Have you opened your kitchen cupboards to find a coffee mug only to be overwhelmed by your choices?  How and where did you accumulate all those custom mugs?  Most likely, corporate giveaways or personal gifts are how you came to be a proud owner of the multiplying mugs.  The great thing about custom mugs is that you can use them at home or bring them into the office.  They are also multi-functional!  Custom mugs make a great resting place for all your pens and pencils. Sometimes, they are called into play as a small vase!

Custom mugs provide companies more exposure for their business, usually in the form of corporate giveaways.  Trade shows, exhibitions and grand opening or anniversary events are often great ways to distribute the custom mugs and increase business awareness.  These mugs are customizable.  Logos, graphics, different colors and text in particular fonts are just a few options for creating your custom mugs. 

A variety of materials also plays a part in custom mugs.  Usually stoneware, custom mugs may also be ceramic or glass.  A variety of different types of custom mugs are available.  Have a beer connoisseur in your family? Custom mugs that hold beer, like a beer stein, is one option.  How about taking that coffee to go?  Travel mugs are essential if you are on the road a lot and need your coffee fix.  The style of your custom mugs is almost just as important as what you put in them!

Size matters when it comes to custom mugs. They are available in a lot of different sizes.  Twelve ounce custom mugs are popular.  Then again, in this day and age, bigger is perceived as better.  So, size could go past sixteen ounces and head into the twenty to thirty-plus ounce sizes.  And shapes are an important thing to consider in your selection of custom mugs too.  Latte mugs are usually small at the base and flare out slightly.  Cappuccino mugs are short and fat.  It all depends upon the service you wish to get out of it.

Custom mugs are also great gifts for people in your personal life.  Maybe your kids want to make something special for grandma.  They decide that they want their personal artwork on a mug to give to her.  There are two good ways to obtain these custom mugs.  First, you could try a local marketing and promotions company.  However, they are accustomed to large bulk orders and may not be able to do single custom mugs.  Or two, you could purchase a kit from your local hobby store.  There are custom mug instructions where you design and create your mug.  This usually entails special paints that adhere well to ceramics.  Once you are done with design and creation on the custom mugs, you send it to the company that created the mug kit. They then use their factory equipment to turn that mug into a functioning piece of art.

So take a look into that kitchen cupboard and see what is available in regards to custom mugs. Your life’s history can be reflected in them.  From the one you received at your child’s school that has her hands prints on it to the one from work that you received at a volunteer lunch, each of those custom mugs tells a story.  And by coming up with your own design, you can give a piece of life history to someone else in the form of custom mugs.