We just added a function to translate our shop into different languages, including Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian and more. Our programmer used the Google translation tool and changed it so it fits to our shop design and our settings. I know that an automatic translation is not perfect but I believe it is better than no translation and having no clue what is written on the site. We do have customers who would like to buy from us but don’t speak English or German (our current language options). We hope this automatic translation will help those people.

you can find the 'Translate this page' button on the upper right corner of our shop

after clicking that button, you can choose your preferred language

Today we received a very nice, funny & cute letter from one of our customers in our mailbox (our “real” mailbox, not our email-inbox). She sent us a handwritten letter to tell us how much she loves our shop and to thanks us for our hard word. How cute is that? I was smiling the whole time while reading this letter. This is just awesome! I would have never expected such letter from a customer. Thank you very much! We love you guys!!!

awesome handwritten letter from a customer

I get continuously emails from customers asking if we ship to this country or that country. We had a worldwide shipping logo placed on every page of our online shop and also explain in our shipping details that we do ship worldwide. However, people still seemed to be unsure if we ship to their country. We changed the Worldwide Shipping logo to a much bigger one now which is very easy to see on every page of our shop. I hope this will help our customers to see quickly, that we do ship worldwide and even offer free shipping for orders above 60 Euro / US$78 / £54. If anyone has any further recommendations for us, please let us know by email.

our new worldwide shipping logo

the new logo integrated on our website (on the right side)

We have another blog giveaway anouncement: Sweet Tidings is hosting a modes4u giveaway on their blog! Sweet Tidings is a blog talking about all things handmade and as we are selling lots of supplies for making handmade goodies, we thought we team up and do a giveaway together. You can win a fabulous prize: a handmade deer stamp, 10 suprise handmade fabric buttons, a cute iron-on patch, a letter set and DIY donut felt set. This giveaway ends October 11, 2010. You can get more entries by following us on Facebook, Twitter and/or write a blog post about this giveaway. Now, go to Sweet Tidings’ giveaway blog post and join this cute giveaway!

Blog Giveaway on Sweet Tidings

Jaebumfangirl is hosting a modes4u giveaway on her blog. She writes about fashion and interesting accessories and hosts also a lot of giveaways. We decided to do a Tenshi Neko bag giveaway together with her. So go to her blog, comment below the kawaii giveaway and you may win a cute pink Tenshi Neko schoolgirl bag! Giveaway ends on 9th of October 2010. Good luck everyone!

you can win this cute Tenshi Neko bag

From today on, we have a new category in our shop ‘On SALE‘. Here we are selling items that are very limited in quantity and once they are sold out they will not come back. If you like one of those items on sale, be quick and order fast to make sure you get your favorite items! We usually don’t do any sales, so this is your only chance to get one of our items with special price.

Wohooo, I have great news today: I received a book from France today. What is so special about this book? My shop www.modes4u.com is published in it! We were talking with the author of this book a while ago and sent her some clay products for her book project. Now, the miniature sweets book is finally published and we are in it! We are all so excited here. I think everyone can imagine that Here are pictures of the book pages we are mentioned on:

miniature sweets made with clay book

our polymer clay canes are shown here

picture of our Fuwa Fuwa clay sets

our shop is listed in the 'supplier' section

I was even thanked for personally for helping making this book

Who doesn’t want to have such an awesome collection of deco tapes? This is one of our shelves filled up with lots of cute deco tapes! I love looking at pictures that are so colourful and have so many details. You find a new deco tape each time you look at it

Awesome deco tape shelf

We just received a delivery of new deco tapes from our supplier today. There are so many new cute patterns with kawaii animals, Christmas, fairy tale characters, donuts, Buddha, skulls, cupcakes, matryoshka dolls and many many more. We took a few pictures of some of the tapes we got today:

so many pretty and beautiful deco tapes

some of our new and old tapes

tapes, tapes and more tapes

YAY our new giveaway is online! We teamed up with Berrysprite and she hosts a great kawaii giveaway on her blog. The winner will receive a Japanese bento box, a panda sticker sheet, a surprise Hello Kitty stationery Re-Ment, a bunny letter set and a cute deco tape set. What a great prize! Go to the Berrysprite blog and comment below your favorite item from our shop. You can get extra entries for becoming a fan of us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and write a blog post about this giveaway (each 1 entry). Giveaway ends on 4th of October. Good Luck everyone!

Berrysprite Giveaway