{"id":7250,"date":"2014-03-22T06:55:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T06:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=7250"},"modified":"2014-03-22T06:55:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T06:55:05","slug":"my-unintentional-egg-cup-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=7250","title":{"rendered":"My unintentional egg cup collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be accumulating egg cups. We always had a plain white set of six egg cups that go with our every day plain white crockery, long before we had chickens.<\/p>\n<p>My youngest son and his girlfriend bought me an egg cup with a little blue chicken on it and a chocolate egg in it, for Easter, last year. It&#8217;s a perfect size for my banty eggs.<\/p>\n<p>My neighbours bought me a pair of egg cups back from their holiday in Mallorca last summer as a thank you for the eggs I give them.<\/p>\n<p>My husband gave me a chicken shaped egg cup among a few chicken based gifts for Christmas this year.<\/p>\n<p>We have been collecting vintage tea sets for our afternoon teas as part of our catering business and a recent set had an egg cup in it. As we don&#8217;t need the egg cup for the teas I claimed it.<\/p>\n<p>Finally yesterday I succumbed and bought one myself. I was browsing in an antique shop when I found this cute little double egg cup with a chicken and a chick on it. It was only five pounds so I couldn&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7261\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/new_egg_cup_duo.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7261\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7261\" alt=\"I found this in an antique shop\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/new_egg_cup_duo.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I found this in an antique shop<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7262\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/egg_cups.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7262\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7262\" alt=\"My egg cup collection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/egg_cups.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My egg cup collection<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7264\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/my_egg_cup_collection1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7264\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7264\" alt=\"My egg cups with my girls lovely eggs in them\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/my_egg_cup_collection1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My egg cups with my girl&#8217;s lovely eggs in them<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So there we have it. My unintentional egg cup collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be accumulating egg cups. We always had a plain white set of six egg cups that go with our every day plain white crockery, long before we had chickens. 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