For those who also suffer from having a hideous paper towel holder on the kitchen counter, I offer the following three step plan.
Step 1: Take an ordinarily hideous paper towel holder:
Step 2: Add a cat top and tail.
Step 3: Voila!
Three steps to paper towel awesomeness with ceramics
simonandfinn 
Hideous turned very cute!
Heh, thank you!
pretty need idea but then you need to have talent to work with ceramic and make a cute animal
Thank you! You could do it with other materials as well – like papier mache, femo. Would be more accessible (and maybe a little easier?) than ceramics, and likely could get a good outcome.