With Easter approaching I have been eyeing my Easter decorations, but will wait until after St. Patty's Day to put them out. I have had requests from two ladies to share my collection of egg cups. Rebecca from Thrifty Goodness and Lisa have both made this request...so here you go girls.
Egg cups are one of those items that I pick up when I find them at estate sales if the price is right. I mix new ones with vintage ones when I display them..since more is better in my world.
I like these vintage flower shapes and the assortment of colors (small sticker on bottom, reads "Made in Japan").
The center egg cup is vintage. The two outer are new. Love the color on this trio.
A mix of new and old pastel colored cups. I like the variety of sizes and shapes that they come in.
These three are all newer. Two of them feature bunnies at the base.
Newly produced cup in a vintage style, and dang this bird is sweet.
I really like this pair of vintage plastic egg cups. No markings and simple in the design.
Estate sale found cup with great bird graphics. Marking on bottom which I can't read.
Another pair of favorites. These are made of wood and I love the painted faces and details. Look at his ears!
A pipe smoking sailor of the same style.
At last but not least a Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clause for those egg loving folks on Christmas a.m. I found these in a dumpster down the street from my house. About 4 or 5 years ago there was a family cleaning out the house of their parents. They had a dumpster in the driveway and all day long were dumping boxes and bags into it. The family had lived in the house for years, so I knew there had to be some treasures. When the family left for the day I went over with flashlight in hand and spent an hour or so in the dumpster. It was not garbage stuff, just boxes and such from the attic. I found lots of really, really good treasures.
I found the hats for this pair in the dumpster too!
I will go to great lengths to search down vintage treasures! If you have an idea for a future collection challenge, leave me a comment and finish the sentence "Show me your collection of ____'. I will see what I have..perhaps another dumpster treasure!
p.s. if you search Ebay or Etsy you may be amazed at the variety of egg cups that were produced.
Another fabulous collection. I That blue bird is especially charming! I'm glad you were able to do some serious dumpster diving to find those Claus cuties.
Posted by: Musings from Kim K. | March 06, 2012 at 05:52 AM
What time do we go diving tonight? I have a headlamp I can borrow from the boys. They use them for scouts. It will free both hands. Love those ears and the Santa couple is cute. I adore your will! Smiles...Renee
Posted by: Renee | March 06, 2012 at 05:55 AM
Love the bird, but Santa and the Mrs. made me laugh. Christmas egg cups - who knew?
Posted by: barbara | March 06, 2012 at 06:22 AM
I love egg cups and you have some great one's! I have a few vintage one's and they are treasures to me!
Posted by: Linda @ A La Carte | March 06, 2012 at 07:36 AM
Can you and Renee swing by Ohio tonite and pick me up?
I definately want to come!!
A dumpster, a drive by, an alley hop~I'm there. STOP THE CAR!!!!
Cool egg cups btw!! Love the blue bird~where oh where did you get it????
Posted by: thriftmaven | March 06, 2012 at 07:45 AM
Oh Laurie, I like you even more now that I know that you're a dumpster diver! I haven't done that in years, but I'd do it in a second if I knew there were treasures in there. But nowadays I'd wear gloves and probably have a stepladder with me. SO much easier to get in and out. Another fun collection!
Posted by: Carol @ Old Glory Cottage | March 06, 2012 at 08:05 AM
Love the dumpster story..especially since you had good results. I just picked up a cup like the middle one with the bunny holding it up. So cute!
Posted by: Annette | March 06, 2012 at 08:22 AM
Is there room for one more in the car with you, Renee, and thriftmaven? I heart all of you!
I think this is one my favorite collections of yours -- there's just something about filling an empty head with a hard-bolied egg that makes me laugh.
Posted by: Into Vintage | March 06, 2012 at 08:34 AM
Hee Hee Hee....
I can picture you out there "Dumpter Diving" after dark LOL. My kind of girl!! It always amazed me what people consider junk or garbage.I'm glad there's people like all of us that rescues all of the "Unwanted Treasures" and give them love again.
Thanks for sharing :-)
Posted by: Doreen | March 06, 2012 at 09:47 AM
Oh, what a cute collection! My favorites are that adorable salty sailor, the sweet bunny ones, and the bluebird one. I saw a bluebird one like that many years ago and kick myself for not buying it. I did buy a pie bird from the same maker though and I love it!
Michelle
Posted by: Michelle | March 06, 2012 at 04:36 PM
It just does not register in my mind when people think that stuff is junk. Just don't get it. Kudos to you for diving in for the rescue!!!
Love that little birdie cup. 8+)
Posted by: Kathy | March 06, 2012 at 06:13 PM
Love your egg cup collection. Do you fill it with hard boiled colored eggs at Easter? I love the wooden pair, they are sweet :)
Posted by: Marci | March 06, 2012 at 06:42 PM
I just love your egg collection!!!
Posted by: elma | March 06, 2012 at 07:26 PM
Oh Laurie! This post made me think of my best friend of many, many years and all the dumpster diving we did! As we got older we'd trade-off being in the dumpster vs staying out in order to help the other one get in or out... lol. (I don't think we ever even thought of taking a step-ladder...duh!) Anyhow... those were the good ol' days... she died about ten years ago and I've never found anyone else brave enough to try it... so... my dumpster trips are very limited, but I'm still up for poking around with a stick or something... but I am afraid to crawl in at my age... lol! As always, I love seeing your 'stuff'. Keep it up! Jeannie
Posted by: Jeannie DiMauro | March 10, 2012 at 05:47 PM