That Sweater Was Sooooo Ugly...

We had our staff Christmas party at the library this afternoon.  We closed for business at 1:00 instead of our usual 5:00 (much to the dismay of some of our patrons!) and got together for a great time.  We held a potluck, had a white elephant gift exchange, played some games, and had an ugly Christmas sweater contest.


I baked a chocolate cake (because I had a cake mix and canned icing on hand in the cupboard and had no time to shop for anything else) and put red and green sugar sprinkles on it to make it look festive. 

There was a huge amount of food there, much more than we needed for the luncheon.  I ended up bringing about half the cake back home (to the delight of my sons).

After the games and gift exchange, we had the ugly Christmas sweater contest.

At home last night, I took this mold green colored sweater with sparkles in it and ratty looking fringe around the neck and front edges

and added some little stockings

and some shiny baubles and beaded things

and a rather large stuffed Santa

and combined them all with a few safety pins and wire bread bag twist ties to come up with this ugly sweater.  This is the front view of my entry:

 and Santa had my back.  HA!

This crazy, concocted, ugly sweater won third place in the contest.  My prize?  A glass pickle ornament for the Christmas tree!  HA HA HA HA HA!

I'm not sure that pickle was worth the effort it took to win it, but we did have fun at the party.