Trinkets, objet d’art, and the absolutely inexplicable ... like the goat tree. What is the goat tree, apart from very ugly? Why is the goat tree?
We asked you to share your horrible ornaments, and proudly share them you did (even if you did blame your parents or grandparents for their existence).
Here is a selection of your ugliest treasures. You can see the rest of them here.
ugly rose bowl that my mum refuses to throw away!
My sister and I think that this wedding present that my parents received fifty years ago is disgusting. My mum however seems to like it. Every time I come to visit I cover it with a test towel!
Royal Wedding Commemorative Bin
Among my most prized possessions is this bin commemorating the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana from 1981. It originally belonged to my Grandparents. I don't know how they came to own it but having grown up fascinated by this more unusual piece of royal memorabilia - I asked if I could have it when I moved to uni. It has been with me ever since. I love it and hope to one day pass it on to my Grandchildren.
Goat tree
I have no idea what this could be for. My grandparents owned it. About 35cm tall, it's a goat on a very small island with a palm tree encircled by a vine with a single very large leaf. My uncle vaguely recalls that it may have had a bowl on top, making it a fruit bowl, but it would be very unstable. And there is no indication that anything was fixed to the top. Very ugly, but I love it for its pointlessness.
We have too many to single out just one
It's a lifetime of all kinds of trinkets & objet d'art that have entered this house under all kinds of circumstances, sometimes it feels like living in a jumble sale
Sinister donkey
My boyfriend has tried many times to get rid of sinister donkey. But i have a sixth sense when he is in danger and always manage to rescue him from the garbage in time. We never discuss it, sinister donkey just goes back to his shelf and observes my boyfriend through his single painted eye. I dont know why i love this donkey so much, he's just so darn cute.
BirdGirl
A yard-sale, plastic doll visage with home-made knitted\macramé headpiece. I added the leaf, shedded snakeskin and feathers.
Glass thingy
This has been around all my life. My grandparents owned it. It must be a vase I guess, but it just looks like a decapitated fish.
Pashing pigs
I claimed this from my grandparents' garage sale
The Collection of Horrors
I wrote an article about this very subject a few years ago... I have a collection of horrifically tasteless ornaments that I found in charity shops:
http://www.samsherwood.co.uk/2012/09/the-collection-of-horrors-evil-clowns.html
Cat child thing
Not sure where it came from originally, but it came to me from my grandmother. One of it redeeming features are the words foreign on the base, which I guess dates it to a time when that was all that was needed as way to see where it was made.
I think it's great but have had to convince a few others to its brilliance.
