gloomy rainy days

because mr and mrs cloud and their children have decided to pay mr. sunny a visit these couple of weeks, there will be slight delays in listing of new items, since i've been unable to take any decent product photos..... but do expect truckloads of them in january 2007! there will be new accessories in addition to more bag re-stocks and etc. just in time for post-holiday shopping, and pre-chinese new year shopping! we're working hard on tweaking the web shoppe as well, you'll see in time to come (^__~)

so..

i've been receiving emails from a few online peeps who were worried that the copycats whom me and my friends have been lambasting were referring to them... well... no! it's not you guys, so don't worry. for real. it's puzzling why you all would feel so.... but i know how things can get pretty sensitive on the web, i've received many emails since littleoddforest started, from nice and perhaps occasionally over-zealous lof-customers or online friends, about who and who they thought were copying us or had designs that were too similar to ours.. they definitely have good intentions, but sometimes could get overboard we have experienced a few who have actually taken upon themselves to contact the alleged copier and things were unnecessarily dramatic and went slightly out-of-hand without our knowledge or permission.... online copyright evangelists?? haha

anyways we were not referring to any one person in particular, it was a sharing of common experiences, an entire situation we all had to deal with in the creative line... we're not proclaiming to be super original geniuses, definitely far from it, no one is nowadays, all ideas now are recycled ones anyways... unless of course you copy an entire concept + idea + design + product... then yeah, i can't help you :p

but if you have shared with or submitted a design idea with/to someone or company, they do not get back to you or have paid you, and yet you see it surfacing somewhere after a couple of months... hell yeah.. that's outright robbery, that's being a copycat, that's being unoriginal, and that's being cheap. cheap. cheap. cheap. especially if they are a "friend" or when this company jolly well know that they have an advantage over you in terms of size and $$$

cheap peeps. pui. don't cry bucket loads over it dear, you live on with good karma and my support *hugss*

and here's to share with you a cute photo an equally cute lof-customer sent to me... hahaha! little stumpie in quiet meditation....