If you’ve been hanging around our little spot on the internet for very long, you’ve probably guessed that I love all things old, vintage and thrifted. I love giving new life to someone else’s cast off items.
Monogrammed coffee cups are just the craft to give new life to all those lovely .50 cups at your local thrift store.
There are all kinds of posts around that say you can use just a plain sharpie marker to do this and as long as you don’t put them in the dishwasher it will be fine. Well, before you spend the time to do that, please read this post by Kati and her experience – also read the comments for more information.
When Gabriel made these for his cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents he used a pen called Porcelaine 150 and graphite transfer paper. These ARE dishwasher safe.
~Find a font that you like and print up a really big letter – block or fat letters work best. Place a piece of graphite paper, gray side down, on the mug and put your letter on top of it. Use a pencil and trace the outline of the letter. Remove the papers.
~Using the Porcelaine 150 pen trace the letter and add any embellishments you want. If you mess up, just wipe it off and start over, no biggie.
~Let air dry for 24 hours
~Bake at 300 degrees for 35 minutes.
~Let cool. Enjoy some hot cocoa – here’s our favorite recipe.
Angi Schneider is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Preserving Vegetables and Pressure Canning for Beginners and Beyond, both published by Page Street Publishing. She has taught canning classes for 177 Milk Street, been featured in Serious Eats, and written for Countryside Magazine. Angi has been sharing gardening, preserving, and simple living skills since 2010.
I’ll have to try using the porcelaine pens for mugs. I have another mug that I was planning on working with but then it didn’t work. Maybe I’ll give it another try with these pens.
Also, I don’t think your links are working for the e-book. I tried going to them and it went to an error page. It looks like a neat book!
Thanks, Kati. I fixed the links …and the spelling of your name…sorry about that.
I loved your mustache mug and was so sad it didn’t last. I’m loving your 31 days of Pintrest series.
Thanks – this looks easy and I like that it’s dishwasher safe, I’ll admit, sometimes I’m just too lazy to handwash. 🙂
Found you at Homestead Barn Hop.
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Thanks for the tutorial. We tried the sharpie markers,it comes off!
That’s so disappointing, Sandra! I was really thankful that Katie wrote such an honest review of the sharpie variantion. We’ve been using these for several years and they’re just fine.
Wonderful idea – they look terrific! I bet these are wonderful – I do appreciate you sharing with Home and Garden Thursday,
Kathy
Hi! Just wanted to know if you still had the recipe for coconut protein bars up. 🙂
Yes, it’s here, http://creativesimpleliving.com/2014/01/high-protien-no-powder-and-coffee-table.html
Went to the link for”Kati and her experience”, there are no instructions. Where are the instructions for this homemade item? The links in HER ‘post’ don’t work, either. I’d like to MAKE this, and this post is supposed to be about making gifts, but if there isn’t a detailed instruction blog, then what good is it?
Also, the “31 days…..” the link is not secure so I can’t stay on it and risk my computer being compromised…