Silk Arrangements For Autumn/Winter

The Flowers of Remembrance program is continuing into the autumn/winter months. The arrangements are delivered as ordered. As always, the fresh arrangements should be cared for in the usual way. They should be watered and groomed as the week progresses. On Wednesday, a determination will be made about the health of the arrangements and whether they will last to Friday afternoon. If not, discard the arrangements out the back door of the candle room and replace with silk.

Because it is late summer, we will switch the arrangements to one which is more fall/winter in color. Here are pictures of the arrangements we will use:




And here is a picture of their storage space in the candle room, to help you find them easily.


Thanks, ladies! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Lisa, Mary or me.

About Pedestals...

Greetings, Guild Members!

At the In-Service day last May, we talked about pedestals and which ones to use when displaying flowers at the statue of Our Blessed Mother. In our meetings, we often discuss how important it is to place arrangements that adorn this statue on pedestals instead of the floor. In case you are wondering which pedestals to use, I have taken some pictures of them and I will list their use from my notes on the In-Service day.

The pedestals come in pairs and they are stored in the alcove at the back of the candle room (where the music stands are). If they are not there, they will be in the closet where other urns and supplies are kept.

The tallest pedestal [pair] is best for use in displaying matching arrangements on either side of Our Blessed Mother. This pedestal [pair] looks like this:



The next size pedestal is very close in size to the tallest. It can also be used for displaying matching arrangements on either side of the statue. This pedestal is more ornate and just slightly shorter. It can also be used to display a relatively smaller arrangement in front of the statue. Here is a picture of the pedestal:



The last pedestal is the shortest. It is best used for displaying a relatively large arrangement in front of the statue of Our Blessed Mother so that worshipers can still see the statue. And here is a picture of the last pedestal:



I hope this is helpful. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

Silk Arrangements For Early/Mid Summer

The Flowers of Remembrance program is underway. New arrangements will be delivered weekly. The fresh arrangements should be cared for in the usual way, watering and grooming as the week progresses. On Wednesday, a determination will be made about the health of the arrangements and whether they will last to Friday afternoon. If not, discard the arrangements out the back door of the candle room and replace with silk.

At our last meeting, we worked in the candle room. The group chose silk arrangements to be used as a replacement for the fresh arrangements. These arrangements will be used in early and mid summer. In late summer/early fall, different arrangements will be used (I will post pictures of those as well). I hope the pictures are helpful.

Here are some pictures of the silk arrangements:



These arrangements are stored in the back of the candle room, in the area where we have stored our Christmas season items. They are on an easily accessible shelf. Here is a picture of them in their home, just so you can find them easily. You will probably recognize the shelving and the flocked Christmas trees to the far left of the picture, wrapped in plastic.



If you have any questions, please let me or Mary know. I will be working on the minutes from that meeting soon so I should be emailing them to you shortly.

MMG In Service Day

Hello, everyone!

Our next meeting will be an In-Service day instead of our regular meeting. We will gather in the candle room at the church after the 8:00 am Mass on May 17th.

The purpose of the In-Service day is to familiarize ourselves with the materials in the candle room so that we might better organize and manage our flower grooming activities. We are hoping to take an inventory of the things we have and discuss the location/arrangement of various items.

Please bring all of your questions about the flower grooming process and the location of the materials. If you're like me, and I know I am, you have questions. For me, I keep forgetting to bring these topics for discussion at our meetings. I'm hoping that actually being in our workspace will jog my memory a bit so that I can be more confident about what I am doing.

I will transcribe and distribute minutes from the meeting as questions are asked and things are discussed.

If you cannot attend the meeting, please feel free to send me your questions via email and I will ask them at the meeting.

It's a bit dusty in there, so don't wear your dry-clean-only outfit.


Here is the current calendar, updated through June 6, 2008:

Spring Update

Hi, everyone! I have been updating everyone by email lately but I just thought I'd take a couple of moments to get the blog up to date so that we have the information in one place.

Christine Kleiber has pictures of the Easter decorating (yay!). If anyone else has pictures (of Easter or Christmas), please bring them to the next meeting and we can put them in the album that Pattye bought for the Guild.

The remaining flower deliveries are as follows:

For May 2nd (Ascension): white silk lilies (feature flowers) and the same monumental urns at the tabernacle. As the accent, the salidago (tightly closed), and lots of drape with the Italian ruscis. There will be a third arrangement for the ambo -- we can place it in front of the BVM until after the Traditional Latin Mass. Mary will meet the delivery in church at 4:00 PM Friday so we shall be ready for the Traditional Latin Mass on Friday evening.

For May 9th: two white arrangements for First Holy Communion. They will be primarily white and cream, feature flowers will be roses, accent flowers should be alstroemeria and salidago.

For May 10th: two red arrangements for the tabernacle and one for the ambo for Pentecost. The red arrangements will have antherium as the feature flower and roses as the accent flower. We'll be moving the First Communion arrangements to the BVM statue, so it will look very nice.

The current calendar is here:



Our next meeting will be May 17th in the Sam Adams house (the white house next to the rectory). It will begin right after the 8 am Mass, approximately 8:40 am. Hope to see you there.