See you at Public Garden, at the National Museum again! This weekend!

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YES! littleoddforest will be going out to Public Garden at The National Museum once again! We had so much fun at the museum last month at Public Garden so I could not resist when told it was going to be held there for a second time.

We might not be back for at least a while, SO if you are in Singapore, do hop on down to The National Museum, and come join us for some fun indie shopping !

Of course, do expect both new design launches & selected sale pieces from us! Myself and my little crew of worker fairies & gnomes have been very very busy with production of our new goods and design series, so MORE SPACE has to be cleared out in my tiny home studio & workshop, and MORE SAMPLES & PROTOTYPES will have to go too !

Hope to catch you all there ♥ COME SAY HELLO!

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For those who aren’t able to make it to Public Garden this weekend, especially our friends outside of Singapore, don’t forget about our FREE SHIP WORLDWIDE special until 31 MARCH!
Enter code at checkout : MARCHMAYHEM

Christmas shopping & specials! <3

Howdy lovely peeps! It has really been quite a while! Apologies for the lack of updates as the baby stork has recently visited our family and it has been a super crazy roller-coaster period for us thus far. But rest assured I have been working very hard on trying to have a MORE / BETTER balanced LOF work/baby/life thingie!

Anyhow… Our dearest friends OUTSIDE OF Singapore, this is the ABSOLUTE LAST WEEKEND to shop in order for your orders to reach in time for Christmas! For our lovely friends IN SINGAPORE, you have until SUN 16 DEC to do so!

AND to show our thanks,
1 – 10% DISCOUNT CODE : NOWORNEVER ( until SUN 16 DEC )
2 – VIFF Customers will enjoy 15% OFF instead of your usual 10% ! ( until SUN 16 DEC )
3 – FREE Worldwide Shipping until MON 31 DEC ( and then it’s HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013! )

XOXOXO!

http://www.forestprints.com

we are always handmade with lots of love…

i believe an extremely overdue birthday-thank you note is in order..!

going behind the scenes in the littleoddforest… besides the mundane administrative stuff which involves emails, packing orders, and so on, and more unimaginable, mundane boring stuff that needs to be done in order to operate a business, the entire littleoddforest collection, week after week, month after month, year after year, the fulfilling of orders and restocking of the web shoppe, none of those would have been possible without help from my fantastic littleoddforest sewing fairies. my tiny crafting team has been constantly evolving over all these years, and although trying at times, with countless ups and downs, but also sharing laughter and joy, and solving problems together, i believe it has been the most liberating experience, working and learning with these angels.. i love you gals. thanks for rocking. really. Czar Czar, Belle, Norie, and Ate Beth, and all my littleoddforest fairies in Singapore (including Shelley and Meredith, and Christine, who is always there to help out for almost all LOF outings), and of course, especially Auntie Millie and my dearest super Mummy. what would i do without all of you!?? nothing would have come into fruition. i would have cut and sewn until i died, and not have the time nor physical means to do anything else that this little operation involves, and sell nothing. and gave up. nothing would have worked out. absolutely nothing.

thank you to all who have stuck around me and littleoddforest all these time and believed in what i believed in, that is { fabric goodness that’s always handmade with lots of love, fair wage and sweatshop-free }, and supported littleoddforest in whatever ways you can. of course my own sweatshop is me, the slave driver and the slave who works more than 12 hours a day most days of the week. whoopsy 😉

i love what i make, and make only what i love, and i want you to love what i love to. xoxo!

three more days

Ganbatte! Japan!

 

Adopt your doodle-face fabric buttons here! In Aid Of Japan

A total of 70 hand-pressed hand-drawn doodle-face buttons have been adopted so far! (I will be updating the final amount again later this week) – thank you all for showing your support for our Japan Relief Fundraiser. Sew it on or pin it on to show off your support! Kindly note once again that Full Proceeds from the Net Sales of these buttons will be donated to the Singapore Red Cross. Besides the cost of materials and so on, I will also be paying for all the etsy fees from my own pocket, so no worries about that.

This Surprise Doodle-Face Fabric Button fundraiser In Aid Of Japan, one of our favorite places in this world, will continue until this Friday 25 March 2011, marking 1 week since I started this fundraiser in aid of Japan, and 2 weeks since the terrible tragedy struck. Because I am out of town, it will be pretty difficult to attend to all your doodle-faces requests. Honestly, I am having so much fun attending to all your faces-requests – I have not had such freestyle, freehand fun in quite a while, and that is one of my favorite things to do, ever. And I also did not expect you sweet peeps to enjoy having a requests option so much! Thus the decision to end the fundraiser this Friday. I think it has been a pretty successful 5-day run so far on, considering the buttons are going for only $5 each 🙂 Please continue to show your support if you can and help spread the word. 3 more days! Thank you, and Ganbatte, Japan! Our friends there have been reporting their safety, and we are very sure that our favorite Nippon-land will get right back up on its feet really soon. I want to visit again real soon for some fabric shopping!

CURRENT TOTAL : $214.49 + $92.40 = $306.89 (click More below for details). Thank you so much for giving from your hearts! The second batch of doodle-faces will be mailed out today (Wed 23 March 2011). *First batch of doodle-faces have already been mailed out! (Mon 21 March 2011)

first payment of $214.49 made : In Aid Of Japan

$214.49 (first payment made) to the Red Cross Singapore

Singapore Red Cross : www.redcross.org.sg

A BIG Thank You to all of you who have supported this fundraiser. We hope to do more to contribute to the Japan Relief Efforts, please help to forward the message if you can. Many more doodle-faces await!

– Adopt your very own Doodle-Faces Fabric Buttons here –

 

Work In Progress : Doodle-Faces Fabric Buttons

Pin It On – Doodle-Faces Fabric Button

Sew It On – Doodle-Faces Fabric Button

Sew It On - Doodle-Faces Fabric Button

In Aid Of Japan

QUICK UPDATE : 60 buttons adopted so far – a big thank you for chipping in! First batch of buttons will be mailed out tomorrow, Monday 21 March 2011.

UPDATE 4 : 50 buttons adopted in 36 hours by 16 kind souls – thank you all so much for chipping in not only with your pockets, but most importantly, with your sincere hearts. I am so glad you think that this is a meaningful fundraiser, some of you have commented that these fabric buttons are the ‘many faces of humanity’ and are ‘accessible’ to most of us. A big thank you – ‘every little bit counts!‘.

Adopt Surprise Doodle-Face Fabric Buttons

In Aid Of Japan a photo by my little odd forest on Flickr.

– details in previous post below –

UPDATE 3 : Because some of you have so thoughtfully thought about me : Yes, I will be absorbing all etsy fees, so no worries about that. But Paypal fees will be deducted from all Paypal transactions. As promised, I will be making the first donation this coming week since we have reached the first $200.

CURRENT TOTAL : $214.49 + $64.11 (click More below for details). Thank you so much for giving sincerely from your hearts! I will be finishing up the first batch of doodle-faces and mailing them out on Monday. *First batch of doodle-faces have been mailed out! (Mon 21 March 2011)

Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Fundraiser – Surprise Doodle-Face Fabric Button

UPDATE 2 : 40 buttons sold to 14 kind souls in 24 hours – a big thank you! And many more doodle-faces await you! Because ‘every little bit counts!‘. Do help to forward the message if you want to help further but have already donated 🙂

UPDATE 1 : 20 buttons sold in the last 12 hours – thanks so much for your support! i know there are like a bazillion fundraisers going on right this second, since a week ago. But i still hope to do better than this! Our tagline is ‘every little bit counts!‘ , which is why I decided upon something small and very affordable like a fabric button. Help in whatever big or small ways you can, and help to forward the message! Ganbatte!

After donating cash towards their fund relief efforts almost 1 week ago, I have been thinking about how else to keep helping Japan in my own little way when this terrible tragedy struck.

So after talking with a couple of friends and queries from customer-friends of littleoddforest, I have decided to squeeze out the little time I have left to do this, and hopefully be able to help rally efforts and chip in more to help the Japanese.

The Japanese have been so inspiring since this disaster struck (if you have read or watched the news). Their civility, strength and perseverance – Our hearts go out to everyone there and we are sure that their strength and spirit will get them through the difficult period ahead.

So here’s my humble wee little effort :

100% of all NET SALES of these buttons will go the the Singapore Red Cross

SGD 5 + SGD 1.00 (INTERNATIONAL Airmail Regular Shipping – 11 to 15 Days)

SGD 5 + SGD 0.30 (SINGAPORE Regular Shipping – 3 to 5 Days)

Click HERE to purchase.

All fabric buttons will be hand pressed and hand drawn freestyle upon order placed, and they will be nicely packed in clear plastic, in an envelope, and mailed out in 3 business days from the date of purchase.

–  EACH AND EVERY FACE WILL BE DIFFERENT AND WILL BE A SURPRISE!  –
Feel free to let me know if there are any which you would prefer to have but no promises, e.g. girl with glasses or cat face etc.

FABRIC USED IS A TREE-BARK PATTERNED FABRIC (either Light Beige or Light Pink).

As I will be out of town until the 4th of April, all buttons will be mailed out on the 5th of April as soon as I get back. The good news is, I have someone to help me mail them out until the 27th of March. So I will be busy making ready-made buttons prior to my trip.

For now, I have decided to hold this fundraiser until I run out of my button supplies.
Donation will be made when the fundraiser ends, or when I have raised at least SGD 200.

“Because every little bit counts!”

xoxo
Lynda

me thinks…

it’s way much easier to update… with random sentences than a decent-sized blog post. yes yes.. i have already mentioned that a bazillion times before. anyways… as always, so much happening, too many things have been, and are, going on in my life and daily schedules, but nothing in particular that i’d like to report here!

i got back last week from an awesome breath-taking activity-filled birthday holiday break (am not just saying activity-filled for the sake of saying activity-filled. it was really really filled with activities, day after day, morning till night. we’re talking about the great outdoors here of course, not about jumping from playing card games to board games kind of activities.. lol. i mean, our holidays are usually like that, but this was the first time that we went from 1 activity to the next, every single day! super! my entire bodily senses were awakened and refreshed,

but had to dive right into littleoddforest work work work……

… and right now, all i want to do is…… ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. but fat chance of that happening any time in my life before, any time now or in the near future.

enough of that now. super delayed shoppe updates next!! 😀 if you haven’t joined the 600+ other peeps in littleoddforest’s facebook page! ;p

{ the invasion of the sleepy critters }
brand new critter eye masks!

http://forestprints.com/itemslist.aspx?cat=Accessories

{ when the wind rustles bag}
brand new sneak peak launch!

http://forestprints.com/itemslist.aspx?cat=Bags

and… coming soon!

{ doe-eyed clutch }
brand new version of our sell-out doe-eyed forest sac! sneak peak launch!

http://forestprints.com/itemslist.aspx?cat=Bags

{ passport foille monsters }
brand new passport cozies with velcro flap closure!

http://forestprints.com/itemslist.aspx?cat=Purses

and to end this sunday post on a little cheeky note! teehee!

hugs for ruth of sparklethots, this cheeky little one’s mummy dearest! (my dear friend and an lof shopper!) *muacks!

happy sunday everyone!!! have a lovely lazy one! xoxoxo!

our starry rainbow pouch in a hollywood movie?

so, last month, harlan films called us from the united states, requesting for permission to use our starry rainbow pouch as a prop/set dressing for their upcoming motion picture, greenberg

it’s going to be florence’s (greta gerwig) pouch, going to be totally her style.
do i read ben stiller in the release form?? scott rudin?? that’s insane!!!

i didn’t know they even request for permission for such small matters. they must need to send a bazillion requests out for every of such movie made.

it was really insane, for like, 2 hours or so.
died down once i received the formal request letter and faxed over the signed release form.

so, i know, it’s just going to be 1 tiny weeny pouch in a gargantuan movie set.
friends who knew about it promised they’ll squint to find the pouch once the movie is out, if it’s going to be included in any frames for that matter.

fine.

hahahah

but still 🙂

so i had clean forgotten about it, what with all the truckload of work and my personal hoo-hah, until i read an email from meredith this evening, about her nephew working as a crew on the set of greenberg.

!!! insane!

working from home is good.

you know how sometimes people like to make baseless negative assumptions..
like how people who wear glasses can’t afford to get contacts or lasik
or how how all slender girls have eating disorders

so one of which is, working from home means that your label isn’t doing that great.
year after year, during some must-go-to-very-mundane-gatherings, i have to entertain stupid comments like “oh, you mean you are still working from home after all these years?”
while i snigger away privately as i pocket the $4000++ rental i would have spent on rent.

money aside, here are 10 great things about working from home:
taken from apartment therapy

1. Taking a Bath at Lunchtime (or a dip in the pool!)
2. Raiding the Fridge whenever I want (heck, i can work right beside the fridge if i want to)
3. Being able to hit up Trader Joes or Target in the middle of the day (mid-day shopping and movie dates! when i’m not so busy of course….)
4. Working in Pajamas (i can’t work in my pajamas, don’t ask why, i have to shower and at least wear something decently good enough for me to step out of the house the very next minute, so i’ve never done this before…)
5. Not commuting anywhere, especially in the rain (yes!)
6. Making lunch at home and being able to put a roast in the oven in time to eat before 10pm
(i can make my spicy korean noodles, kimchi, and roast pork for lunch!)
7. Making a mid day Yoga class (i don’t yoga, but i do plenty of late-lunch dates!)
8. Getting to be alone for the day in semi stillness and not coming home ragged and exhausted (i can choose to stop work at 4pm and resume at 12 midnight… muahahaha)
9. Getting to play whatever music I want (as loud as i want to! that is, unless my part-timers and interns are right beside me and i have to “behave” like a “boss” :p)
10. Getting to hang out with my kitty (anyone or anything i choose to!)

so much for short breather… back to my busy-ness…