What do you do with your rosettes?

I have the ones that are quite special in the back of my car, I tied a bit of string across the back of the headrests and then slotted the hooks on to it so they look pretty in my back window :) They are all ones from my horse's firsts shows or ones that mean something more than just winning :)
 
Wench I don't understand why you would bin them....just give them back to the competition centre, they could use them in their next comp & give it to someone who would treasure it.

I love rosettes. Adore them. Each year they go on a string behind my seat in the horse box. At the end of the year they come off the string & are pinned up in the tack room with my fav pictures from the season.
 
Well as they are my rosettes, I will do as I see fit with them. Also given that I have umpteen of them from when I was younger and showing, I don't need any more, nor do I have anywhere to store them.
 
Most of mine are currently in a carrier bag in the bottom of a cupboard - along with all the associated dressage sheets. I still haven't decided what to do with them . . .

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wench said:
Well as they are my rosettes, I will do as I see fit with them. Also given that I have umpteen of them from when I was younger and showing, I don't need any more, nor do I have anywhere to store them.
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Yes, but if you don't want them, why bother taking them? What's the point in taking something just to put it in landfill.
By all means have it presented to you, clip on the bridle, take a picture & do your lap of honour but then why not give it back to the show to be used again, or even....as I've seen an international eventer do, give it to a young spectator who hasn't got a pony.
Just taking something to bin that you know you don't want is pathetic IMO

No one is saying that you have to love rosettes or find room for them, not at all but just putting them straight in the bin is incredibly wasteful. One centre I used to go to gave you a free coffee if you didn't want your rosette & returned it 😊
 
I competed a lot as a child so I have a box of trophies and bin bags of rossettes in my garage, 2 trophies have been used as bookends on my shelves. My latest ones (past 18 months) I now hang in my tack room as otherwise they would just be chucked in the garage!
 
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I got the frame from IKEA and added pictures of the horse I won the rosettes with im currently saving with my new horse to make her own frame
 
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My 3.5t van has what I can only describe as library carpet covering the back wall of the cab behind the seats. I pull the metal hooks off my rossettes and put a velcro sticky dot on the back and stick them all over the back wall of the cab. The very special ones are at home on my dressing table.
 
I love the idea of a vase now i have seen it on pinterest, might have to try! My bedroom is a weird shape to display rossettes anywhere without it looking scruffy. And don't think non horsey family would appreciate them stuck around the living room :)
 
Nannon said:
Is it just me that loves getting them still?!
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Nope we love them here too!

I also put all the details on the back. Ones from my previous horses are boxed up (I do go and look at them now and again and relive the memories!), my current ones are in my kitchen on a length of hessian. We don't do much competing so we don't get many in a year. If I was getting several a week then that would be different but for us every one is hard won and a rare event! I hate it when events/fun rides etc don't give rosettes, they don't have to be huge expensive things - one of the tiny single tiers would be just as appreciated here.
 
I have them strung up on baler twine on the walls or on cork boards. Some of the smaller, naffer ones don't get put up. I have some fantastic ones won in photo shows online but they are in a box as for some reason they don't really feel like I have won them as such. These ones I may donate to the RDA or some thing.

I treasure every rosette I get no matter what placings - some good, some not so good (some of the not so good ones I got through tears of laughter at how much of a plonker what ever beast I had been riding had been!)

I have over 1000 rosettes spanning 24 years of competing. Perth Racecourse give out rosettes to the best turned out horse in each race, I keep 1 each year and then any others I get I give out to random old people at the races - it really makes their day!
 
I've just donated a dustbinbag full of rosettes from last 20 years to my local RDA group. Am told they are ecstatic to receive them as they use them for the riders for all sorts of competitions and achievements.
 
Mine used to always live on the wall but since I moved to my current home they have been in a box in the linen cupboard.

Can't find the picture! I write on the back of each rosette, the place, class, date and horse. I also add the number as well. I use a thumb tack for the first high up at the top of the wall, then attach the next one below it with a pin.

In NZ they award long ribbons that go around the horses neck I have these hung on the wall - they take up a lot of room though.

Some people sew their ribbons together to make a throw for their bed - they look really pretty.
 
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