Signs : The Little Library

Washi Paper @ Melbourne Central

Until 1 Dec 2013 @ Melbourbe Central Atrium, you can join in many others in creating your own coaster and entering a competition. It is another free event in the city of Melbourne !

You will have at your disposal all sorts of sizes, colours and prints of Japanese washi paper tape. Just by using these colourful masking tapes, you can enjoy individualising cards, stationery, decorations for parties, customising indoor furniture and explore your potentials without limit !

MT exibitions have been held all over Japan, Seoul, Taipei, Bangkok, Paris and Germany.

Join in the fun and how you use MT is up to you !

Simple paper tape creating large happiness !

Melbourne Central

What i discovered today at the Melbourne Central: the Coop’s Shot Tower Museum (free entry via R.M. Williams store) and the Community Garden on level 2. Great place to hang out, especially if it is cold, wet or windy outside !

http://www.melbournecentral.com.au/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coop’s_Shot_Tower
http://www.melbournecentral.com.au/Centre-Info/Community-Kitchen-Garden

The Little Library @ Melbourne Central

This little library welcomes you!

“We believe reading should be for all to enjoy,  so please feel free to borrow a book.  However,  we ask that you adhere to our honesty system and replace another title in its place,  so everyone can continue to enjoy our Little Library. ”

Isn’t this awesome?

Lost Without Time

Where have  the hands gone ? Will we not hear Waltzing Matilda today?  Meeting under the clocks equates to meeting at the front entrance of Flinders Station under all the clocks. .but meeting under this clock in the Melbourne Central atrium is just as popular .. And with so much happening here,  the train station below and a super tram stop outside on Swanston St, go meet someone under this gigantic clock!

Main Street – Swanston St

Swanston Street  – the heart  of Melbourne since the time surveyor Robert Hoddle drew up his blueprint for the city in 1837. Named after Captain Charles Swanston, who owned the Derwent Bank of Hobart,  the first bank to open for business in Melbourne in 1838.

For more information and timeline, go to: http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/ABOUTMELBOURNE/HISTORY/Pages/Streetsandroads.aspx#swanston

In the pictures:

CrossCulture Church of Christ ( formerly Swanston St Church of Christ), 333 Swanston St, by architect Charles Webb, built in 1863

State Library of Victoria, 328 Swanston St, by architect Joseph Reed, opened in 1856

Melbourne Central Tram Stop No.8

Melbourne Town Hall, 100 Swanston St, by architect Joseph Reed, completed in 1870, the hub of Melbourne’s cultural and civic events

Peter Savva, who runs Flowers Round the Hours, outside Melbourne Town Hall, for 25 years now

St Paul’s Cathedral, built on the site where the first public Christian services in Melbourne were held in 1836.

Manchester Unity,  by architect Marcus Barlow, constructed in 1932

Statue of Matthew Flinders, 1774-1814,  the first to circumnavigate Australia and identify it as a continent,  by sculptor  Charles Web Gilbert,  erected in 1925

Sculpture by Loretta Quinn, named ‘Beyond the Ocean of Existence’, 1993

Horse drawn carriages along Swanston St- a great way to see the city