mug with the poppie(?) on it!
Sheeps Clothing
What else would be blog about, but vintage mugs and the like? I spend way too much time writing mine and reading other people’s blogs when I should be doing things like feeding the kids….
lusummers
there’s a mug in the original pic…it’s a greeny-blah colour hiding a little in the white mug with people (?) on it…anyway, my father in law has the entire set, it was a wedding present. needless to say i have my beady eye on it…
Sheeps Clothing
So what was the give away? Does the stereotypical Australian not feed her kids??
By the way, I love the name of your blog.
My obstetrician is from Cape Town and whenever I went there for an examination I used to lay back and look at the photos of Cape Town on the walls. A bit of a variation on the lay back and think of England theme!! It looks like a beautiful city.
Stacey
Christopher de Beer
hahah very cool, yup tends to happen that way. oh well
Jesse
7 deadlines? Good luck, I hope they’re small ones.
Nice mug pics!
Heather Moore
Thanks for all the comments!
Oh, and Stacey, I could tell you were an Aussie by three things – the sheep ref in your blog title, the time of day that you posted your comment, and by the marvellously irreverent attitude towards the kids. You Aussies – you’re all the same!
Francesca
thank goodness this is how you spend your time…i love this mug post!
pinkmilk
Gretat collection and love the mugshots!
bowie style
im fascinated by vintage mugs,and therefore found this post extremely interesting – thanks so much for sharing your collection with us.