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Ugly Lamp Contest 2013 – Round 2!

You’re back for more, eh?  I hope you’ve iced down your eyes and fully recovered from the horrors of yesterday.  There’s no clear winner yet, but as of now, Owl-coholic seems to be eeking out the tiniest advantage over Lemon Moody.  If you haven’t checked out Round 1, you can see it here.

And now on to Round 2!

Be brave.

 

 

Breathe deep.

 

 

You can do it.

 

 

Someone hold me.

 

 

 By the way, do you have a foot fetish?

7 amanda zfrom Amanda Z.

 You don’t anymore! The only appropriate place that I can think of to display this lamp would be at a pedicure salon. A pedicure salon that hates customers.

 

8 sonia hfrom Sonia H.

Hiiii guys!  Did you know that I’m totally a girl? A cute girl!  I’m totally NOT a boy dressed up as a girl so I can spy on the girls! Haha! That would be creepy! Hey, could you be a dear and tell me if a large swath of my undies are showing?  They are?  PERFECT.

(This lamp is made even more awesomely awful by the fact that Sonia’s friend attempted to give it a makeover.  Shocker alert: it did not end well.)

 

9  rita ffrom Rita F.

I … have no idea what’s going on here. How is this lamp supposed to work?  Does it lay on its side like that?  Are you supposed to mount it to a wall?

Is she napping?  Is she praying?  Is she naked?

Hush now. These are questions the universe does not want answered.

 

10 erin hfrom Erin H.

Whoever owns this monstrous lamp should put it on the mantle of an identical rock-faced fireplace.  And then put another tiny fireplace lamp on its mantle.  And another tinier fireplace lamp on THAT mantle!  And so on and so forth.  Or also, in a dumpster.

 

11 sarah kfrom Sarah K.

If you told me you were planning on opening a scrappy-young-jellyfish-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks-themed restaurant, I’d first say, “Wow, that’s oddly specific,” and then I’d say “Have I got a light fixture for YOU!”  This one to me is the scariest of all.  All I can imagine is getting tangled up in those tentacles and never breaking free until it digested and absorbed me and I became part of it forever.  *Shivers*

 

12 jennie kfrom Jennie K.

Hey Mr. musty old dead raccoon turned into a table lamp and left without a single shred of dignity in this world!  Why the long face?

Umm, you don’t have to answer that. I think I figured it out.

Vote now! 

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29 Comments

  • Reply
    Sarah | The Cyclist's Wife
    August 27, 2013 at 6:07 PM

    OMG, it is SO hard to choose!

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    Mel
    August 27, 2013 at 6:27 PM

    #11 looks like someone tried to dissolve R2-D2.

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    heather
    August 27, 2013 at 6:44 PM

    Oddly enough I now want to try a scrappy-young-jellyfish-from-the-wrong-side-of-the-tracks-themed restaurant. I hear they serve Raccoon of Utter Despair.

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    jenny
    August 27, 2013 at 7:01 PM

    #7 looks like a beach-goer that can’t find a bathroom and has to pee..
    However-#12 is definitely the most disturbing and ugliest. Can you imagine using a living creature as art? Sad 🙁

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    Lindsay O.
    August 27, 2013 at 7:08 PM

    I seriously can’t believe they have gotten this bad. And you had even more than we do to look at! We should all pitch in for therapy for you and the others who helped narrow the playing field.

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    Stacy
    August 27, 2013 at 7:21 PM

    I feel a taxidermy theme here. The owl and the raccoon.

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    Sarah K
    August 27, 2013 at 7:41 PM

    You didn’t mention that the jellyfish tentacle lamp is 7, yes seven, feet tall! With thousands of tangled clanking shells!

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    Carol Hake
    August 27, 2013 at 7:59 PM

    I really had a hard time picking the worst in this group. Ultimately, I went with the “fireplace” lamp if only for the Inception reference … LOL!

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    Jessica H
    August 27, 2013 at 8:08 PM

    #12 looks like something only The Blogess could love.

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    Patti Osmus
    August 27, 2013 at 8:19 PM

    #8 looks like it might come to life after the lights go out and spread terror. It appears to be holding the gingerbread man against his will. Can we say FREAKY?

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    katie
    August 27, 2013 at 8:19 PM

    Too funny. I was the owner of the creepy girl lamp. After about a month, even with her “new look” she creeped me out too much that I had to let her go. Someone actually paid $1 at my yard sale to take her home!

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    Susan
    August 27, 2013 at 8:47 PM

    Agree with you Mel – first thought I had was someone melted R2D2 or Salvador Dali painted a melty R2D2. These are so awful that I keep going back to look at them to make sure I really saw them. Thanks for another great Lamp Contest!

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    Sarah @ 702 Park Project
    August 27, 2013 at 8:49 PM

    The little doll is super creepy, but I have to go with the raccoon on this one. That thing is seriously disturbing!!

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    mary w.
    August 27, 2013 at 9:00 PM

    Number 11 looks like someone put R2D2 through a shredder.

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    Heather
    August 27, 2013 at 9:04 PM

    I think the scariest thing is that somebody liked these enough to pay good money for them in the first place – or spend time making them. Some people don’t have enough to do… LOL. Love this competition, although it is a bit like watching a bogey on the end of someone’s nose too, haha.

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    lisa
    August 27, 2013 at 9:23 PM

    the raccoon looks like he was killed by being stabbed with a lamp. Poor little guy.

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    Sylvia
    August 27, 2013 at 9:26 PM

    I honestly can see # 7 in a kid’s room. It is more funky than ugly to me. I’d put it on my desk in my classroom and my 7th graders would think it is hilarious.

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    Andrea Anderson
    August 28, 2013 at 12:04 AM

    Oh Lindsey, your blog is like a wonderland of entertainment. I adore your humor. You seriously made my day ten times better. Thank you so much. By the way, I had the hardest time choosing. I’ve been here since the very first “ugly lamp contest” and I must say, those lamps seem to get worse every year…

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    Lesley
    August 28, 2013 at 12:09 AM

    that was WAY easier

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    stephbo93
    August 28, 2013 at 12:16 AM

    These are truly terrible in the best way! I had to vote for the Raccoon of Utter Dispair. It reminded me of the deer foot ashtray and deer foot hat rack some of my relatives used to have. I really wish I were kidding about that.

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    Kathy
    August 28, 2013 at 12:31 AM

    Oh my word!! They bring ugly to a new level….
    I LOVE, love this contest. Raccoon got my vote on this round…

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    Toni
    August 28, 2013 at 12:32 AM

    Your comments are so hilarious. They make this contest really fun, despite the often nightmare-inducing lamps. =D

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    Heather Miller
    August 28, 2013 at 2:34 AM

    Oh that little girl lamp may haunt my normally sweet dreams tonight! Holy moly! She is ca-reepy! Piper was pretty thrown by her as well!

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    Tristie
    August 28, 2013 at 3:50 AM

    Your description of the fireplace lamp had my hubs and me crying with laughter. Keep them coming!

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    Cindy
    August 27, 2013 at 10:22 PM

    Thank God I work from home. I laughed so hard it sent me into a coughing fit. Then I maaaay have tinkled just a bit…

    xo

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    Jessica@designerssweetspot.blogspot.com
    August 28, 2013 at 8:51 AM

    Oh my goodness, these are unbelievable! The raccoon looks like he has rabies, had to choose him. But really? Who buys this stuff? Hate to say it but chances are it’s the men…..

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    Anne@DesignDreams
    August 28, 2013 at 2:06 AM

    Wish I could say no contest here but WOW these were worse than the last bunch. You are very brave to host this every year. It’s horrifying fascinating.

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    Rose
    August 30, 2013 at 7:24 PM

    O.M.G. I was all set to vote for the weird little child in yellow because I could see the others in use *somewhere* … but then you hit me in the side of the heart with the raccoon. So sad and awful. How did that ever become… anything?

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    Rose
    August 30, 2013 at 7:26 PM

    I just want to say, I happen to like the jellyfish lamp (chandelier?) and (don’t report me for lunacy) even the fireplace lamp!

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