These paint-splattered mugs bring me back to summers at the lake, when my sister and I and any friend we could rope into working for us ran a primarily all girl painting crew. Every day ended with paint splatters on our clothes and ridiculous stories. We boated, barged, and drove our little red standard with ladders strapped to the roof rack from job to job.
We lived in swimsuits, ate lunches on docks, and jumped in the lake to cool off. When it was too hot to work, we’d take off and spend the afternoon on the dock or go blueberry picking, and at the end of the day, we’d sweat the paint off in the sauna. Every summer, someone was living in the old Caboose, and those summers paid our way through University and we learned a lot! Often in the middle of nowhere, like how to paint the front of a cottage, perched on the edge of a cliff with a 100 ft drop, or how to scrape around a huge active wasp nest, or how to access a boathouse with no decking to rest a ladder.
Looking back, those were some of the most magical times, and I’m so grateful for the memories. If you were friends with my sister or I between 1998 and 2011, we likely roped you into a couple days, a week or longer of good old manual labour with us
These are small batch, hand made from start to finish (so no two will ever be the same). These mugs are hand thrown on the wheel, hand painted, waxed and then glaze fired in a food safe glaze.
Handmade in Canada, in small batches which means each mug is unique and one of a kind.
Care Instructions: microwave and dishwasher safe.
Approximate Dimensions:
13 oz. 3.5” tall X 3.75” across
These paint-splattered mugs bring me back to summers at the lake, when my sister and I and any friend we could rope into working for us ran a primarily all girl painting crew. Every day ended with paint splatters on our clothes and ridiculous stories. We boated, barged, and drove our little red standard with ladders strapped to the roof rack from job to job.
We lived in swimsuits, ate lunches on docks, and jumped in the lake to cool off. When it was too hot to work, we’d take off and spend the afternoon on the dock or go blueberry picking, and at the end of the day, we’d sweat the paint off in the sauna. Every summer, someone was living in the old Caboose, and those summers paid our way through University and we learned a lot! Often in the middle of nowhere, like how to paint the front of a cottage, perched on the edge of a cliff with a 100 ft drop, or how to scrape around a huge active wasp nest, or how to access a boathouse with no decking to rest a ladder.
Looking back, those were some of the most magical times, and I’m so grateful for the memories. If you were friends with my sister or I between 1998 and 2011, we likely roped you into a couple days, a week or longer of good old manual labour with us
These are small batch, hand made from start to finish (so no two will ever be the same). These mugs are hand thrown on the wheel, hand painted, waxed and then glaze fired in a food safe glaze.
Handmade in Canada, in small batches which means each mug is unique and one of a kind.
Care Instructions: microwave and dishwasher safe.
Approximate Dimensions:
13 oz. 3.5” tall X 3.75” across
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