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CHECK out this year’s entrants in Queen Bee’s ”Best and worst Christmas decorations of 2008”.

We’ll be updating this page as more entries are sent in - so keep sending your pictures through to .

The winners will be announced on Thursday 18th December.

In the meantime let us know what you think. Is your office worse? Or are these some of the best decorations you’ve ever seen?

And if you’re a Business Owner tell us if you’d allow some of these decorations in your office.

Entry submitted by “Alex” 11/12/2008

“Here’s a photo of our tacky office tree, one of our receptionists just purchased this (that’s right it is not left over from the 80’s).”

Entry submitted by “Dani” 11/12/2008

“At work I have been the ringleader in my team decorations for our annual team Christmas decoration competition. Photos just don’t do it justice. We were going for tinsel land…. But it appears to have turned into mardi gras Christmas in our corner.”

Entry submitted by “Rach” 12/12/2008

“This is our pod at work. The decorations just got bigger and bigger… There was food and a picnic too at one stage!”

Entry submitted by “Josh” 12/12/2008

“I think we possibly have the dodgiest Christmas decoration around. We don’t have time to buy a crap load of decorations and hang them from every available surface, but we did want to get into the Christmas cheer. We decided the best way to do this was to put our Coke addiction (the drink not the drug) to good use so over the last couple of weeks we have built our own Christmas tree out of Coke cans. I think its eye catching.”

Entry submitted by “Adam” 12/12/2008

“This year we draped as much tinsel as we had, and used the spare desk to create our masterpiece; a re-appropriated coatrack transformed into a Christmas tree with a decidedly Aussie beach theme; the tree itself is a palm (complete with coconut baubles), and at the base are thongs, pebbles and shells, empty bottles of beer, a beach ball, a Speedo-wearing turtle, and more… No prawns though!!”

Entry submitted by “Aarah” 12/12/2008

“I was very excited to see this competition as I had alot of fun putting up the decorations this year especially around an unsuspecting work colleagues cubicle who is a very quiet and shy person.  It ended up looking like a shrine.”

Entry submitted by “Grace” 15/12/2008

“Here’s a pic of this year’s decorations in our office. We used to have an annual Christmas decoration competition with each floor in our building competing for a cash prize - for some reason it has been scrapped this year, and instead we all got given one of these Christmas baubles (complete with tacky company logo printed on them). What to do with them? no-one knew what to do with them until someone decided to use a paper clip to stick to the ceiling above their desk, a few others then kindly donated theirs to create this wonderful festive creation.”

Entry sumbitted by “Kat” 15/12/2008

“I decided to indulge my tinsel fetish in the office this year, to the horror of our Grinch boss. The only words that come out of his mouth in December are “Bah! Humbug!” but he’s up against a bunch of glitter addicted chicks so he’s outnumbered. The proof is attached. I’m still not satisfied though, after another trip to Christmas Kingdom there will be more!”

Entry submitted by “Danielle” 15/12/2008

“Our office can get quite competitive when it comes to the annual Xmas decorating but we believe that our Unit this year won hands down. The theme: We’re Dreaming of a Green Xmas. Although it’s not your typical Xmas-styled decorating, it has definitely been a pleasure sitting among the forest in our office. (We were supposed to look like hippies but the guys just ended up looking like hobos!)”

Entry submitted by “Hano” 16/12/2008

“One bright and sunny Sunday afternoon I got cracking on the last Griswalds Family Christmas idea for our junior in the office. This is what happened. One person with a lot of time on hands.. 5-7 hours $200, 1000 Christmas candles 150m of tinsel (there is more than shown around the back) 10 rolls of Christmas paper 5 rolls of sticky tape. One Santa hat, not surprising he was not amused… to say the least”

Entry submitted by “Helen 17/12/2008

“This is what happens when you let the IT Department decorate their office. We had plenty of spare CDs and other shiny things around the office, so thought we’d make an unique office display.”

Entry submitted by “Sue” 17/12/2008

“After years of repression by the now dismantled Xmas Decoration Committee, this year we just decided to stick up every decoration we have - resulting in tinsel vomit. We have a pretty decent tree and even a rainbow fish light”

Entry submitted by “LifeStyle Channel” 17/12/2008

“Christmas at the LifeStyle Channel is not complete without a little Christmas craft- decorating challenge”

Entry submitted by “Marisa” 17/12/2008

“We had no Christmas decorations in our lab at all, so the lab manager kindly bought a Christmas tree but no decorations. My friend and I decided to get creative with anything we could find at work and here is the result….our nerdy Christmas tree with snow and “presents” under the tree.”

Entry submitted by “Matt” 17/12/2008

“On the phone while a work mate decorated myself with lovely pink tinsel.. who created PINK tinsel?”

Entry submitted by “Sharon” 17/12/2008

“There’s a tree in there somewhere!”

Entry submitted by “Melissa” 17/12/2008

Entry submitted by “Allan” 17/12/2008

“Join the Presents and Toys under the Christmas tree. So far our Giving Tree has raised over $250.00.”

Entry submitted by “Michelle” 17/12/2008

“We seemed to have an excessive amount of brown paper in the office so I decided to turn a bunch of our (empty) filing cabinets into a rather large present.”

Entry submitted by “Natalie” 17/12/2008

“A Christmas Sarah Palin makes a special cameo appearance in this bushy tinsel display in an ode to the desk’s occupant who dressed as her for Halloween along with a simple cardboard tube covered in al-foil representing the Festivus Pole”