Secrets of the dirt room....

Last night we were all curled up by the fire drinking hot chocolate when Julie says to us, "let's go look at old stuff in the dirt room". We bring a box of her dead grandpa's stuff up and start going through it. This is what we found:

See he used to sell for Norcrest fine China and left his kids all his extras when he died. Here's what I chose to keep:

how adorable are these Mr. and Mrs. salt and pepper shakers??

and an authentic oil wick lamp. I had to keep it because there's no way my kids would ever know what these used to look like in real life!

Tyler of course kept this:

it's probably grumpy...