Pretty, beautiful, gorgeous. We finished adding all the Kokka fabrics from our last delivery to our shop. So now you can find the latest echino collection, which looks amazing. The designs by Etsuko Furuya are always really lovely, but each time we get new fabrics, we are blown away how vividly coloured they are. For example check out that new scooter fabric. Isn’t it super cool and colourful? We got the design in 4 different colours, so you can pick your favourite one.

We also got a couple of new Kokka fabrics designed by Nancy Wolff. These super cute animal prints will be great if you want to sew something for children. On two designs you find the word ‘Hello’ translated into many different languages, so the kids might even end up improving their language skills .

echino canvas designer fabric scooter Vespa purple

echino canvas designer fabric London blue from Japan

echino canvas fabric Wish purple birds flowers

colourful animals canvas designer fabric by Nancy Wolff

Hello animals canvas designer fabric by Nancy Wolff

Animal heads canvas designer fabric by Nancy Wolff

Airport airplane canvas designer fabric by Nancy Wolff

It looks like 2012 will be a good year for all Re-Ment lovers. Re-Ment will release quite a few new sets in the next couple of months and just announced a new big Rilakkuma set. It consists of 10 really adorable Japanese candies in the shape of Rilakkuma bear and will already be released in Japan on the 27th of February. We will try to get it for our shop as soon as possible.

It’s a really nice set, we always like it a lot when they create series that have a connection to Asian culture. The Rilakkuma set looks totally cute and also makes you want to explore Japanese candies, as they look so delicious. Do you know what everything is? We have to admit that we’re not completely sure. Check out what our guess is below the third picture and feel free to correct us if we are wrong.

Yummy and delicious: new Rilakkuma Miniature set coming soon

typical Japanese candies in the shape of Rilakkuma - super cute

a big set with 10 pieces - do you know what everything is?

No.1: Taiyaki
No.2: Onigiri
No.3: Kusa Mochi
No.4: Mochi Stick
No.5: Green Tea
No.6: Senbei
No.7: Kakigori Ice Cream
No.8: Japanese Lollipop?
No.9: Mizu Yokan
No.10: Kashiwa Mochi Sakura

Are we right or do you know better?

On February 20th Re-Ment will release the Minnie Mouse Deco set in Japan. All Disney and Decoden-Fans will love this line up. There are 5 different Re-Ments to the set, all consisting of a super pretty sparkling Minnie Mouse head plus one more detail like a heart, macaroon or ribbon. They will look great on your mobile, iPod, mirror or where ever you want to put them. You just can’t wait until it is released? To help you pass the time until then take a look at the Minnie Mouse Re-Ments we have in our shop.

looks super cute - the new Re-Ment Minnie Mouse set

these decorations will definitely embellish all your stuff

5 different Re-Ments belong to that set

We just added some Kokka fabrics to our shop. There is a lot of really cool new stuff, like that funky retro London fabric, that we fell in love with. You should also take a look at the ‘fabrics for boys’ section, we added a whole bunch there. So you can find quite a few new robot designs, but also stuff with tools or vehicles.

Some of our popular fabrics such as the Kokka elephants or car fabric we got in new colours.

What’s coming up? We’ll add new Echino fabrics really soon and after that it will be time to give you some Robert Kaufman fabrics from the USA. Lots of things to look forward to.

funny animal fabric crocodile elephant lion by Kokka

cute red elephants fabric by Kokka from Japan

double gauze fabric little crocodiles from Japan

robot fabric for boys with rocket stars by Kokka

London fabric with Big Ben emblem guard by Kokka

funny white cars fabric for boys by Kokka Japan

cute gauze fabric forest bear bee from Japan

funny toolbox children fabric for boys from Japan

funny canvas fabric for boys robot car by Kokka

canvas children fabric school elephant rabbit dog Kokka

Hey, isn’t that good news? Re-Ment announced two new sets, which will be released in Japan in January and February. They both are food Re-Ments with delicious dishes and candy. The first one to be released is a cute Minnie Mouse Re-Ment Set with lots of pastry, cupcakes and sweets. It also has an impressive and really huge birthday cake, the kind of cake every person dreams about. The set consists of 8 parts, will be released in Japan on the 23rd of January and is just perfect to be displayed in the Mickey & Minnie Re-Ment Showcase that we recently added to our shop.

On February 13th a new Hello Kitty set will be unleashed on Japan. It’s a really adorable Happy Birthday Re-Ment consisting of 6 sets with a great cake and more lovely birthday food. A nice gimmick: You can take out one piece of the cake, so you have two ways to display it. C-U-T-E.

We hope to have both sets in our store soon and will keep you posted on this. Which Birthday cake do you like better? Minnie Mouse or Hello Kitty?

the new Minnie Mouse set coming in January

yummy pastry, cakes and cupcakes

all 8 sets of the new series

a new Hello Kitty Re-Ment coming in February

adorable Birthday food

all in all there are 6 different sets

Did you get some nice cards for this last Christmas? We certainly did, many of our business partners and suppliers sent us nice wishes for Christmas and New Year’s. It is so nice to get cute and pretty mail, we enjoy it a lot. The cards are so different, but all really nice, so we thought we share them with you. Which one do you like best? The first three cards come from Japan, the last two designs from Hong Kong.

Cute Christmas Card with all San-X characters wishing good luck

very nice and fine card from Japan with Japans Fuji mountain

bright and festive card from Japan

this one is obvious: Seasons Greetings from Hong Kong

a very artful card from Hong Kong wishing peace, hope & prosperity

Good Re-Ment news. During the Christmas days Re-Ment announced to release a new Rilakkuma set soon. There will be 6 super sweet Rilakkuma ice cream cones pens. Every pen will write in a different colour and they are all in different flavours and ‘toppings’. One even has a cute Kiiroitori chick as a topping. We like the vanilla pen with the cherry on top really a lot. Which one is your favourite? Re-Ment will release the new set in Japan on January 30th.

the new Rilakkuma Re-Ment set

super cute ice cream pens that write in different colours

there are 6 different pens overall, just kawaii

Sushi is the most popular Japanese dish outside of Japan and has many fans all around the world. You know somebody who is an absolute Sushi lover and still haven’t found the right Christmas gift for that person? Your search can end here. We recommend some fun stuff.

Our unique Christmas gift idea for Sushi lovers: cute Sushi gimmicks

The Sushi lover will enjoy the pleasure of Sushi in a different way. For example with some cute Sushi sponge stickers or incredibly tasty looking Sushi erasers. What about some Sushi Re-Ments to decorate or collect? We also carry sushi fabrics or plushies. The Sushi lover can  be surrounded by his favourite dish constantly.

Tuna Sushi eraser from Japan by Iwako

Cuttlefish Sushi eraser from Japan by Iwako

funny white sushi fabric Robert Kaufman

funny3D sponge sticker set with sushi kawaii

Re-Ment Sushi Mascot miniature surprise blind packet

cute big blue deer cellphone charm sushi

cute Gachapin sponge sticker with sushi kawaii

Yesterday we got a really, really, really huge delivery from Japan. It contained 52 boxes of products by San-X! When we got the whole stuff off the pallets to take a look at it, almost all our office space was gone, everything was filled with boxes. We started unpacking yesterday, but it will take till the end of today until we finish putting everything on our shelves. From next week then it’s all about taking pictures and getting the products online.

So what’s coming??? Tons of Rilakkuma stuff, a lot of cute items from Sentimental Circus, pink rabbit Chou-Fleur and black cat Kutusita Nyanko.

our San-X delivery - doesn't look that much here on the photo

but then we started unpacking

and suddenly there was no room left in our office

but opening the boxes was really fun

We always have a lot of cute deco tapes in our shop. Now we ordered something new and hope you will like it. We got several really pretty paper deco tape sets from Japan. Each one consists of 4 paper tapes in different sizes and with different designs. The set even comes with a tape cutter, although you can also tear them by hand pretty easily. So they are really great for crafting and scrapbooking. What is the difference to Washi tape, you might ask. Washi Tape is a tape made of the Japanese Washi Paper and really easy to reposition and detach. This paper tape can most likely just be used once as you can’t detach it easily once you put it. We like it a lot and will add some more paper tapes during the next days and weeks. Which set is your favourite so far?

Paper Tape set flower ladybird cloverleaf dots

Paper Tape set car airplane robot dots

Paper Tape set bike car toys stripes

Paper Tape set strawberry dots ribbon birthday

Paper Tape set flower ladybird cloverleaf bird

Paper Tape set flower cat strawberry cloverleaf

Paper Tape set Paris France Eiffel Tower