We are surrounded by cute things everyday, but this one beats them all. We have an adorable visitor in our office at the moment. Our managing director Sandra is on Christmas holiday in Austria and all the remaining modes4u staff takes care of her cat. That super sweet animal really can’t complain about not getting enough attention, because everybody is stroking her constantly. Still, her favourite thing to do is sleeping. Her favourite spot for that is an empty box where she cuddles up and naps for hours. So cute!

Unfortunately this cat isn’t for sale - otherwise we would have bought it ourselves already – but if you can’t get enough of those soft purring animals, take a look at all of our cat products. In particular we added a lot of new Kutusita Nyanko items recently. That black cat with the white paws is really sweet.

Our office visitor in her new favourite spot

The cute cat sleeping (what else?) in one of our warehouse alleys

fluffy Kutusita Nyanko pencil case with cat

Kutusita Nyanko grey cat plush cellphone charm

kawaii squishy charm with pink cat

cute small stickers with many cats Japan kawaii

Michael Miller fabric Contented Cats with colourful cat

cute bookmark stickers colourful cats on roof Post-it

blue-white polka dots ballpoint with cat

My husband and I will be on holidays during the holidays to visit my family in Austria. Our packing staff will continue working in the office, so don’t worry about any shipping delays. All paid orders will be shipped within 1 business day as usual. We wish everyone a happy time with family, friends and workmates/classmates. Merry Christmas!

our Christmas header in our shop

We send everyone all the best from Austria! I hope you have a great New Year 2010 and may there be lots of cute things happening I added some photos from our stay in Austria again. We booked a private plane to take us to the Austrian and Swiss mountains for a great view. It was snowing the night before heavily and on the day of our flight, it was a perfect sunny day so we could take lots of great pictures of my home. Enjoy!

beautiful Lake of Constance, my hometown Bregenz is right next to it

bird's eye view of Lindau, Germany, the island in the Lake of Constance

the Austrian Alps: beautiful and breathtaking

Wanna go skiing? It was a perfect day for doing that.

me on the plane being super happy

Alan was the Co Pilot

and one more pic of the gorgeous white mountains

We wish everyone a Merry Christmas 2009! We are in Austria now visiting my family for Christmas and enjoying our holidays a lot. To give you guys an idea what we are doing, I added some photos below:

Christmas Dinner at my home

we went to Nurnberg, Germany to visit the famous Christmas market

in the Austrian mountains, it was snowing crazily and we had lots of fun.

We had to cover our mouth and nose because it was so freezing cold.

one of our many crashes with the sled. We always landed in the soft snow so it didn't hurt.

We bought a new camera for taking product pictures. We used the Canon 30D and replaced it with the newest Canon 7D. It was released today and Alan went and bought it today. He was afraid it will sell out immediately, so he had to get there on the release day. This new camera will help us to take even better pics of our productsand make it easier and faster to take detailed pictures with very nice colours. Of course the camera will be used for other occasions as well, as Alan is a passionate photographer during his free time. We are going back to my hometown Bregenz in Austria during Christmas and I am sure the camera will be used there very often.

our new camera Canon 7D

Coincidentally I found out that my interview incl. my pic was printed in another newspaper this week. The name of the newspaper is “Vorarlberger Wirtschaft” and is an economy newspaper mainly talking about the Austrian economy. They used the same interview and wrote a new text about me. The article is about my university in Austria “Fachhochschule Vorarlberg” and they mention me in the report saying I am an “entrepreneur in Hong Kong managing her own business” and have a “successful international carreer“. Sounds really good to me I didn’t know that my interview is going to be printed in another newspaper but today my sis sent me an email telling me that her boss just gave her that newspaper and told her that her sis is in the paper. Otherwise I may have never found out about that. Thanks sis. Here is a link to the complete article (in German): Interview

interview economy newspaper

I checked my Google Analytics Account today to see how many visitors we had in our online shop over the weekend. Usually Germany is number 1 and USA number 2. But yesterday, Austria was for the first time number 1! The reason is very simple, my interview was publish yesterday and the shop link was placed very prominently under the headline. So some people wanted to check out my shop after reading my interview. We even got an order from a nearby village where I grew up. I guess I should do more interviews?!?