PAYETTE Festivus Eve

This past December 22nd, PAYETTE’s whole office came together to celebrate the first ever Festivus Eve. The celebration centered around several events around the studio including a table-decorating competition, a “Who’s That Baby?” guessing game, and a winter-themed Photo Booth.

Organizers Su Hong Chen, Miep Gieskes, Kristyn Hill, Liz Kankainen, Cortney Kirk, Andrea Love and Kacey Miklaszewski kicked off the celebrating in early December by decorating the lobby in cut-out snowflakes, creating a party countdown using humorous, photoshopped staff holiday images, and organized the office into table decorating teams that spanned the entire studio floor.  

Six teams entered the table decorating contest:

• Merry Christo-mas!
• Champagne Wishes and Cheeze Whiz Dreams
• Intents Christmas
• Squadra dei Coordinatori della Costruzione de Festa
• Burgermeister Meisterburgers
• #O_XMAS (Occupy Christmas)

The winning team, Burgermeister Meisterburgers, swayed voters with their life-sized David Hasseloff cutout, matching black turtlenecks, German electronic music, and a buffet of German food and drinks. Squadra dei Coordinatori della Construzione de Festa came in a close second with a scaled model of a crane performing a tree topping ceremony, complete with a full spread of construction site food and drinks. Highlights from the other teams include O_XMAS’s drum circle, killer punch from Champagne Wishes and Cheeze Whiz Dreams, expansive tents from Intents Christmas, and a piñata for Jim Collins and Bobbi Haney to open courtesy of Merry Christo-mas!

When everyone was not celebrating at each team’s table they were busy taking photos at the photo booth, or guessing who was who in the baby photo guessing game. This very successful holiday event gave everyone at PAYETTE an opportunity to flex their creative muscles socialize outside of their design teams, and get everyone in the holiday mood.