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When I married her mother, Sue, back nearly 20 years ago, Vicki was out of school and struggling to make a living. Wanted to be an artist. Celtic art was her passion.
I took her under my wing and gave her a trade that would put bread on the table. She graduated top apprentice for Queensland in her final year! I must have done something right!
Over the years she worked with me, she proved to be hard working and extremely talented signwriter. We did some awesome work together.
Off to Europe for a couple of years then back to me via a big job gilding a new hotel on the Gold Coast and working in a big vinyl shop in Brisbane.
Good experience but boring. So I made her an offer she could not refuse and she came back with me for a few years,
But the "wander-lust" kicked in again and over the past 3 years she has traveled the length and breath of Australia as a "traveling signwriter in her converted bus and paint trailer. Heaps of work every town she stops in.
Back "home" for a few weeks helping me move and catching up with old friends. Then off again! Big mural contract in South Australia!
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Happy Birthday to a girl who has the luck to be the daughter of one special father. Bill
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belated HB Vickie. Istanbul, not Constantinople ...
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