Time for the annual Door Decorating Contest at the School District. Here is our entry for this year:
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| The Front |
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| The Back |
The hair, eyebrows, eye color, and accessories on each Nutcracker represents one of the people in our office.
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| The Superintendent |
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| The Policy and Legal Services Director |
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| The Legal Assistant/ Office Manager |
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| Me, the Superintendent's Assistant |
It's hard to tell from the picture, but my hoodie has an actual zipper that works! It's also a little hard to tell that each hat has a 3D rim on it (you can tell it's there from the shadows). This was a super fun project, but ridiculously labor intensive. I kind of wish I had calculated the number of hours spent working on this because it would have been massive. Basically all of my lunches and whatever work time I could sneak in while others were in meetings or out of the office and I could still get my work done since September!
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| Here is Riley standing in front of them with the door shut to give you an idea of how huge these are. Riley is exactly 5' tall. |
So, how did we fair in the contest?
Second place.
I won't lie, I was bummed. Our door really was the most labor intensive of them all and the only reason I think we didn't win is people didn't understand that these were all individually designed, cut and glued by hand with lots of measuring and precision. I had a ton of people ask me where I bought these, or who printed them. I wouldn't have voted them for 1st place either if I thought someone had just bought them off a shelf and hung them on a door (of course how they thought any store was selling the exact right size to fit our doors perfectly and that represented the people who work in our office escapes me).
I did have a small fan club of people though who understood, and even before the voting, repeatedly stopped by to marvel at my design, take pictures, and tell me how much they loved it. I even had one guy stop by and bring me treats to tell me I'd been cheated when we didn't win. It was pretty funny how passionate people got.
So, without further ado, here are pictures of the winners:
1st place went to the Printing/Media Department:
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| Even though these bricks were printed they get major points for the 3D roof/awning, and the saran-wrap icicles. Also the window of the inside made from a photograph of the inside was very clever and funny! |
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| This is where it gets tricky to tell what they did from the pictures. From the bricks on the lower left hand side of the picture, you can see that this is positioned right next to the door and they utilized the wall space to have a Christmas tree. |
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| This is a second door on the right side of the Christmas tree. They created a "store window" by building a structure on the inside to support it. |
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| Here is a close up of the inside of the store window. It has a much better Wow Factor in person. |
3rd place went to Assessment/Evaluation. You may remember they won us
last year with their Star Wars Door.
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| My favorite part about this one is the wood paneling. It isn't real. The real wall is white brick. Nicely done! |
These didn't win, but were some of my other favorites:
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| I don't know why "Flaky Friends" made me laugh so hard, but I loved this! |
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| Very clever incorporating Alice in Wonderland with a Winter Wonderland. |
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| And never has door decor represented the department so well. This was the Information Technology Department that did "Name that Tune" in binary code. Ha ha ha! LOVE IT!!!! |
