You’re looking for a gift for somebody who likes to hug, sqeeze and cuddle? Easy task. Because at modes4u.com we have tons of fluffy, soft and adorable stuff.

Therefore our unique Christmas gift idea for cuddly types is: plush toys.

And not just plush toys that you can get in any toy shop. But adorable and squeezable plushies from Japan with well known characters such as Rilakkuma and Korilakkuma bears, Kiiroitori chick or cute deer. They are perfect for your bed, car, school bag or any place where you want a fluffy fellow.

Rilakkuma plush toy yellow chick as honey bee

Rilakkuma plush toy brown bear as strawberry

cute big lilac deer charm polka dots

A lot of you guys have been asking for them, that’s why we hurried like hell when they arrived. Today we got a first delivery of cute squishies that you can already buy in our shop. It is just a small delivery, so you better be quick if you want to get one. We expect them to be sold out super fast, as so many customers asked for them. It was really fun when they arrived.The whole office was grabbing and squeezing them, as they are just so soft and squeezable. We got mainly Donut and cake squishies, but also super cute ones with Rilakkuma bears and chicks. Kawaii as usual. Do you think we should already reorder?

Our first squishies delivery this morning

white donut squishy charm with chocolate sauce

green flower donut squishy charm with sprinkles

chocolate waffle squishy charm with sprinkles

muffin squishy cellphone charm with sprinkles

big green donut squishy charm with pocket mirror

big chocolate cake squishy cellphone charm

Rilakkuma bear bread squishy cellphone charm

Kiiroitori chick mushroom squishy cellphone charm

Korilakkuma bear mushroom squishy cellphone charm

Okay, people who like to read are not the hardest cases for finding Christmas presents. Just get them a book. But wait, isn’t that exactly what most of those people’s friends and families will do too? And isn’t that a bit boring? So let us show you another option.

In our unique Christmas gift idea for bookworms we present you: bookmarks.

Can you ever have enough of them? We don’t think so. They are super useful, small, easy to transport and have really cute designs and shapes. We stock severall bookmark stickers in different shapes, colours and prints, that will totally pep up every book you are reading.

big Little Red Riding Hood Post-it bookmark stickers

cute Christmas Post-it bookmark stickers Snowman

bookmark stickers fairy tale Alice princess

matryoshka Post-it bookmark stickers squirrel

You guys, we got tons of new products during the last days – and there is even more to come. Yesterday a delivery with 37 cartons of stationery arrived from Japan. Right, 37 cartons!!! We couldn’t even walk properly through the office, just every space available seemed to be taken. Some memo pads and pencil cases are already online in our shop, but it will take a couple of days until we finish to photograph every product and write the descriptions. But check our new products site during the next days, everyday we try to add as much stuff a s possible.

kawaii Memo Pad Hello Kitty with text from Japan

cute mini Memo Pad Little Red Ridinghood kawaii

ring binder notebook Alice in Wonderland donut

yellow pencil case Tweety & Sylvester from Japan

green Gachapin pencil case green monster & friends

cute My Melody pencil case tin can rabbit Japan

She likes to splash and swim and dive and you’re growing desperate thinking ”she obviously only needs water and a bathing suit to be happy”? But there are other ways you can make her eyes sparkle.

Check out our unique christmas gift idea for the bathing beauty.

Give her a cute and lovely smelling set of bath salt. Mmmmmh, taking a hot relaxing bath is just the best way to chill out. Choose either funny Rilakkuma sets with surprise figures when dissolving the ball in water or the classical Rilakkuma bath salt in different flavours such as lavender or lemon. Especially during the cold Christmas days a wonderful oasis of warmth and rest.

purple Rilakkuma Lavender bath salt by San-X Japan

Rilakkuma Murshroom bath bomb salt with surprise toy

It’s almost your duty to give this fellow a Christmas present. How else should he ever get his act together? And after all it’s totally obvious what you have to do. Just pick one or more of our huge selection of memo pads and make him happy.

Our unique christmas gift idea for the forgetful one is: a memo pad.

No big surprises here, but still a great effect. Because it’s the perfect combination of useful and pretty. And you can always use a good memo pad, especially when you’re super forgetful. A great side effect: Each time you take a note you get to show off a super cute memo pad. We have so many designs, from the mini memo pad that easily fits into the pocket of your jeans to the classical A4 notebook, that’s also perfect as an exercise book for school. We have adorable Rilakkuma prints, fairy tale designs, colourful matryoshkas and more. Take a look.

pink Rilakkuma mini Memo Pad bear with strawberry

Little Red Riding Hood die-cut memo pad from Japan

matryoshka ring binder notebook by Cram Cream

Mamegoma Seals Notepad exercise book hearts

colourful cars mini Memo Pad Cram Cream

You’re thinking about what to get this woman for Christmas who basically LIVES in the kitchen? She is always baking, cooking, frying, steaming and all those other things you can do there? And you’ve given her like a thousand kitchen accessories already, there is just nothing she needs? That doesn’t mean you can’t surprise her with an adorable kitchen gift she doesn’t have yet.

Here is our unique Christmas gift idea for: the kitchen fairy

Our lovely Little Red Riding Hood Coaster will blow her away. 1. Because it’s just cute and pretty. 2. Because there is always plenty of glasses and pots to be handled in a real kitchen fairy’s kingdom. This lovely non-slip coaster is made by Otogicco and comes from Japan.

cute Little Red Riding Hood coaster Otogicco from Japan

We always love it when you guys mention us on your blogs. Not only does it show us that you like our products, but we also learn a lot about what you like and want. So we can always improve our shop. Just today we found two more blogs where we were mentioned.
Torie Jayne did a really pretty collage with a gift guide 2011 where she included our lovely rose deco tape. Charlotte Charm made a cute review about her order in our shop. Thanks guys, we are always happy about feedback. Keep it up.

Torie Jayne

Charlotte Charm

This may turn out differently than you would have expected from the headline. Surely most of you think that one of our products got featured in the magazine Mollie Makes. But it is one of our blog pictures! We were surprised ourselves when they contacted us a little while ago. Now we got the magazine and you can check it out yourself.
For an article about fabrics from Tokyo ”Mollie Makes” was looking for a photograph of fabric town in Nippori. They saw the one we added to our blog when we went to Japan in April and liked it. So they asked if they could print it in their article and as they mentioned our website, we didn’t see a problem at all. It’s a nice magazine by the way, we could take a look at it now that they sent it to us. It’s from the UK “for people who love the crafty life” and started out just this May.

the cover of Mollie Makes

the article about Tokyo

with our blog photo on the right

here you see the whole modes4u picture

With every day passing it’s getting one step closer to Christmas. For all of you who don’t know what to give to their friends, aunts, brothers, neighbours, whosoever yet, you can lean back now. For the next 40 days we’ll present you every day a unique christmas gift idea for a very special person. Maybe it will be exactly the right thing, maybe it will inspire you to look for something else.

We start off with a unique Christmas gift idea for: hobbyists

You want to give a present to that person who just does everything himself? Who has gifted hands? Who will never get excited about the things you’ve given him so far as they just were not DIY? Christmas 2011 will change everything, when you give him one of our cool DIY eraser sets. We carry several Japanese eraser making kits with different designs and colours. They all come with different clay colours, several molds and instructions. They can be cute, cool, glow in the dark, glitter and much more. As fun for children as for adults. And after you’ve finished you have unique erasers to use or give away. How cool is that? Check out our many different clay sets and lots of accessories for a good clay experience.

cute DIY eraser making kit Fruits from Japan

funny DIY eraser making kit Insects from Japan

cute DIY eraser making kit Donuts from Japan