YAY YAY YAY we got our 3,000th order in our shop today! We can’t believe how popular our shop is now! Thanks to everyone for your support, your recommendations to your friends and family and more! Our 3,000th order is from a nice lady from Magnolia, Texas, USA. Thank you! We promise we will keep working hard on making this shop the cutest shop with the most kawaii products on the internet!

This month I am busy testing our new software. Until now we used a software from Germany called Afterbuy to handle our product database, customer database and our orders. As we were growing bigger we got to the limits of this software. We decided at the beginning of 2010 to change to a new software. We tested different commercial software for 1 month but couldn’t find anything suitable for us and our business model. Therefore, Alan, my husband, who is a very experienced programmer, started to program a custom made software for our business. It was a very big decision for us because we are only 3 people working fulltime for this business, me, Alan and one packing staff. So one person spent his whole time on programming and I had to take over managing the business which was growing significantly the last months. It was really hard work but Alan finally finished the software at the end of July and we started testing it this month. As there are still lots of bugs and changes, we have to run both software at the same time which means double work for me. But we plan to shut down the German software at the end of this month and only use the new software. I can’t wait for this to happen because it will make a lot of my work easier, faster and more efficient. I would like to thank Alan for this great software! THANK YOU!!!

We received some new cute stationery from Japan this week. We got memo pads, letter sets, stamp sets and even some really kawaii chopsticks. I just love opening those boxes from Japan full with the cutest stationery and other goodies. It’s like Christmas all year long Here are some pictures we took:

kawaii stamp set with bunnies

cute chopstick sets with Alice in Wonderland

panda bear letter set

matryoshka memo pad

Alice in Wonderland notebook from Japan

We got lots of new products and therefore had to expand our warehouse space. A huge load of Tenshi Neko, Akuma Neko and Mimori bags arrived the other day. We also received lots of new Japanese fabrics for the coming Autumn/Winter 2010 season, including some really cute Halloween and Christmas fabrics from Japan. Our packing table was also upgraded and packing is more efficient now. We put a whole shelf on the table for all the envelopes and plastic bags. On top of the shelf is a bubble wrap roll fixed,  so our packing staff can easily pull down some bubble wrap for packing. I took some pictures after we finished setting everything up and looking tidy again. Have a look at the pics here:

our new packing table

lots of new Japanese fabrics

Tenshi Neko, Akuma Neko and Mimori bags

We already started selling this year’s Halloween fabrics and Christmas fabrics in our store modes4u.com. Luckily, some of our suppliers have some really awesome fabrics with cute prints this year so we immediately ordered them. Most of the fabrics are Japanese fabrics with, for example pandas dressed as Santa Claus, matryoshkas dressed as witches, cute reindeers, colourful mushrooms, candy and cookies and many more. Halloween is coming soon, so make sure you order your Halloween fabrics in time for this fun day. And Christmas will be here sooner than we realize So get your kawaii Christmas fabrics quickly for some cute Christmas projects. We would love to see what you make with our fabrics, so please send us your pictures to our email info@modes4u.com.

Japanese fabric with beautiful Christmas print

Michael Miller Christmas fabric

pink fabric with pandas, bunnies and bears dressed as Santa Claus

cute fabric with Santa Claus, macaroons and other candy

kawaii Halloween fabric from Japan

kawaii Halloween fabric with matryoshkas dressed as witches

cute animals fabric with Halloween theme

arrival of our Japanese fabrics

We received another order of Japanese fabrics from Cosmo Japan. This time we got this year’s Halloween fabrics and Christmas fabrics already! We are very excited about them because they are just uber-cute and it is so hard to find kawaii Christmas fabrics and Halloween fabrics from Japan. In Japan Halloween and Christmas is just not that important than in Western countries. Here are some of my favorite fabrics:

cute pink Christmas fabric from Japan

Japanese kawaii Christmas fabric

cute Halloween fabric with matryoshkas

fabric with kawaii animals dressed up for Halloween

super kawaii fabric with panda bears and mushrooms

white Alice in Wonderland fabric from Japan

We finally have some Heather Ross fabric and Echino fabric from Japan! They are gorgeous fabrics and so beautiful. We also ordered lots of other new Kokka fabrics and we just love them all. Kokka’s fabric quality is amazing, the prints are as always perfect and beautiful colours and the designs are just too cute We got prints with cute frogs, owls, Alice in Wonderland, matryoshka, deers, Eau de Mer fabrics, and many many more. It was really hard, but I chose some of my favorite Japanese fabrics from Kokka:

cute pink deer Japanese fabric

echino fabric Bird Song from Japan

Heather Ross fabric Rapunzel from Japan

cute little owls fabric by Kokka Japan

many cute green frogs, some have a tiny crown

after unpacking the boxes (on top are a few Cosmo fabrics as well)

Finally they are back: our very popular Tenshi Neko bags are finally back in store! And together with Tenshi Neko, we also got some Akuma Neko and Mimori bags. Who is Tenshi Neko? She is a cute kitty with a halo and looks a bit like Hello Kitty. So if you are looking for a Hello Kitty bag, you may like our Tenshi Neko bags as well. Akuma Neko is like the evil counterpart of Tenshi Neko. And Mimori is a cute little Asian girl who loves food and animals. Here are some of our most popular bags:

cute Tenshi Neko bag

one of our most popular Tenshi Neko bags

we also have small size Tenshi Neko bags

Akuma Neko dressed like Dracula

cute Mimori bag

our Tenshi Neko bags in our warehouse

Today we received 2 long awaited orders of Japanese fabrics from Kokka and Cosmo. We are so excited, there are so many new cute and awesome prints like Alice in Wonderland, kawaii animals, matryoshka, skulls, flowers, Christmas fabrics and Halloween fabrics and many many more. One of my favorite fabrics are definitely the kawaii Christmas fabrics by Cosmo, they are just too cute We took some pictures of the fabric bolts, so you can enjoy them as well

lots of bolts of Kokka fabric

cute fabric from Japan by Cosmo

We started with weekly giveaways on our Facebook Fanpage! If you are not a fan yet, make sure to visit our page and “Like it“. You will then see our newest giveaways and news. Our gifts are mostly items that are unique and cannot be purchased in our shop. We also offer free content there like free wallpapers etc. + post pictures from our office and warehouse.

screenshot of our Facebook fanpage