{"id":14303,"date":"2010-05-09T09:09:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T16:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=14303"},"modified":"2010-05-09T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T16:46:28","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-mothers-day-cup-saucer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-mothers-day-cup-saucer\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch&#8217; O The Day &#8211; Mr. Mother&#8217;s Day Cup &#038; Saucer Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15451\" title=\"Mothers-Day-Cup-2-views2_2034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Mothers-Day-Cup-2-views2_2034.jpg\" alt=\"Mothers-Day-Cup-2-views2_2034\" width=\"550\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Mothers-Day-Cup-2-views2_2034.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Mothers-Day-Cup-2-views2_2034-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>\n<p>I love, love, love crafts projects, especially when they go awry, and  this coffee cup with saucer collar is one of my favorites. That it says  &#8220;Happy Mother&#8217;s Day&#8221; despite its unmistakable portraiture of a  mustached, bow-tied man is just the tip of the kitsch iceberg! The  glitter is gooped on with an overabundance of still visible glue.  Mom is decidedly not dishwasher friendly. Precision was not on the side of the hand that shaped the facial  features, all of which are made of felt with excessively crooked edges. And the glitter on the handle nose makes  it grossly uncomfortable to pick up, not that you would want to anyway  as the saucer, should you be imbibing your Mother&#8217;s Day joe with Dad or any other human being, blocks your vision when tilted toward mouth.<\/p>\n<p>I can only hope there\u2019s an equally as lovely Father\u2019s Day cup with    mom\u2019s face on it sitting somewhere on this Mother&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14485\" title=\"Mothers-Day-Cup_2031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mothers-Day-Cup_2031.jpg\" alt=\"Mothers-Day-Cup_2031\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mothers-Day-Cup_2031.jpg 500w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Mothers-Day-Cup_2031-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love, love, love crafts projects, especially when they go awry, and this coffee cup with saucer collar is one of my favorites. That it says &#8220;Happy Mother&#8217;s Day&#8221; despite its unmistakable portraiture of a mustached, bow-tied man is just the tip of the kitsch iceberg! The glitter is gooped on with an overabundance of &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-mothers-day-cup-saucer\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,191,181,223,87,193],"tags":[61,3232,3245,1347,1241],"class_list":["post-14303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-drink","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-holidays","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-mothers-day-art","tag-mothers-day-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}