oooOOOOooo!! is how Wax actually reacts to unexpected tea but it has the tone

[cimorene]

I realized yesterday that Wax's reaction when I bring her tea without asking first if she wanted tea is similar to the "Yes... ha ha ha yes!" meme.



This is an apposite time to note that for her birthday 12 days ago I got her a new teacup though. The tall mug is part of a recent reissue of Marianne Westman's iconic Swedish midcentury "Mon Amie" service for Rörstrand.



We have a set of teacups inherited from one of Wax's grandmothers, but they're dainty and delicate ones like this:


Mon Amie doesn't really go with our primary dishes, Iittala Teema in turquoise, but we both love it way more than the mug and bowl alternatives (Teema doesn't include serving bowls and the mugs are too small for daily use). We have a handful of red and blue Taika mugs like in the cartoon up there inherited from Wax's mom (the white one is ours), but they don't satisfy my wishes for dish-matching either and I plan to eventually get around to selling them on the Finnish equivalent of Craigslist. (They are the right size, though.)

Comments

[oracne]

I love that dark blue print.

[cimorene]

It's so charming!

[stranger]

The sketch of Wax and tea mugs is adorable. (The mugs are themselves adorable, too.)

[cimorene]

Why thank you! The real Wax is cuter than that because she never looks quite that deranged around the eyes.

[lilysea]

I like that turquoise set on the right - it's a really nice vibrant/vivid colour

[cimorene]

Yeah, this is quite close to color of turquoise stones and one of my favorite shades! Glazed porcelain has a nice sheen and color depth like stone too.