Christmas Throw Up

I've never been fond of coloring contests. I don't like the idea that in order to win it's suggested that you stay inside the lines. I've never followed this rule, which accounts for why I detest these contests in the first place. Never winning is also a reason I detest these coloring contests so. Apparently the judges have never heard of a little thing we call "abstract art".

Within this idea you can create and run with whatever vision is in your head. This is exactly what my friend Karlee and I did when we heard about the school's Christmas door-decorating contest.

It was announced in chapel that this contest was going to take place and that the winner would receive a special prize. Immediately after this announcement Karlee and I knew that we must collaborate our ideas so that we could win. I'm not gonna lie, we scoped out the competition and thought that we stood a pretty good chance of winning.

After hearing each other's genious ideas we decided that there was no way to decide on just one. Instead, we decided to throw all of the ideas together to create some type of Christmas chaos on our porch (by this point we'd moved the competition from the door to the porch).

We went to Wal-Mart and bought $12.00 worth of your traditional Christmas decorations; tinsel, candy canes, wrapping paper, etc. We combined this with our already collected gigantic stocking, 12 strands of lights, garlands and some other tacky things and were then inspired to theme our porch, "Christmas Throw-Up." Wonderful huh? Our friend Emily, a fellow teammate, also collaborated her creativity with ours and made dozens of snowflakes, a chimney (made from our door), a 3-foot gingerbread house and a nativity scene. She clearly did more work than Karlee and I combined.

On the eve of the judging we began duck taping all of the lights from the ceiling to the concrete along the porch and then around the railing. We tinseled up the place and then added all of the other stuff to the porch. After we finished with the decorations we were very pleased with the results. It looked utterly ridiculous; Christmas chaos. On one side of the porch there was a nativity scene taped to the window and on the other side you had a ginigerbread house. Tinsel fell from the ceiling and the lights blinded your eyes. We also played Christmas music; "A Hanson Christmas", in the background. We moved my TV to the the porch so that the judges could also enjoy a classic Santa cartoon as they strolled through "Christmas Throw-Up."



Karlee and I were never serious about the competition from the beginning, we actually got more laughs out of it than anyone. As it turned out, we ended up winning. Our special prize was a hilarious baseball trophy that had been transformed into an elf. If you want to see this piece of art, it is being displayed on our porch along with the decorations we forgot to take down before we left for winter break.