Thinking of arranging a basket of flowers to congratulate someone on the new beginning in their life, which can be a promotion like just being 'promoted' to be a wife or a mummy for instance, or could be a job promotion. Or may be for a move to a new house or new place? Then, pick orange color as it is always the color that brightens our hearts and souls, to welcome the new chapter in life.

Design concept
I love this picture taken in Singapore a couple years ago. It was a back lane with a stretch of lovely spiral staircase painted neatly in various eye-catching colors near Bugis MRT station. Looking at it sparked the inspiration of composing the beautiful 'Angel'.

At certain angle of this spiral staircase, it seems going into the sky in the end to heaven!

Thus, I named this floral arrangement 'Angel' representing the kind-hearted heavenly being walking up this spiral staircase. Orange rose symbolizes enthusiasm of new beginning. This basket of orange roses is meant to express my congratulatory to a good friend who is also an angel in my life on her career promotion and at the same time saying "I am proud of you!"

Floral Material
Orange roses, pink lining carnations, leather ferns, Baby's Breath and yellow Aster as the fillers. Together with these, a lovely bear hanging with a love and green wings represents the angel!


Getting started
1. Get a rattan basket and place in a gift material to hold the soaked flower foam (oasis).

2. Compose from front view.
3. Start with orange rose. Insert from tallest stalk to judge the arrangement size.
4. Move on to add in the roses in spiral order from right to left of top layer to bottom layer.

5. Insert leather ferns as green to cover the oasis.

6. Introduce three stalks of carnation pom pom to say 'Congratulations to you!'. They also make the triangular shape becomes obvious.

7. Place yellow aster in-between as fillers as shown below. 

8. Add in white Baby's breath to produce a glazing composition of the 'Angel'.

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written by germaine , September 26, 2010

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written by Shirley T , September 26, 2010

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