Flower today: Cabbage Flower

Guess what kind of flower this is?

Yep, it's cabbage flower. It's similar to the cabbage that we usually use to make clear vegetable soup, isn't it? Unless this one is more cute. Actually I first know this kind of flower last year, but I forgot to take the picture, so when last Christmas Mrs. Helena used cabbage flowers to decorate the altar in St. Peter Cathedral I didn't want to waste this opportunity to take some pictures, so here goes the pictures ...

Decoration of the altar. We can see the whole view from the front.

Decoration of the right side of the altar, where the psalmist reads the Bible.

Decoration of the angels, behind altar and beside the tabernacle.

The altar from different angle point of view.

Cherry Blossom with Golden Ribbon Sold Out!!

Yaaaayyy!!!! Thank you Ms. Flora for buying this elegant arrangement for the upcoming Chinese New Year....

My Friend's Wedding at St. Angela's Chapel

Here we are, back at my friends Vivin & Wiyanto's wedding and as promised I will describe the decor and fripperies now.. At the entrance a flower carpet (made from ordinary carpet with artificial white flower petals glued on it) welcome and lead us...

All the way to the altar...

Unlike at St. Peter's Cathedral, The bridal seats here were covered in white lace and satin..

Here's the altar centerpiece. This long arrangement style was everywhere last year, but I don't know this year...

The left side of the pictures above is detail of candle stand at the antechamber, located before the entrance door and picture on the right is detail of the aisle chair floral arrangements. All the floral decor were in pastel color, dominantly white with soft pink hue on them. As you can see for the white hue, they used rose, chrysanthemum and a bit of baby breath (for the communion and the altar only). For pink hue : lily casablanca, gerberra, and carnation were used. Small green puma and the foliage used was ruscus, philodendron and five finger's leaf.

The right picture is the detail of floral stand far behind the altar, near the tabernacle and the left picture is detail of floral arrangement below Jesus/Maria statues..

For the communion

After communion and final blessing by the pastor, the couple proceed to the statues of Maria and Jesus to lit the candles (number 6)..

And here's the swan ring pillow and tray with religious relics which will be blessed with holy water.

Overall, the wedding mass went beautifully, with my favourite moment was when one of the choir girl sang 'Hanya Satu' while the couple asked their parents for blessing, aww... so sweet.. Lastly, congratz to you guys and live happily ever after!!!!

Wedding mass lead by Pastor Basillio Hendra Kim, OSC

Decor by : Dusty Art

Introducing New Products

Here it is one of our new products for the Lunar New Year!

For any 'Imlek' decor, cherry blossom is almost mandatory.If we are sightseeing in a mall or enter a store that sells Chinese New Year decorations, we usually find arrangements of cherry blossoms mixed with twigs so as to form a tree then some small Chinese ornaments such as 'hung pau' or red envelope hung here and there. It's quite standard decor, right? Even lots of Chinese decorate their homes with decoration like this. So we try to make something different that people haven't had yet. Something that a little bit unique. And because this year is the year of the dragon, and as you know that dragon represents the empire and gold is the color of the emperor, then our theme for flower arrangements for this event is something (that is) elegant, golden or yellow color. So, this year we use yellow Cherry blossoms (Last year we made centerpiece in pink). The design itself is somewhat rather unusual. Three leaves folded to create small opening where some lotus tubers seen peeping. Some grass and spinach-like leaves with white streaks were used to cover the oasis. Gold colored ribbon and a nice card completed the floral arrangement. And if the party is over, just take out the card and you can put it on the living room for decoration.

Wishing you all a Happy and prosperous Lunar New Year 2563

A Bit Nostalgic.... (part 2)

Well, the reason I visited my old school in previous post is actually to attend my friend's wedding. It was held at the school's chapel. The St. Angela's chapel can be reached by the front door like I mentioned before, or by the right side door like pictured above ( this door is closer to the chapel).

Before we enter the chapel, there's an antechamber (which picture I forgot to take,sorry..) where they put the reception table. Climb up a few steps and voila ! we're inside the chapel. At the left side near the entrance door, there's the pianist and the choir group from PSBM Unpar rehearsing...

If you look at the ceiling, you will see the same lamella roof like in St.Peter's Cathedral. The church is also a heritage colonial building and I'm proud to say that it's well preserved and still looks beautiful. Though small, the chapel actually can hold around 130 people. On regular days, only a few students usually use them to pray before school. Exceptions are at weddings like this or...

Near the exams days :D Yeah, during those exams days, this chairs is jam packed with students, including me, bowing our heads down and prayed 'Please God, make this exams a super cheasy one', or 'I really don't mind if those exam papers somehow got burned God, I really don't 'Muahahaha... aah those good ol' days...

Anyhow, back to the wedding, yes I will give you details of the decor, in next post since it's too long in 1 post, OK ?

Kapel Santa Angela

Jalan Merdeka no:24

telp : 62-224214717

Step by Step Tutorial: How to Make a Centerpiece for Lunar New Year 2563

Today we will share with you a simple arrangement for the upcoming Chinese new year, don't worry this one's easy.

For this arrangement we will need :

- 5 - 8 red artificial gerberas

- 8 fuschia artificial roses

- some light green squirrel tailed leaf

- some dark green small leaves

- a 1 cm wide gold colour bow

- 2.5 cm wide red ribbon with chinese writing motifs

- a white small vase with bowl (dia. approx 10 cm)

- 1/8 of dry oasis

- some wire

1 : Put oasis in pot, secure with wire

2 : Attach 1 gerbera right in the middle, and 4 - 7 others surrounding it

3 : Put the stems together with wire and place a golden bow.

4 : Attach 8 fuschia roses to form a circle below the bow.

5 : Attach green squirrel tailed leaf to form a circle below the roses.

6 : Put some dark green small leaves to cover the oasis.

7 : Surround the leaves with red Chinese writing motif ribbon and put a bow in front.

Done !! After Chinese new year, just rip off the red ribbon and it will look like a chic simple arrangement that you can put anywhere, especially in the living room as a centerpiece. Have fun trying !!!

A Bit Nostalgic....

On one sunny Saturday, I entered one place that I haven't seen in quite some time now... Saint Angela school in Jalan Merdeka, right in front of Bandung's city hall. Yep, this is my alma mater...

As a guest, I enter through the front door now, not like before, since students enter through the left side door. Entering the foyer, you can really feel the old school, nothing change here, still same high ceiling, dutch 'ubin' tile with elaborate motifs, heavy teak door and architraffe (which will cost a fortune nowadays) and stained glass windows. Passing the rooms on the sides which serve as offices ( for those of you who don't know, this school are run by The Ursulin sisters) I noticed that the huge crucifix hanging on the wall had additional glass and lamp background, plus now there's wrought iron gates on the left that blocked people from entering the school sides. Darn!!

Turning right from the foyer,I passed several rooms which used to be the library in the old days, but had changed now. Looking around, this front section of the school is pretty much still conserved, everything so colonial and big . Unlike the back area of the school, which has been modernised and had become multi story buildings. I still remember the shock I had when discovering the old dutch toilet cubicles which was huge (around 1,2 x 1,2 meters) now reduced to a mini mall like cubicle! Hahaha.

Turning left, you can see a small garden. Various plants planted here, and we used to put the chilli padi plant here too during horticulture class....

On the balustrade, there's some flower pots, some with candles..mmm this must mean there's a special event going on. So, can you guess why I'm here ?