The question of how to differentiate the Merry Mushrooms cookie jar from the flour canister comes up often. Is the embossed ceramic cookie jar really the same as the flour embossed ceramic canister? The short answer is yes. However, like all investigations into a seemingly simple Merry Mushrooms question, this one led into so much more.

We watch a lot of movies in our house. My husband and fellow author, Nate, has a collection of over 5,000 DVDs. While he enjoys a healthy variety of films, it's classic and contemporary horror, and obscure and low budget productions that are among his favorites.

Over the course of my mushroom hunting and studying journey, there are some pieces I've only seen in photos from old auction or sale sites, ancient websites from the early aughts, or in pictures shared by other collectors online. Among them are appliance covers, magnets, can opener, sprinkling can, and cork board. These pictures provide visual evidence that they really do exist in our realm.

However, there are some pieces that are so rare I have yet to see even a photo on an decades-old blog or foreign "auction" site. Dare I say that these are among my unicorn pieces? To even just see a photograph of one (or more!) of the Top 10 Things I've Never Seen would be magical.