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

It’s just 40 days until Christmas. Today we added a cute Christmas countdown to our website. So you don’t lose track about how much time you still have left to get all those Christmas presents. And of course you can get excited about Christmas time approaching. We also posted the latest shipping dates for all countries. This way you can see when you have to place your order at modes4u the latest so that it still arrives for Christmas on time. We recommend to order as early as possible to avoid any disappointments. Have fun ordering all your presents and check out our new products, we got a lot of new stuff recently.

Christmas Countdown and Shipping Dates

YAY, we got added to the official San-X retailer list. It’s a really nice compliment to be one of their offical retailers now, we’re very happy about it. San-X is one of the largest character oriented stationary and gift manufacturing companies in Japan and one of our biggest suppliers for cute stationery, bento boxes and accessories. They developed characters such as Rilakkuma, Mamegoma, Kutusita Nyanko, Berry Puppy, Kireizukin or Kamonohashikamo, which are very popular in our shop. We have been working closely together with San-X since we started modes4u.com a couple of years ago, and becoming an official retailer is a nice sign for continuing our good business relations. So look out for all the new cute San-X stuff we will be adding frequently to our shop.

modes4u.com is an official San-X retailer

A lot of our customers record the opening of their packages from modes4u.com to share their excitement with their friends and the online-community on YouTube. For us it is also very interesting to see how the customers like the products, how satisfied they are with the packing and shipping and if they have any suggestions. So we always watch very closely. But of course is’s a lot of fun to see these videos, as lots of people get super excited when opening and seeing the Re-Ments, clay sets, fabrics or stationery for the first time. Almost as exciting as opening a birthday gift or christmas present it seems. We love your videos. Feel free to update us on YouTube or Facebook when you made one, we’ll surely watch it.

Man, those ones are really cool. We just got 3 new Re-Ments today that we have never had before. We’re sure you guys will love them. There are 2 Rilakkuma ones that are really quite different from each other. One is called ‘Chocolate Cafe‘ and has the most ADORABLE Rilakkuma desserts we have seen in a long time. The Rilakkuma toast and pancakes are out of this world! Overall the set consists of 6 different themes.

Then we got a set that goes quite good together with the ‘Chocolate Cafe’. It’s called ‘Cafe Table‘ and a fixed box set with just one theme – we don’t have these kinds of Re-Ments a lot. It conists of super cute Rilakkuma chairs and a table with different table cloths, so it’s perfect to put the cute desserts and sweets on it.

The last new one is called ‘Work Wear‘ and has 8 super cute different working outfits such as nurse, cheerleader, maid and more. Check out the new stuff on our website, we’re sure they will be very popular.

Re-Ment Rilakkuma Chocolate Cafe Dolls Miniature

Re-Ment Rilakkuma Cafe Table Dolls Miniature chair

Re-Ment Work Wear Miniature Box working clothes outfit