Coffee Mug Heaven's "Mug of the Week"

It's on!

2008-06-17T06:03:00.001-07:00

(Links to buy these mugs are on candidate's names)

It took long enough, but the Obama camp has finally put out a mug and now that he is the presumptive Democratic candidate - what a perfect time to start the REAL Coffee Mug Heaven presidential mug election.

Thank You President Bush...???

2008-06-17T05:21:00.000-07:00

I'm predicting this will be the worst selling mug of all time - perhaps 2nd only to the "Someone went to Auschwitz and all I got was this lousy mug" mug. They will doubtless be on clearance soon enough, but get them here if you can't wait that long.

Flickr - pictures of coffee mugs, coffee cups and coffee

2008-04-03T15:54:00.001-07:00

Happened across some interesting Flickr groups so I joined them and am putting links to them here. Many of these images wouldn't make it into Coffee Mug Heaven because some are mainly pictures of the coffee itself and, of course, my site is all about the mugs. I used to have pictures of some coffee cups on the old site but have eliminated them in the refurb for the new site.
Flickr group: Coffee Mugs
Flickr group: ♥MyMug

Don't Tread On Me

2008-04-02T20:47:00.001-07:00

This week's mug is the Gadsden flag rattlesnake mug, available for purchase here...but with a personal agenda attached.

Even if you've never watched "Jericho" on CBS, you've probably heard that it was canceled and its' fans sent loads of peanuts to CBS to get them to bring it back and they did. Well it has been canceled again just as the show was really, really getting good. So, here we go again - this time I'm going to do what I can to help bring it back.

Throughout the series the Gadsden flag from the American Revolution has been used as a symbol of the spirit of the town of Jericho in its attempt to survive and recover from the "terrorist" attacks on the United States.

Some links here if you would like to read up on the show (if you're not familiar with it) because it is definitely worthwhile to watch, even if the 2 existing seasons is all we'll ever get.
-cbs.com
-imdb.com
-nutsonline.com

9th anniversary and only 58% toward today's goal

2008-04-01T23:00:00.000-07:00

I had hoped, on this 9th anniversary of CMH, to have 1,000 mugs on the new site. I only have 583 ready today so I'll just have to settle and keep working on it.

I have a new mug out to commemorate the 9th anniversary. I hope you like it with the new logo one one side and the traditional blinking neon light logo on the other.

The NEW World of Coca-Cola

2008-03-30T01:41:00.000-07:00

I've just returned from a trip to Georgia and visited the NEW World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta. Very fun cool place to visit...sadly few mugs available from their gift shop.

422 mugs

2008-03-11T15:16:00.000-07:00

New logo for the site - slight mod to reflect the new era. Updated the database and the site this week....little by little making my way to 1,000 mugs by Apr 1, 2008.

The NEW Coffee Mug Heaven is up (kinda)

2008-02-29T13:28:00.001-08:00

Coffee Mug Heaven was created in 1999 as a way for me to:
a) keep track of my mug collection
and
b) share my mugs with the world

The internet was a small cozy place back then and while the site had a few partnerships to make money off link/sales, making money was far from the primary purpose. For several years, Coffee Mug Heaven was the #1 "coffee mug" site on the web. I expanded the site to include other people's favorite mugs and unique mugs I found available for purchase on the web or on eBay. I maintained the site till late 2000 when the site was becoming so large that it was hard to add new mugs (due to the static design of the web pages). I set my mind to redesign the site using a database to serve up the mugs, thus making it easy to add mugs and keep the site humming. Life, being what it is, had different plans. Many things changed over the next 7 years and I tried to make time to do the redesign but made little progress. In my defense I didn't have the tools or know-how until the past few years.

This year, determined to make the redesign dream a reality, I worked hard to update the database I'd started, wrote the code for the pages and just today have (an ugly) working model of the NEW Coffee Mug Heaven up and running. There will be many updates and improvements over the next few weeks and my first goal is to have 1,000 mugs up on the site by April 1, 2008. That day will mark the 9th anniversary of the site's launch and will be the official grand re-opening of the site. But wait, there's more...

Once I've got the site all fixed up and running smoothly, I have another goal. By April 1, 2009, the site's 10th anniversary, I plan to have 1,000,000 mugs on Coffee Mug Heaven.

Summer Olympics 2008: Beijing, China

2008-02-20T06:08:00.000-08:00

There is a wonderful selection of mugs available directly from the official Beijing 2008 Olympic Games web site.

mail bag

2008-02-06T20:16:00.000-08:00

Hello DLGDyer

I came across your web page searching the net. I also collect coffee mugs from the places I have traveled to all over the world. I now have about 45 of them of various sizes and I desperately need to find a display that can mount on the wall to hold them. ... I'm getting married and though my fiance likes them they are not organized and are laying all around the house. I know I probably cant find one case that will hold all of them but it would be great if I could buy 2 or 3 and put them on the wall in my office. Please can you recommend a place that carries something like that?
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There are many ways to display your mugs. I have about 300 mugs now and only put my favorite ones out. Perhaps the easiest and most decor oriented is the expanding coat hanging things (see attached picture with Starbucks city mugs). This method also probably allows the most mugs to be displayed in the least amount of space. Otherwise some shallow shelving would do the trick - this is more expensive and won't display as many mugs.

Hope that helps,
DLGDyer

2008: Year of the Rat

2008-01-20T22:00:00.001-08:00

Appropriate for an election year, no?

Dia de los Muertos

2007-11-01T04:18:00.001-07:00

These wonderful designs by Ladislao Loera are at Frenzy Art. There are over 20 different mugs and other items - be sure to check them out.

Happy Halloween

2007-10-30T22:44:00.000-07:00

Nice skull mug - drink up...while you can. Get it here from Advance Healthcare Shop along with some other nice health care related mugs.

Delaware's Own: Dogfish Head Beer

2007-10-23T17:02:00.001-07:00

If you don't know about Dogfish Head Beer, you should. It has won numerous awards and is crazy good. Buy this coffee mug here.

Girl Scouts

2007-10-22T20:30:00.000-07:00

Nice Girl Scouting mug made in the style reminiscent of the original Starbucks city mugs - available at the Girl Scout online shop. Go Troop 482!

40 years ago today...

2007-10-20T17:53:00.001-07:00

My all time favorite episode of Star Trek, "The Doomsday Machine", aired for the first time. A moment of silence, please.

RTFM

2007-10-17T00:05:00.000-07:00

This week I dedicate a mug to Command Sergeant Major Bledsoe who said this to me this past weekend as I was running ranges at Fort Dix. Here's to you, I sincerely hope you enjoy your retirement and I salute your service to our nation. Your dedication to duty, especially to taking care of the troops, will be missed...seriously. Also, thanks for that can of wasp spray.
You can get this mug from ThinkGeek.com.

Niagara Falls, Canada

2007-10-10T20:02:00.001-07:00

Was there this past weekend - I almost bought this mug. It was the most unique Canada mug by far at Souvenir City which is really the nicest souvenir place in Niagara Falls.
I did buy one mug there...my newest Starbucks City Mug ^_^

Heroes

2007-10-02T14:28:00.001-07:00

NBC, Monday night - great show. You can get it here. There's also this mug.

Barcode Art

2007-09-27T07:28:00.000-07:00

Very cool idea. They also do shirts, tattoos, etc, with the actual barcode of what the word is. Check them out: Barcode Art

B.C.

2007-09-26T06:27:00.001-07:00

Johnny Hart (1931-2007)
Mugs of some of his comics are available at this site: WGH Success, Inc.

Pop-u-lar

2007-09-26T06:09:00.000-07:00

Go figure - after years of failing to launch an updated version of Coffee Mug Heaven the site is still way up on the search engines when one searches for coffee mug:
Google = #3
AOL = #3
Yahoo! = #16
MSN = who cares, its not even a real search engine because they're whores and let you pay to get your site listed higher

Slacker

2007-09-24T22:39:00.000-07:00

as in "Man, I'm such a ..."

OK, starting tomorrow - new mugs, I swear.

I'm back

2007-07-23T20:39:00.000-07:00

Was away for a couple weeks to Fort Bragg, NC for annual training. Check out the pic I took of the unit at http://www.287armyband.org.
Now back to more mugs...just for you ^_^

Darth Vader w/lid

2007-06-30T20:31:00.000-07:00

Awesome tribute to the Dark Lord...with a lid yet. Available at The Radical Academy...maybe.