Thanks for joining our big giveaway that we started one week ago. We drew 5 random winners through random.org for the different prize packages:

Package No. 1 goes to Tiffany B.: swtlduckie@xxx

Tiffany wins kawaii package No. 1

Package No. 2 goes to Ana Marques: buxilala@xxx

Ana wins kawaii package No. 2

Package No. 3 goes to Becky Knott: becky_knott84@xxx

Becky wins kawaii package No. 3

Package No. 4 goes to Zoe Macey: zoemacey@xxx

Zoe wins kawaii package No. 4

Package No. 5 goes to Juliane: Juliane.Horn.st@xxx

Juliane wins kawaii package No. 5

We removed the end of every email address to protect their privacy. We will contact everyone by email directly. You will have 48 hours to claim your prize or we will have to pick another winner.

Congrats to the lucky winners of those awesome packages!

This is a dream come true!! Today we got the largest San-X delivery in the history of our shop and it contained a truly precious and truly huge item: an enormous Rilakkuma plush toy. We have been waiting for the super kawaii bear since last August already when San-X released it and we immediately ordered one. Everybody gathered around the big box to solemly unpack it and was incredibly impressed with the size of Rilakkuma that came out. We had a great time taking pictures with the adorable animal, he is the star of our office. The 165cm tall plushie will be our office mascot from now on and you will hear and read a lot of it, we promise. We know that a lot of you guys will want a huge Rilakkuma like this, but unfortunately we can’t sell them.

Now we will focus on adding all the new San-X stationery items to our shop, so you can buy a lot of new kawaii stuff. If your favourite item has been sold out lately, check our website again, as we will also restock many popular products. But for the moment, enjoy the pictures of the day or watch the YouTube video we took with cute Rilakkuma.

A big box for a big Rilakkuma

Look how huge he is compared to his little plush brothers and sisters

At first everybody in the office keeps an impressed distance

And while unpacking big Rilakkuma keeps an eye on what is going on

But then the fun starts: Lok and Karen can only carry the bear together - it is taller than they are

Alan is fooling around with cute Rilakkuma

Bianca is trying to rock it like a baby - but it is just too big

Our big giveaway to celebrate 22,222 Facebook Fans is almost closed. That’s so exciting, in 48 hours you will know if you have won one of our 5 awesome prize packages. We included a lot of gifts that we recently brought from Japan. It’s really exclusive stuff as it’s not even available in our shop.

If you haven’t joined the giveaway yet you can do so by leaving a comment on our blog post BIG giveaway to celebrate 22,222 Facebook Fans. And for all of you who have joined already, increase your chances of winning by getting additional entries. Winners will be chosen through random.org and we will announce them on this blog tomorrow. Are you excited already?

Join our giveaway to win one of those kawaii prize packages

They are finally here! Some of you guys have been asking us when we would get all those new Re-Ment sets that were released in Japan in the last weeks. We now have 6 new sets in our shop, EVEN the Hello Kitty Birthday Party Re-Ment that was just released in Japan on February 13th! We are impressed ourselves how fast it was shipped to us. Hello Kitty-Fans will also like the cute Creamy Sweets Mascot and the adorable Chinese New Year Fortune Mascot.

Even newer than the Hello Kitty Re-Ments is the Disney Minnie Mouse Deco set. It was just released on February 20th in Japan. It’s a really great Re-Ment to decorate things such as your mobile phone or computer. The stickers look totally pretty and sparkly.

If you like Alice in Wonderland you will love the Snack Re-Ment with cute sweets and snacks charms. And if you already have a lot of Re-Ment food, the lovely red display kitchen might be the right thing for you. A miniature kitchen to store lots of tiny and detailed food and utensils is just super kawaii, isn’t it?

Re-Ment Hello Kitty Birthday Party miniature blind box

Re-Ment Hello Kitty Creamy Sweets Mascot blind packet

Re-Ment Hello Kitty Fortune Mascot blind packet

Re-Ment Disney Minnie Mouse Deco blind packet

Re-Ment Disney Alice Snack Mascot blind packet

Re-Ment Kitchen Display Miniature Box Puchi Petites

This week things are different. Because our favourite product of the week is not something that you can buy in our shop. You can only win it. To celebrate our 22,222 Facebook Fans that we reached this week, we started a big giveaway with 5 super kawaii prize packages. Each package contains a lot of items and most of them are exclusively brought from Japan. We just like the combinations so much that we made them our favourite product of the week. Aren’t the cute mameshiba stickers, the angry rice ball squishie, the tea bags or parapope stickers adorable? You can exclusively win these things as part of the kawaii gift bags. Join the giveaway and check out the prizes on BIG giveaway to celebrate 22,222 Facebook Fans until February 27th, midnight.

Our favourite product of the week - our cute giveaway prizes

We combined a lot of products in 5 awesome prize packages

Each package contains exclusive stuff from Japan

Stickers, squishies, Re-Ments, erasers, deco tapes and more

The giveaway is open until midnight GMT on February 27th

All the new Michael Miller fabrics that arrived a couple of days ago are finally online in our shop. We got all kind of different designs and materials, but a couple of themes are definiteley dominant. For example polka dots. That simple and classic pattern is really popular and Michael Miller has such a great variety, so we ordered a whole bunch of different designs. We just L-O-V-E those spotted fabrics, they are bright and cheerful and can be used for any project. Check out all the new fabrics we got from the Ta Dot collection and the Dumb Dot collection. Quite a few designs are also available in flannel.

red Michael Miller fabric white polka dots Minnie

white Michael Miller fabric with colourful polka dots

blue Michael Miller flannel fabric white polka dots

grey Michael Miller fabric pink polka dots

purple Michael Miller fabric pink polka dots

teal Michael Miller fabric small white polka dots

white Michael Miller fabric small black polka dots

white Michael Miller flannel fabric pink polka dots

You “like” us and we “like” you. We now have 22,222 Fans on Facebook. To celebrate this magical number, we start a big giveaway today. There are 5 awesome packages with a lot of kawaii prizes we want to give to you guys. The lucky winners really get great combinations of cute stuff. So join our giveaway today. We wish all of you good luck and lots of fun.

You can win one of the following packages:

Package 1:

1 set of cute rabbit bento box straps

1 Hello Kitty Re-Ment

1 Hello Kitty package of paper tissues

1 donut squishie with icing sugar

1 flower donut squishie

1 candy deco tape

1 Mameshiba sticker sheet (exclusively from Japan!)

1 parapope sticker sheet (exclusively from Japan!)

1 pair of shiny earrings

1 snow white card

1 japanese post card

1 mushroom card in business size format

1 mushroom sticker

kawaii Giveaway package No.1 with rabbit bento box straps

Package 2:

1 Hello Kitty Birthday Re-Ment (BRAND NEW, just released in Japan on February 13th!!)

1 Hello Kitty Re-Ment

1 Hello Kitty package of paper tissues

1 donut squishie with icing sugar

1 flower donut squishie

1 tea bag in kawaii package

1 pair of shiny earrings

1 package of japanese cat paper tissues

1 japanese post card

3 cute stickers

1 cat button

Giveaway package No.2 with BRAND NEW Hello Kitty Happy Birthday Re-Ment

Package 3:

1 kawaii penguin container from Japan

1 Mickey Mouse Re-Ment

1 Hello Kitty package of paper tissues

1 funny angry rice ball squishie

1 pastry squishie

1 japanese paper deco tape

1 parapope sticker sheet (exclusively from Japan!)

1 pair of shiny earrings

1 package of japanese cat paper tissues

1 japanese tomoto post card

2 funny stickers

kawaii Giveaway package No.3 with japanese penguin container

Package 4:

2 Japanese Masking Tapes

1 candy Re-Ment

1 Hello Kitty package of paper tissues

1 toast bread squishie

1 flower donut squishie

1 set of yellow chopsticks

1 polka dot ballpoint pen with cat charm

1 Mameshiba sticker sheet (exclusively from Japan!)

1 parapope sticker sheet (exclusively from Japan!)

1 pair of shiny earrings

1 package of japanese kawaii cat paper tissues

1 tea bag in kawaii package

kawaii Giveaway package No.4 with Japanese deco tapes

Package 5:

4 cute baby animal erasers

1 candy Re-Ment

1 Hello Kitty package of paper tissues

1 Mickey Mouse bread squishie

1 Rilakkuma chocolate squishie

1 set of green chopsticks

1 paper deco tape with ladybirds

1 Mameshiba sticker sheet (exclusively from Japan!)

1 parapope sticker sheet (exclusively from Japan!)

1 pair of shiny earrings

1 package with 2 cute cat and Eiffel Tower index markers

1 tea bag in kawaii package with postcard

kawaii Giveaway package No.5 with Rilakkuma squishie

For a chance to win one of the 5 packages, you must:

1) Go to our kawaii shop modes4u, and comment below this blog post what is your favourite item from our shop! (1 entry)

For additional chances to win (leave a separate comment for each entry):

2) “Like” modes4u’s Facebook page. Leave FB name with comment. (1 extra entry)

3) Follow us on Twitter here. Leave Twitter name with comment. (1 extra entry)

4) Add one of our banners to your blog, website etc. You can find the banners here. Post a link to your blog in the comments below. (5 extra entries!!!)

5) Tweet about this giveaway and post your tweet URL in the comments below. You can tweet once a day until the deadline! Just copy the words below and paste it on your twitter. (1 extra entry)

WIN cute goodies from @modes4u! BIG Giveaway with 5 kawaii prize packages! Enter now -> http://tinyurl.com/7qthmym #giveaway www.modes4u.com

6) Blog about this giveaway and post a link to your blog post in the comments below. (2 extra entries)

7) Subscribe to our blog via Google Friend Connector on the right sidebar. (2 extra entries)

Entries will be accepted until Tuesday, February 28, 2012, Midnight GMT. We will notify the winners the following day! You will have 48 hours to claim your prize or we will have to pick another winner.

OPEN WORLDWIDE!

Winners will be chosen through random.org, so the more entries you have, the more chances of winning!

Carnival is celebrated throughout the world, but today is Rose Monday, which is definitely the highlight of German carnival. Especially in the western parts of Germany there are lots of parades in many cities where you can see colourful floats and catch some Kamelle, pieces of candy which are thrown into the crowds. Many people will dress up in fancy costumes and it is a time of celebrating, dancing, partying and drinking.

In the carnival strongholds schools are closed on Rose Monday, many shops will close down and a lot of people will take the day off to be able to participate in the celebrations, which are all day long. Heavy carnival fans probably have been celebrating since last thursday, as the street carnival started then with “Weiberfastnacht”.

Whenever and whereever you celebrate, we wish you a wonderful carnival. Have a great time.

colourful carnival mask fabric Robert Kaufman designer

Gosh, we were so busy last week that we couldn’t even properly blog about all the stuff that we added to our shop. But we got so many cute and funny products during the last days that we just have to give you a brief summary.

Check out the adorable squishies that arrived. Of course there are many Rilakkuma and donut designs, as you just love those motifs a lot, but we also got completely new stuff, such as little nesting doll squishies or super funny octopus squishies. If you rather like it plushy, you can take a look at our cellphone accessories. We restocked our cute dumpling, tofu and turtle charms and also have them in new colours now. Better hurry to buy them, as there are just very few left already.

In addition to the new deco tapes that we got a while ago, we also restocked a lot of our 10 pieces deco tape sets. Those sets are really great, as you have such a variety to choose from when you wrap and decorate.

As part of our team recently visited Japan for a business trip, they brought back some kawaii stuff of course: A couple of kawaii letter sets and some adorable bento boxes. Of course they could only bring back what they could carry, so we only have very limited stock of those items.

We haven’t finished adding all those fantastic new Michael Miller fabrics that we got last week yet, but some of the new designs are already online.

Sounds good, huh? But we have to tell you: We’re expecting quite a few new deliveries in the next weeks, so there will be more novelties to be announced soon.

white Rilakkuma bear bread squishy cellphone charm

turquoise squid octopus squishy cellphone charm

grey dumpling plush cellphone charm kawaii

plush cellphone holder blue Hannari Tofu with face

kawaii Deco Tape adhesive tape 10pcs Set 55

cute yellow Bear Bento Box Japanese lunch box

kawaii Letter Paper set from Japan with deer butterfly

white Michael Miller fabric with blue whale from the US

brown Michael Miller fabric with colourful vegetables

We got a lot of new stuff this week in quite a few different categories. We added many Michael Miller fabrics, cellphone accessories, 10 piece deco tape sets and loooots of squishies. And besides all those donut squishies and Rilakkuma squishies that we restocked, we also got a couple of new models. Like those extremely adorable matryoshka squishies. Aren’t they super cute? We absolutely love them, unfortunately we didn’t get that many of them, so there are only a few ones available for you guys. Those nesting dolls are definitely our favourite product of the week.

red matryoshka nesting doll squishy cellphone charm

blue matryoshka nesting doll squishy cellphone charm

pink matryoshka nesting doll squishy cellphone charm