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My work is currently doing fundraising for one of the hospitals. In the past, most of our fundraising has been through the following:
1) Jeans day-wear your jeans to work.
2) Casual day-we tried this ONCE. Too many people turned up wearing non-work safe clothing (i.e. bare arms, tight t-shirts, low-cut tops etc.) We were still required to wear name badges and closed-in shoes, but the SM wasn't too happy.
3) Sausage sizzles. Usually done by our manager.
4) Collection tins.
This year, we've got the following set up:
1) Collection tins.
2) Selling packs of cookies and the like through the lunchroom for a gold coin donation. (also provides us a chance to road-test some of the foods for customers
)
3) Jeans day (twice.) I should probably say it's more like jeans weekend, since we can wear them over the weekend rather than for one day.
4) Carnival/circus weekend. (dress up as clowns)
5) Mad Hatter weekend. (crazy hats)
6) Wig and Tie. (craziest wig/tie.)
7) Footy fever. (Aussie Rules Footy themed, meant to wear your team colours.)
8) Doctors, patients and nurses. (this one just had me
)
9) Superheroes and villains.
(the above are all for a gold coin donation btw-basically, $1 and $2 coins.)
Out of that lot, I plan on doing 3 when the second opportunity rolls around, I've done 2 (bought some really yummy cookies
), maybe number 4, number 5 and maybe number 9.
Basically, what I'm wanting to ask, is....I'm a little stuck on ideas.
I do NOT want to be caught out in tights if I can help it, especially for number 9. For number 4, I'm only gonna paint my face if I can do so, and maybe try my hand at doing other people's. (there's a costume shop not too far from work) I want to keep the ideas simple if I can, and possibly get some tips?
Number 5 I've got worked out, mostly because what I have in mind is gonna be recycled for a class project. Basically, every year when the fair comes to town, there's a few booths that sell devil's horns. I usually get them, because people find it funny....since I'm usually the "nice girl" at work and the like, they get a kick out of me in devil's horns.
Technically, it's not a hat, but the idea is that we're meant to be crazy and well....how often do I get to wear non-block coloured headbands? (The class project is a French fairytale, involving a gentleman cursed with horns.)
Number 9 is where I'm really stuck. If I can clear it with work, I was planning on cosplaying, but nothing too elaborate and nothing too skimpy either. Since capes aren't really gonna be worksafe, I was basically wanting to ask for ideas.
So basically, to sum up.
Does anyone have any ideas that I can use for the weekends I had planned?
Also, share your stories of your own themed weekends/weeks at work.
1) Jeans day-wear your jeans to work.
2) Casual day-we tried this ONCE. Too many people turned up wearing non-work safe clothing (i.e. bare arms, tight t-shirts, low-cut tops etc.) We were still required to wear name badges and closed-in shoes, but the SM wasn't too happy.
3) Sausage sizzles. Usually done by our manager.
4) Collection tins.
This year, we've got the following set up:
1) Collection tins.
2) Selling packs of cookies and the like through the lunchroom for a gold coin donation. (also provides us a chance to road-test some of the foods for customers
) 3) Jeans day (twice.) I should probably say it's more like jeans weekend, since we can wear them over the weekend rather than for one day.
4) Carnival/circus weekend. (dress up as clowns)
5) Mad Hatter weekend. (crazy hats)
6) Wig and Tie. (craziest wig/tie.)
7) Footy fever. (Aussie Rules Footy themed, meant to wear your team colours.)
8) Doctors, patients and nurses. (this one just had me
)9) Superheroes and villains.
(the above are all for a gold coin donation btw-basically, $1 and $2 coins.)
Out of that lot, I plan on doing 3 when the second opportunity rolls around, I've done 2 (bought some really yummy cookies
), maybe number 4, number 5 and maybe number 9. Basically, what I'm wanting to ask, is....I'm a little stuck on ideas.
I do NOT want to be caught out in tights if I can help it, especially for number 9. For number 4, I'm only gonna paint my face if I can do so, and maybe try my hand at doing other people's. (there's a costume shop not too far from work) I want to keep the ideas simple if I can, and possibly get some tips?
Number 5 I've got worked out, mostly because what I have in mind is gonna be recycled for a class project. Basically, every year when the fair comes to town, there's a few booths that sell devil's horns. I usually get them, because people find it funny....since I'm usually the "nice girl" at work and the like, they get a kick out of me in devil's horns.
Technically, it's not a hat, but the idea is that we're meant to be crazy and well....how often do I get to wear non-block coloured headbands? (The class project is a French fairytale, involving a gentleman cursed with horns.) Number 9 is where I'm really stuck. If I can clear it with work, I was planning on cosplaying, but nothing too elaborate and nothing too skimpy either. Since capes aren't really gonna be worksafe, I was basically wanting to ask for ideas.
So basically, to sum up.
Does anyone have any ideas that I can use for the weekends I had planned?
Also, share your stories of your own themed weekends/weeks at work.