"Square Peg in a Round Hole"
By Jeff Hagen
A welder by trade, Hagen says he was "working on some metal one day and it just kind of turned into art." Now the 40-year-old Iowa native makes a living selling his abstract metallic fragments on eBay. For his ornament, Hagen was inspired by holiday stress. "You have to bend and accommodate people and things," he says. "So I took a hammer and I beat a peg through a hole, not knowing how it would come out -- just like people do with life sometimes."