World of Joy: Day at the Dallas Arboretum

Traci-8 Maids a Milking "more cowbutt"

Traci

Sunday our art group had planned a field trip to the Dallas Arboretum to see their new "12 Days of Christmas" exhibit. One of our members-Traci Hutton, worked on some of the costumes. (she is a costumer by trade-has worked on Barney, Wishbone(award) and currently the Dallas Opera.) We planned to go the 2nd wkend it was open to avoid opening wkend crowds. ( well opening wkend weather was bad and it rained sat so we picked a great day) the weather was wonderful, clear & cool -and early enough that the crowds were small. 8 Maids a Milking and 9 Ladies Dancing were the two that she worked on. Each exhibit was wonderful-great attention to details. Since Traci was part of the team that worked on these, we got some of the inside scoop on issues they ran into and just how much work went into these. Traci also worked on 3 of the fabulous ballgowns in the 9th exhibit. Stunning dresses/fabric to say the least.

Traci-9 Ladies Dancing

3 French Hens Donna G and Mary

This is an example of one of the gazebo's. Each was encased in glass. Each weathervane on top had a cut out to match the theme. This one was
a french hen for 3 French Hens.

This is a closer view of above. Each gazebo had painted columns to go with the theme that were glittered and jeweled. The lattice work inside was painted/glittered and mirrored. Keep in mind each gazebo was specially built for this-and each exhibit moved (turned inside like a carousel.)


5 Golden Rings

The gold rings was one of the favorites. The seals with their golden hoops and the polar bear "ringmaster." Inside ceiling of each gazebo was draped in fabric-this one had red and white circus stripes.

7 Swans a Swimming

The 7 Swans had to be one of my favorite. Very elegant-captured the look of ice and snow. The swans each had on a fabulous jeweled crown. Their were strands of crystals hanging down around the perimeter.

One of the houses in pumpkin exhibit

	Since the fall pumpkin exhibit was still going on (the last wk) we checked it out too. Every type of pumpkin and gourd you could imagine. Several of us also started collecting the stems that had fallen off for future art projects...won't say which of us kept squatting down to pick them up, but i will say my thighs are so sore today i can hardly walk...
Pumpkin exhibit

	Really have no idea why i have such a pained look on my face in this picture I also noticed for the first time that Donna G and i are both wearing lime green. I do notice the bulging pockets in my jacket so this was after the pumpkin patch :)
Donna (me) Traci, Mary, Donna G no, we did not plan to match