VERAISON EDITION
Adapting to Change Forgive For yourself Exploring Flamenco ISSN: 2653-0317
Risky Business Phoenix The RealSutra You The Changing You Trends to follow this Autumn
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Contents
Featured Women 12 Gone but not forgotten Edith Cowen
50 In Conversation with Amazing Australian Women Sally McGrath
51 In Conversation with Aspiring Australian Women Georgina Pazzi
68 Inspiring International Women Jamie Margolin
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RIBE C S
SCRIB E
B U S
Amour Propre
Passion
15 Three trends to follow Autumn Trends
65 Exploring Flamenco
19 The Real You, The Changing You
Appetence 24 Recognise and React to Gaslighting 30 Forgive, for Yourself
Abundance
72 Resist or Adapt
Epicurean 80 Mocktail & Cocktail 82 Infuse your own 85 Canapes 86 Fig and Brie Stack
35 Managing Financial Risk 42 Conversations with Andrew 46 Framing your Interior
Leisure
Ambition
89 Indulge the Basalt Plains
54 What’s In, What’s Out 57 Risky Business
94 Coming Up - Counterpoint 96 Colour my Sky 107 Brain Challenges
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Amour Propre 1. A belief and confidence in your own ability and value 2. Self-love, self-esteem 14 | Hepburn
Trends to follow this Autumn Kristina Mazalova
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utumn is the season of change, of letting stress go, of finding new balance and harmony. For some it will be a welcome relief from the sweltering summer heat, a time of excitement and look forward to the cool air, a time to sort through the wardrobe and unwrinkle the folds. For others it will be the opportunity to change, create a new look that is uniquely you.
Regardless of whether we embrace the status quo not, this season can act as a gentle reminder to ourselves to reinforce our beliefs and opinions into more positive ones and redirect our energy towards personally fruitful and fulfilling endeavours. Like with all things in life, we must find the confidence and the energy within ourselves in order to fully capture the momentum of growth. Part of the journey of finding this confidence is about embracing our style and boosting our morale by looking great. Clichés aside, we would like to help you find the motivation to feel and look fabulous this season. We are not going to focus on what one should or should not wear. Instead, we will focus on providing you with avenues for exploration and selfexpression utilising clothing and fashion.
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Abundance 1. The state or condition of having a copious quantity of something; plentifulness 2. Plentifulness of the good things of life; prosperity 34 | Hepburn
Life Insurance & Personal Financial Risk Jacqueline Hodges
Many people ignore their personal financial risk and the insurance they need to protect their lifestyle. Many say “I’m too busy to worry about this”, “I’m fit and healthy”, “I’m only young” or “I don’t need life insurance, I don’t have anyone to leave it to”. But the trust is, we all need to think about our life insurances. It’s a process of personal financial risk management, like carrying an umbrella is its cloudy outside. What I find is many of my clients, don’t actually understand life insurance is actually an umbrella term. Life Insurance is a general term for a range of personal insurances, including: » Life insurance, » Total and Permanent Disability Insurance, » Recovery Insurance, and » Income Protection Insurance. Life insurances are there to provide you and your family with financial security if you passed away or something unexpected happens to your body or mind. They are used to protect your quality of life and the future you’ve planned for yourself and for your loved ones.
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Conversations with Andrew Andrew Johnson
Consider the colour palettes in your home
“Color can be a powerful tool for attracting buyers to a home, especially in listing photos and videos,” - Svenja Gudell
Personally, I love colour and enjoy all its variations in my life, and on reflection it is evident to me that I have my preferences and a go to palette for myself with a strong preference for Blue, so consider how you feel about colour palettes in your home.
When we use the right colours, they can have an emotional effect on our visitors and direct them to act. According to Kissmetrics, 85% of shoppers place colour as the primary reason for why they buy. People are also said to make subconscious decisions in under 90 seconds, and colour is a great way to trigger action.
The colour palette in your home both internal and external can have a large impact on your homes ability to attract buyers’ interest and achieve a great sales result. The unique presentation of your property online and the strategy to sell it is very important to provide those interested buyers all the necessary visuals and information to short list and seek to own it. Colour is a way of communicating certain messages and feelings in a matter of seconds.
Colour has an impact on each of us. This impact is similar but unique to each of us. When we enter a home whether it is our home or someone else’s home the events that occur in our daily lives influence that impact and how we react. Psychologically, your feelings about colour can be quite personal and develop from your own experience or culture.
Red
Yellow
Excitement
Creativity
Strength
Happiness
Peace
Warmth
Loyalty
Love Energy
Orange Confidence Success Bravery Sociability
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Cheer
Blue Trust
Green Nature Healing Freshness Quality
Competence
Pink
Purple
Compassion Sincerity
Brown
Sophistication
Dependable
Sweet
Rugged
Royalty Luxury Spirituality Ambition
Trustworthy Simple
Colour associations as shown below can vary from male to female, person to person and culture to culture, not to mention what is in fashion for a target audience. Using professionals in painting the interior or exterior of a home, or engaging an interior designer or colour consultant to provide that added edge is very beneficial. A professional painter or interior designer will help you choose the best colour to appeal to as wide an audience of buyers as possible. It is important to tell the story of a home, its history, facts, information and potential for future owners as well as possible online and at appointments when buyers view the property in person.An interior designer will help create the visual story of home. But if you are planning to sell you need to make sure that you do not over capitalise to ensure you obtain the best sales result.
White Clean
Black
Simplicity
Formality
Innocence
Dramatic
Honest
Sophistication
You don’t have to use professionals. Generally interior paint jobs are usually cheaper depending on how many rooms are done and it may be a job you can do yourself. Exterior paint jobs are typically more expensive because of their size and complexity. You can attempt this yourself but it is probably best to leave this job to a professional painter. Keeping it simple, low maintenance and presenting your home in the strongest way possible to prospective buyers is essential to cast the widest net possible, to attract competition, and generate interest in your home.
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Going ahead with renovations and painting can be great but every buyer interested in the home will have their own ideas so spend your money wisely. The last house I helped sell, the owners choose to do the makeover themselves. They kept the presentation very simple, using sugar soap on the walls, cleaning everything inside and out, and presenting the property in a very honest way as a blank canvas for a new owner to change what they wished to match their own preferences and style. So in today’s environment, deciding whether to paint before you sell your home is just one decision amongst many that can have an impact on the sales price, depending on your budget, timeline and advice from your agent. Aim to make your home appeal to the widest audience as possible, enjoy and use colour in your home. It may be the simplest solution to paint internally or external, but is it the right decision for you and your home?
Andrew is a licensed estate agent based in Victoria who has enjoyed a long business career in Australia and overseas providing solutions and building a referral business. www.maxjre.com
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Andrew Johnson is a licensed estate agent, businessman & entrepreneur based in Brown Hill who has enjoyed a long and varied business career in Australia and overseas providing solutions and building a strong referral business.
Mobile 0473 207 988 Email andrew@maxjre.com LinkedIn http://linkedin.com/in/andrew-johnson-8435092 Company Maxwell Johnson Real Estate Pty Ltd Address 9 Gracefield Road, Brown Hill, VIC 3350
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Interior Design with Irina Framing your interior Irina Mazalova
We all love art. And photos. And posters. And other design elements Once we start searching for a new piece for our collection or fall in love with a new treasure, we all face the same problem – is our wall strong enough to hang a new art piece? It’s exciting to see how the industrial pieces are making steps into our home and helping us, even where we don’t expect it. One great helper we choose is the Gallery Picture Hanging System. We chose this system in a recent project. You can see how stunning art looks in the gallery, framed by perfect light and position. Gallery Hanging presents your artwork in the best way and really attracts attention.
Creating a picture gallery in your own home is a problem that once solved provides you with long term enjoyment. Here’s my tips on what you need to do! Fix the top rail to the wall below the ceiling. Thereafter, feel free to change your private art expo as often as you want — no more hooks or screws, or patching and painting to hide marks. Nylon or very thin steel cords are hooked into the top rail – you can move them freely. Fix the picture hooks to the cords and hang your favourite art piece. That’s it! Give your art pieces more prominence, by using rails with a built-in LED light. It is a great addition to your interior.
Now you too, can start an amazing presentation at home!
Irina Mazalova is a qualified Interior Designer and owner of Line Studio. Irina offers advice and planning for residential and commercial projects. Her portfolio covers a variety of styles and colour palettes.
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Passion 1. Any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate 2. A strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for anything 64 Hepburn | Hepburn | 64
Exploring Flamenco Originating in Spain, this art form is a combination of folkloric music (guitarra), song (cante) and dance (baille). Flamenco dancing, El baille flamenco, is known for its emotional intensity, expressive arm movements and rhythmic foot stamping. Dancers attain a deep emotional state and express their emotions using body movements and facial expressions. Traditionally, the art form was passed down through family and friends but many are professionally trained today and the dance form is now popular throughout the world.
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Leisure 1. Freedom from the demands of work or duty 2. Unhurried ease 88 | Hepburn
Indulge the Basalt Plains Neil Churches The Changing Seasons: chill winds, long nights, short days, hot food, warm hearths, a time to gather with others at a hearty meal. A time to listen to wild tales, gentle stories, and share quiet memories. These moments around a table can be adventures in conversation. They are special at home, they are also special at rare places in the landscape. The Basalt Plains of Victoria have some unique places to share the warmth of tabletalk; sheltered gardens, grand dining rooms, and shearers’ huts For thousands of years the Western District of Victoria has been the richest landscape in Australia. Its basalt based soil creating a fertile plain of abundance. If you can reward yourself with two or more days travel from Melbourne, there are remarkable hidden gems of landscape that emerge above the horizon as you travel. From the small wildernesses of remnant dry rainforests to woolsheds, native grass fields to stunning crater lakes. Climb a green cinder cone to count how many other dormant volcanoes can be seen in any direction. Koroitj (Tower Hill) merges with the Southern Ocean and has its own microclimate within and surrounding its crater. The Sisters are an extraordinary landscape of interlocking craters of vast size, there is a remarkable sense of enfolding and enclosure as you pass through them on the way to the pale blue waters of to Lake Kurrumbeit. The Cloven Hills, Derrinallum (Mount Elephant), and Camperdown are all landmarks that change their mood depending on the time of day and angle of approach. If you are eagle eyed you can see the grand family houses nestled at the feet of other volcanic hills. You will also see the wealth of the district proudly displayed in the grandeur of the local towns. A quality of architecture that rivals that of the goldfields, but paid for by agriculture not mining.
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Remarkably there are pictures of most of these places from the 1850s. Painted by the first curator of the National Gallery of Victoria; Eugen von Guerard, who travelled through the district as an illustrator for scientific expeditions. Placing yourself at the viewpoint of these paintings and sketches allows you to see how the bones of the landscape remain constant, while the skin has been shifted. They are a remarkable images, the first accurate European visual record and a view of ancient husbandry and cultivation. The new food and wine culture emerging from The Basalt Plains is beginning to attract attention. Engaging these new approaches with the older cultures of the region makes for some remarkable possibilities. The longest continuous culture, the plains’ traditional custodians, have won UNESCO recognition for their aquaculture landscape at Budj Bim. The colonial culture of graziers remains intact with some families resident in their bluestone palaces since the 1830s. The conversations opening between these old and new residents is creating some interesting gourmet experiences. This is matched by exploration of story emerging in the small towns and communities around these magical hills. From bizarre talent night fundraisers that gather amazing performances, to the celebration of local literary heroes, like Alan Marshall in his home landscape of Noorat and Terang. Stories told about landscape and journeying, departure and arrival, belonging and dislocation. Family stories thousands of years old that intertwine with those almost “fresh off the boat.”
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Indulge The Basalt is a new adventure touring business bringing this landscape and cuisine to the sophisticated traveller. The experiences available over the seasons are curated into a series of small group tours. This local knowledge is shared over meals at surprising locations, a garden here, a hilltop there, as well as in warmth and comfort of a snug near the fire. Local variations of traditional recipes both indigenous, Asian and European are explored in the meals that follows the walks around and across the sleeping giants of the plain. There are discussions with winemakers throughout the journey about adapting European and New World viticulture methods to the Basalt Plains. This may be comprehensively tested in tasting and food matching by any hungry adventurers. Each day begins with a deluxe breakfast at a new hearth. There will be approximately three hours of driving time through the landscape per day and three hours walking per day, up and down volcanic slopes and around volcanic lakes. Two, three or four day journeys are on offer, all departing Melbourne. Small groups of six guests are driven in luxury vans and stay in deluxe rooms. All luggage is ported and a fully guided service is provided throughout the journey.
Join us Indulging The Basalt www.indulgethebasalt.com Old Spaces, Dark Soil, Fresh Tastes
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