Halloween 2007

I have a lot of fun decorating at work for the different holidays, and have converted a few follwers to help. You can say that there are times I do get carried away! This year Halloween was extra fun as I was able to find pressed wood 3-dimensional coffin that I laid up against the wall and made a mini cemetary scene.

I had a bag of bones laid out with a few tomb stones and a couple of rats for good measure. I set it up and it started to take on a life of its own. Every night when I came in to work, it would be rearranged a little or something added to it. It was fun to see what would happen next. Example, Rebecca on my team added a broken key board under the bony hands, and a headset over the skull.

Since we work on the USPS (Post Office) website answering questions and complaints, I put spider webbing down the row on both sides of the aisle, with a touch of a few spiders. I also hung some ghouls from the ceiling, especially my favorite, a Pirate ghoul that looked like it was floating down at you.

We had the Vice President of the Post Office and a few other VIPs coming in to visit and it was suggested we wait until they left to decorate. The other Supervisor for email, April, decided to go ahead and decorate her area, so I figured I would go ahead and decorate as well. Nedra and Jayann almost died when they came in the next morning, but loved what we had done, especially my little grave yard. The visitors were really tickled with the decorations and very impressed with my graveyard as well, and thought it was pretty cool that we decorated.

Since I sat by the one door, it was pretty fun to hear the agents laugh or make comments about the coffin and the decorations. It makes me feel good that they appreciate it and enjoy the little bit of fun that we bring into the work place. I love it as it makes it more fun to come to work, and brings some happiness. But I got to tell you, working the midnight shift, it would sometimes get a little freaky to have that coffin right by my desk!

Witch Stew. Our team aisle, "The Insane Asylum" or USPS Website.

This is the Training Room, with the new trainees trying to get out. They have been in there for almost three weeks!

This is our new Supervisor who was just too overwhelmed trying to learn everything quickly.

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!