I thoroughly adore Christmas mugs and growing up I couldn't wait for my mom to get the Christmas mugs out every year so I could curl up in the comfy-sack to watch the Christmas specials while sipping hot chocolate from whichever mug I had carefully chosen and so cherished. My mom's collection is a mish-moshed one, with mugs bought at different times from different places but all special and I love when I get to visit and have coffee in a mug of my childhood! But, when I moved away and started my own Christmas collections well, there just weren't any mugs that seemed able to fit just exactly what I was searching for. And of course there wouldn't be... nostalgia just isn't something that can be bought. And so I waited. But my mom couldn't let me wait and she showed up at the house one day with a set of four Christmas mugs, "I know they aren't exactly what you want, but you need to have Christmas mugs that will even just do until you find your perfect ones," she told me, "they're the un-ugliest ones I could find and I looked EVERYwhere... And I only got you four because I know you don't want a lot of extras to have to get rid of when you find the ones you want." They were actually really nice, simple mugs with trees and wreaths on them and I was so grateful to have them while we needed them.
It took awhile to find the mugs that finally mugged my heart, about thirteen years actually, but I did find them and I do love them still, nine years later. My family members... do not love my beloved Christmas mugs. My sister snickers at them and her husband always says he's not using an ornament mug and gets himself an everyday mug from the cupboard, my aunt complains that the ornament mugs "aren't comfortable to drink from... they're too rounded....." My mom just pours the coffee without saying anything negative but when she doesn't say anything, it actually says a lot.
I don't care, I love my Christmas mugs!!!
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| Ohhhhh sweet mugs of ornamentness! I have three of each design for a full set but was able to get three extra blue and one extra green before they were discontinued... just in case of accidental breakage. |
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| Of, course I also had to have the matching dessert platter... well I got two of the platters actually; there's always too much Christmas baking to fit on just one! |
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| Ornamentally yours, my family, whether you like them or not!! ;) |
As an extra plus, other than just being so super-duper cute, I really like how the brightly coloured ornament mugs add just little pops of colour when the table is fully set! Everyone also thought I was crazy for wanting all black dishes, including the store owner who tried to talk me out of them twenty-one years ago... I remember exactly what he said to me, "You will NOT like them, food just looks better on white plates, Dear... Trust me, these are not the dishes you want. Now, let me show you what you want....." Clearly I did not listen and I love my dishes as much today as when I first chose them; we use them every single day and they are as beautiful to me now as they were upon first glance and boy, have they stood the test of time with constant indoor/outdoor/dishwasher use for all these years!
Basically, if I love what I love then that's all that really matters, right?!!
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| When the table is fully set with the ornament mugs... the tiny colour-pops totally overrule the mug dissin'! |
And so, as I sat down this morning, with my breakfast-of-champions breakfast which consisted of an ornament mug of coffee and a Blue-Santa cookie I felt even more Christmas perfect beginning to find me once again... I sure am glad I decided I couldn't skip Christmas this year after all!
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| December breakfasts are seriously the best..... |
I want to know... Do you have special Holiday decorations you love but everyone around you despises?? Share with us how you light up with joy while reconnecting with your favourite things as well as how you manage to brush off the constant complaints...
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