My Chemical Romance

August 5, 2010 2:59 PM

I'm trying to find coffee mugs that have individual elements on their sides for a birthday gift, but have not been able to find them. Can you help?

My girlfriend is a scientist and has a few of these great coffee mugs from the American Chemical Society that have H, He, etc on them. I thought it'd be cute to buy several of them that spell out her name by way of elements. Sadly, the ACS doesn't sell the mugs on their site (they give them out with annual membership renewal).

If you know where to find them, please let me know. You'll help me make my beautiful chemist smile on her birthday :)

posted by Dr.James.Orin.Incandenza to Shopping (5 answers total)

You could set up a store on cafe press and order them from there. You'd just need to create the graphics.
posted by sanko at 3:02 PM on August 5, 2010

I found some here.
posted by Zophi at 3:15 PM on August 5, 2010

Seconding the Cafepress recommendation. We have had a variety of different mugs made there for family and friends over the years and always been very happy with them!
posted by labwench at 4:17 PM on August 5, 2010

You could also find someplace that does monograms and just have them monogrammed with the appropriate letters rather than initials; you also might want to consider doing this with a set of glasses rather than coffee mugs, as most people have more coffee mugs than they need by the time they are 25 or so. For example, something like these. Great idea, though; let us know how it works out!
posted by TedW at 4:31 PM on August 5, 2010

No mugs, but a lot of sellers on Etsy do cute jewelry and other stuff that fits the bill.
posted by MsMolly at 7:05 PM on August 5, 2010