Making Heirloom Out of My Father's Teacup

let's make it an heirloom

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Today is another beautiful opportunity to share my thoughts with you. This time, its about something deep, fragile, and old with plenty of sentimental value:- My father's teacup.

This teacup and saucer belonged to my father. He loved using it to sip coffee made out of roasted coffee beans. One of the common brands is Nescafe from Nestle. I was always attracted by the flavour and repelled by its bitter taste.

Mother will always remind us that it was tea for the grown-ups, that is why it is bitter.

Making an heirloom out of the teacup and saucer.

This cup that was filled with coffee along with its plate is now full of memories. I wish I could engrave our story on the cup and could tell my kids, "this tea cup and saucer was your grandfather's and has been in this family for one generation". Hopefully, it will be passed on down to a time when teacups made with glass that has been treated with metal dioxide to create that amber colour are treated as relic.

It will be a relic in the future, when the knowledge of how it was made will be far gone and forgotten. When found sitting in a safe and transported to a museum as an exhibit from a lost civilisation.

I hope they will know what it is and what it was used for. I have seen teacups turned over and used as candle stands. It is used on the office table to hold pencils and pens because we don't drink tea out of teacups anymore.
One day, this teacup and saucer may be a link, serving as the connection between the past and present, connecting future generations to our way of life and culture.

Dear future generation;

Dear people of the future, I hope you find this capsule in good form; it is a material we called glass, it is fragile but resistant to chemical corrosion. We made it out of super-cooked sand and some carbon, sulphur and iron oxide.
This was used as a common high-end household prop for drinking tea or hot chocolate. You may find some of them accompanied by a teaspoon.

The saucer prevented the teacup from tipping over while catching spills and drips. The saucer may also hold sugar or cookies. Some tables needed the protection of the saucer against spillage.