We ordered some more shelves for our office so we can expand our warehouse space and stock more products. We totally ran out of space and had to get more shelves. I took some pictures to show how hard we worked today

the first few new shelves are standing

we plan to expand our fabric section

all Kutsuwa products (DIY clay sets) got their own shelves

after we finished: the fabrics have more space now and we are ready to receive the next fabric orders

more space for our Kokka fabric bolts

part of our stock + the packing area

me working on my desk (on the left side is Pui Chi, my sister-in-law who was making buttons in that moment)

We are using some pictures from Japanese catalogs with really cute looking girls on them. I know lots of people wonder, how they do their make up and how they can look so different than other Asian girls. Their eyes are super big like dolls, very long eye lashes, perfect skin, blonde hair, lots of eye make up, nice clothes and so on. My sister-in-law found 2 videos on YouTube for me to show you guys how these girls really look like and how to do this make up. The videos are from a Taiwanese TV show and is actually really mean. They show 2 girls with make up on pictures and then show how the girls look in real. Everyone makes fun of them when they reveal themselves and I think that’s really harsh. After that, the 2 girls show how they do their make up to look like on the pictures again. Enjoy!

Tip: with make up: 00:09 and 00:49, without make up: 02:18 and 4:25

Tip: posing for the camera: 03:50 and 04:45

As we are getting so many new products every week, we decided to make a new category in our online shop called “New Products“. This category shows all products we got within the last 2 weeks and they are ordered by date. That means when you click into the category, the top item is the newest product we added to the shop. I hope this category helps our customers to get an overview of the latest products we have in our kawaii shop.

screenshot of our shop with the new category

There are new Kutsuwa clay products available in our shop now. We got 2 more clay sets to make your own donuts, macaroons and other sweets and we finally got some glitter, deco stones and more for decorating cellphones, NDS, PSP and more. There is also a yellow Fuwa Fuwa clay in store now. All products are from Japan and have the perfect Japanese quality.

Japanese DIY clay set for making macaroons and other sweets

DIY clay set for lots of different donuts

yellow Fuwa Fuwa clay from Japan

tiny decoden items

I got an enquiry from a German magazine editor because they want to publish our cherry hairclips in their magazine. The magazine is a customer magazine for bank customers. Funnily, we are customers with that German bank too What a coincidence! We will get a copy of the magazine once it is printed. Here are the 2 pictures they got from us:

cherry hairclips

skull cherry hairclips

We finally got our first delivery of Cosmo fabrics from Japan! We are so excited, it was so hard to find those fabrics as they are made in Japan and we had to find the manufacturer first. We are now an official distributor for Cosmo fabrics! We placed an order right away, but only half of the order arrived today. The other half will arrive at the end of May. We got some fabrics with cute girls, Alice in Wonderland fabric, fabric with sweets and donuts and Paris themed fabric.

Alice in Wonderland fabric from Japan

cute Cosmo fabric with girls

Japanese kawaii fabric

Japanese fabric with donuts, sweets, cupcakes, candy and more

Paris themed Japanese fabric

We got some new Japanese fabrics from Kokka today. Most of them are fairy tale prints with Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Bremen Town Musicians and Bambi. We also got a really cute cupcake fabric, little florets print, circus animals fabric and a Japanese Jersey with cars suitable especially for boys. Here are some pictures with links directly to our shop:

Japanese fabric with Little Red Riding Hood

Peter Pan fabric

Bremen Town Musicians fabric

Japanese jersey with cars

gauze fabric with cute cupcakes

Cinderella fabric

Today we got our 2,000th order in our online shop www.modes4u.com! Wow! We are so proud of that. Our 2,000th order goes to a customer in Bournemouth in the UK. I have been to Bournemouth a few years ago, it’s a cute little city at the Southern coast of the UK. We would like to say THANK YOU to all our customers who support us so much and are also so kind, friendly, funny, patient and more

Next we went back to Shinjuku because I wanted to check out a fabric shop I heard about.

another truck with a cute ad on it

Shinjuku shopping district

some really colourful neon-colour cellphones

Our destination was “Okadaya“, a multi-level fabric shop I heard about online. We checked out all floors, unfortunately I wasn’t that excited about it as we saw a lot more in Fabric Town in Nippori before already. However, the shop opposite, which also belongs to Okadaya, is totally worth a visit. See some pictures below:

Okadaya fabric shop in Shinjuku

found a couple of cute fabrics

the 2nd Okadaya shop has a whole floor with DIY books

another floor just for buttons

lots of cute buttons

one floor is only for ribbons

ribbons and more ribbons

I found our Polymer Clay fruit slices there as well

We went back to our hotel, picked up our stuff and took the express train to the airport.

express train from Shinjuku to the airport

we saw lots of rice fields on the way to the airport

lots of yummy mochi and more at the airport shops

Our last day in Tokyo! We got up early in the morning again because we wanted to see Ginza and part of Shinjuku before hearding to the airport. On the subway we experienced the crazy Tokyo rush hour everyone talks about. Usually people are really polite and cautious, but suddenly they were all pushing into the train like mad and it was really crowded. We walked along the main street in Ginza and took lots of nice pictures. As it was 10am in the morning it was really quiet there and it was very nice walking around.

me in Ginza

there were so many pretty blooming trees

Alan and me on Ginza

Nissan has a showroom there showing a Zero Emission concept car

we saw some cute delivery trucks

another cute promotion truck

Japanese bakery in Mitsukoshi

We found a really cute shop there called “Toypark“, many floors with toys, plushies and more. We took lots of pictures in the store:

store front of Toypark

they had a Hello Kitty robot

lots of Rilakkuma plush toys

me with a big Hello Kitty plushie

lots of cute things

Totoro plushies

me with Nyanpire

DIY toys to make cakes, cookies, sandwiches, candy and more

they even had a big racing park, Fernando Alonso has been playing there before (they showed a pic of him playing)

me with a huge almost man-sized Nohohon