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Once again thank you for being fabulous customers over the years, please do come in and see us before we close. It brought lots and lots of people together," Pita said, "From there, you just naturally progress your running community, your experience with different people grows, you join running clubs and get involved with cross country."

At Inspirations Craft Store you will find papercrafts galore, including the complete range from Hunkydory Crafts. There are tons of stamps, the largest collection of Cricut and Cuttlebug merchandise, as well as a brand new fabric and knitting department that includes the latest quilting and patchwork goodies. Pita started running after 'a real slog' studying for her Masters degree while working full-time as a child protection social worker. And despite suffering a horrific accident while running with her dogs that has left her with a titanium plate in her knee, the inspiring mum continues to take on 10k runs. painter, printmaker and teacher, was born on 29 April 1875 at Port Adelaide, elder daughter of David McPherson (also spelt Macpherson), a marine engineer, and Prudence Cleverdon, née Lyle. In Sydney from 1884 Rose attended Fort Street Girls’ School and had private art classes with W. Lister Lister . At Melbourne in 1893 she enrolled at the National Gallery School, possibly after lessons from Berthe Mouchette [although the Miss Macpherson listed in a catalogue of Mouchette’s students’ work has been identified by Mary Eagle as another Miss Macpherson; nevertheless, Rose McPherson and Mouchette would later have studios in the same Adelaide building]. In 1894 her father was admitted to the Parkside Lunatic Asylum and Rose joined her sister and mother in Adelaide. She completed her Melbourne studies in 1896-98 then returned home, studied at the Adelaide School of Design, leased a studio and began teaching. In 1904 she left for Europe with a former student, Bessie Davidson , took classes at the Munich Government Art School for Women then moved to Paris. She had an academic still-life painting hung in the Old Salon in 1905.Out of all property types, Detached property has always been the most valued and flats are the lowest in valuation. It is with great sadness that we have made the difficult decision to close our much-loved Inspirations Store at the Capitol Centre, Preston. Through fundraising, support from local councils and 'amazing' support and donations from the community, Cuerden Valley parkrun gained a lot of kudos and had over 33,000 registered runners that used the trail as their home run. Her son, Jake, had recently finished school and the pair set themselves the target of completing a couch to 5k to lose weight, which they completed. Unfortunately our store having to close during the pandemic restrictions has meant a change in how people shop, with more and more people choosing to get their craft goodies online. The reduction in customers coming in store sadly means we are not able to continue to keep the shop open.

Definitely not. The team at Inspirations are all relocating to the Hunkydory head office just 2 miles away from the store. The formal elements, however, are of less interest than the subject. The original Aboriginal feather-work that inspired her displays a highly developed capacity to mimic the taste of the colonising culture. We cannot 'see’ the feathers separate from the 'flowers’. This is no botanical specimen but a 'cultured’ object suggestive of an Aboriginal strategy of engagement with European culture. Such feather-work did not fall within a European 'fine art’ category and therefore did not enter art museums but was left marooned as curio kitsch in anthropological collections. Retrieved in Preston’s painting, the otherness of the bloom declares her work as 'modernist’ with a particular local and feminine accent. The strangeness of this hybrid object, its doubling as 'European-like’ and also 'Aboriginal’, transfers into the painting an ontological instability. It opens up to question what 'Aboriginal’ meant to Preston and, more significantly, the terms on which such translations can occur between cultures. Writers: Kerr, JoanI do have a disability now and I'll always have a disability because I have too much titanium keeping my leg together, on a daily basis if I'm sat down for too long, it's about managing the pain." Pita said. She said: "Depending on what’s happened in the week or what experiences I’ve had, sometimes I just sit there and have a think about what’s gone on - other times, I can just fill up with tears and think about that moment and think about how significant it was in my life at that time." The majority of us know that running is good for us. But for runner, Pita Oates, running is a lot more than a hobby, in fact it's something to be celebrated.

I stood on the start line and I thought - you’re a bloody bugger - because you know how much this is going to hurt," she said.The pair went on to take on the Preston Guild races which take place every 20 years and completed a 5k, 10k, 10-mile and half marathon. Preston had begun to advocate a national style based on Aboriginal art in 1923, initially for craft items, then for colour, technique and finally for subjects in painting. From 1927 she made several trips with Bill to study Aboriginal art, collecting carvings by Kalboori Youngi , Nora Nathan and Linda Craigie in Far West Queensland in the early 1940s and much other material. She was interested in other non-western art sources too; on 2 April 1935 she gave a talk on 'The Primitive Craftwork of China, Japan and New Guinea, etc.’ to the Society of Arts and Crafts of NSW. It was one of many talks she gave to the Society, of which she was an early associate member (elected a vice-president in 1955). She said: "My desire to keep running will never go away, but the coaching helps. I suppose I'm having their lived experience, when they get their marathon I think it’s amazing, but it also gives me a different sense of achievement - I'm doing it myself, they’re doing it and I'm getting some of their pleasure from that."

By then, Pita said running became "a really cathartic moment of the day" that she would look forward to as it allowed her to be in her own "headspace and helped process some really complicated work things". Our shop has won many awards over the years and been a focal point for the craft community, with visitors coming from all over the country and beyond. We want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the past 13 years and we are sincerely grateful for your custom and for making our jobs here at Inspirations incredibly enjoyable. We will miss chatting with you, seeing you at our popular workshops and demos, and most of all helping you with your craft projects. I knew he was looking to discharge me," Pita said. "Then he asked, 'did you do your race?' and I said 'yes'. He asked then, 'did you finish?' and I said 'yes'." Property Sales Data For Inspirations Cardcraft Ltd, Unit 1-3, Capitol Trade Park, Winery Lane, Walton-le-Dale, PRESTON, PR5 4AR Cuerden Valley parkrun is no longer taking place but Pita is in the early stages of starting a new parkrun at Worden Park in Leyland. There is no official start date for 'Worden parkrun' as of yet but when all is finalised, it will be a new home for the Cuerden Valley parkrun community sometime in 2022.Visit Inspirations 10,000sq ft award-winning retail superstore, based at the Capitol Centre, Preston. Inspirations Craft Store, Preston (Craft Retailer of the Year – North West) supplies papercrafts, Hunkydory Crafts, stamps, Cricut and Cuttlebug merchandise. Inspirations were the winner of “Craft Retailer of the Year (North West)” at the Craft, Hobby & Stitch British Craft Awards 2013 and they now have a brand new fabric and knitting department that includes the latest quilting and patchwork goodies. After her accident in March 2019, Pita's next race was set for November that year. She recalled an 'amazing' consultant who told her she would 'never race again'. One of the things that can put women off taking to the streets for a run is the fear of judgement or safety fears.