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Want to be on a Times Square Billboard

Team Ugly is over the top excited to partner with Fiverr this holiday in an effort to put your beautiful face and your way ugly sweater on this Times Square Billboard! It’s that time of year again – Ugly Holiday Sweater time! It’s well known how popular these festive fashion statements have become. So, we decided to turn the craze into a global online party! The only real downside to ugly sweaters? The itchiness. But we’ve come up with a solution – an online #SweaterParty. Illustration is one our biggest sub-categories on Fiverr, and we’ve hand-picked dozens of sellers from around the world to create custom Holiday Sweater Cartoons for your friends, family, and of course – yourself. This campaign...

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Make Your Own Buddy the Elf Spirit Clausometer

It's the real Santa! Tis the season for Believing and now you can build your own Clausometer like the one used in the film "Elf".  Check out this amazing step by step DIY from Matsutake Remember in the movie Elf when Papa Elf showed Buddy how Santa's sleigh works? Well, yesterday I was thinking how my Christmas spirit was rising, and then I thought, "Hmm, I wonder if I could make a Clausometer..." Inspired by my lack of a plan for how to pull this off, I opened the package and discovered that the back of the clock pops right off.   Now what? The arms! Pop the arms off!   And I acquired alphabet stickers. Lots of them. Because...

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The History of Ugly Christmas Sweaters: Part 1

Authored by Allison Berry for Time Inc. The ugly Christmas sweater has become a ubiquitous feature of the holiday season, on par with grumbling about Black Friday or wrestling with the Christmas lights.  These tacky garments are now being re-appropriated from their perpetual spot in the wardrobe of great-aunt Edna or your third grade social studies teacher.  Telltale signs of the ugly sweater are liberal use of red and green, comically large depictions of snowmen, reindeer, and Christmas trees, and any sort of pom-pom or felt applique. Though the sweater as a garment has existed in the U.S. since the late 19thcentury, hideous holiday versions only began to sprout up in the last several decades.  Bill Cosby was a modern-day...

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