ugly sweater contest at work- PIP!

Chipmunk415

Red sweater from marshalls: 15$
Christmas craft supplies from Michael's: 20$
Spending an evening making the fugliest sweater imaginable. ....priceless

And yes, there are bells, tinsel, stockings, and Christmas ornaments on this thing.

Now taking name nominations for it

larrygaga

Can I borrow it?

emmaaa

That's great!

One year my brother and his wife went to an ugly Christmas sweater party and he didn't have a Christmas sweater and refused to spend money on buying or making one. So he got this red sweater he already had and then STAPLED a Christmas stocking to it. He put candy in it and passed out candy all night.

In high school my girlfriends and I had our annual Christmas party and this year we decided to do ugly Christmas sweaters. Every single one of us borrowed one of our mom's Christmas sweaters and wore a turtleneck under it. Mom was like, "But that sweater is CUTE!"

ashley8918

That is fantastic!

ShesSoCold

LOL I love it!!!

I'm going to an ugly sweater party next week. As a Blackhawks fan, I'm borrowing my friend's Redwings jersey. That's an extremely ugly sweater. 

JaniV123

I have a classmate who wears one everyday since December started

Chipmunk415

It has since been made uglier via tinsel, bells and ornaments. Upon seeing it the paralegals grabbed two clippy floral Christmas things and a bird. Photos below.

Yes that's a clip in bird on my head. Note the fantastic expression on the assistant behind me.

Two paralegals were very disappointed I refused to attach extra baubles and bells on the bust with candy cane tassels.

We did discover that the stockings act like a very indecent hula skirt when I wiggle

pinkcow13

Haha, that is awesome!

Inkdancer

I made ugly sweaters for an office party H and I had last year. They are glorious. I will try to find pics... his is a meta-sweater (has tiny ugly sweaters all over it).

carrie0924

I haven't made mine yet (that is a project for this weekend!), but I'm thinking of getting a red or green sweater from Goodwill and making one of these to put on it: Clicky

Chipmunk415

Update!!!

My ugly sweater came in second place. The winner had a lime green sweater with mini palm trees bobby pinned to the bottom of her sweater, other assorted things pinned on, and a string of those cheap christmas light necklaces with the batteries draped around her neck. She also had one of those hand held noise makers that you press a button and it makes the noise of applause in her hand. (DH, upon hearing this, has declared he wants to help with next year's sweater- he has an electric tech journeyman's license, and previously helped SMIL synch music and lights for a parade float. He wants to make my sweater light up to Lady Gaga's Applause...my vote is for Party Rock Anthem)

This year, they made us "strut" our sweaters. Everyone else just walked. Booorinnng. I had jingle bells everywhere. Evil Chipmunk came out to play, and jammed out the whole way down, up to and including turning and shaking her rear at the Super Duper Boss, an elected official in my state.

Super Duper Boss was so thrilled with my performance, she A) wanted to give me a "shyest" award, and requested a dance again, and voluntold her very handsome, very married with 4 kids male chief of staff to dance with me.  As a colleague noted when emailing photos of the swing dancing I did with the CoS  to my boss, (I used to teach, and I led, he was as red as my sweater in the pics) I might not have won the contest, but I certainly won the party!

For second place, I won a holiday decoration. A wreath, to be precise. Said wreath is a perfect match for my sweater. It is sinfully ugly. A friend of mine wants to burn it. (sorry to brides who like burlap....) This thing is made out of burlap ribbon. Massive quantities of wide burlap ribbon. There are pieces of white netting on it, with gold glitter on the netting. Also on the wreath is a pale yellow ribbon edged in gold glitter, with the ubiquitous holly leaves and berry pattern. Ribbon everywhere. Crowning this wreath are occasional sprigs of fake berries sprayed with some sort of clear shelack. 

It looks like a grain sack exploded in Santa's stables.

Now, I know this thing was made by someone and donated. I truly appreciate their time and effort and creativity into making the darn thing. But all I can think when I look at it is "Damn."

My solution, as suggested by an older, wise paralegal- DH and I will be gifting this monstrosity to my SMIL, whom we are not fond of and are currently not speaking with. (It's still Christmas/It's still family). Further, we will tell her we made it ourselves. This, according to sage paralegal, guarantees that she cannot toss it out without risk of "hurting our feelings." Sage Paralegal has apparently used this strategy in the past. Evil Chipmunk is clamoring for drinks with Sage Paralegal at earliest opportunity.