Christmas #11 (1990s)

Yes, those are snowmen on a snowmobile. (What else would they drive?) Turn the mug and you’ll see Mr. and Mrs. Snow on skis.

My parents kept a tradition of giving table favors to their Christmas guests. Each place at the table had a gift, usually wrapped in tissue paper. While all the gifts over the years were thoughtful and nice, the ones that my wife and I still use the most are the coffee mugs.

This would have been from a set of four, of which we now only have two — the mug at Christmas #3 is the other remaining one. This mug actually tried to jump ship one year, but we glued the handle back on.

Christmas #2 (1990s)

It was a gift from my brother and his wife. At least I’m pretty sure that’s how it came into our possession. It looks handpainted (and if it was, it wasn’t done by them). There’s another mug here with a different color and design, but with the exact same shape, and seemingly made of the same lighter-weight material, and with the same company name in raised letters on the bottom. Curiously, the two mugs have different countries of manufacture.

As I get ready to post this, we’ve just had a friend make a repair to the ornament tree we repurposed as a Christmas mug tree, so this cup once again has a prominent place of display this season.

Merry Christmas to all!