modeS Blog - Part 79

Panda-a-Panda lantern exhibition in Hong Kong mall apm

by modes4u September 29, 2013

In the Hong Kong shopping mall apm we found a cool exhibition combining a Hong Kong character with Chinese tradition. In the apm x Panda-a-Panda lantern exhibition the Hong Kong character Panda-a-Panda and his friends – a bunny and a lion – become beautiful lanterns. Clearly this theme is inspired by the Mid-Autumn festival, which we just celebrated here and which is all about lanterns (check our our Mid-Autumn Festival blog post). We totally like it, the choice of colours and patterns of the lanterns looks really pretty.

The lovely apm x Panda-a-Panda lantern exhibition in Hong Kong

The Panda-o-Panda panda bear is the star of the promotion in the shopping mall apm

Panda-o-Panda’s friend the bunny became a lantern too

We rellay liked the patterns on the lanterns, there was so much to discover

We really liked the patterns on the lanterns, there was so much to discover

This is Panda-a-Panda’s friend the lion

People are taking their pictures with the Panda-a-Panda lanterns

Mini Panda-a-Pandas in bright green and blue

The exhibition area from a distance

September 29, 2013 2 comments

Rilakkuma Wonderland collection in our shop

by modes4u September 27, 2013

We already mentioned it here and there, to celebrate Rilakkuma’s 10th Anniversary this year San-X released lots of special Rilakkuma editions. We now have almost 100 products with the Rilakkuma Wonderlandtheme in our shop. This collection is all about royalty and celebrations with Rilakkuma and his friends on carousels and dressed in marching band uniforms. It is super cute and super limited! We are one of the few online shops outside of Japan that is allowed to sell this collection internationally. And as it’s a limited edition we probably won’t be able to reorder it.

Check out all the stuff we have with this theme, you can find products in almost all our stationery categories: plushies, plush charms, cups, jewelry cases, pens, pencils, folders, letter sets, stickers, sticky notes, memo pads, clips, bags, pencil cases and more.

pink Rilakkuma Wonderland bear carousel jewel case casket

yellow Rilakkuma Wonderland cup bear marching band San-X

Rilakkuma Wonderland brown bear Timpani drums plushie

pink Rilakkuma Wonderland tin case pill box bear horse crown

pink Rilakkuma Wonderland ballpoint pen movable figure

cute Rilakkuma Wonderland bear parade A4 plastic file folder

Rilakkuma Wonderland brown bear marching band clip peg

pale pink Rilakkuma Wonderland pencil bear crown band

Rilakkuma Wonderland mini note pad marching band concert

Rilakkuma Wonderland carousel bear letter paper set

Rilakkuma Wonderland bear band carousel glitter stickers

Rilakkuma Wonderland bear carousel Post-it bookmark sticker

Rilakkuma Wonderland carousel book stationery set

Rilakkuma Wonderland yellow chick marching band plush charm

Rilakkuma Wonderland brown bear on horse plushie San-X

September 27, 2013 0 comment

Beautiful Lantern Carnival for Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong

by modes4u September 25, 2013

We just celebrated Mid-Autumn Festival here in Hong Kong, a wonderful harvest festival with lots of beautiful lantern installations all around the city. In Victoria Park there is a Lantern Wonderland every year which is really huge and impressive. But we also spotted beautiful lanterns at the harbour front of Tsim Sha Tsui. The theme of the little exhibition was ‘Home Sweet home’ and depicted typical situations of family life in Hong Kong like having a BBQ, eating Dim Sum, reading out to the children etc.

The lantern exhibition at Victoria Park revolved around the topic of food in Hong Kong. There were lots of funny lanterns depicting the favourite snacks and dishes of Hong Kongers, but also other themes could be found like a little animal love zoo or the ‘Rising Moon’, which was the centerpiece of this year’s exhibition. It was 10 meters high and made from 7,000 recycled plastic bottles lit with LED lights

Lanterns at Victoria Harbour in Tsim Sha Tsui showing rubber ducks and people having a bath

A family having a typical Chinese BBQ

A super big lantern wishing good fortune at the Lantern Wonderland in Victoria Park

Beautiful lanterns everywhere

Lanterns depicting fish balls – a super popular street food snack in Hong Kong

A popular snack: Egg waffles in a paper bag

Lots of lantern people gathered around a Chinese Hot Pot

The white lanterns are the famous buns of the Cheung Chau Bun Festival

Polar Bear Lanterns

A funny lion and elephant

Capricorn lanterns

A lantern girl holding a lantern for the Mid-Autumn festival

kawaii popcorn bear lantern

the Rising Moon which is made from recycled plastic bottles

The exhibition area is huge, there are pretty lights and lanterns everywhere

September 25, 2013 3 comments

What customers made with our products

by modes4u September 22, 2013

Wow, our customers in Europe are really creative with our products. Many people from Spain, Italy and France posted pictures of gorgeous things made with our products on our Facebook wall, so we want to share some of them with you. They are truly inspiring.

Our customers from Spain made some amazing stuff. Lola Godoy showed on her blog Redecora Te a great Washi Tape necklace makeover for which she used our black heart and purple spots Washi Tapes. A little while ago we also spotted an incredible shoe makeover there. Lola used one of our Robert Kaufman fabrics to give some high heels a new look. La Inglesita sewed an amazing children’s raincoat with our laminated Dino Dudes fabric. We totally love it.

In France our customers showed us lots of lovely bags lately. On Le Petit Monde de Lilaxel we saw this amazing school bag Lilaxel made for her son with our Super Kids fabric. Céline from Les Bêtes de Céline also sewed an amazing waterproof schoolbag with our echino bike laminate fabric. We adore the color, it looks so fresh and happy. Marie-Anne Thuillas from Made in Hémisphère Sud made a great big bag from our echino wildflower laminate fabric.

We finish with a great idea provided by our Italian customers Ross E Cris Petrilli. They put our funny dachshund fabric on a canvas and use it to display the prizes and ribbons their dachshund received at several contests. Isn’t that lovely?

Redecora Te con Lola Godoy showed a great DIY necklace makeover with Washi tape

Lola Godoy also showed on her Spanish blog a great shoe makeover with our fabric

On the Spanish blog La Inglesita we spotted this awesome raincoat made with our Dino Dudes fabric

On the French blog Le Petit Monde de Lilaxel we saw this super cool school bag made with our Super Kids fabric

Les Bêtes de Céline made this green school bag with our echino laminate fabric cycling

Made in Hémisphère Sud sewed a cool big bag with our echino fabric

Our Italian customers Ross E Cris Petrilli used our dachshund fsbric on canvas to display their dog's prize ribbons

Our Italian customers Ross E Cris Petrilli used our dachshund fabric on canvas to display their dog’s prize ribbons

September 22, 2013 0 comment

kawaii Halloween fabrics in our shop

by modes4u September 18, 2013

Halloween is coming closer, are you excited already? We have some great Halloween fabrics this year that will look great in costumes or decoration. If you are looking for a new approach the funny Skelanimals fabrics that we just added recently might be the right thing for you. The dead skeleton pets fit to the Halloween theme but have an unusual design.

Don’t forget to order early enough from our shop so that you still have enough time to be creative.

black Halloween designer fabric with orange pumpkins

black Michael Miller Halloween fabric with chandelier

beige Halloween fabric witch broom cat Alexander Henry USA

purple Halloween fabric with children Alexander Henry USA

lime green Halloween spider fabric Timeless Treasures USA

black Halloween skull fabric Timeless Treasures USA

black Halloween owl fabric Timeless Treasures USA

black Timeless Treasures eyes fabric

black Michael Miller Halloween fabric with cupcakes

dark blue Skelanimals animal skeleton fabric from the USA

red Skelanimals animal skeleton fabric star heart USA

pink Skelanimals cross skull fabric from the USA

September 18, 2013 1 comment

International Quilt Market: general impressions

by modes4u September 16, 2013

This is the last part of our little series about the Spring Quilt Market we visited earlier this year. After we’ve shown you pictures of the booths of our suppliers already we close with some general impressions of the trade show. There were so many beautiful exhibition booths and eye candy to discover everywhere that we could have taken pictures forever.

Super cool Paul Frank fabric

We really loved this apron dress made with this nostalgig vintage fabric

We really loved this apron dress made with this nostalgic vintage fabric

This nbooth caught our attention with that interesting purple fabric

This booth caught our attention with that interesting purple fabric

Lovely dresses and skirts

The Clothworks booth – we carry some of their fabrics as well

Many booths looked like super inviting living rooms. Don’t you just want to sit down and relax?

A very eye-catching designer booth

We loved the booth of Cloud 9 Fabrics and will offer some of their fabrics in our shop really soon

A pretty lavish evening dress – you didn’t get to see too many of these

Super cute Christmas crafting sets

We have seen lots of raincoats already made with laminate waterproof fabric, but never an umbrella. We loved it!

We have seen lots of raincoats made with laminate waterproof fabric, but never an umbrella. We loved it!

Every now and then there was also a bit of men’s fashion

Lots and lots of sewing books and magazines

September 16, 2013 0 comment

Huge San-X delivery blocking our office

by modes4u September 14, 2013

Fortunately we were prepared, so it didn’t hit us by surprise. We received a gigantic San-X delivery containing 2 tons of stationery delivered on 10 pallets and packed in more than 200 boxes. A day before the delivery we took some time to clear as much space as possible. We were really worried that we might not be able to fit everything in here, but it worked out fine. But now our office area is really blocked, our office ladies are sitting right next to big piles of boxes. What a funny sight!

You can already look forward to items from the Rilakkuma Wonderland edition, hundreds of new San-X stationery items and lovely new Decole products.

Our office is blocked by hundreds of boxes

Our office ladies now work right next to the hugte San-X delivery

Our office ladies now work right next to the huge San-X delivery

We received 2 tons of products in more than 200 boxes

September 14, 2013 0 comment

Funny Despicable Me exhibition in Hong Kong

by modes4u September 10, 2013

This exhibition already ended a couple of days ago, still we wanted to show you some pictures. Hong Kong is totally crazy about the Minions from the movie Despicable Me, so when Despicable Me 2 started there were promotions with the funny yellow creatures all around. In the shopping mall Maritime Square there was a huge exhibition dedicated to the Minions with lots of funny Minions figures and inflatable Minion installations.

The poster for the funny Dispicible Me exhibition in Hong Kong

The poster for the funny Despicable Me exhibition in Hong Kong

There were funny Minion figures everywhere

A super big inflatable Minion

We love the bright yellow color of the Minions

The exhibition area from above

September 10, 2013 1 comment

Christmas craft ideas: Christmas quilts

by modes4u September 7, 2013

Making a quilt is a big project, but the result is usually totally stunning. During the past weeks we have collected a few pictures of beautiful Christmas quilts that might be worth sharing. If you are planning on making a Christmas quilt for this year’s Christmas you can already buy lots of Christmas fabrics in our shop and start without any time pressure.

A beautiful Christmas quilt by Michael Miller

Another great Michael Miller quilt featuring the lovely Christmas pixies fabric

Some Christmas quilts and Christmas home decor by Riley Blake

red patchwork pixies fairies Christmas fabric Michael Miller

white Michael Miller Christmas fabric with birds

white Michael Miller Christmas fabric with flowers

Christmas fabric bundle elf owl Ten-Square Robert Kaufman

turquoise Christmas snowman fabric by Robert Kaufman

green Christmas bird fabric Robert Kaufman

blue Christmas owl fabric by Robert Kaufman

white designer Christmas fabric with red snowflakes

white Robert Kaufman Christmas fabric with fir tree

Michael Miller fabric aqua Yule Critters deer Christmas

September 7, 2013 1 comment

8 weeks until Halloween

by modes4u September 5, 2013

Soon witches, pumpkins, ghosts, vampires and all kinds of spooky creatures will take over for one night. It is still a good 8 weeks until Halloween, but if you want to make a great costume or unique decoration you have to start thinking about that holiday already. Browse through our Halloween category to get some inspiration.