Cubicle Love Part Three

We love decorating cubicles at work, as you can see in previous posts (June and probably April or May). Clearly, we eagerly jumped to the challenge when a CONTEST was announced in honor of the holiday spirit. Our early enthusiasm was also our downfall. People saw our outstanding decoration skills, got inspired and took it to the next level, leading the entire area to complete and utter decoration mayhem. It was fun to see everyone participating. Here are some photos of our creations: Yes, we handmade all the snowflakes hanging from the ceilings.

It may be hard to tell, but we wrote all our names on the stockings and handmade this fireplace as well.
The outer walls of our cubes were covered in wrapping paper and we had two end tables with Almond Rocca, Peppermint Rocca, and Christmas cookies, which we shamelessly offered to the judges. One of my colleagues even wrapped up little boxes of chocolates as gifts for the judges. Speaking of shamelessness, I even complimented a judge on her Christmas sweater. We had Christmas songs playing, and were even continuously running a video of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
In true Red Cross style, the judges decided they couldn't just award 1st, 2nd & 3rd prizes, but rather gave some sort of prize to each participating group. We won for most creative.

Cubicle Love Part Deux

Some Fridays are just meant for fun. Today was one of them. We had a quality team-building exercise today: decorating the cubicle of our newly betrothed colleague, Jennifer. She will be returning to the office on Monday after a two week long vacation to London and Paris (and being proposed to atop the Eiffel Tower). Since she emailed us to share the news, we had to be sure to welcome her back in style.

A Little Belated Cubicle Love

I have such fun co-workers. These photos deserved to be posted the day I got back to work from Africa. So, I've been slacking a little. Nothing says you are loved at work better than arriving to a desk decorated in blue and green argyle wrapping paper next to pink paisley wrapping paper, with cut-outs of George Bush, Colin Powell, Jimmy Carter and other government figures dressed in drag. I also had a Cinderella "Happy Birthday, Princess" welcome back card, a pez dispenser, random cut-outs from the National Enquirer and Soap Opera magazine, and all other sorts of wonderful things at my cubicle.

Sometimes we have a little too much fun at work. One day, we were going to get rid of a fairly large scanner box, when we had a brilliant idea. I got inside the box, someone printed an Africa shipping label and wheeled the box over to another caseworker saying an important package had arrived for him. Of course he got SCISSORS to open the box. (I had to duck down). and when he peeped inside I gave him some jazz hands and popped out. To say he was startled was an understatement.

Despite the cubicle decorating, popping out of boxes, and throwing objects at each other, we get a lot of serious work done. It's the perfect balance of challenging, meaningful work and fun times. I'm loving it.