Ugly Ornament Party

Yesterday my office held our annual Ugly Ornament Party. My camera is "on the blink" and since I was a relatively new blogger this time last year, I'm re-cycling my post from last year. This year about a dozen ladies attended (both current employees and ones that have left but we still love anyway!). We all brought appetizers and sweets and had a feast! Everyone broke out their most delicious dishes and we all ate WAY too much....but TIS the season.

The picture below of the "disturbing" gnome/flying monkey/scary fairy combo are winners from a few years back. It seems we go in buying cycles and one year many of us brought similar type ornaments. We put a BAN on gnome like creatures....they were just frightening. LOL! These are now our tree toppers...pretty ugly and tacky, huh!

This is an ornament from a few years ago and we all laugh because it resembles and reminds us of one of our male co-worker. But "mum's the word" and we WON'T reveal who we think it looks like! HEHEHE! We've decided "what HAPPENS at the Ugly Ornament Contest....STAYS at the Ugly Ornament contest! Did I mention I work with a BUNCH of REALLY fun ladies???This puppy with a hat on his tail was from this year. It's CUTE but we thought it kinda looked like he was pooping out the hat and the look on his little puppy face is priceless. Oh well...I guess you had to have been there!
This could have been cute, especially on a children's themed tree but the colors were SO garish it was a bit spooky. My camera doesn't do the colors justice!
And what is it about a Gun Cabinet that screams CHRISTmas! However, we all agreed that on a manly tree or a woodsy themed tree this could be cute.
Here's a blush pink mesh crawfish/lobster. If you look closely the eyes are pink pearls and there is a smattering of beads and pearls randomly and haphazardly glued on. We decided this might be a good decoration at a Cajun Wedding.
And what doesn't make you think of evergreen Christmas trees, shiny tinsel and bright colored balls like a heart shaped cow; standing on a beet/radish/pink carrot. Again....he's cute, but CHRISTMAS!?!?
And last, but not least.....OUR FAVORITE! No comment necessary...she's just kitchy, funky, and fun!!!
After adding our favorites from years past, we stepped back and admired our handiwork and announced we had ourselves a FINE little tree....what do ya'll think?
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FELLOW BLOGGERS! Hope all is merry and bright in your world today!

Fun Things About Christmas #1

We started a fun office tradition a few years ago.....it's called "The Ugly Ornament Contest". Each year we search far and wide for the strangest, non-tradition, inexpensive Christmas tree ornament we can find. A scrawny Charlie Brown Type tree is brought out of storage and for the holiday season, the winner of the previous year's contest, gets to proudly display the Ugly Ornament Tree in their office. This year I found my ornament at Marshall's. In an effort no to hurt ANY one's feelings.....I don't so much think this ornament is ugly...just kitchy and non-traditional...so my apologies to anyone who bought this because they are a frog, or KNEW a frog couple that got married this year! Hehehe!

Just had to show you the back of this.... uhhhh....very unusual ornament. Can't you just feel the Frog Love!?!?!!?! Once the Ugly Ornament Party takes place I'll take pictures so you can see the full beauty of ALL the new ornaments added to the tree this year.
Do ya'll have ornaments you'd like to share pictures of that maybe aren't exactly what you usually decorate with, but ended up in your box of treasured ornaments/decoration? Maybe someone gave you a gift that just wasn't your style or you had a strange shopping moment and bought something really silly (hey, at the time we thought we might be able to "spiff it up!". Share them with us all....We'd love to see them!