My favorite coffee cup what's yours?

 Debbiedoos

is having her

garage sale party this weekend

Check it out, there are so many

great finds over there...

 

I was sitting here drinking my coffee

wondering what I have from a garage sale

that I could brag about......

It got me thinking about my favorite little cup

that I am enjoying right now

.50 cents I got both spent

 $1.00

The Old Mill by

Johnson Brothers

I love this cup so much I thought about getting the rest of the set

Yikes too much $

I will wait for another garage sale find

But this got me thinking about

~Coffee~

&

~Coffee Cups~

Do you have a favorite cup?

We Seattleites have a looooove for

coffee

Think Starbucks

or

Seattle's Best

I remember my first

~latte~

There was a cute little coffee shop book store

right next to our office

she brought in

mochas for everyone

We all started out with one or two a week

then eventually everyday, we were all

ADDICTED

and I had never been a coffee drinker before

This was back in the day when we would travel somewhere and

you could not find a Starbucks

frustrating....

My daughter's first job was at the local Espresso Stand

and she made good money

some days it could be $70 in tips

 for a 15 year old that was doing

darn good

Then it became all about the

~MUG~

Then about the

cup holders

in the car

This is a true story....

I literally traded in a car for a new one because I wanted

~cup holders~

Is this showing my age,

they actually made cars in my day

without cup holders...

I have a favorite cup

The one that I look for and if it's not clean

I will settle for one of these

But......

I love the size

not too small

not too big

The color has to be right

2% and on special occasions

creamer...oh love that

peppermint creamer

at Christmas time

you see I'm not a big coffee drinker like

~The Hubs~

He likes his black

nothing frilly about his coffee ever and

sorry Starbucks he likes Folgers

He likes big mugs

About 7 years ago while traveling back East

We were at a

~Starbucks~

I was looking at all the pretty mugs and wondered why they didn't have any mugs with

cities on them for tourists...

So I put in a comment card and Starbucks sent me back a nice thank you...

~no gift card for my suggestion~

A few years back I started noticing their mugs with the name of the

town or country on them

~Finally~

So we started collecting them

Every city we go to that is special I have to look for a Starbucks

once, while we were in

~Vienna~

(love, love, love, that place)

I proudly told the Starbucks employee I was from

"Seattle, the home of Starbucks"

 she said

"Grey's Anatomy?"

So that is what Seattle is known for around the world I guess...

I thought it was

~Coffee~

What is your favorite mug in the morning?

~Here are some of ours~

These are too special to use

This is the Hubs very favorite one

 he loves the size and of course the little

Matthew Man

the kids got him this for fathers day



Very proud of this one

Another small one and favorite of mine

Love this mug but too big for my coffee

good for hot cocoa

The Hubs Harley mug

Just sits and looks pretty

too big for me and too frilly for him

The set that goes with the everyday dishes

 The set that goes with another everyday

My favorite store in the whole world

This store is worth a trip to Seattle

The good stuff

Halls of Ivy

Noritake

Someone told me when picking out your

~China~

make sure it doesn't have much of  a pattern or you might not like it later

simple and elegant and you will always love it

~so true~

The Coffee Area

Because the Hubs is really into coffee...all day

I chose to have it separate from the kitchen in the

pantry room or coffee room as we refer to it

This room needs help and is on my list of

projects to spruce up

This spoon is sacred and the perfect scoop

He had to get one just like it for the garage

and our other homes

The only place for magnets

My girlfriend and my favorite little lunch spot is

Bittersweet

 and I think of her everyday when I see this

So True Friends

Don't forget to head on over to

 Debbies