I noticed a little man in my tea mug on Friday afternoon. He was flat up against the side, doing a little jig, two big sad eyes staring back at me as he raised his arms in greeting. Hmm, tea can do interesting things to mugs, I thought to myself. I was quite surprised to see him still clinging to the side this morning, even after I’d scrubbed my mug in preparation for a new day of caffeine. Maybe there’s more to my new friend than just a bit of tea stain.
Risa says that he looks like a cave painting. I say that he looks like a visitor from a distant land. Other people may have different ideas about what a random stain represents.
Hm, this comment says more about me than this entry, but the first thing I thought was: A cool idea for a patent… “A method of creating invisible images or patterns in a coffee mug that reveal themselves with repeated contact to warm beverages such as tea or coffee.”
Capital idea. There are already lots of mugs with designs that appear when they are heated by a beverage (my current favourite being the global warming mug), but having a semi-permanent design appear gradually would take it to the next level.