Mug markers

After a recent family gathering DH indicated that it would be useful for our son to have some way to mark the mugs we had been using.  My sister who was visiting and I immediately got on online searching for some mug marker options.  We did some brainstorming and the next morning came up with these.  They consist of a length of black elastic (we cut hair elastics) with a coloured bead slipped on then an over hand knot near the ends.  These work very well.  You hold the bead on the mug handle, pass the knotted end under the handle and up and over the bead.  Done!!  These beads were glittery ones from a Christmas garland purchased a while back.  We had silver and gold.  After a bit of experimenting we settled on using Sharpies to colour the beads which was more permanent so the markers could be washed if needed.  We made a bakers dozen and packaged them in a little plastic box which I had in my stash collected from somewhere!!  We used them at Christmas and they worked really well to keep everyone using one cup over the course of the day!!  Therese