Sue, at first I thought you were writing about yourself and a friend said you needed more weird stuff in your house.

I don't exactly have a style I follow. I just have things I like and/or need. I don't consider those bronze animals "kooky" in the least. I guess my style is just random. I have a lot of cat stuff on my hutch shelves, accompanied by an Obama-playing-a-ukelele bottle opener.

On my mantle, a "Thomas Westra" piece, artist in Australia makes metal lizard sculptures.

Metal Gecko from Turks & Caicos climbing the wall next to a guest towel in a 1/2 bath.

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Sue...love your photo & goats....

Good weirdness:

Unusual books

Interesting prints/paintings

Small (or large) unusual statues of critters/etc.

Bad weirdness:

Body parts or animals preserved in jars for display (I have mixed feelings about ashes of relatives in urns on display)

Ex husbands in the freezer

Not a lot. I'd post a photo of my little black snake if I knew where it's currently residing. It's my grand daughters version of elf on a shelf - when they come over they like to hide it. Here it is on my Christmas tree.

DH has a Punch bobble head and a carved lapis skull on his nightstand, next to a Waterford crystal lamp.

There's probably a few others but I'm so used to seeing them that they no longer seem weird.

oh I love this topic and seeing the *weird* treasures you all have. I think weird is in the eye of the beholder and have a few things that I think of as *interesting* but maybe not weird. Too dark for photos so will have to wait for tomorrow.

My current house is too formal to allow for much quirkiness, but there are some touches.

I don’t think that any of the examples posted are ”weird.” Interesting may be a more appropriate word.

An old dirty carburetor plopped on the dining room table is weird.

[I imagine someone will find a Dadaist piece — think Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain —that proves me wrong.]

@jojoco I don't think either of your photos has anything "quirky" in it!

Love the goat sculptures, Sue. I did the same here as you did - a bookcase turned cabinet of curiosities. I will take a photo and post in a bit. It holds the "weirdest" things in the house.

Decades ago, a new friend told me I had very interesting and unique decor. The house was not decorated how she pictured it would be.

I think many of the things I have been drawn to in antique stores (and online) the past 40+ years run in the unique category versus weird.

Okay, this might be weird, but it is a pair of lamps my parents purchased in the late 1950s for their bedroom. I had one rewired to use in a future laudnry room, but that never worked out. They are in the bunk room of our current home, and the first time they've been used since 1986. I had the shades custom made. The originals were long gone (and not something I would have used anyway). I think they are fun, but most importantly, they hold a lot of memories for me.

@bbstx I really like the last art piece (church/angels).

@Sueb20 Here is the current bookcase status. I am not sure how I can squeeze anything else on! It is still dark and turning the light on didn't work out very well.....

Yes, lots of horse things, as we had horses growing up. A few things my dad purchased when traveling. The oldest purchase of mine would be the taxidermy duckling (late 80s)

Chess pieces from Dad's set. The soldier on horseback is a fairly new purchase, as are the horse and elephant on top of the books.

All the pottery pieces hold the ashes of pets. They were all purchased on Etsy and I made the tags.

Can you spot the alligator teeth and buffalo tooth?!

Oddities around the house, Horse from a French butcher shop. Currently residing on the third floor. Bookcase is located in the landing between second and third floors.

Metal bird purchased online, above the HVAC door on the third floor.

I guess my motto would be "If I love it, I can make it work." At least in my mind! LOL

Bb, omg is that Amy Carlisle? I love her!! Wait, maybe I know of her because of you?? I have been wanting one of her paintings for years.

Allison, you win — I don’t have any teeth displayed! …yet. I love your collection.

Love seeing everyone’s fun things. Maybe I should have said fun instead of weird.

I have weird art, too. Will post some more pics when it’s light.

I had a deer jaw and feather that DH found while working outdoors. Sadly we had a couple instances of insecure dogs left home alone and both succombed after being there for years.

@Sueb20, yes, Amy Carlisle! I love her work. How funny if you heard of her from me. I may have talked about her when I was redecorating, which is when I bought that piece. But I don’t recall it specifically.

@deegw, I think a gallery wall of your child’s art work isn’t weird at all. And I love the penguin!

I love everyone’s curiosities!

I used to have my great-grandfather’s headstone. White marble, about knee high, 80 lbs. My grandfather placed a new headstone on the grave at some time for some reason that I don’t know. When he died, Daddy took over guardianship of the headstone. When Daddy died, Sister had it for a while, then I had it for a while. When my nephew bought a house, he asked for it. Sister used it as a Halloween decoration. She and DBIL laughed themselves silly one Halloween when some teenaged boys, thinking it was styrofoam, kicked it. I’m sure he had a sore foot for a while …. and good enough for him!

Grabbed pics in a hurry as I run out to an estate sale where I always look for the oddities. As I said, these are more in the interesting category rather than weird.

These quirky frogs doing human things spoke to me in a shop in Santa Barbara in the 90s.

A piece of pottery found on our property and a gnome my SIL made for us mostly from nature findings while she was visiting

Mexican pottery - my boat holders.

DS1 self portrait in 6th grade

DS2 self portrait in 21st or 2nd grade

Bb, I am not religious at all but adore her chapels — that’s how I recognized yours right away. I want this.

dee, that sculpture! ❤️

Weird/quirky art, coming up.

Hung above the TV.

She looks down on me from atop a cabinet in my office/craft room. This was a freebie from FB mkt.

Also in same room, a ”project” I started then lost interest.

These are next to my side of the bed.

On kitchen window sill, two tiny vintage gals. I made the flowers from toothpicks and vintage buttons.

On a stair landing we have another weird built-in shelf area where I display family photos and my kids’ masterpieces.

We have a few pieces by this artist. Her figures never have faces.

Finally, I have told this story before but we had to buy this painting in Charleston bc she looked just like me (at the time, when I was about 12 years younger).

Not weird or quirky, but different.

Japanese fishing floats

Collected old bottles

Vintage fishing creel and hats on mirror. You can just see a bit of walking sticks below.

@Kendrah, I have an old brass fire extinguisher too. My husband’s uncle was a fireman for many years.

My cranes are about as weird as I get.

Are the cranes dressed up for the party? They look like the have organza ribbon around their necks. They are beautiful!

I like w bit of whimsy

Love quirky, whimsical. I go through periods where I have to much. Mine is all pretty much small, would like to add a bit more quirky art to my home.

Thanks, Sue.

Love seeing all the "fun" things everyone has. That is what gives our homes personalities!

I cannot let this thread go without posting my sheep (shown in last home). He now lives in our bunk room.

I love seeing that so many of you are as ’weird’ and quirky as I am - in decorating anyway. Most of mine is art collected here and there, and some are small pieces scattered randomly. I tend to move art around now and then so it almost always seems to work. Some of these I may have posted here before.

This is one of the quirky things i have on display on a shelf in our great room. A fragment of the Challenger shuttle.

A cute honey jar that my mother always had on display above her stove. It just looks happy and resides in my kitchen behind glass doors.

Had this one a long time. Purchased not long after we built in our rural area.

This artist was fun to talk with. He makes these from old license plates. This one called my name.

This one is fun too. I put it in a guest bath. People read it and come out laughing about it, especially if they have deer.

My niece started painting again several years ago when she became a SAHM. She has fun with it and now is doing or has done several large wall murals for clients, mostly in schools, to brighten library walls, gyms, hallways. She always does some Holiday themes.

Enough for now. Have enjoyed everything you all have posted. Just wonderful to see the creativity.

njmomma, that was our holiday table one year...note the wreath in the window....

I do not think I would call a piece of the Challenger "quirky."

@cyn, well I appreciate having it, especially since it was given to me by a friend, but some might think it’s odd in a way.

@OutsidePlaying, I love Scott McQueen's work! Met him at the Kentuck Art Festival in Tuscaloosa a little over a year ago. Your piece is fantastic!

Here is some more Southern folk art. All are on display in various rooms in my house.

@ljwrar, thank you! I love your southern art as well. Funny how a few of us have run across and liked art by the same artist.

lj, love that picture with the chicken on her head!

Talk about quirky southern art… This is not mine, regrettably. It belongs to a former neighbor. The entire painting was done with mud!! I love it, but I’ve always wondered where the artist found blue mud?

@bbstx, love your neighbor's mud painting! I have this one by Jimmie Sudduth.

From the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery: Jimmy Lee Sudduth painted with mud and natural dyes. Using a substance he called “sweet mud” (local soils mixed with sugar or Coca-Cola), Sudduth would block out the shapes of the painting. He would then rub plants and berries onto the surface of the mud to add color.

And, thank you for introducing me to Amy Carlisle. I'm with Sue, love her chapel paintings.

lj

Something quirky adds personality to what may be a beautiful home that lacks interest. Great seeing all of yours.

gt. gts. Antique pistols

Glass hip flask containing a confederate bill ( long story

gt gts physician’s mortar and pestle

Tribal handmade somethings DS picked up on S.American journey. Yes, those are human ( shudder) teeth.. I keep him turned to lion side!

@ljwrar, Jimmy Lee Sudduth sounded familiar when I read it in your comment above. I googled his name and ”bicycle.” Comparing what I found online and the picture above, I believe the painting was done by Sudduth. My neighbor had a wonderful collection of art, so I’m not really surprised.

Nice toilet tank, Mtn. First time Ive ever admireda toilet tank!

Here are a few entertaing (?) items from around my house.

I call these The Girls.

This is a drawing by Tony Auth, a former cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. I won it at an auction. Excuse the reflection ofa bankers box!

Another library themed original by Auth. I did the fundraising for Philadelphia’s Summer Reading program.

A bunny on books, just because I liked it.

I don’t have enough, so inspired by this thread I ordered this from Etsy today. Not weird, but it makes me smile.

Ded, I am a sucker for bunnies. I probably have about 5 of them scattered around the house (not real ones, that would truly be weird).

I definitely have some quirky and fun things.

Kitchen art.

The artist call this a sexpot. Nothing currently planted in it.

My avatar

Finger puppets, etc.

Cawaps, the finger puppets! 😍

I have a little Angry Bird. I don’t know where it came from, but he moves around the house sometimes.

@Dedtired, love the Auths!

Thanks, Mtn. Always a fan of his. He’d be having a blast with the current political era.

And three years to go from today. IYKYK

@dedtired I can't even.

We have fun with this.

Happy2b, we have one, too! I only have a photo of the internal workings.

Dedtired, that is so cool. The tapes look just like mine. Not too long ago there were slots in lots of small restaurants and markets in my area. I bought this machine from the son of a man who used to service them. The seller won everytime on any of his machines. He said it was the way he pulled the lever. I did not have his touch. i have never won on my machine either, but my grandkids have. When we first considered buying one, I wondered if play8ng the slot mchine would corrupt them. That hasn’t happened.

@cawaps, I love your avatar! Makes me want to go to Creative Growth, but I've had to stop buying art. No more room to hang or store it.

lj

@ljwrar, I went to the Creative Growth open house in December and bought a brooch and a beaded necklace. Jewelry was a new area for them this year; it doesn't need wall space (which I don't have either).

@cawaps, sooooooo tempting! I really support their cause, but it may be better to just make a donation than bring more stuff home. I'll look for their next open house and decide then.

Happy, my husbands family owned a hotel and the slot machine came from there. it was full of old coins when we got it,

I adore everyone’s weirdness! So much wonderful artwork!!!

My articulated cat bird feeder. :)

We used to have a billiard room. We had an old slot machine in there, too. They are fun.