The names; Best Friends, Little Star, Lucky, Sister, Birthday Girl and Party Girl may be quite familiar to you by now. You’d know them as the Celebrations dolls. But, you won’t have seen them like this before.

As a treat, just for you, here’s a sneak peek at the newest Momiji dolls in town. Their new outfits and pretty boxes mean they’ve been snapped up quickly. If you’re in the UK you might be lucky enough spot them out and about in your favourite Momiji retailers, but for the moment stocks are super limited.

They’re not available from the LoveMomiji web shop just yet, but don’t worry we’ll let you know as soon as they are. We’ll have more news about global availability over the next few weeks.

Unfortunately, you know what this means for the current Celebrations generation, they’ll be going into retirement soon but fear not, there’s still time to get your hands on your favourite before it’s too late.

There were loads of entries for our Momiji Workstation contest. It’s great to see the Momiji love has spread into offices everywhere.

But there could only be one winner and Lydia from our Facebook page has taken the first prize!
It’s impossible to ignore her bright, shiny, rainbow-coloured working space.

Second prize came through our emails from Martina Thielemann. We fell in love with her amazing keyboard and desk fan. Can we get some of those for our office please?

Lastly, Bryony’s desk is full of Momiji. She’s even got a little bit of Hulk going on for good measure.

Thanks to everyone who sent us a picture, there are some Momiji treats on their way to the winners as we speak!

Our creative friends have been snapping away this month and filling our Flickr pool with lovely Momiji photographs.

There were so many great entries this month; it was a little difficult to choose just one. But –Astrid1979- and her Happy, Happy, Happy photo has taken the prize.

The colour and texture in this photo really reflect the happy Momiji personality.

A selection of Momiji goodies are winging their way to you now, Astrid.

If you’d like to have a go, click here to find out more.

Our friend and designer, Helena, came to visit us this week.

Claire met her at the airport while Deb and I rolled out the welcome bunting.

We’ve had a great time with Helena, we even took her to the Ice Cream shop (one of our favourite haunts here at Momiji HQ)

She brought a very creative influence to the Momiji offices so you can expect some wonderful things to come.

Sadly, she had to go home today. We hope she’ll be back to visit again soon.

At Momiji HQ, we jump at any excuse for cake and with 2 birthdays in the office over the last few weeks we’ve been spoilt.

First up was Claire, we gave her a bottle of bubbly and some very strange-looking plants.

Rich’s birthday is this week, but he’s gone and taken the week off to enjoy himself. So, we decided to celebrate with him on Friday instead. He was very happy with his beer and cake slices.

Everyone seems to be strutting about like Tyra Banks in MomijiHQ today.

I don’t think we quite have the ‘Smize’ technique down, and we’re a little more feral than 'Fierce' but it doesn’t matter because we’re not the ones who are going to be modelling our new Momiji products.

Today marks the start of the search for Momiji’s Next Top Model. There’s lots of new Momiji goodness on its way and who better to show it all off than you.

If you’re aged 16-30 and would like to be one of our models then we want to hear from you. It doesn’t matter whether you’re male or female, and we love a bit of quirkiness. If you can get yourself to Birmingham or Warwickshire (we can give you a lift from the station/bus) on the 6th of September, then send a photo and a little bit of info about yourself to Hello@Lovemomiji.com.

We’ll be starting the shoot in the afternoon and will more than likely run into the evening. If you’re picked, you’ll get to hang around in the new Momiji HQ and we’ll give you a Momiji goodie bag too.

Get your photos in soon as competition will be ‘Fierce’.

Love Momiji x

We caught up with our number 1 fan, Melissa this week, and asked her a couple of questions about her tattoo…

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

“As far as some info about me, I am a radiologic technologist at a hospital here in Milwaukee, WI and I love my job. When I get free time from work I like to bake and cook. I have been vegan for 5 years, which I believe has been my inspiration to get involved so heavily with cooking and baking. I love to bake delicious desserts, especially cupcakes. I love everything about them. I also enjoy riding my bike around the city and reading. “

We love your tattoo here at Momiji HQ, You must be very brave! How long did it take to get done?

“I'm glad you love the tattoo, thank you! It took about an hour and a half to get done.”

What ‘drew’ you to Bakey-C? (excuse the awful pun)

“One of my best friends, Brandy, is actually the one that found Bakey-C. She knows my infatuation with cupcakes and as soon as she showed it to me, I knew I wanted to put it on my body. It is such an amazing piece of art. I love the style of all the Momiji dolls, but the 3 tea time inspired dolls are unlike all the others. I love that Bakey-C is so unique and rare. She is exactly my style and captures so many things that I love. I'm excited that I am able to display her on my body every day.“

What’s your favourite Momiji item?

“We don't have too many places to buy Momiji products here in Milwaukee, but while I was in Portland, OR I stocked up on some things. My favorite purchase was a pack of stickers I got from the Japanese Gardens. I didn't really know what to do with the stickers, so I decided to decorate my boring white laptop with some of my favorite ones. Now I love the way it looks!”

Do you have any more tattoos in the pipeline?

“I have plans for more tattoos, but I haven't decided if I'm getting another Momiji inspired tattoo or not. I'm sure if something catches my eye as Bakey-C did I would definitely get it. I get a lot of comments on my tattoo. People love it. 99% of people have no idea what it is, so I'm constantly explaining what a Momiji doll is. It's like I'm a walking advertisement for Momiji! Every time a friend of mine hears something about a Momiji doll or sees one they tell me about it. It's kind of neat. It makes me feel good to know that people love my tattoo as much as I do.“

Thanks, Melissa.

She’s definitely spreading the Momiji love around Milwaukee and we’d love to meet her again for some tea and cakes.

“You know you’re famous when people start getting tattoos” or so they say. And If that statement is true then we’ve made it to the big time as our new best friend, Melissa, has proved. (Pics by Brandy Boyd from Hot*Pop)

She’s been inked with a picture of Bakey-C and it looks absolutely amazing!

I’ve asked her if she’ll answer a couple of questions for me about her tat, and I’ll post the interview here when I have it.

We might not be brave enough to go through with it here, but what do you think about Melissa’s tattoo?

We’re starting to lose track of Gem’s whereabouts; every time we speak to her she’s in a different city. She’s doing a good job of sending us photos from her travels though (and making us all jealous). First up a few pictures of her first Lobster boil, in San Francisco. Loving the Obama apron!

Next stop was Chicago. Here’s a picture of Richard with Tulip in the showroom, followed by cocktails on the terrace at Trump Towers (another tough day at the office huh Gem?)

Seattle next...Gem met up with Tim and Nicole (who you can just see hiding in the picture below) and they headed over to an amazing store named Retrofit which is a great place to get your Momiji fix. Finally Gem finished off her time in the city eating chocolate éclairs by the river with Carrie and mooching round the market which looks pretty spectacular. More news from our globe trotter soon...she’s in Atlanta this week...we think.

The guys at Travelling Man in Manchester hosted another Momiji workshop at the weekend. Here are a few pictures of what they got up to.

We’re loving the pirate Momiji. We’re hoping to be able to hold more of these workshops around the world soon as we’ve had such a positive response. We’ll keep you informed. Watch this space and be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for up to the minute Momiji news.