If you want to surprise your loved ones with a little Valentine’s Day treat make a cute Valentine’s Day Bento. We found some really cute Valentine’s Day Bentos on several blogs that might inspire you. They look super adorable and are a great way to express your love. For most of them you just need a heart-shaped food cutter, cookie cutter or rice ball shaper. Heart-shaped bento cups are also a good start.
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We are in love with all the beautiful things the editors of the German creative magazine Lena Creativ made with our fabrics. For their Easter edition they used many of the fabrics from our Dots, Stripe, Checkers category to make lovely projects for outdoor life. We are super impressed with the pillows, covers, parasol, bunting and decoration items. But our favourite one is the lovely big cushion made with one of our Michael Miller cotton sateen fabrics.

We are featured in the Easter edition of German magazine Lena Creativ

These garden tool covers are made with fabrics from our shop

Wonderful bunting and cushions made with fabrics from modes4u

Isn’t this parasol amazing? It’s also made with our fabrics

Lovely fabric wind chime with fabric scraps from our shop

The dog pillow on the left is made with our Paris Timeless Treasures fabric

This big cushion made from our Michael Miller cotton sateen fabrics is our favourite item

Funny find: The lovely letter set in the front is also from our shop
It’s all about hearts, love and affection…. and also about gifts! Valentine’s Day is just a couple of days away. We have been looking through our products and found lots and lots of cute heart products that are perfect little gifts for February 14th.
When you choose express shipping in our shop, you can be sure that your gifts still get to you in time for that special day, no matter where you live. Express shipping just takes 3-5 business days.
We now have the most amazing Hello Kitty baking accessories. The company Silcone Zone that makes avantgarde silicone kitchenware teamed up with Sanrio and released the adorable Siliconezone x Hello Kitty collection. It includes lots of adorable hot pink baking utensils made of silicone with Hello Kitty designs. There are chocolate molds, muffin molds, cake molds, cookie cutters, baking mats, rolling pins, spatulas, silicone coasters and oven mits. Time to start the Hello Kitty baking session.
It’s only a couple of days away. On January 31st the Year of the Horse starts. We love Chinese New Year, as there are so many celebrations and beautiful decorations. Today we embellish our blog with cute horse products.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to Chinese New Year public holidays from January 31st to February 3rd we can’t ship any orders, as all post offices are closed. From Tuesday, February 4th, we will start shipping again.
Hello Kitty is turning 40. Of course the kawaii cat is forever young, still she is having a huge party to celebrate her 40th anniversary. The convenience store chain 7 Eleven in Hong Kong is currently offering an adorable series of collectable toys with Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters in the kawaii promotion 7 Eleven x Hello Kitty “Hello Party”. All in all there are 30 little figurines which are released in two steps. The first part of the series was already available in December, the second part can be collected now.
Hello Kitty, Dear Daniel, My Melody, Kuromi and lots of other friends are either dressed up as fairies, wizards or aristocrats like kings, queens, pharaos, sultans and so on.
How to get one of the figurines? For every purchase of 20 HKD you get a stamp, when you have collected a certain amount you can claim a surprise box, which contains one of the characters.

Super cute 7 Eleven x Hello Party promotion in Hong Kong

Hello Kitty and her friends celebrate Hello Kitty’s 40th anniversary

These figurines are themed for Valentine’s day and Chinese New Year

Hello Party window decoration at a 7 Eleven store

With gigantic stickers like this on the windows it’s a lot of fun to walk through Hong Kong

The first part of the series with special Christmas themed figurines on the left

The presentation of the toys is super cute

The official Hello Party poster for the promotion
So kawaii! We now have lots of stationery items from the latest “Happy Natural Time with Rilakkuma” collection in our shop. It’s all about being out in the forest and collecting apples and fruit for delicious home-made pies. Rilakkuma and Korilakkuma are dressed as super cute deer while chick Kiiroitori is dressed as an owl. We love the warm, cozy vibes of this collection.
The range of products with the deer Rilakkuma designs is quite wide, we have stationery like folders, memo pads, pens, pencils, stamps, stickers, Masking Tapes and letter sets. But be sure to check out items like plush toys, cellphone charms, key covers, towels, bags, bandages or tissue cases.
They are one one of the creepiest San-X characters yet… but in a cute way. Check out all the funny Zombbit zombie rabbit stationery and plushies we now have in our shop. Zombbit rabbits are cute rabbits that somehow became zombies. The reason for this is not really clear, but there is no time to think about it, because the living dead bunnies are very hungry and will try to bite anything. They make the gnawing sound “gajigaji” all the time and are super slow. Once they bite another bunny it is infected too and will become a zombie.
Soon we will introduce the different Zombbit characters more detailed.
Time to catch up with our team member introduction series. Today is all about our office administrator Jacqueline, who helps us staying organised in the office.

Hello, who are you by the way?
My name is Jacqueline. I was born and raised in Hong Kong. For my last year of High School I moved to Australia and also went to university there. I studied Social Sciences, majoring in Japanese, Management and Sociology. This combination really enabled me to work in different fields. Since I came back to Hong Kong I have been working for example as a student counselor or in administrative positions like in a passport department.
What is your job at modes4u?
I am the office administrator and make sure everything runs smoothly here. I take care of new deliveries, buy office supplies, stamps and more. I spend a lot of time in the warehouse and work closely with our packing staff, as I am also in charge of unboxing new products. But I also support our Managing Director Sandra in many administrative tasks, do research, organise things and spend lots of time on the phone.
What is your favourite product or your favourite category at modes4u?
I love our owl fabrics. I don’t really sew myself; still I like to look at all the different fabrics. They look really cute and there are so many different styles of owl designs.
What do you like most about your job at modes4u?
It’s great to have so much cultural exchange here. It is my first time to work with people from Germany and Austria which I find very exciting, as every nationality has its different characteristics. I also enjoy trying different foods that my colleagues bring along and learn about their culture.
You’re surrounded by creative stuff the whole day. Do you like to craft or to be creative in your leisure time?
I do not craft very much, but like to be creative in other ways. Music is one of my passions; I am very active in my church band and love to sing.

Jacqueline and Rilakkuma: A big hug for our office mascot
Your kindergarten group, primary school students, little brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews will love it! San-X always offers lots of free e-goodies on their Japanese company website. For example you can download lots of kawaii coloring pages with characters like Rilakkuma, Mamegoma or Kutusita Nyanko. So why not make your own coloring book? You can save all the San-X coloring pages as pdfs, print them out and craft your own little booklet by stapling them together. Of course you can also use some Masking Tapes to decorate your book.
This is a great way to craft something simple for children.







































