Love Mug

 

Image from FRESHOUSES

Everyone with me now....AWWWWWWWWWW!

Need I say more?

Cake in a Mug

Sorry for the long absence everyone! Life happens and well..let's just say I read some of my old posts and miss MugFinds!

Now onto more coffee mugs!

 I think I just found out what is better than just a coffee mug.... Let's take a look at what could possibly be.

Image from The Family Kitchen

Okay, well it does involve a mug, but don't be fooled into thinking that the above looks like hot chocolate in a mug; it is actually Nutella cake in there! Wait, I don't think you heard me. I said, "THERE IS NUTELLA CAKE IN THERE!!!" Okay, I'm glad you are on the same page as me now. I don't know about you, but that just looks too tasty to be true. And think about the fun you could have thinking about what one of your lovely mugs to use!

If you want to learn how to make it see The Family Kitchen blog.

How the Germans make coffee mugs

First off, Thank you all for the coffee mug submissions! I am sadly dwindling down on my own coffee mug collection and I love seeing other mugs! You all are making this possible with your awesome coffee mugs! Yeahhhh!

This next mug and story comes to you from Denise M. She writes, "[This] mug is, I think, from Germany. Many years ago a friend of mine sent 2 of them for Christmas. She was living there at the time and claimed that they were a pretty popular kid item in those parts. On first look, I didn't get it. Pretty and porcelain, sure. But too precious and knickknacky for my taste. As soon as the holidays were over I had plans to pack them away in the basement. But by then the girls had figured out the handles were also straws. Yes. That's right. I said straws! For almost a year the girls would drink from nothing else. I keep them around now because I can't bring myself to banish something that worked so hard for so much love."

And I know the anticipation is killing you all so I will go ahead and post the mug.





Right....about now...






okay, I really will this time.


When looking at this mug, I can't get over that the handle is a straw. What a fantastic idea! I would classify this mug as vintage with functionality. Thanks again Denise M. We will have more coffee mugs from Denise later on along with the wonderful stories that are with them.

Ho, ho, uh oh!

I must say this next mug is one of my guilty pleasures and soon you will see why. I received it this past Christmas from my grandmother with some other goodies too. This mug was well, unexpected to say the least but also very welcomed because it is a coffee mug. And here's the story...

I complained all Christmas because I didn't have any Christmas decorations and hinted in many ways to people that I wanted some. I even made and gave my husband Christmas ornaments for Christmas...I still don't know if he was thrilled to have them as much as I am, but that's besides the point. Anywho, my grandma hands me a paper grocery bag with delightful Christmas decorations ranging from a clock that chimes a Christmas song every hour to a sleigh that has a bear and floral decorations in it. The last thing I happen to pull out of the bag was this:

Does this scream terror to anyone besides me? I feel like Santa would be saying, in a creepy voice of course, "Yesss, Yesss drink my brains, be a little good girl and do it." I don't know why anyone would want to drink out of anyone's head, PERIOD. I don't care how famous you are, it just kind of give me the jitters. This mug should belong to Hannibal Lecter. Needless to say, I still have this coffee mug and it is even on display on the shelf near my front door.

Merry Coffee Mug Drinking to All and to All a Good Day!

The Artic Prevails

Not sure what the title of this post was suppose to mean, but I'm just going with it. This next mug is also part of my collection and came from a thrift store near Sports Arena in San Diego, CA. I remember the day oh so clearly. I walked inside and went straight for the Brick-a-Brack, as I always do, and thought instantly of a nerd when I saw this coffee mug. And here's why:

Okay, so maybe the coffee mug is actually kind of cute, but it still has nerd written ALL over it! Just look at those boxes, one could definitely be graphing and figuring out derivatives in there. And the penguins..don't they remind you vaguely of Tux, the Linux penguin? (please forgive me for knowing that, but I'm currently using Ubuntu.) I guess the question I should be asking is who is the nerd now, the mug or the person who owns the mug and can name nerdy references?

But in all seriousness, this mug is DYNAMITE! Anddd, if you scroll through the pictures really fast it is a little stop motion film.

Rounnnnddd 2

The sad thing about this next coffee mug is that I can't think of a story that goes with this coffee mug...So, I'll make one up.

This next comes to you from when I traveled the seas. Back then I was a crab trapper and would be out at sea for months at a time. Arrrggggghhh! It was a nice sunny day it was when I baited my trap and threw it overboard. A day later we circled back and to my surprise not only were there king crabs in my trap but also a hermit crab who had a coffee mug as his shell!

So here you have it, the coffee mug that once belonged to a hermit crab.

I think the crab has nice taste and picked a good "shell," don't you? Let's take a look at this one to see the design on the other side!

Now this is probably the side of the cup that crab fell in love with.

Goodbye for now. argggghhhhh (just had to get it in one last time)


Update: Just in! Someone requested that this story should have included Sebastian, from The Little Mermaid, with the song, "Sip the Girl!"

ALSO!! I added my email address to the about me section of the blog. Keep sending in those coffee mug pictures!

First Mug Post!

Hey everyone! Welcome to Mug Finds! a blog about unique mugs!

So maybe you think I'm crazy because I love mugs but hate coffee, but that's alright. Here's my story on how I got hooked on mugs...I was introduced to thrift stores when I was in high school but was not too fond of them because I thought it was weird (and kind of gross) to use something that had already had a previous owner. Don't get me wrong, I have an older sister who I had hand me downs from, but to have some clothes or other things from a person I did not know kind of scared me. Anyways, back to my story. In college I was encouraged by my boyfriend, now husband, to go shopping with him at thrift stores. He is the thrift store king and can find anything but I am not so lucky and always end up at the Brick-a-Brack section searching for something worth buying. Mugs always caught my eye and finally one day I bought one...and then another and then another. To make a long story short--flash forward to when I get married and my husband tells me I can only keep ten mugs. JUST TEN MUGS?! I dreaded the thought of this, but then thought I could make a blog and record all the mugs I find but can't buy. Thus this blog is created. Da da da da! (royal noise..get it?)

I am excited today because I photographed my mugs to post them on this blog. So here goes, one of my favorite mugs that I own.



Ahhhh, isnt she a beauty? This was the first mug a purchased in college back in '05. But to really appreciate this mug let's get a close up of her, shall we?



Just makes you want to visit Hawaii huh? Well..maybe not..oh well.

Anyways remember to send in any unique mugs that you find! Signing out for the first time! Yeahhh!

Introduction

Welcome to Mug Finds!! This site is dedicated to unique Coffee Mugs all over the world. Whether fat, skinny, tall, ugly or beautiful we want to chronicle anything out of the ordinary. Please feel free to submit your own Coffee Mug Finds to the site and we will post them quickly.