「溫暖」理想的店 an ideal store

<台南 國華街 朵拉手工藝品材料行>

以前總有一點瞧不起手作的小東西，
總覺得，這些東西都是現成物，做起來感覺都很像。


在某年生日收到大學同學合送的串珠手鍊，
聽到她們說，是一顆一顆含著祝福串出來的。
當下心中真的感到很溫暖，也對這條手鍊的感情完全不同於現成購來的物品。
（點點和大宇，我應該沒有漏掉誰吧！？）


因為平常就習慣在國華街，大菜市那邊穿梭。
以前買布，現在多買材料。
所以對這些景象早已習以為常。


沒想到前幾天帶著妹妹吃完飯順道去補貨時，
妹妹感覺像發現了新玩具一樣。
開心地挑選著想要的鍊子，配上自己挑選的墜子。

我這才驚覺原來自己以前一直以為一般人（就是除了有在手作，服裝設計，或包包設計等以外的人），應該是對這類型材料店沒什麼興趣。

沒想到根本就是我個人的刻板印象阿。




那天店裡，看到了帶著妹妹的爸爸，
拿了我也不知道是怎麼用用在哪裡的材料貼紙。
（這也是這類材料用品，手工藝品店有趣的地方，有些東西很可能一輩子都不知道是拿來做什麼的）

爸爸細心地詢問，
店員耐心地解說了作法，
妹妹高興地拿了東西走了出去。


突然覺得整間店給人的感覺很溫馨，
客人不多不少，
大家都在這裡找到了想要的東西。
然後滿足地走了出去。


也許這間店並沒有搶眼華麗的招牌，
沒有刻意營造的室內裝潢，
這些除了在我們設計師眼中，覺得有些美中不足小小缺憾的地方，
有時候是不是只是自己的一廂情願而已？
人們只要得到自己所需，
滿足了帶走，就是小小的幸福了。
而這家店就是這樣帶給客人想要的。


這是我近日看到的理想的店。





I didn't take things like DIY your own necklace or something very seriously.
I used to think they all looks so familiar, don't have personal style in them.

Once in my birthday I receive a bracelet my friends made for me.
I was so surprise, and really felt a different kind of feeling compare to the other gifts I git before.
It was made by hand, one bead by one bead. Filled with their wishes.

I quite enjoy purchase at the 國華 st. nearby 大菜市。
There are a lot of materials, cloth, DIY handicraft stuff there.
So for me, it's not a big deal to walk in a handicraft store and see all the stuffs.
And days before I took my sister with me, she acted as if it'a a whole new world to discover.
Suddenly it hit upon me that an old thing fore me could be a new world for others.


I used to think store like this only fills with girls or ladies who like to make their own things.
But that day I saw a father take his daughter to buy some kind of stickers I don't really know either.
Maybe for decoration or something, and the father was asking the staff how to use it.
The staff was nice and told him how to use.
Then the girl happily took her stickers home with her Dad.


It came to me that maybe an ideal store was just like this.
It maybe not fancy but provides things that whoever comes in and satisfiedly steps out.


Warm people's hearts.

That's my ideal store.


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大菜市，也是我很喜歡的一個老地方。
人情味，在這裡很濃，
你可以看到昔日老一輩在處理某些事情的方式。

（比如說，對年輕人來說，想要知道什麼事情就用網路google ／對老一輩來說，想要知道什麼事情，開口問就對了）


（比如說，包包的拉鍊壞掉了。）
（年輕人可能就丟了買個新的。）
（我卻在大菜市看到材料用品店老闆幫一位男客人修理好背包上的拉鍊，得意地說著修好了。）


（這些事情真當值得我們好好思考，想想。）