Yet another restaurant for dinner with yet another group of friends. This was a restaurant that was new to me.
The adventure started out as merely meeting up in the foyer of Mary's work location in Bourke St in the city and then going to
Ahhh but we hadn't calculated on the restaurant being at the other end of town nor on the rain bucketing down in drought striken Melbourne. Bucket it did and the perfect solution? The tram. Soon we were in Lonsdale Street near Exhibition Street as opposed to Bourke Street near King Street where we'd started out.
Seamstress- take a guess what the restaurant used to be?
The building dates to 1896, when it was constructed for an underwear manufacturer. Later, it housed a metalworking operation, a brothel and a sweatshop. The top stories were a Buddhist temple until 2000. The owners/ designers Chan and Herzog did most of the renovating themselves, turning a derelict dump into a place that is charming They've picked up on the dressmaking history of the building by hanging dozens of colourful cheongsams (Chinese dresses) from the ceiling of the top-floor bar which is where we parked ourselves until the restaurant opened at 6. The tram ride and the rain made us real early!
The basement bar is called Sweatshop but we actually went right past that to the top bar and shortly after 6 went in to the restaurant. The Seamstress restaurant has artfully placed sewing machines; cascading wire coat-hangers do for vase holders- I really loved the vases suspended from wire coat hangars with japonica in the them. Apparently the tables are custom-made tables are crafted from Tassie oak and they have a central pedestal easy to be seated at and no dancing with a table leg .
My source of some of the information is Dani Valent, Reviewer in The Age January 29, 2008
The ambiance was great and the food and service fabulous- the bill? High but worth the experience..... as to the conversation and the friends fabulous and worth it too!
And so to the techie blogging challenge (which I chose to accept without self -destructing)was:
write about something scrappy. What you are working on, a product you are coveting, a page you just finished.. anything scrappy. In the post use one or the other of the above codes.
I have managed the use of the codes hence all the lines and strike throughs as to something I'm working on etc etc
Everyday Life pages in Melbourne "Cover" I have yet to photograph the other pages to post at Get it Scrapped but hope to today!
And I hope to get some more Art Journaling done
the ever vigilant, watchful.... Spencer
5 comments:
love your art journaling! Did you make your own wine glass mask or did you buy it somewhere...love it!
You certainly are busy, Celia! What great fun you seem to be having. Love your art journaling! It is great. Wish I could do it. It is just beyond me. I know better than to try!
Ahh the Melbourne restaurant scene - doesn't get a lot better than this. Glad you are enjoying your time at home Celia. And BTW Spencer is adorable.
i love your art journaling.. yo are so talented
Celia, your writing is so expressive and descriptive, I think you should be a writer for a travel magazine or something. Loved the story, the layouts and the Art Journaling.
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