shoppe alert! shoppe alert!

You have been warned! Lots of RE-STOCKS and NEW ITEMS will be trickling in from today! Wooppee! (^__^)

All re-stocks are of course LIMITED so don't miss it! So pretty please, no hate emails regarding a sold-out item you had wanted... We really appreciate your understanding that we are not some huge factory churning out gazillion wrist clutches everyday.. (x__x) L.O.V.E. has to be injected into all LOF creations, and injection takes time...really!

p.s. to those of you who have been taking time to drop us super sweet emails, thanks so much! I'm thankful beyond words for all your encouraging words and heartfelt comments. As we say it in Mandarin... jia you! jia you! jia you! (go! go! go!...??) hmmm.... xoxo!!

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i'm really thankful to all of you, this is fuel for me to kick start my crazy day, everyday...

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hmmmm...

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You're capable of the highest highs and the lowest lows. Addicted to feeling good, you'll do almost anything to avoid pain. People seek you out, even though you can be quite moody. They're hooked on you!

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Mankiller....

I have yet to do a post about vintage clothing ( one of my greatest passions) so today I have decided to share with you one of my favorite vintage dresses from my own collection. It's certainly not the oldest or most valuable dress but one I love all the same. This is by British designer John Bates and from the mid 70's. It is a very slinky poly crepe, lots of fabulous drape. Beleive it or not, I fit into this dress not that many years ago!

The detail is wonderful. It has an open back, the front ties around the neck like a halter dress and has that daring plunge down the center of the "bodice". There are small covered buttons on the side front of the waist panel, beautiful grecian drape where the skirt meets the waist panel and of course, that very sexy and glamorous split in the skirt.







Isnt it simply gorgeous?!

why fuck with me?

a lesson learnt.

recently we had to deal with a horrible wholesale buyer / stockist, the only one i had to deal with thus far, out of the total of 35 stockists in my 2-year history of business, and hopefully the only one EVER in my entire life

she curtly demands for stock on the spot and purposefully asks me for a solution after saying that my long turnaround time is costing her her business and blah blah blah. so, the ever-accomodating and obliging stupid moi even removes stock from my web shoppe just to pacify her pushy requests, had to push back other wholesale orders in the long queue just to squeeze in her order, and even offered her free partial earlier shipment for the first batch of ready-now stocks. the b.i.t.c.h. seemed happy. whatever.

because just ONE week after she paid for this particular order (she's a 3-time repeat buyer) she sends us this email

"Well, I have some unfortunate news. We have recently decided to close the store due to a new business direction we have decided to take. So, because of this we wont be taking any new merchandise, so I am going to have to refuse the order you already sent so you can get it back as soon as possible. When it comes I am going to refuse it and it should come straight back to you. IF you have any questions or concerns please let me know, also please let me know when you can refund my money for the purses."

wtf???????!

when i first dealt with her, i had yet to draft out our wholesale contract in detail, and thus had missed out on sending her a copy. shit. now this shit is falling on me. because when i replied -

"I'm so sorry to hear about this. We have a no-refund policy unless fault on our part. You confirmed your order on 21 Oct and made payment just less than a week ago. I'm sorry about this situation but am unable to do any refunds, so please do not return us the merchandise."

i got bit in my ass.

"I have copied and pasted the only thing you sent me about your policies....at no time did you mention a no refund policy. Also, the order was refused already before I got your email. I checked all of the emails and information you ever sent me, because I save all of my emails from vendors. At no time did you state your policy."

i'm really paying for business tuition fees while doing this. not the money, but the bad experience. and this was all i could say before caving in :(

"I guess I had missed out on sending you our wholesale policy when we first liased. My website has its policy stated clearly here - http://www.forestprints.com/ReturnPolicy.html. This has never happended to us before and it's really bad. It is most unfortunate that you have already rejected the package as we had to lose a couple of businesses and rush for your order, which you had initially so hurriedly and insistently requested for, and we had kindly obliged. It is really bizarre that you could change your mind in just a week about the orders you had rushed to place. Your refund will be processed only after the package has safely arrived here, minus the exact extra shipping and handling charges we have incurred on our side."

so for those of you in the same line of business or thinking of starting one yourself, please draft out allllll your contracts first and make sure the other party agrees to every detail before proceeding. if you've only done so now, make sure you send it to all your previous buyers as well, you will never know when they might want to screw you up too.

thanks for loving LOF

grateful thanks to these nice cute peeps for loving what we do here in the littleoddforest!

by Cuteable: a Mon-Fri dose of cute stuff for you and your home!~
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back but will be gone again..

.. because it's the year-end busiest period and i'm running a race over here... got huge orders to complete, and you know, most buyers aren't usually the most cooperative bunch of people, they will order last minute and will want quick deliveries regardless of what i've repeatedly mentioned and even put down on paper black and white... uurrgghh..

the trade event this year wasn't as good as last year's, it was okay for me nevertheless, but yeah, no more local fashion trade events for me! the market here is still too young and inexperienced, and the event organisers really do not know how to do up a good successful fashion trade event. it wasn't done in a very fashionable fashion... it was pretty boring sad to say... not just visually boring, it was boring in almost every sense... in singapore, the only trade shows that sells are either the I.T. fair, food fair, john little/robinsons sale, or cheap stationary fair. sigh. tsk tsk. all thanks to our beloved unfashionable government :p bleurgh

for those of you who aren't my flickr pals, here are some pics to share with you!




















































i'm aiming for trade shows overseas next year, maybe the usa or australia or somewhere. i think it should be fun. holiday cum trade fair. hhmmm... if any of you know of some good ones in your own country, drop me an email! i'm open to sharing booth space as well >.<

anyhow, grateful thanks to all you sweet peeps who turned up all the way at the expo to say hihi! lana, pat, joel, adeline, mandy, casey.. and all my other regular customers who turned up to show support and some even with gifts!! uh! i'm really touched and happy ^.^

i apologise if i wasn't entertaining or attentive enough as i only had 3-4 hours of sleep everyday for the past week... brain processing speed was super slow... hugs and kisses to you all!

be prepared to be bombarded with lots of new goodies making their appearance in our web boutique!

p.s. biggest biggest hugest kudos to my beloved b who specially took 3 long days leave to help me out with this, even though he suddenly had a whole ton of shitty stuff to clear at work at the very last minute, and he too, had only 3-4 hours of sleep and still couldn't finish up his project at hand for work today... :( hugs