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Check out the official page here.
This is the fifth year for the Festival of Trees in Bastrop. Jo has taken part every year. The first year she made a wreath with hand painted ornaments, old toys. The other years she has participated with the Bastrop Fine Arts Guild. This year the theme for the Guild's tree is Bluebonnets. Below is the list of artists participating this year. Photos of the Guild tree and some of the work setting up the trees at the Hyatt on November 1 follow. More pictures will be added of the festival and the wrapping and delivery of the trees on Sunday. Scroll down to see the trees and the fun.
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This rocking horse was purchased last year in the live auction, unfinished and rough. Gene sanded and cleaned it up and Jo painted it. It will be in the live auction again this year in it's updated glory. |
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November 1 - Guild volunteers, Cynthia Nisula, Karen Darr and Jo Castillo, met at the Hyatt to decorate the tree. There was a room in the back set aside for decorating for the Family Crisis Center. We arrived at 10, our assigned time, and there was one finished tree and 3 in process. Other trees were decorated on October 31. This was the start of the bluebonnet tree. It is a 7 foot. tall tree, but looked small compared to the huge trees others were working on. :) |
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A shot of the decorations for the tree. |
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This was the Doggie Spa tree. It was finished and ready to go out into the hotel. |
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This was the First National Bank tree in process. |
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This tree has basketball sized ornaments. Balls and roses. It has accompanying topiary trees and hanging baskets. Huge tree. |
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Here is the bluebonnet tree in the middle of the adorning or so. |
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Here is one of the trees being towed down the hallway, through the lobby on the stands with wheels that were prepared for the trees. The trees will be on the stands throughout the hotel and on Saturday, November 18, will be rolled back into the ballroom for the Festival of Trees gala. Amazing how great they look in the hotel. |
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One of the trees in the lobby, with carolers. |
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A not so large tree in the entrance to the cafe. |
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A huge tree donated by the Board of the Family Crisis Center and decorated by Peggy Colbert, chair of the festival. It is the story of the Velveteen Rabbit. The rabbit is the size of 5 year old child. :) Beautiful. |
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Across the lobby, you can see the Velveteen Rabbit, a table top tree and the edge of the bluebonnet tree. The bluebonnet tree is placed near the front entrance. As you enter the hotel it is just to the left. Very nice spot. |
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The bluebonnet tree, finished in the lobby. |
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The finished tree from the front. The packages are "pretend" gifts. The extra donated gifts will be placed on the night of the festival. Some in a basket and some on easels. |
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And here it is from a further distance. |
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Here are the volunteer decorators. Hope you enjoy looking into a small part of the preparations for the Festival of Trees. See you there! Help the Family Crisis Center and the Bastrop community. |
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This is the ballroom on Sunday morning. All the serving tables and extension cords, etc. have been removed. The trees are waiting to be wrapped and picked up or delivered. |
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Starting to prepare the Guild tree for wrapping. |
The following artist members of the Bastrop Fine Arts Guild created framed artwork and/or decorations for the tree:
Michelle Adams
Kathie Alonso
Michelle Belden
Joan Bohls
Jo Castillo
Jeanette Condray
Lea Cundy
Mary L. Curtis
Karen Darr
Judy Hawes
C. M. (Mike) Henderson
Judy Horn
Mabry, Melba
Gramma Morgan
Cynthia Nisula
J. A. (Janice) Senkosky
David Warren
Jo Watts
The following artists donated gifts for under the tree (The gifts are not here, they will be under the tree on the night of the Festival of Trees)
Virginia Broady - Photograph (Butterfly)
Jo Castillo - Framed Pastel Painting (Along the Colorado, Landscape)
Jeanette Condray - Photograph (Landscape bluebonnets)
Lea Cundy - Bluebonnet pitcher and plate, ceramic
Mark Cundy - Glass bluebonnet with stand (Eighth Grade student)
Mary L Curtis - Framed watercolor painting, small paintings, frame,
Print of Austin (Old times)
Karen Darr - Note Cards
Judy Hawes - Lapis lazuli and silver necklace and earrings
C.M. Mike Henderson - Framed print, Donkeys in bluebonnets
Cecilia Hinton - 3 engravings
Melba Mabry - Framed Oil Painting, sand dunes
Charlie McDaniel, Sr. - Photograph, Old Iron Bridge
Cynthia Nisula - Framed wildflowers
Karol Rice - Framed photograph, Bluebonnet
Jeff Snyder - Framed Fourth Dimensional Photo, Azure Brocade
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