Photo Album

Nancy Genetti was elected as Vice-President, President Elect of the Society of Decorative Painters at the conference in Tampa in June 2008. She will serve on the Board of Directors for three years. The Society of Decorative Painters is an international organization with over 21,000 members worldwide. The Bluebonnet Chapter is a chapter among over 300 others that are part of the society.

Absentee ballots were in the Decorative Painter this year so everyone had a chance to vote that want to, without being at convention. Installation at the banquet:

Sharron worked hard to earn her TDA. She taught the required number of classes, passed tests and produced a video of her teaching. Congratulations Sharron!

Several Members attended the convention in Las Vegas. Nancy Genetti taught several classes

Judy Liston and Yvonne Lowrie participated in "Share Your Passion, Hobbies, crafts, and more!" at Woodland West Branch Library in January. They took pieces to display and talked to the patrons about Decorative Painting. Those two little boys are Judy's grandsons.

Many of Bluebonnet Chapter members attended Sandy's Seminar at Ft. Worth. She taught her Multi-load and Russian techniques that would be wonderful for memory boxes.

Several of the Bluebonnet members attended Dorothy's seminar in Whitewright Texas at Sharron White's new Finelinestudio.

Winter Wonderland was held on December 12 at the White Room in Arlington. A fun time was had by all:

In September of 2005 members of the Society were given the opportunity to paint ornaments for the Library of Congress in Washington DC. This was not an official Society function, but organized by Deb Malewski. Artists that painted ornaments were invited to a reception in early December. The project was called "Creativity Across America", here were book-shaped ornaments from each state. The background colors were specified and the ornament was to tell a story about your state.

If anyone sent an ornament to the Library of Congress please send a picture to be posted here.

The Society of Decorative Painters was asked by Laura Bush to paint ornaments for the official White House Tree. The Theme was "a Season of Merriment and Melody" and we were asked to paint various musical instruments in bright colors with gold strokework or Rosemaling on them. There were over 350 ornaments on the tree and at least one from every state. The Artists that painted ornaments and the Board of Directors were invited to a reception at the White House on Dec 1, 2004. The decorations and food was spectacular. Each person that was invited was given the opportunity to have a picture taken with Laura Bush, along with their invited guest. Armida Guzman, a Ft. Worth Decorative Painters member painted an ornament and took Betty Kenaston, also of Ft. Worth, as her guest. Nancy Genetti, an SDP Board Member took Linda McDonald as her guest. It is almost indescribable the feeling you get as you walk thru the halls and into the area where the reception was held, it was such an honor to be there.