I am a HSP (Highly Sensitive Person). After living for such a long time till this age, I just learnt this official term, scientific term is SPS 'Sensory-Processing Sensitivity'.
This is not a disorder according to what I found from Google. But according to my life experience with this 'unique' trait of mine, it causes me to live uncomfortably and irritated with myself and my environment from time to time especially during my working years. But on the other hand I also built a skill and career out of this trait. I was a graphic designer, especially sensitive to colours, visual, alignment, feel and mood of imagery.
I wish I had known that I'm a HSP, this would be so convenient in explaining my behaviour and express my discomfort to people that care for us.
• I get distracted in conversation easily and the opposite party get annoyed by my 'rude' body language respond.
• I get agitated when I'm hungry but colleagues still dilly dally and dragging their feet to lunch.
• I had to block my right ear with my finger in a cinema theatre when some stranger somewhere on my right side is twisting the straw in the plastic drink cup.
• I get startled easily by sudden touch, noise or appearance of someone.
• I get shaky in school or even among my colleagues when I need to do simple presentation in front of people.
Now, I'm quite amazed with myself how I survived all these years... I actually survived so much scared and irritation to my sensors without ending up in a mental ward. LOL
PippiRabbit participated in Etsy Made Local 2017 in Singapore from 25-27 Nov 2017. It was a curated event, so we were very lucky to be selected as one of the lucky vendor.
I usually try to avoid outdoor selling booth because Singapore's weather is very unpredictable with occasional rain as and when it likes. But because it was organised by Etsy, I really want to try it out this time.
It was a very well organised event, thanks to the organising team which some of them are vendor themselves. The layout of the site are well separated and balance, allowing every booth to have a fairly equal exposure. They even give out free tote bag to customer if their total expenditure exceed a certain amount. The visiting crowds are average..not too busy or too quiet.. and I did manage to sell enough to cover for my 3 days rental fee and left over for profit! Yeah. My only regret is I wish I had more things to sell. And I also wish I had brought big plastic sheets to cover my products when it rain on one of the occasion. The site located at Capitol Piazza actually has a very high shelter on top of us but it was quite useless... Anyway, it was a great experience, I'm happy with the outcome. :)
Recently I was doing an experiment on washing my acrylic painted pouch to see if the color will come off or stain the fabric. The paint colors stayed fine after washing but the white canvas were tainted with some uneven yellowing color.
I searched the internet for solutions and realize this is actually a common problem for canvas products e.g. Canvas sneakers especially. And luckily I found the answer here
http://bit.ly/1RTztgc Thanks to them for sharing the tip.
So here's the simple instructions for my painted pouch:
- Wash the pouch in mild soapy water.
- Rinse the pouch until water runs clear.
- Extract excess water.
- Wrap toilet paper all around the pouch tightly while it's still wet.
- Air dry the pouch under shade.
- Wait for at least 24hrs to unwrap the toilet paper and let it dry completely.
- Iron the pouch with a ironing cloth on top with medium temperature.
- Continue using the nice and clean pouch! :)