What do you nick-nacks say about you ?

I have things on anything I can have things on.

If I add anything to the scene, like an ironing board, that gets filled up with clutter too.

Driftwood, pottery, electric candles, plants, photographs, thermometers ..

A big mirror.
A clock & two glass candle stands with big gold candles on them.
A wooden batik-decorated pot with an ostrich egg nestling in it and a wood moon-gazing cat, both from Indonesia.
A tall cream vase containing dried hydrangea flowers and peacock feathers (I know!).
A gourd, which rattles when you shake it.
A brown pot filled with a candle.
A tin plant pot with an oxalis plant on it. I don't actually want it there but I’ve nowhere else to put it where my cats won’t eat it.

And I’ve just realised I’ll have to dust it all tomorrow because my cleaner isn’t coming. ?

A photo of my DS wedding with the entire family included. The handmade wrist corsage his wife made me for the wedding under a glass dome. Three Wade houses...I collect them and rotate the three from time to time.

Dust!
A photo of my DD on her horse, a spent cartridge, a stiffie (!) (we won’t be going obviously), a carriage clock that doesn’t work very well, 2 candle sticks, a photo of the family taken years ago and rather out of focus.

What lovely mantlepieces you have! Mine has a vase of dried lavender, Victorian clock with a horse and man holding it, an African giraffe made of plaited wire, an empty ball- like vase from Crete, an ornament of a monkey wearing glasses and reading a book, and an ornament of a large man with a small head holding a large fish, by a Cornish sculptor, several birthday and mothers day cards. Its all rather cluttered. Must tidy it up now I cant go out. .

Alas, I recently read a book where some man was dancing with a girl and somebody observing them said she could see his stiffie from 20 feet away.….

???

I've been resisting the urge to lower the tone, so I'm glad someone has.

Don’t hold back on our account MissAdventure we all need a laugh.

No dust
I cleaned it today

Trying to achieve some semblance of order so my mantlepiece today

I dont like it!!

May I suggest an artfully displayed stiffie?

Ref stiffies I have really had a good laugh about that one, you really are a wonderful witty community don’t stop

My mantlepiece with not a lot on it. Sadly, stiffies are very low on delivery now.

That's lovely Kalu.
Mine has:
a teak Buddhist monk that we bought in Thailand
a small very deep purple vase
a pineapple (the symbol of welcome in Virginia) constructed out of computer parts, which we bought at a craft market in Yorktown VA
a small Indian dish, a gift from a dear cousin
a Chinese vase given to me by a Hongkong friend

Here’s mine

Oh that's lovely!
I've mantelpiece envy.

They're all great, or grate, perhaps?

Here’s mine

Jane, I was only too happy to post the least uncluttered surface in our home. Other surfaces are home to those pieces which have lots of memories attached to them, similar idea to those special pieces you describe on your own mantlepiece.

Oh lovely Jane. I do like all those pieces but I have already where I can display the pineapple.....just saying?

What a lovely welcoming mantlepiece Oopsadaisy

have already ‘ decided’