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13 September 2008

Stunning Mystical Garden Sculptures of Bruno Torfs

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Take a journey to a magical and mysterious wonderland in a world filled with fantasy, splendor, and humor in an enchanted rainforest setting, where each turn of the path unfolds a captivating wonder of art at one of the world's most unique settings filled with stunning garden sculptures.

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Each of the more than 100 sculptures at Bruno's Art & Sculpture Garden bears uncanny symmetry in juxtaposition with nature as if they were one, as some sculptures even seemingly sprout from within trees and the earth itself to take on their own mystical life forms.

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This magnificent setting with over 300 paintings and sculptures to discover is the brainchild and works of artist Bruno Torfs, located in the small Victorian village of Marysville, Australia.

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Born in South America, Bruno lived there to the age of 15, when he and his family moved to Europe seeking new opportunities. There Bruno worked and trained as a sign writer until he ventured to become a full time artist, developing his own distinctive style filled with culture and character, selling his artworks during annual exhibitions hosted in the lower levels of the family home.

After traveling the world extensively, Bruno and his wife Marlene settled in Australia to create a sculpture garden in the local luscious sub-alpine forests.

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What began with merely 15 life-sized terracotta sculptures has become one of Australia's most exceptional attractions and experiences filled with more than 115 amazing pieces of sculpture and over 200 oil paintings and sketches, with regular additions of artworks created for the center to this day.

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If ever in Australia, you won't want to miss out on this spectacular experience at Bruno's Art & Sculpture Garden filled with its wondrous inhabitants that attracts thousands of visitors every year. The Gallery and Garden are open daily from 10am to 5pm, located at:

51 Falls Road,
Marysville, Victoria 3779

Phone: (03) 5963 3513

Visit their website to learn more.

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Your Attitude

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Hi guys,
I found this article very useful. Hope u too will find so.
Harvard and Stanford Universities have reported that 85% the reason a person gets a job and gets ahead in that job is due to attitude; and only 15% is because of technical or specific skills. Interesting, isn't it?
You spent how much money on your education? And you spent how much money on building your positive attitude? Ouch. That hurts.
Now here's an interesting thought. With the "right" attitude, you can and will develop the necessary skills. So where's your emphasis? Skill building? Attitude building? Unfortunately, "Neither" is the real answer for many people. Perhaps if more people knew how simple it is to develop and maintain a positive attitude they would invest more time doing so.

So here we go. - Five steps to staying positive in a negative world:

1. Understand that failure is an event, it is not a person. Yesterday ended last night; today is a brand new day, and it's yours. You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and then you can expect to win.

2. Become a lifetime student. Learn just one new word every day and in five years you will be able to talk with just about anybody about anything. When your vocabulary improves, your I.Q. goes up 100% of the time, according to Georgetown Medical School.

3. Read something informational or inspirational every day.
Reading for 20 minutes at just 240 words per minute will enable you to read twenty 200-page books each year. That's 18 more than the average person reads! What an enormous competitive advantage . . . if you'll just read for twenty minutes a day.

4. The University of Southern California reveals that you can acquire the equivalent of two years of a college education in three years just by listening to motivational and educational cassettes on the way to your job and again on the way home. What could be easier?

5. Start the day and end the day with positive input into your mind.
Inspirational messages cause the brain to flood with dopamine and norepinephrine, the energizing neurotransmitters; with endorphins, the endurance neurotransmitters; and with serotonin, the feel-good-about-yourself neurotransmitter.
Begin and end the day by reading or doing something positive!

Remember: Success is a process, not an event.
Invest the time in your attitude and it will pay off in your skills as well as your career.
Think of it.......

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13 September 2008

Stunning Mystical Garden Sculptures of Bruno Torfs

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Stunning Mystical Garden Sculptures of Bruno Torfs

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