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if you see an "oopps error" page when clicking on any of the item category pages, it means our website traffic/bandwidth is being gatecrashed, and so it went bonkers.
and this can only be manually fixed by us, so please drop us an email (info at forestprints dot com) asap if it happens again so that we can reset it. this has been happening more and more often than desired, so we thank you for your super kind patience and understanding!! thanky thanks!!!! *muacks!

goodbye 08.

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and yes!
littleoddforest will be at fashbash once again (woohoo!)
Sat 6 Dec - 5pm till Midnight
Stall 15 @ the Cathay!

i'm finally moving out from our tiny mothball-smelling warehouse, and also out from my current over-flowing home office next year 2009!!! :D
SO!
we will be going crazy over at our last fashbash for the year!
i need to clear clear clear stuffss!! help me clear 'em cuz i can't move 'em all!~
samples, prototypes, past seasons' stock, pieces with that little tiny flaw, and designs that didn't make it out from my workshop!
tank tops! bags! accessories! and etc. etc.!
come shop early!!! and grab your favorite pieces at crazy discounts that will never happen again nor anywhere else, before they sell out foreverrrrrr!!! *MUACKS!*

shoppe updates

:: new fabric buttons & restocks
http://www.forestprints.com/itemslist.aspx?cat=Crafthings












:: new bigger bags & restocks
http://www.forestprints.com/itemslist.aspx?cat=Bags












:: new smaller purses & restocks
http://www.forestprints.com/itemslist.aspx?cat=Purses












And more to follow-up very soon! =)

luv,
littleoddforest fairies & elves

Luv-able + Hug-able @ gallery hanahou Dec'08

gallery hanahou presents
Luv-able and Hug-able


December 4 - January 7
Opening Party:
December 4, 6-9 pm
rsvp info@galleryhanahou.com

gallery hanahou
611 Broadway, Suite 730 NYC
galleryhanahou.com
Due to popular demand, this holiday season the plushes return to gallery hanahou!
Made with love by 30+ artists and crafters from all over the world, these original soft toys will range from cooky critters to adorable anthropomorphic objects. Nab an armful of plushes at the December 4th opening party, or order from our online shop at galleryhanahou.com for your hug-able holiday gifts!

Participating Artists
Anna Chambers * Anna Hrachovec * Ayumi Sato - Junie Moon * Betz White * Blythe Church * Christina Gordon (Jamfancy) * Corinne Dean * Doinky Doodles * Eloole * Forest Creatures * girlsavage * Heide Murray * Heidi Kenney * Helle Jorgensen * Hello, Brute * IMAI SAYAKA * Katie Park (caffaknitted) * Kup Kup Land * Lexi Franks * Lizette Greco + Grecolaborativo * Lynda Lye * Nicole Gastonguay * The Ossu! Syugeibu * rei☆komurasaki * SPOOKS by Kobayashi Mayu * Weebco * Yuko Hara * Yuriko Sera

Artists recommended by Plush You!
Ariana Marinelli * Coco Howard * Flying Star Toys by Florence Forrest * Hansigurumi * Jenny Harada * Made By Moxie * Robyn Fabsits * Aaron B of SOWA

As an added holiday treat, plush artist Jenny Harada will hold a workshop at the gallery on December 13!


Plush Workshop with Jenny Harada
Make an ornament-size plush with the amazing Jenny using hand-sewing techniques!
December 13, 1-4 pm at gallery hanahou (611 Broadway, Suite 730, NYC)
Cost: $20 (includes materials)
Space is limited, so sign up asap by emailing info@galleryhanahou.com.


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i have been so kindly invited by the nice peeps of Luv-able + Hug-able @ gallery hanahou to participate in this wonderful group exhibition yet again! hurrah! :D
due to my frantic rush in sending the plushies, i have totally forgotten to take any photos of the little guys i made for this exhibition.... bah.... (~____~")
So don't miss this if you're anywhere near NYC!
xoxo~ lynda

add-on...

boss Lynda forgot to advertise her new hand-makes of baby footwear.....
All are OOAK, so they are open for reservations now, until a new Baby/Children category is created at our online store.

EASY SLIP-ONS
(more available, please email us for unedited photo requests)
Retail price : SGD$22 per pair


CUTE BUTTON STRAP-ONS
(more available, please email us for unedited photo requests)
(All currently available are SOLD OUT. Thanks for all your orders! Please send us an email for custom orders. Thank you!)
Retail price : SGD$24 per pair


ALPHABET SLIP-ONS
*custom alphabets available, current turnaround is up to 8 weeks*
(more available, please email us for unedited photo requests)
Retail price : SGD$24 per pair

Photos will be unedited because I will be the one taking them, but still learning how to use photoshop :p

Thank you!

luv,
Yvette

private viewing bookings

littleoddforest's private viewing sessions have been somewhat an open secret amongst many of our local regular customers these past couple of years, and with the onset of the coming holiday season (albeit a slower one with the current gloomy world economy), and the flooding of emails with more of such requests coupled with my lack of available timings and assistants, here's a final reply to ya all cute ladies!

we are fully-booked all the way until 30 NOV.
next available dates are MON 1 DEC + TUE 2 DEC + WED 3 DEC (all filled)
and then WED 10 DEC + THUR 11 DEC + FRI 12 DEC
and then we'll be closed until the coming new year!
for weekend viewings, i can try my best to squeeze in for sat mornings only. email with subject heading "private viewing" or else i'll most probably never get to your emails in time.

muacks! gotta run!

a lil' quickie update!

*a very chop chop update! i need to rush off like... now!*

Thurs 20/11 is just 2 days away, and it's madness in our workshop!

expect brand new combinations/fabrics of ---->
1 --- MUNGO WANDERLUST LEAF BAG
2 --- HOOT THE OWL SLING PURSE
3 --- A WALK IN THE FOREST
4 --- FOLDED LEAF WRISTLET
5 --- LEAF POCKET BAG

here's the best part!
restocks will be done BOTH @ ISETAN AND OUR ONLINE SHOPPE!
Hurrah! No more hate emails from our International friends! ;D
but do give me some time to do all the restocks yeah? only 1 pair of hands given to me by my dearest mama!

due to current gloomy weather conditions, do feel free to email me to request for unedited photo sneak peaks + reservations!
1st come 1st serve!
Thanks so much for all your kind patience, sweeties! XOXO


oh yes.

p.s. you may make reservations for the brand new designs from our new collection's mini-launch starting now too.
our workshop, sewing fairies & elves will be on our 1-mth Christmas break starting early-Dec.
we need to rest our skinny fingers! (and i need some sun)

*muacks!*

these coming our way soon! mini-launch of our brand new collection. wooppee!


p.p.s.s.
oh yes oh yes! haha! thanks for sharing with us all the ugly encounters you all have had with silly customers! i hear ya! stupid ugly rude people! die! dieee!!!

dumbasses.

okay, i just need to rant a bit before i rush off to catch the evasive sunlight.... it's just a string of events the past couple of weeks that has annoyed the shiat out of me.

some people apologize too easily
some people apologize too much
some people apologize too little, too late
and some people, just don't apologize at all.

most singaporeans don't know to use the magical word "sorry".
just one magical word, so simple, so short, and sweet and soothing to the other party's ears, and everything could have been resolved. so easily.
but no. no magical word.
and it fucking pisses me off so much.

so haughty, so full of yourselves, so fucking mighty, thinking you're always right, nothing wrong done, no harm done. no big deal. what's the big deal. ever so defensive. so afraid of losing your gawddamn ugly face.

the old are like that.
they like to say "the salt they have taken is more than the rice we have eaten in our lifetime"
well, good for you and your salty kidneys.
and it's no wonder the young don't learn anything good either.

SOR-REE
A-PO-LO-GISE

very hard to pronounce? to enunciate? to spew out from your smelly mouth? yes? no? it might be fatal to say those words out loud? fatal to even type it down in an email?
just 5 alphabets to type, just 2 syllabus to say.
will cost you a billion dollars? a slice of your fatty flesh?

didn't learn it in school? your parents didn't do a good job teaching you? didn't learn it from society? nothing learned from living in this world for so many decades? from reading? nothing? no? humility and humbility mean anything to you at all? don't know those words?
pppfffttttttt.

who ever on earth made such a silly rule that when dealing with work, people shouldn't apologise too easily?????

so what? you say
karma will come back and bite your stinky rotting corporate asses. that's what.
watch out!

a good lame one to add on!

okie! this is a quickie! in the middle of updating inventory but i can't help but share this with you
(hwee yee! yours is hilarious! a few pieces of cloth sewn together!!!!! hahahaha!!!! *faints*)

was yakking on the phone this morning with my sculpture artist friend, and he wants to chip in his story too!
he did a series of wooden sculptures for a collective art exhibition, all pieces were for sale

seemingly serious buyer comments
"why would anyone in their right mind pay so much for only a block of wood?"
friend replies earnestly
"well, how about i add on a few more pieces of ply wood for you?"
seemingly serious buyer looks shocked and couldn't move for a few seconds.

HAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!

more later! busy busy now!! xoxoxo

letting mouth loose

so, i'm sure you're all super sick of reading how thankful i am for all your support to our little gig at isetan scotts. hahahahaha! so fine, i'm not doing that here ;p
go here for updates! - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=46770635428
or here - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6443311126
or here - http://www.facebook.com/pages/littleoddforest/7178022302

i've been pretty quiet and missing in action because am busy busy busy!! no time!!!!! too much on-goings behind the chaotic work scenes but additionally, my personal life too, it's all good good news though! :D

for temporary relieve of stress...

when you are in the business long enough, you will get to meet all sorts of people.
literally all sorts.
from jealous peers who are determined to see you trip and fall... or even your downfall..
to unrelated people who have too much free time on their hands and a "free-mouth" to boot too...
to people who have no money to buy anything but like to walk around putting down everything within her sight, so she can convince herself not to help stimulate the economy..
to those who are not into our style, but yet still bothers to take the time, saliva and trouble to let the sales gal know face front that she is not digging your style..
to... oh, it's neverending! makes life so much more interesting eh? sure! bring it on!



LAME PERSON EXAMPLE 1.
much older people who like to intimidate and bully young girls.
40-something year old woman sternly lectures one of our frightened young sales gals that we shouldn't claim that our purses are handmade, because "did you handmake the zippers? I'm sure you did not. did you handmake the plastic bangles or the buttons? Those are all not handmade, so how can you say that your products are handmade? you shouldn't say they are handmade. you can get sued you know."
you are an adult who doesn't know better than to say such things in such a tone with such words to a 16 year old sales gal... sigh.

LAME PERSON EXAMPLES 2a, 2b, 2c, 2d.
a bunch of ladies who have too much time to kill.
"how can you say that is is one of a kind when i've seen that fabric before? i'm sure i've seen it at abcd before."
insistent about her own definition of our OOAK despite our poor gal's explanation. so nothing else you say will make her change her mind.
"wah, you dare to claim is one of a kind? what if i see an exact piece somewhere else leh? can refund or not?"
smile. smile. smile. laugh at her wit.
"what's so special about these bags? so expensive! i rather buy a Guess bag."
then, go buy loh. just the other corner only...
"eh, how you sew this piping detail ah? Hmm... your boss got open craft classes or not?"
??????????

LAME PERSON EXAMPLE 3.
(so lame that she didn't even leave me an email address that works.)

Feedback Type : I just wish to say
Name : Joannie
Email : abcde@xyz.com
Time of Msg: 10/30/2008 7:42:37 AM

Your work is not very original, I see a lot of influences everywhere and I think it''s quite sad that you are flogging them as your own style when you are just copying off design publications.

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hi Joannie!

thanks for your email, i felt i had a need to reply you, even though i have been advised not to.

i don't see the need to defend myself since i know better (and i'm pretty sure yourself too) but I'm just curious which are the "design publications" you think that i'm copying off from? as the only books/mags i read are novels, home & decor and graphics. I'm no fan of fashion magazines or anything of that sort, not that it matters to anyone. i like to see things positively, so it's good in a way to know that "my style" is similar to some that are already shown in "design publications", and worldwide too, as i presume you are not in/from Singapore?

this is the first time ever i've received such an email in my 4 years doing this, but It's cool with me, because for every 10000 *hearts*, i know that there will be 1 you can't please, as with everything else we do in this world, be it the arts, politics or life in general :) anyhow, i appreciate your email - that my work bothers you so much that you actually took the trouble to drop me a message.

hope you have a good day!

LAME PERSON EXAMPLE 4.
"wah, local label but so expensive"
"those other bags are different loh, they are branded leather bags eh"
"abcd local label is not the same, he's international fashion brand, how can you compare yourself with him? He make beautiful clothes and sells in Paris. You just design what, fabric bags only leh."

LAME PERSON EXAMPLE 5.
"how i can be sure you pay fair wages or not? you must show proof what, then put it up somewhere here on display or something. for all i know your things all made in China factories right?"



that's the first part of lameo peeps for now! more to share with you later! wahahaah!!! i'm soooo glad i only have time to be at isetan for restocking of goods, so i wasn't there to witness all these psycho twilight on-goings!!! just smile, and let the others be ugly, the best advice i can give to all my awesome group of LOF fairies! off for my friday night out now... happy weekend, folks!! xoxoxo!

p.s.
brand new stocks in the shoppe now! :D
brand new tanks! weeee!!!

p.p.s.s.
a happy face to kick start your happy weekend!