Skeleton Key Fever
Yes, I have it.
I was all excited to post this yesterday but I actually got asked to help work an important edit session at work last night (which is awesome!! I couldn’t say no!). So though it is a bit delayed, I would like to continue the “stuff we brought from our visits home” week with a little something I got from my Nana. 
After bragging shamelessly at the family Christmas gathering about my new skeleton key necklace from Walker (I had been wanting one forever! This pic is from the Etsy seller gwendelicious), my Nana told me that she had a skeleton key in her jewelry box from the house where she grew up. Later that week, I went back over to her house and she brought the key out for me. It was so pretty… simple, vintage, and full of memories. She said that in those days people didn’t really lock their doors so her family only had 2 copies of the key. Since one skeleton key could open many of her neighbor’s doors, at night her father would stick his key into the lock from the inside to jam it up. Nana told me that she learned how to use her key from the outside to push the inside key back out of the lock so she could get into the house when she’d been out late! Probably sneaking out with Papa… ;)
Over the years family, friends, farmhands, and neighbors have lived, worked, and grown up on the property. As I told you last week, Walker did some treasure hunting while he was in Nebraska and was able to find some awesome 
The first thing was a blue-green-grey elephant statue that is so great (and Walker’s favorite animal!). The elephants are hanging out on our coffee table but will hopefully make it up onto a display shelf one of these days. He also stumbled upon a ceramic green owl (one of my favorite animals!). I hope to have him on display more in the future also but right now he is in the bedroom functioning as a temporary bookend. For those who are wondering, his name is Doctor Husker, PhD. We have Mrs. Ross to thank for a few amazing antiques we intend to show off proudly!
