Palm Sunday Celebration

The lenten season had been away and now we’re entering the Holy week and the Palm Sunday is the first day of the Holy week. The Palm Sunday Celebration which Catholic celebrating today refers to the event of the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem where He was hailed by the great crowd with waving palm fronds. (John 12:12-15)

As the name, the Palm Sunday, then almost certainly we use various types of palm, whether as plants or just branches/fronds only. This time we use areca palm, raphis palm and cycas.

The altar seen from the left side. For background of the altar, palm trees with different height were placed as decorative element.

The altar from the front view

The palm arrangement at the wall (left image)

An up close look (right image)

The palm arrangements at Jesus and Mary statues.  Look at those woven palm fronds!! As focus, they look gorgeous, don't they?

Church décor: Team Margriet

3 Crosses between White Partition in Easter Flower Arrangement

The half-finished flower arrangement

Mrs. Tania was finishing her design.

This is how the front view look

The flower arrangements seen from 4 different views

These are how the basing, grouping and binding or tying techniques applied.

Note: The pictures taken at monthly meeting of IPBI DPC Bandung – March 22^nd, 2012.

Easter Bunny Flower Arrangement

Rabbits and eggs are usually being Easter ornaments. However this flower arrangement is somewhat different from similar ones. Let's look at these following pictures

Half-finished bunny flower arrangement made by Mrs. Hani. She used vase made of wood. The vase was surrounded by ‘rings’ made of young twigs which shaped like big rings, dried and then painted in silver.

Mrs. Hani was performing to finish the upper side of the flower arrangement.

Back and front view. The bunny hasn’t been seen yet. Where is the bunny? 

Here is the bunny. It was hidden on the left side of the side view. (upper image)

The bunny in close-up (image below)

The bunny flower arrangement in details. We can see all the materials used here. The colour combination is perfect and the marble egg looks exotic, too. But it's rather small that can’t be seen easily among those gorgeous flowers.

Note: The pictures taken at monthly meeting of IPBI DPC Bandung – March 22^nd, 2012

A Big Blue Egg for Easter Flower Arrangement

The back side of the half-finished flower arrangement made by Mr. Benny Natamadya.

The flower arrangement seen from the front

The flower arrangement seen from different point of view

Unique details

Note: The pictures taken at monthly gathering of IPBI DPC Bandung – March 22^nd, 2012

Surprise!!! Vegetable as Ornament for Easter Flower Arrangement

This time the demonstration was performed by Mrs. Natalia. We are used to calling her ‘Lia’ and so are the other members of 'Margriet' . Lia is an energetic young woman with many talents and very creative. As now, beyond expectations she used vegetables such as white and purple cabbage as ornaments on her flower arrangement. Surprising, ya?

At first, she had to make the box. It made of wood. You can used cheap wood such as 'albasiah' or salvage container wood. Fill the box with foam or oasis, then cover it with reptile split phylodendron. Now, ready to make the flower arrangement.

-        Split the white cabbage into 2 parts, then put each part on the box by using chopsticks. Don’t forget to give extra space between them. Do the same with the purple cabbage but this time don’t split and put it as whole cabbage. (image 1)

-       Then successively put roses of 'Amandini', 'Aleandra', and 'Avalanche' on the space between the white cabbage by using basing technique. (image 2)

-          After that place statice, hydrangea, baby roses and a strand of succulent (image 3)

-       Place the cymbidium orchids on the purple cabbage. Lia said that she had separated the cymbidium orchid to get the impression of more classy than the other flowers because besides this kind of orchid is not only beautiful but also expensive and moreover should be imported too. (image 4)

-        Then scatter seeds of mahogany fruit in front of the purple cabbage, place a big egg made of skin quail egg on it. And finally a thorn crown made of young twigs, dried and painted in silver, was placed above the flowers as a focus. (image 5 & 6)

The flower arrangement seen from above. Look at the strand of succulent, very similar to the Rosary, right?

Close-up of the flower arrangement. 

Note: The pictures taken at monthly gathering of IPBI DPC Bandung – March 22^nd, 2012

Funky Purple Cross as Ornament for Easter

The base made of iron. It also used a frame to hold the flower arrangement itself and as a place where the oasis hung. He used 3 oasis (the two were placed above, passing through the left and right side and the other one was placed at the base)

A half-finished flower arrangements made by Mr. Natamadya (top picture). Mr. Natamadya performed to finish the back view (middle picture). A funky purple Cross and thorn Wreath as finishing touch (the picture below)

The cross and the thorn wreath in close-up. They were made of styrofoam.

Detail at the back and front view. The flowers used are hydrangea, daisies, baby rose, chrysant, gerbera ‘oilila’, fresia, roses and lyciantus (imported). The foliage is ivy, ruscus, leather leaf, papyrus and philo sellum.

Mr. Natamadya used clustering or grouping technique in the center, basing and binding techniques at the base.

Note: The pictures taken at monthly gathering of IPBI DPC Bandung

A Unique Vase for Easter

A half-finished flower arrangement made by Mr. Hendra

He used sheath of yellow palm as a vase. The sheath was nailed into a piece of branch functioned as a pivot and also serves as a place to hook wire from the oasis. The most important thing is to be stable. While the base was made of pieces of small twig glued, wired, and nailed.

Mr. Hendra was finishing the flower arrangement.

This is what the finished-flower arrangement looks like. Beautiful, right?

The views from left and right side

The other material used is the twig of 'patah tulang' and rubber tree, seasal, and plastic eggs sprayed with silver colour. The flowers used are Amandini roses, fresia, hydrangea and dendrobium  orchids. The foliage used is ivy, sprengeri and cordyline leaves.

Note: The pictures taken at monthly gathering of IPBI DPC Bandung