fashbash

and yes. it’s official. littleoddforest will be at fashbash!! woohoo!!
this would be our 2nd and final “outing” this year!
so if you miss us yet again this time round, then that’s it for now, folks!
we’re so right smacked in front, you’d have to at least have cataract to not see us. ha

so what can you expect at our booth?
(don’t stop breathing as you read on)
# a range of selected items from our current new collection!
# selected designs, remnant odd-sizes, product samples and prototypes, at up to 50% off their listed retail prices!
# 20% discount if you spend above $200 on lof goods!
# one of you lucky ones will have the opportunity to win a one-of-a-kind lof’s Love-Owl Key-Ring Purse as part of fashbash’s lucky draw prizes!
# first 300 or so to arrive at fashbash will have a cute little lof goodie in their fashbash swag bags! 

if this is not good enough, there will be loads of other fabulous finds such as tskye and dustbunny vintage at fashbash – visit their website and sign up for their email newsletter to find out more!
we’ll see ya there! weeee!

check-list

conquered
1. bandit plush couple

2. custom messenger bag
3. spangelina‘s special felt picture wedding gift for her hubby-to-be

4. custom forest seedlings tote
5. custom hungry monster pouch
6. 1 brand new silkscreen print design (part of brand new collection)
7. making sure becky got seriously tanned(lobsterfied) and wasted before heading back to montreal
8. denna! cheers to a wonderful working relationship!
9. paying income tax (was seriously few hours away from dateline..)
10. new design for a new line of merchandise! (secret. for now. part of brand new collection)
11. bulk order of plushies collection (so stop bugging me to get a manicure, lana. dammit)
12. plush you exhibition
13. harry potter and the deathly hallows
14. paprika (awesome!!) and the simpsons movie (
15. my united mileage points! woohoo! not even stepped foot in the u.s. yet but i can already smell japan? sweet.
16. last minute nyc hotel change. (i’m eternally grateful to you, mao!!!!!!!!!)
17. a gazillion email replies

yonder hills….
1. 2nd brand new silkscreen design (part of brand new collection)
2. other remaining parts of brand new collection (yes. we get it.)
3. 4 yet-to-have-started custom orders… october yo. october. patience is a virtue.
4. high res product photos for mag feature
5. get people who owe littleoddforest alot of $$$ to pay up. shitty.
6. find out what happenned to the 22 missing items at pluck. shitty.
7. teaching application (i don’t know what to think of it)
8. dealing with ipos
9. get new investments finalised (thank goodness we sold off in time)
10. prepare trip schedule. i’m b’s official tourguide. how nice.
11. 6 birthday presents
12. hire new sewers (headache)
13. finalise new wholesale supplies account (wooppee! getting supplies at retail prices is seriously dumb)
14. look for new embroidery machine
15. look for new space
16. fashbash
17. another bazillion emails to reply (headache)

did you notice??? 17 down, and 17 more to go!!!! totally unplanned. kewl.

we love technology

you know how draggy email liaises can get often times? well…. it has been occurring far too much than desired for the past 2 months or so…. bad. it didn’t help that too much has been going on in my life recently.

replied to the other parties involved in various email i had kinda lost count along the way the number of “i’ll try!” “why not?” “maybe!” “okay!” “i’d love to!” i’veliaisons….. mostly littleoddforest work related…. which means…. commitments…. promises…. which means…. i HAVE TO do it even if it means i DIE. hah, okay that’s exaggeration. but you get the drift. i had put waaayyyyy tooooo mucchhhhh “food” on my platter….. and if only it was just food, i could just put it away, albeit with more than a tinge of guilt, thinking of people suffering from hunger elsewhere, or as i usually do, push it to the unfortunate person eating with moi. but i couldn’t live with myself if i had to push away chances of doing up special projects, or fun and cool custom orders i’d love so much to do (super important, as 99% of the time i’ll nicely decline requests that i’m not into…) or even just simply because i like that person or for some silly reason blah blah blah….. i can be such an enthusiastic work globbler….. pppfftttt….

so, unknowingly, in just these couple of months, i said yes to more than 9 varying custom requests. and the screwy thing about email is, sometimes, somehow, we’ll either not have the chance to reply asap, or just kinda felt that we needed that extra time to take to reply, or for whatever other million and one reasons etc.

and so the dragginess of emailing to and fro goes on….. and then, as funny things occur in this world, every single one of peeps (well, except 2) replied with their confirmation around the same time. just a few days apart. sheesh. thanks ya all. i had SOME weeks to complete MANY requests… fun.

ha okay okay, granted i still had fun and enjoyed every part of doing up all of the special requests!! cross my heart. and plus it’s not like they were done for free…. i got paid. so what’s there not to love?? ;p

i hope everyone was and will be (for those enroute or still not started on…..bleurghh) delighted with their custom orders! they’d better… ha..

now, if only i could push myself to go on and conquer those ninety bazillion other emails that elsie, my part-time customer service slave, can’t help me with….*cry*