Mug-A-Day

Every January 1st, I start off the New Year along with FUN-A-DAY. What’s fun-a-day? Glad you asked. In their own words:

The idea is simple: pick an art project, do it every day in January, and show your work in a group art show in February! Fun-A-Day is always FREE, NON-COMMERCIAL, NON-JURIED, and ALL-AGES. Everyone is invited to participate, the only requirement is to HAVE FUN 😉

I like having fun, so I start off the New Year with a plan to participate. However, most of those plans are overly ambitious and I get about seven days in before realizing that creating a fully designed postcard with poetry and images of Philadelphia cats is a much more labor intensive pursuit that is allotted for in a month ^{(but I’m still plugging away at that project, which will eventually be realized and dope as fuck).}

In the interest of actually trying to complete some goals for this year, including updating this website I keep paying for, I committed to finishing fun-a-day and wanted to do with the least amount of effort possible.

So, for 2025, my fun-a-day project was Mug-A-Day, wherein I use a different one of the many MANY mugs I’ve accumulated throughout my adult years (and some from childhood) and take a photo of it with some mostly corresponding accompaniment.

To my surprise, though not my overburdened cabinet’s, I had kind of a lot of mugs. More than 31, as it turned out. And it was a satisfying goal to mark off to start the year. A little trot down different times in my life, mugs as gifts, and memories from those mugs along with some new memories by documenting them

It also provided a lot of personal insight about the coziness of my small life. Even though I work a lot and can feel like a grouch a lot of the week, every sip and communion in being present with these mugs presented an irrefutable reality: there is a lot of love, ease, and joy every single day.

Also that I will wait until nail polishes chips off instead of removing it.

Not necessarily a proud moment, but I stole that mug on the far left from an incredibly low paying job from the communal cabinet. I used it to heat up Spaghettios only to find out while eating in the office breakroom that the underwear portion disappears when heated. I quit that job via email a week later.

To learn more about doing your own fun-a-day, check out their page brought to you by Art Clash. Document all of your mugs.