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all perked up now!

thanksss....from the bottom of my heart, for all the pep talks you've both given me for the past couple of weeks when i was really overwhelmed with all the work and was on a moody creative lull..... i really really appreciate it.... and the pressies... who can forget those?? :DDDD

i was a happy girl going out that day! thank you, b!!! :DD *squeezy huggssss* muacks!
my new projects are still on a standstill, but something else new is in the works, i do apologise for my delay, to all the parties involved... le sigh
anyhoo... and yes, my lovely customers, it's you all who make me get up and work with a smile every day... especially last week! record breaking! woot! all the sweat in packing orders... and with elsie coming in only for 3 work days last week, it was crazy for me.... what a work-out... we aren't complaining though ;p
just to share with you some of the sweet customer emails we get every week.....

"...Wow! I just got your package in the mail and it was even better than I''d ever expected. Every little detail was just right and my little owl purse is just gorgeous and wonderful. Thanks so much for your great stuff and keep up the good work!" ~ leen

" Lyndaaaaa I love U hahaha... I just receive the bag today :D
LOVE IT SO MUCH! and packaging is just awsome + all the little extra goodies u gave :P
U are a great artist :D" ~ yuliana

thank you all so much!!
now, back to work, rushing through some orders today before i leave for abit for new inspirations
oh, and not forgettin' the party tonight ;) b's promotion.. hoot!
have a swell weekend, and be good lovely peeps! xoxoxo!

p.s. all orders paid for before 8pm thursday night has been mailed out! there was a 1 day delay in mailing out orders and sending out email shipping notifications due to huge traffic last week. all orders paid for after 8pm thursday (cut off time at 8pm sunday) will be mailed out on monday 31st march, and thereafter will be no shipping until 7th april.

singapore fashion rules?

okie, so the question mark is not part of the official announcement, just a personal question since it's a statement i not quite agree on a hundred percent wholeheartedly, yet. ha!
announcement:

"6 April 2008, 12pm, TaFf will be staging a fashion show titled Singapore Fashion Rules! as a key feature of the yearly Singapore Fashion Festival, a consumer-focused fashion event where season’s latest collections are made directly available from the catwalk to consumers.

Two established past Singapore Fashion Week contest winners – Alfie Leong of Mu and Leslie Chia of PIMABS and will be showcasing together with two up and coming, cutting edge labels – FrüFrü & Tigerlily and Fürrmuse. The catwalk presentation will contrast the established designers vs new emerging brands. It also charts the path on how Singapore designers, through Singapore’s fashion events organized by TaFf, can be groomed, paving the way to encourage future local design talents.

Singapore Fashion Rules! was launched last year. It is a branding campaign initiated by TaFf to raise the profile of Singapore designers & labels. Besides staging a fashion show, TaFf initiated retail promotion at the stores levels to have the collections made available to the local consumers and tourists. TaFf also garnered the support of departmental stores like Isetan, Takashimaya and TANGS in support of the branding campaign to raise the profile of Singapore designers & labels.

This year, in celebration of Singapore fashion, consumers can also expect to see the latest exciting collections and special promotions from other Singapore fashion designers & labels beyond the 4 labels featured in the show. Check out these stores!



we won't be in town that whole week, but go show your support for the shows if you can, especially the Singapore Fashion Rules! event on 6 April, where FrüFrü & Tigerlily and Fürrmuse will be showing. the time is a silly one, at 12 noon. 12 noon! like duh.
there will be many other fringe events as usual too, so check those out as well, go to their website here for more information!

ciao for now~

poo poo

the best ideas come to you when you are doing your poo poo, and then you just wished you had brought in your pen and notebook with you, but then the ideas just keep flowing and before you can curse out loud about the seemingly moronic oversight, the poo poo just seems to have come and gone so quickly and easily and unknowingly... and you manage to get it all on paper after all, and everyone's happy for now, including assy.

crash and burn....

crash and burn... that pretty much sums it up... :(
i'm standing right in front of a thickly fenced and cemented brick wall, with no ways of getting around or over it... my new projects are officially on a standstill.... for once, i'm so sick of making decisions... decisions decisions decisions... instructions... all waiting for me to make and give.... *puke*
i vented off all my energy at tennis today, but it only made my right arm look ridiculous and made me burst out in tears for fuck reasons... can't wait for next tuesday.....

are you narcissistic

what would you do if you have to deal with someone like that? kill yourself or kill that fella first?

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"What Is Narcissistic PD?

The DSM-IV-TR, a manual that psychologists use to diagnose NPD and other mental disorders, defines NPD is a type of psychological personality disorder primarily characterized by:
* grandiosity
* need for admiration
* lack of empathy

Additional characteristics the DSM associates with the pathologically narcissistic include:
* extreme self-absorption
* intolerance of others’ perspectives
* insensitivity to others’ needs
* indifference to the effect of their own egocentric behavior"

"Behaviour or a fantasy of grandiosity, a lack of empathy and a need to be admired by others. As indicated by at least five of the following:

1. Grandiose sense of self-importance.
2. Fantasies of and preoccupied with beauty, brilliance, ideal love, power, or unlimited success.
3. A belief of being special and unique and can only be understood or a need to associate with people of high status.
4. A need for excessive admiration.
5. An unreasonable expectation of being treated with favour or excepting an automatic compliance to her / his wishes.
6. Will use others to achieve her / his goals.
7. Lacks empathy.
8. Believes others are envious of her / him or is envious of others.
9. Contemptuous or haughty attitudes / behaviours."

"Narcissism is unhealthy when a person's entire behaviour, be it fair or foul, is geared towards ensuring others meet their needs and justify their belief in their inflated self image. This self image is a "false self" and it can be extremely pleasant, charming and intoxicating covering a multitude of insecurities and bad traits.

Most people like to feel that they are liked by others, that people care about them or see them as special and worthwhile but it's not normally an everyday way of life. Most people do not purposefully seek out special attention or consistently take action to extract people's emotions from them just to make themselves feel good but this is what narcissistic people do.

People who consistently behave in this way, interacting with others for the sole purpose of bolstering their inflated self image may suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)."
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lana gave me this link, maybe i should print it out and give someone as a present huh -
http://hellomynameisscott.blogspot.com/2008/01/8-ways-to-avoid-conversational.html

sweet updates weekly

yes. you read it right.
sweet updates at least once weekly.
promised. guaranteed.
*unless stated otherwise due to unforeseen circumstances.*

woohoo!
other than new items galore, do expect restocks too!
first up!
our LOF Cheeky Monster Sac has just been restocked!
so apparently, it looks you peeps much prefer the tongue than a smile...
oooohhhh..... *licks*

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we have to thank our lof worker fairies (belle, mostly) who have learnt how to edit product photos for the shoppe! without whom i will be left with a bazillion unedited photos and very slow shoppe updates... thank you for helping to share my workload and saving my sad bloodshot dry eyes!! :D

the softies kit

i'm pretty late in announcing this... dear therese has a new book out!

it's her new "the softies kit" and it's now out and available on amazon! inside this new softies craft book are 15 selected fun softie projects from the previous softies book, except now that it also comes with some felt, floss and etc.! actual materials you'll need to start on making 'em!

think you were clueless about getting the materials for the projects in her first book, softies?
well, no worries for this new one! (^____^) so if you didn't get the previous softies book, maybe you'll want to get yourself this!

in therese's own words - "I had such a great time putting this book/kit together. I *love* all the projects and I REALLY love that the kit makes such a great give for beginner softie-makers - many of the projects are pretty easy, all are fun and if you're just starting you don't have to worry about where to find the supplies to make one and get your feet wet in this world."

yeah! hooray, and congrats to you, therese! xoxo!

pensive

this post was suppose to be sharing with you my thoughts on the many crafting business tips super talent jenny hart has so generously shared through venus magazine, but i guess i'll do that up later...
have a friend over now, he's waiting for me very patiently (and amusing himself with my bandit the racoon, could you please stop harassing him, tsk.) to finish up work so we can go for lunch. j, who has his business in indonesia, just commented, "wonder what will happen if i decided to just stopped doing what i was doing now and pull out from indonesia, move back home. i don't think i could do that to my workers at this stage, what will they do? i feel like i owe them, for going through the starting stages and difficult periods with me, ya know what i mean?"

i know just exactly what you mean. and i feel exactly the same way too.
my mum once told me, she wasn't working so much for the money now, than it is to help her friends and employees stay employed.
life goes on i guess, but not for many people in different countries and situations..

searchy searchy search

yipp yippp yippee!
the search function at our lil' web shoppe is up! it is available within our shoppe's left side navigational column
you can now search for keywords (e.g. colors) and also a specific price range, within our growing collection!
easy peasy to shop now, for those of you who have been bombarding me with "sweet and cute complainy emails" all these years..... :p
took us so long eh. muahahha
more later! buried in business. busi-ness. busy-ness. geddit... yep.

whack.

we're at a starbucks now.... i'm still stuck on my on-going projects....

and it just suddenly dawned on me that i do not have a business partner or anyone who can play that part, to discuss anything with, not to mention seeing a plan go through together with me. not one single person. i mean, there are many people, friends, whom i can talk to, but not discuss creative or business-related issues with. not productively and in depth at least. after all these years, this being my 4th year doing this, and no one like that available. i'm still all on my own.

very sad. depending on how you see it, of course.

talking to myself in public, whilst sitting here with mao just right beside me, will be really wacko. and pretty depressing for her. no, she's a great companion and i love her. but i almost shot up like a volcano just trying to explain a situation to her an hour ago.

i know what you're thinking. it must be me then. yeah. sure.

i will always love you, chicago!

a photo i took while in chicago last september has been selected and requested for inclusion in the newly released fourth edition of the schmap chicago guide! how cool is that! :D

it's the photo of our very pretty and engaging jackie o. look-alike river tour guide :))

Architecture River Cruise
www.schmap.com/chicago/tours_tour5/p=18828/i=18828_4.jpg

the photo's nothing great really, i think it was chosen because it has the columbus drive signage in it. ha! thank you, emma, managing editor of the schmap guides!!

so, we're back at work here at littleoddforest!!!
all orders received/paid after 6pm last thursday has been promptly mailed out this morning!

after all the feasting on yummy thai food.... crazy shopping (big loot includes snagging 5 cute dresses by some new young thai graduate designers).... spa.... (b had his virgin facial, and gave out periodic yelps).... clubbing, fine dining, lots of new awesome fun experiences (including befriending uncle sam, our cab driver) and aesthetically pleasing sights (gorgeous boutiques and designer stores etc.).... out of all my countless times to bangkok, this one was definitely different. we got to see and know the city so much better! thank you, joyce!!! for bringing us around to experience life as if we were living the life in bangkok. it was simply fantastic.


and now i've so many difficult tasks ahead too..... ( - ____- ")
my climbing-the-hill gear doesn't seem to be kicking in..... blahhhhh..... my new projects are going no where...yet.... it's bugging me so....

some bitchings
(it's that time of the month for me, and i simply can't hold it in)~
i was recently brought to attention to this by elsie's observations, and also by kind emails from 2 of our customers. i might have already noted this sometime ago, but just didn't bother much about it.
apparently, 2 littleoddforest customers, regular ones at that, have been buying up my goods for REFERENCE to COPY. these SLBs (Shitty.Littleoddforest.Buyers) do not only follow my designs and sewing methods, but also my packaging, style, and even the way we pack our goods to mail out. the EXACT same packaging. these SLBs also have the balls to so proudly claim their originality on everything they do, from the sewing to the packaging style.
well, SLB bitches. watch out for that bird poop that will most probably drop on your stinky head when you step outside. or that hole in the ground you will fall into when you walk. or my vomit (when i realised about your shitty misdeeds) that you will slip on.
thank you.

okiedok! back to work!
*dark clouds and lightning fades away to wonderland tunes*
eerie.