I love decorating our work area for the holidays, especially Halloween and Christmas.

I sometimes will go a little crazy with the decorations. At work we can only plug in Christmas lights in the outside wall plugs. I really wanted to put a couple arches of garland with lights for our row, but I had to figure out a way to get them plugged into the wall. It took me about ten minutes but I worked it out.

Since my desk was at the end of the row and close to one of the entrance doors, I put up my 4 ft. fiber optic Christmas tree next to the wall near my desk. We got approval to get a special kind of tape and taped over the cord from the wall outlet over to my tree. I also had a fireplace I made against the cubicle wall of my desk near the tree.

I connected a long line of garland wrapped in white Christmas lights that went down the middle of the cubicles, and also connected with a long strand of garland wrapped in white lights that I ran around the pole near my desk, and draped across the aisle and back down the pole on the other side of the aisle. At the other end I did the same thing with the garland wrapping around the pole with lights and draped across the aisle and down the pole on the other side, and connected with garland and lights running down the middle of the cubicles on that side.

I hung red, green, and gold bulbs from the garland on each end. It was really something to see, and made everyone on the floor thrilled to see a decorated area. I had also made little stockings of red, white, and green card stock and had little designs on them with the name of the team members going across the top mantle of my fireplace.

We also had some musical Christmas toys near the fireplace and on the filing cabinets near us. Many of the agents liked to either make my reindeer in a rocking chair sing "Grama got run over by a reindeer" or push the buttom of Karen's snow man playing a piano and singing songs as they walked out the door. It just made the floor feel more festive and made it more fun to be at work.

To make it more fun, Kay, from Stamps, surprised us and left one of the beautiful sleds that she makes and sells against the one side of our fireplace because we always decorate our area so nicely. It was like Santa had come and left a present!