Archives for May 2014

Smiles and laughter filled our workshop as our volunteers extraordinaire donned their Flower Angel aprons and went to work creating many magnificent bouquets. The glorious flowers were donated from a Wychmere Beach Club wedding and our generous floral partner,Trader Joes. Our newest Flower Angel Irene is 89 years young and is delighted to dedicate her time to helping others. As soon as she heard about Flower Angel’s mission, she immediately called to volunteer. We are thrilled to have her as part of our awesome team! Thank you Karen L., Lou Ann, Kathleen, Ro and Irene for donating your time. Working together flowed beautifully with amazing results—oneness in action!

Our tremendously successful vase drive has been nothing short of a miracle. Several weeks ago we only had a few vases on our many empty shelves. Now, thanks to churches including the Unity Church in Hyannis and Our Lady of Victory in Centerville, the Hyannis Rotary Club members and individuals throughout the Cape, we now have in excess of 1200 and more are coming in each day! We are so grateful for every one who has called, stopped by and give special thanks to Rev Marie of the St. Mary of Magdala Church in Harwichport who orchestrated a labyrinth walk that collected a whopping nearly 200 vases! Flower Angels USA is in the flow of Divine Grace and we are so grateful to have blessings pouring down on this much needed mission. We are sending HUGE HUGS to our supporters, Rev. Dave and members of the West Dennis Community Church who are always kind and helpful.

Love, Suzanne, Karen & Mara

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This week our Flower Angel USA workshop was booming! Our loyal and awesome floral partner,Trader Joes, donated a ton of flowers. Our dedicated and extraordinary volunteers picked up, arranged and delivered a whopping 160 gorgeous “Made Especially For You” bouquets to several nursing homes including Rosewood Manor in Harwich, Mayflower in Yarmouth, Epoch Brewster and Epoch Harwich. This random act of floral love brought sunshine and delight to many.

Sadly, statistics reveal that 85% of patients in nursing homes nationwide receive few, if any, visitors. 60% of people have never received one visitor. Many of our elderly have been forgotten by society. Flower Angels USA’s mission is to change that—one bouquet at a time!

You can make a difference! Could you spare an hour of your week to volunteer? There are many tasks to do and no experience is required. You’ll work with wonderful people and have your heart filled with love knowing you are helping uplift spirits of so many lonely people. Flower Angel, Karen K. drives from New Bedford weekly to deconstruct and arrange gorgeous bouquets. Florists, such as Karen, Faith and Abigail volunteer and provide useful tips that help volunteers create more beautiful bouquets. Kathleen T., our recently retired school principal, has been amazing! Ro, our retired nurse, yogi and newest creative Flower Angel jumped in and made magnificent bouquets. Paul, our Rotarian Flower Angel volunteer, led a vase drive with the Hyannis Rotary Club and has collected close to 200 vases already. Without being asked, he pitched in and washed a ton of vases this week! We send A GIANT HUG to you, Paul for all you do! Our youngest “Founder” Flower Angel, Mara, worked diligently with her job coach deconstructing, making floral arrangements then delivered them and took photos. Thank you, Mara and all of our wonderful Flower Angel USA team!

Suzanne and Karen send much love to our extraordinary volunteers.

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May 16, 2014

“The beautiful bouquets produced by the Flower Angels have certainly graced our Beacon Hospice patients! One patient’s roommate was so thrilled with the bouquet, but noting the small American flags attached, conceded that the beautiful bouquet was for her roommate, one of our hospice patients who was a former army nurse! An administrator at a local assisted living, read the Flower Angel card to the patients whose beautiful flowers decorated their tables for dinner, and another wife of a patient at a skilled nursing facility was absolutely thrilled to bring a bouquet to her husband, a Beacon Hospice patient. And one of the facility nurses when seeing the bouquets exclaimed, “Why THOSE bouquets are far more beautiful than the ones I ordered for my mother for Mother’s Day from a florist!”

Thank you Flower Angels for your willingness to bless our patients by your gift of caring, sharing and use of your angelic fingers to fashion these floral masterpieces!”

Cynthia Robotham

Volunteer Coordinator

Beacon Hospice an Amedisys Company

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Accompanied by Michael, the delightful Activities Director, we cheerfully delivered carts filled with floral joy to patients in EPOCH, Harwich. The residents were surprised and happy to receive an unexpected random act of love from complete strangers.

Flower Angels is an all volunteer new charitable organization on the Cape. We’d like to thank our awesome volunteers, the many people who have donated the 800 vases we re-use, Trader Joes for donating their beautiful flowers to our mission, the community support we have received. and, of course, our wonderful floral recipients!

At this time of the year, we remember and honor all Veterans who have bravely and unselfishly served our country.

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On Saturday, supported by a diligent team of volunteers from the Rotary Club of Hyannis, Flower Angels USA cheerfully delivered 76 beautiful bouquets of flowers to patients in Pleasant Bay and Kindred Eagle Pond nursing homes. Our Flower Angel team is delighted to be bringing a ray of sunshine and lots of smiles to many others on Cape Cod.

These magnificent flowers were generously donated by newly weds, Steve and Lindsey Feiner, and Trader Joe’s. THANK YOU!

Our Flower Angel, Grace, sends everyone involved with this amazing day of giving a GIANT hug. A special thank you, David Scanlon, for all you do to make Flower Angels USA’s mission a success.

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