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Michelle Baxter
welcome to Blessings by Design Art Studio
I'm the owner, founder, and lead teacher of Blessings by Design Art Studio , a creative space where children and families come to explore art, build confidence, and have fun making something they're proud of.
My background is in working with children. I have worked in special education for over 20 years ,and taught art classes for the past 15 years and in the last few years I worked as an Outside School Hours Care Coordinator, leading programs for children from preschool to Year 6. I loved every part of it — building relationships with families, designing engaging activities, and creating an environment where every child felt safe, valued, and excited to be there.
That experience shaped everything I bring to the studio today.
Blessings by Design
I'm not interested in being the biggest art studio — I'm focused on being the best for the families who walk through our door.
That means small class sizes, thoughtful lesson planning, quality materials, and genuine connection.
When you join a class with me, I'll know your child's name, their favourite colour, what they love to draw, and what makes them light up. I'll celebrate their wins and gently encourage them through the tricky bits. Art isn't just about the finished piece — it's about confidence, focus, problem-solving, and joy.
I'd love to welcome your family into our creative community.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Cloncurry
🩺 John Flynn
John Flynn campaigned for an aerial medical service that could overcome some of the distances separating outback residents from treatment. The service was established at Cloncurry in May 1928, with pilot Arthur Affleck and doctor Kenyon St Vincent Welch making the first flight two days later. It grew into the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Flynn's contribution was advocacy, organisation and bringing the necessary people and resources together; he was not the pilot or doctor aboard that first aircraft. Cloncurry supplied the operational beginning of an idea with national consequences.
🏛️ Don Lane
Don Lane was posted to Cloncurry as a police officer in 1956, before service at Mount Isa and later Brisbane. He entered State parliament in 1971 and became transport minister, with responsibilities including railway electrification and changes to road-safety administration. His public career ended in disgrace: following the Fitzgerald inquiry, he was convicted of misappropriating ministerial expenses and imprisoned. Cloncurry’s connection is the early police appointment. An accurate account needs both the later ministerial work and the convictions, while keeping those subsequent events separate from the town’s documented place in his working life.
