Ornaments

I accumulate and display junk, I have some model trains, old movie cameras and soda siphons scattered about the place.

Does anyone have search function anymore?

Ornaments.

plus rumpie thread alert: What do people fill their spaces with nowadays?

Fuck it.

thread pedantry is boring.

In my sewing room I have large amount of bells bequeathed from grandmother: little hula girl bells from hawaii; statue of liberty; etc. A few other trinkets here and there. The bookcase in the living room sports some westerniana: a couple of issues of Ranch Romances from the 40s; an ancient, non-working radio; horseshoe/boot ashtray; pair of vintage squared-toe boots. Do those count as trinkets? They are about the only purely-decorative knick-knacks in the house. We aren't big on them.

Oh I also keep a rubber frog on my sewing machine but only because I found him on the street.

Do old liquor bottle count as ornaments?

I have an ornamental chicken on my fireplace, also a few ornamental photo frames (our wedding photos x 2, my brother's wedding photo, two of my niece and one with a little card that I liked the design on), a Caithness glass paperweight an aunt gave us as a wedding present, a set of candlesticks and three little wooden camels.

Do clocks count? We have two - a carriage clock and a little one in the shape of a diver's helmet. We also have a little replica tram that my m-in-law brought us back from SF.

Do old liquor bottle count as ornaments?

Do you stick flowers in them?

The rest of my living space is just vases with flowers (some real, some wooden), and a wooden chess set, which don't really constitute ornaments, I don't think.

Actually i only have one as an ornament, it was a particularly fine 20 year old cask strength rare single malt.

the rest just haven't made it to recycling yet.

mine tend to be star wars lego and little plastic Toy Story models. and cd cases. and those miffy standup cards. and a toast rack full of 7" singles.

http://www.ariadnebooks.com/images/products/1572410469.gif

Ornaments I've had ranged from lego men also, to stupid kinder toys. porcerline dragons and wizards, transformers, oil burners.

I have odd things as ornaments -- not intended as such but either don't perform their intended functions anymore or are in the wrong setting, ie copper nuggets from a gravure press tour that just sit around as paperweights (does anyone weight papers anymore?), or a spine stamping die from old edn of Bartlett's Quotations, Lake Michigan sand in a bottle, Petoskey stones, a v old Remington typewriter (seen below) that probably still works, an enameled Ronco lighter...I think it's the grown-up equivalent of boys filling their pockets with bits of string and acorns and bottle caps, I just run across things....

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/365474347_9881e190ef.jpg

Oooh a toast rack, what a good idea...

thread pedantry is boring.

In my sewing room...

I don't have many ornaments, but I have this piece of lladro:

http://oldemaine.homestead.com/files/lladro_bather.jpg

and this one (which is nao, not proper lladro)

http://www.catholicsupply.com/christmas/_borders/26800C.JPG

I also have these bits of Swarovski crystal:

http://www.countryflowershopmilwaukee.com/images/crystal/AS0010031B0.jpg

and there are a few bits of stuff on a shelf in the dining room belonging to my daughters (some Bunnykins figures, and a few of the Tuskers elephant ornaments which daughter number two has started collecting)

oh. it missed off some of the swarovski pix. Try again :

http://www.countryflowershopmilwaukee.com/images/crystal/AS0013989B0.jpg

http://shop.swarovski.com/publicimages/CG/B2C/PROD/240/890894W240.jpg

and

http://shop.swarovski.com/publicimages/CG/B2C/PROD/240/719648W240.jpg

In my sewing room...

This is a thread about knick knacks! What do you expect!

I guess the closest thing I have to ornaments are a few empty flasks on my liquor shelves, but everything else that's visible in my apartment is something I use at least weekly. The only things I'd want to display as objects are far out of my price range (hello Baccarat limited editions!).

When I was a teenager, I used to have quite a bit of soda siphons.

NOw I have lots of naked lady figurines (and etchings). Hubba hubba.

and one of these:

http://www.atariage.com//2600/controllers/con_AtariJoystick.jpg

It's just bookshelf after bookshelf with a bunch of silly stuffs on them: always a candle and a cup full of paintbrushes at least.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/roombookshelf.jpg

TV shelf with dozens of dorky plushies:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/plushies.jpg

Some tableaux:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/borgvirgin.jpg

Bathroom decor:

WAHT?

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/doctor.jpg

Bathroom:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/bathroom.jpg

virgin mary + borg = funny

all my pens and pencils (and scissors and screwdrivers and rulers and chopsticks from wagamama(?)) are in pot noodle pots which are just the ideal size. the new ones have paper labels though - harder to wash out without ruining them.