{ruru's laboratory}: Etsy Labs: Make your story / Etsy工作坊:做你自己的故事，書。

Etsy Labs | Make your story workshop

Etsy在荷蘭設計週間辦的"做你的故事，書"工作坊

This is Marta, working in Etsy NL,

all the events are organized by Marta and Alice,

thank you :)))

here's the official description about the event,

"Etsy exists to bring heart, meaning, and community back to commerce.

We envision a world where individuals and their small businesses shape economies that are fair, durable, and fun. Here, we value the people and the stories behind the things in our lives as much as we value price or convenience. During DDW we will therefore focus on the story behind ’the maker’ and ’their product’.

We will literally show you how to "make" your story from beginning till end. You will leave this labs with your first storybook!It will be also your chance to meet our Creative Director Randy J. Hunt (NY) and our European Director Matt Stinchcomb (Berlin)!

這是etsy荷蘭的負責人Marta

負責所有活動的策劃

Lots of paper in different thickness, texture and color.

etsy準備了很多紙不同材質顏色厚度

My dear dear friend Manju came as well (hugs)

the topic of the workshop is to make a story,

and really make it into a book.

They also teach you how to bind, in many ways.

As for the story, take yourself as the center of the whole story,

cut some image and made a collage about who you are now,

and then think about what you wanna become/what you wanna do/ to be,

OR look backward, see the past, your path that makes "YOU" today.

i think this is a good topic, about the future, envision it, dreaming about it, or anything,

it doesn't really matter, everything in the future is possible.

OR look backwards at everything in the past that accomplish you today.

there's no definite GOOD or BAD about the things you've done,

or if one thing is beneficial for your future,

everything you've gone through is like dot that links everything,

so not just one single thing that decide who you are today,

is the combination of allllll the experience not matter a happy one or an unhappy one.

anyway, it's quite though provoking while i was cutting the images to make the collage.

and i do like it,

it made me think of the thing in the past and the future,

appreciate all the things I've gone through, looking forward to everything happening in the future.

這不但是一個教你怎麼把書裝訂成書本的一個工作坊

也是一個說故事的工作坊

利用從雜誌剪下來的圖片組成一幅幅圖[collage我有點不知道中文怎麼翻]

有兩種方向

以現在的你為主軸用一些圖片描述現在的你

再用另外一些圖片描述

未來的你想要變成什麼樣子

做什麼樣的事

及過程中的事

或者描述過去的你

以及從過去到現在

你是如何走到這一天

是如何變成現在的你

我覺得都是很好的自我認識 {?!又亂翻譯}

百忙之中一直往前衝的當下

可以停下來呼吸一下想一想

人生不是一定只有一種樣子

你的每一步都在影響下一步

所以還沒有到下一步之前還不知道會怎麼樣吧?!

[講的還真是不清楚]

one of the page of my book,

in represent the path on the road to my ideal future,

as i'm gonna travel a bit in Europe still,

and the even if i go back to Taiwan,

life will still be a bit like go "traveling" of you see everyday as a new adventurous day,

and everyday could be a "traveling" day in your imagination if you want to.

Besides, it also somehow resembles my past 10 years,

leaving home for 10 year because of studies.

and have been always packing up everything and unpack again,

moving from one place to another.

I appreciate that experience, it makes you grow up and being independent,

but also makes "home-sick" become the deepest fear in the bottom of my heart .

[too nostalgic recently]

這是書的其中一頁

想要用它代表著最近的生活短期未來可能的生活

旅行狀態移動狀態

就算回到台灣應該還是會用一種很旅行的角度來對待每天的生活吧

就像去旅行剛到一個城市一樣好奇

找新的地方去探險然後快樂的迷路在其中!

但其實也很像過去這將近十年的移動人生'

不停的整理打包駐留在這個城市又到下一個城市

another page of the future i imagined,

I'm gonna open a small store+cafe,

so there will definitely be a board showing the up coming events and the menu!

又是書中的其中一頁

代表著希望的未來小店

一定會有一個板子

[根據高中同學老沾表示還一定要是個黑板

所以他已經先送我粉筆孩千里迢迢從台灣寄來

看來我勢必要在荷蘭先買塊小黑板]

板子上面寫著最新的消息活動菜單還有大家計的明信片~

and the store will be a place for you to relax, to think something or think nothing.

and would be nice if the table and chair are vintage and in Mix&Match style :)

這一頁也是在講對未來小店的希望

希望可以讓人很放鬆心裡暖暖的

下班後脫下高跟鞋跟好朋友們嘎拉嘎拉的聊天

希望桌子跟家具都是古董家具最好不同款mix & match

People are working on it happily

大家畫畫畫得很開心剪剪貼貼黏黏也很開心

the event is held in an old factory in Section C in Eindhoven,

which was quite out of the city center.

but i always love the feeling of the old factory,

for me, it is one of the most lively place!

and also because of all the old/traditional/original objects and icon used in the building.
btw, it's called Smalle Haven, also have one in the city center

活動是在eindhoven市中心外圍的老工廠區

現在已經做為餐廳或是設計師藝術家的工作室
餐廳叫做Smalle Haven

我喜歡老工廠那種很生生不息的感覺

老建築上面用的從前的符號生鏽的鐵架