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Reg and I are loving our down sized life, It suits this phase of our life together as Reg prepares to enter his 70th year and is interested purely in eco therapy, enjoying well earned retirement.  Our downsized hobby business, gallery caravan and downsized art works, fridge magnet art is not where I thought I would be when we set up our Buninyong Gallery to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary.

We bought a two story dwelling on the Midland Highway at Buninyong for what became a successful, award winning gallery for eleven happy years of our life.  We had to have wired in fire alarms and panic alarms installed with the home security systems, before the council would grant the permits for us to change the premises from the child minding centre and family home it had been, to an art gallery and home for an empty nest couple.  I did think it was funny at the time that the bi laws insisted on greater security to protect a building containing art than it had required for a building full of little children. Lol J   Well who can explain council bi laws? 

Before we left Buninyong, the council classified our gallery and home, which was built around 1970, as ‘Heritage listed’. Now that in itself was a joke as most of the building were less than 20 years old and it was of unremarkable design. The Heritage Listed laws dictated that not even the colour of the paint work could be changed without a written permit from council, (at a cost of course ),  they even had the audacity to state that the paint used, should be Haymes Paint.  .

With councils looking over your shoulder and over dictating what you can do, can you blame us for preferring the casual lifestyle with an address, ‘Highways of Australia’?

You can order the four fridge magnets that feature images of my art work, that I have used to illustrate this post, through the contact page of this web site. FREE Postage or shipping.
 
 
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I used to sell my fridge magnet arts at markets until a fellow stall holder side swiped my  pride and joy, our Toyota, Land cruiser, Work Mate, Troop Carrier, I affectionately call ‘troopy’ and after the insurance quotes, I have for now decided to live with the damage and keep my, no claim bonus. 

Now I just sell these fridge magnets from this web site and direct from the artist, out the front of our caravan, on request, and I do not have to bother with very early morning set-ups at markets. Suits me, lol, J, I would rather sit up in bed with the lap top, leisurely blogging while  I enjoy my early morning coffee and water drinks than be starting work at the crack of dawn.

The four-fridge magnets shown in this post can be ordered through the contact page of this web site. FREE, postage or shipping.
 
 
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage -Anais Nin

This is the saying I used when making the fridge magnet from my latest original artwork of the Dioressence rose.

Do you remember the fragrance of the most beautiful floral scents from the house of Dior?  An intriguing scent of mandarin, geranium, forests and moss resembling Christian Dior's great perfume.

The Dioressence™ rose from  the Delbard rose collection is exquisite in fragrance and beauty. Truly inspiring the artist to grow and paint. Clusters of lilac flowers shaped like a wide champagne glass with edges etched in red and dark purple

I have made 25 small business card fridge magnets form this artwork image. They will be available to purchase through this web site, early in 2010.

Special orders can be made up in quantities of  25, using your own special short massage.

 
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