The other mantlepiece!

The dining room mantlepiece is totally out of control! One of the holiday jobs (time off begins today) is to sort it out! The tall antique vases were given to my mother in the 1940s, African figures given to me about ten years ago. I love candles and this shelf has three. Paperweights, turtles, pens, pencils and lipstick all clutter the surface! Minimalism is not in my vocabulary at all.
Reflected in the mirror is a souvenir from the Philippines that I brought back in the early 1980s.
What more can I say ... this house is full of memories ... and I tend to scatter objects everywhere. The little pile of coins on the left corner will find their way into a mission box ... why they didn't go straight into it is anyone's guess!
There are also many of the "sticky clothes brushes" around the house ... Eliot's hairs get everywhere!