Andrew and Andrea in Ballarat rang to say that they had found 20 or so old chairs with metal star bases at an op shop. Andy, Emily, Michelle and Ammon painstakingly loaded a trailer up with the chairs and drove them to Melbourne. Big ordeal getting the trailer back too! Paul worked very hard to get the bases off of the chairs. To complement the box of castors found by Nirvana, Michelle ran all over Melbourne to look for a shop that sold the right size castors that wouldn't cost $1000! Finally in Collingwood, across from the new home of Circus OZ we found them! And tonight we are replacing the each of the plastic feet with castors so that we have movable petal tables. Phew!
Our first seedlings!
Ta da!!!
Donated wormwood timber from Docklands paid to Damien for a urban design job, passed to David's skilled hands found through a chance meeting of Andy at dinner after a hard day at the hub last week. Legs offered by Brendan who made our Eco stools with Damien, left over from their urban reforestation project in the Docklands which created the set of partitions that now populate the hub - a project that was a grandmother of our community just across the tracks. Michelle and Jan sew felt covers and patches to the meeting chairs inspired by State Library of Victoria seat durability patches and left over felt from the host sign, which were sourced at Melbourne University by Michelle after her last project with McBride Charles Ryan for the Brownless Library (where the massive coworking table is from). It was all pink!
Beautiful work David! A
