We already wrote about Sandra’s and Alan’s cat staying in our office during their time in Austria. This week it was time for Miu to go home again. But she didn’t leave without having her big moment. And what a good one!

While being quite shy and careful at the beginning of her visit in our office, she got more adventurous with every day and explored every corner there is. Still our photographer Ho was quite surprised when he found Miu laying comfortably on his photo desk. He took advantage of the situation and took some cute pictures of our new super model with our stickers. Miu was quite a natural. Because she didn’t care about the camera and just relaxed. Perfect.

Now she has had her 5 minutes of fame and enjoys her home again. It’s probably for the best, as nobody would pay attention to our products anymore if an adorable real cat was in every picture.

perfect cat posing for the camera with stickers

Miu getting comfortable in front of the camera...and sleepy

our photographer Ho finding the new model in our little photo studio

Today, we got our new order delivered from Japan. We ordered lots of Q-Lia items including bags, flip flops, bento boxes, memo pads, stickers, chopsticks and notebooks. They are also super cute and so kawaii! My favorites are a Alice in Wonderland notebook, the blue bear bag and some capsule stickers with a pudding with faces on it. Super CUTE!!! I took a few pics of some of the items after we opened the boxes.

cute Q-Lia bags from Japan

kawaii bento boxes, chopsticks and stationery

super cute Japanese flip flops

Finally, I was able to get some super cute Q-lia stickers from Japan from one of our suppliers. These are some super cute big capsule stickers with little tiny beads in them. So if you shake them, they make some noise. There are 12 different designs in this collection, including Japanese Snacks stickers, Japanese Dessert stickers, cute Sushi stickers, cute animal stickers and more. Here are some pics, if you click on the pic you will be redirected to our shop where you can see more detailed pics of these super cute kawaii stickers.

Q-Lia Kawaii Fruits Sticker

Q-lia Kawaii Sushi Sticker

Q-lia Cute Chocolate Sticker

Complete collection of our kawaii Q-lia sticker

We got our first order on Etsy already! Who would have thought we will get our first sale so fast? I added our items in the late evening yesterday and overnight we sold 2 stickers to a lady in the US. YAY! Keep the orders coming

Today we started selling on Etsy. Yay!

Etsy is a website providing online shops to sellers who sell hand made items, art and craft and supplies. As we have lots of stickers etc., we decided to try it out and start selling our stickers there. They are supplies for making art and craft so they are suitable to sell there.

Here is a showcase of our items there:

I went to the Gifts & Premium Fair the first time today. We were just curious what they are offering there and hoped that we are lucky and find something interesting for our shop. The fair was huge; so many halls. Every time I go to a trade fair I come back home with burning feet and legs. It is SO exhausting. You don’t realize it while you are there because there are so many things to see so you are totally distracted. But after leaving the premises you suddenly realize how many kilometres you must have walked. High Heels are a No-NO, you just wouldn’t make it through countless aisles of booths.

I was really lucky this time as I met a Japanese guy who is the official distributor of San-X. If you don’t know San-X, here is the official website. They have lots of cute kawaii-style characters like Rilakkuma (a cute bear) and Mamegoma (a baby seal). San-X didn’t have a booth there but the factory who is producing their products gave me the contact details. I will definitely contact them. Their items would fit perfectly into our shop.

Rilakkuma, the cute Relax Bear

Mamegoma, a baby seal

We also found a contact for a printing shop here in Hong Kong who could make low quantity of t-shirts for us. The printing quality is really good so that could be a useful contact in the future. We plan to make our own t-shirts soon. And low quantities are always welcomed. There was also a company who could make our prints on stickers, so our customers could iron the designs themselves onto their t-shirts. But I personally think the printing shop is more interesting because the quality is just better.