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Check out our Easter products

by modes4u February 26, 2014

We are ready for spring and Easter, therefore we put our Easter category online. You can find all the products from our shop in there which have a connection to spring and Easter: items with rabbits, chicks, eggs, ladybugs, flowers and more. We can’t wait for spring to arrive!

Browse through all the fun Easter and spring products in our Easter category

kawaii chick sauce spices container for Bento Box

rabbit with overall eraser from Japan by Iwako

yellow chick in egg eraser by Iwako from Japan

pink Hello Kitty bunny mobile phone plugy earphone jack

Rilakkuma yellow chick artificial leather key cover charm

Rilakkum egg kitchen painting eggs towel from Japan

light blue chick fabric by Dear Stella USA

light green sheep fabric by Dear Stella USA

white flower meadow fabric by Timeless Treasures USA

red chicken egg food fabric by Robert Kaufman USA

blue chick animal peep fabric by Robert Kaufman USA

kawaii bunny rabbit cake macaron stickers

kawaii rabbit bunny flower stickers by Q-Lia

kawaii rabbit bunny macaron pearls Note Pad Q-Lia

wide rabbit squirrel mt Washi Masking Tape deco tape

yellow egg with diamonds squishy cellphone charm

rabbit bunny donut cup Letter Set by Kamio

February 26, 2014 0 comment

New shop category: Sticky notes

by modes4u October 26, 2013

Over the last months we got so many new index stickers and sticky notes that we decided to open a new shop catgory for them. Now you can find all these cute bookmark stickers in the category “Sticky notes”, which is a subcategory of our sticker section.

Take a look at them if you need some kawaii office helpers for school, university, work or home. They are really lots of fun to work with and we carry more than 200 different ones.

funny warrior index stickers bookmark sticker

kawaii cat animal Post-it bookmark sticker Japan

frog at pond Post-it bookmark sticker Japan

Little Red Riding Hood Post-it bookmark stickers Otogicco

Rilakkuma Wonderland bear band Post-it bookmark sticker

Sentimental Circus carousel Post-it bookmark sticker San-X

kawaii animal rabbit cat bear Post-it bookmark sticker

kawaii seal and penguin Post-it bookmark sticker

colourful Kutusita Nyanko cat Post-it bookmark sticker

Rilakkuma brown bear Post-it bookmark sticker San-X

Rilakkuma white bear strawberry Post-it bookmark sticker

October 26, 2013 0 comment

New shop category: Fabric Bundles

by modes4u October 12, 2013

We have been selling fabric bundles for a while, but you might have had a hard time finding them, as they were scattered in all our fabric categories. As we already carry quite a selection we now decided to open a new fabric bundles category where you can find all different kinds of bundles we carry in one spot: Fat Quarters, Roll ups, charm packs and ten squares.

Fabric bundles are great for sewing little accessories and applications, but they also make a great gift. In the next days and weeks we will also add quite a few new bundles by Robert Kaufman.

Fat Quarter fabric bundle Girl Thing Michael Miller USA

Fat Quarter fabric bundle My Blue Heaven Robert Kaufman

Fat Quarter fabric bundle dots ice cream Robert Kaufman

Christmas fabric bundle elf owl Ten-Square Robert Kaufman

colourful Charm Pack organic fabric bundle Robert Kaufman

Charm Pack fabric bundle Cotton Couture Michael Miller

Roll-up Christmas fabric bundle roll elf owl Robert Kaufman

Roll-up fabric bundle roll Coffee brown Robert Kaufman USA

October 12, 2013 0 comment

Our Halloween and Christmas categories are online

by modes4u August 14, 2013

We like to start early. Even though it’s just August we already put our Halloween and Christmas categories online. We will add more products to those categories in the next couple of weeks. Still both of them are already filled with quite a lot of products worth checking out, as we received a few seasonal items in our last deliveries that you might not have seen yet.

Our seasonal categories will stay online until after the holidays, you can find them in the left menu bar of our online shop.

You can find our Christmas and Halloween category in our menu on the left side

beige Halloween fabric witch broom cat Alexander Henry USA

purple Halloween fabric with children Alexander Henry USA

pink Skelanimals cross skull fabric from the USA

black Halloween skull fabric Timeless Treasures USA

lime green Halloween spider fabric Timeless Treasures USA

candy snowman Christmas fabric Alexander Henry

green witch family Christmas fabric Alexander Henry USA

funny cowboy cowgirl Christmas fabric Alexander Henry

sexy Santa Claus pin up Christmas fabric Alexander Henry

Roll-up Christmas fabric bundle roll elf owl Robert Kaufman

August 14, 2013 0 comment

San-X shop modes4u: More than 2000 products and special editions

by modes4u June 19, 2013

Our partnership with the Japanese stationary and gift manufacturing company San-X really flourished in the past years. Last year we were super proud that we carried almost 1,000 San-X products in our shop, this year the amount has more than doubled. By now we carry more than 2,100 San-X products on modes4u.com. It’s not such a big surprise when you keep in mind that Rilakkuma is the most popular character in our shop, and also San-X’ most successful character.

It’s also a big honor that we are allowed to sell limited Rilakkuma editions. To celebrate Rilakkuma’s 10th anniversary San-X has been releasing quite a few super limited plush toy editions, which are almost exclusively available in Japan. Only a handful of retailers in the whole world are allowed to sell them outside of Japan and we are one of them. This is why you can buy the Rilakkuma zodiac sign edition or the Rilakkuma Chinese New Year edition at our shop.

We will keep ordering many new products from all the different San-X characters and soon we will hopefully have 3,000 San-X products in our shop.

We are one of the few international shops worldwide allowed to sell the limited Rilakkuma zodiac signs edition

There are more than 250 pens and pencils by San-X in our shop

Choose between more than 200 San-X folder with all the different characters

Choose between more than 200 San-X folders with all the different characters

The Rilakkuma Washi Tapes are quite new in our shop

We have a huge selection of plush toys with Rilakkuma, Mamegoma and all the other San-X characters

June 19, 2013 2 comments

New character box on our website

by modes4u September 28, 2012

We added a new feature to our shop that lots of you will like. From now on you find a box with pictures from the most popular characters on modes4u in the left sidebar on every page. When you click onto the icon you can see all the products with that character that we currently carry in our shop. Isn’t that super cool? See all our stuff with Rilakkuma, Little Red Riding Hood, Hello Kitty, Piggy Girl or My Melody and many more kawaii characters.

Looks adorable – our new character box on modes4u.com

You’ll find the character box on every page in our shop on the left side

September 28, 2012 0 comment

New in our shop: Alexander Henry fabrics

by modes4u August 23, 2012

You might have noticed some of the funky new designs in our fabric section already. We now carry Alexander Henry fabrics in our shop and love the new designs. Until now we mainly added Christmas fabrics, but many more will follow in the next weeks. One of our favourites already is the kawaii Kokeshi doll fabric that we ordered in different colours.

The textile design house Alexander Henry is situated in California, USA, and has been in the fabric business for more than 30 years. They make cutting-edge cotton prints and each pattern is still painted by hand. Their fabrics are made in Japan, so they really stand for high quality. They say themselves that their designs are inspired by art history, runway fashion and the culture at large, which we think really shows in their prints, e.g. their big pin-up series that’s clearly inspired by the 50s. How do you like them?

white Japanese Kokeshi doll fabric by Alexander Henry

olive green Alexander Henry fabric with colourful mushrooms

white Christmas fabric animals mistletoe Alexander Henry

white Alexander Henry Christmas fabric angel reindeer star

light blue Alexander Henry Christmas fabric with snowman

white Christmas fabric Pin up men Alexander Henry USA

August 23, 2012 0 comment

Check out our eerie kawaii Halloween shop design

by modes4u August 13, 2012

modes4u.com is full of witches, ghosts, pumpkins, bats and black cats. A couple of days ago we launched our Halloween design to put you in the right mood for the upcoming spooky holiday on October 31st. We have to admit that the little figures are rather cute than scary, but we can’t help it, we’re just a kawaii shop. The three Halloween designs rotate randomly in our shop, so you might see a different header each time you refresh or change a page. Of course the header of this blog can’t stay behind, so we gave it a Halloween design as well.

Don’t forget to check out our Halloween category to have a look at all of our Halloween items. We’ll update the page regularly and add new items.

Super cute Halloween matryoshkas on design no. 1

Black cats and pumpkins on design no. 2 - a classic

Trick or treat: little ghosts and candy

August 13, 2012 0 comment

New fabric category on modes4u.com: organic fabric

by modes4u June 28, 2012

Go green with modes4u. We have been offering some organic fabrics for a while already, but as our customers really like those eco-friendly fabrics and have been asking for more, we decided to open a new category in our online shop just for organic fabrics. Also we will enlarge our product range to offer you guys more colourful fabrics that meet environmental and social criteria. While we already carry quite some organic fabrics by Robert Kaufman, we will also receive super pretty fabrics by Birch and monaluna from the USA in the next couple of weeks.

All the fabrics in this category are made from 100% organic cotton. Robert Kaufman and Birch are also certified by the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), which is the leading processing standard for textiles made from organic fibres worldwide. You can be sure that companies with this label produce fabrics that meet the high environmental and social criteria, for example that dyes and other inputs meet certain environmental and toxicological aspects.

This is our new fabric category in our online shop modes4u.com

Robert Kaufman, Birch and monaluna are some labels that we offer in our shop

orange organic fabric with robots by Robert Kaufman

brown organic fabric chicken & flower by Robert Kaufman

white organic fabric pink flowers Robert Kaufman

June 28, 2012 0 comment

4 years modes4u: How it all started

by modes4u March 27, 2012

Last week our online shop modes4u turned four and we started a big giveaway to celebrate our birthday. When we were preparing our birthday activities, we also wrote a little article about our shop and looked back on how everything started and developed in the last years. We thought it might be nice to share that with you, if you are interested in some funny facts and background information. And don’t forget to join our giveaway by leaving a comment on our blog post 4 years modes4u: BIG Happy Birthday Giveaway. The giveaway is still open till April 3rd.

From 1 to 100 – the kawaii online shop modes4u celebrates its 4th birthday

1640 days ago the online shop modes4u.com opened its virtual doors. Since then the team around native Austrian and company founder Sandra Boch has been sending cute and playful stationery, fabrics and accessories to more than 25,000 customers worldwide. What started with one order per week is now at around 100 per day, and modes4u celebrates its 4th birthday.

Enthusiasm, ambition and maybe a dozen products, that’s what it began with. “We received the first order in our shop around 3 weeks after we went online. It came from Germany and I was so happy that we finally got one“, 30 year old company founder Sandra Boch remembers. Even 4 years after her business opening the young entrepreneur is still excited about every order. But by now she gets a lot more. Today the modes4u-team processes an average of 100 orders per day, in the busy pre-Christmas weeks they even receive several hundred every day. “That’s when really everybody has to help, so that we can handle that amount”, Sandra says.

The Native Austrian, who emigrated to Hong Kong many years ago, established the online shop for cute stationery, fabrics, accessories and DIY-items in 2007 with her Chinese husband Alan Mak. On March 20th 2008 they launched the website www.modes4u.com. “In the first months we maybe had one order per week; we stored the products in our flat and took pictures of them in our bedroom”, IT manager Alan remembers. Today the couple employs 6 German and Chinese staff members, developed its own storage and packing system and has a professional photo studio. The company just moved into a new office last year, but will change location again in 2012: They are just running out of space.

Almost 3,500 products start their journey from the office in Hong Kong to customers all over the world. Already 86 different countries received packages from modes4u. “But most of our orders are shipped to Germany, France and the UK. Many customers are from the USA too. A lot of our products, which we mainly import from Japan, are just really hard to get in those countries”, Sandra explains the success of her own company.

Win one of our cute San-X packages in our big birthday giveaway

March 27, 2012 0 comment