Collection: Hello Kitty

Hello Kitty and Friends

This collection is the Japanese character stationery we carry, of which Hello Kitty is one part. Alongside her sit the other Sanrio characters, Miffy and the Chiikawa cast, and most of it sits between five and fifteen dollars, with the larger gift sets running up to around fifty.

The small end is where most people start. The Chiikawa mascot mechanical pencil comes with a dangling charm. The Sanrio six-colour ballpoint pens have a 0.7mm tip and barrels in black, blue, red, green, purple and orange. Miffy sticky memo pads, the block eraser set with five Miffy erasers, and the Retro Hello Kitty gel pen set with five 0.7mm pens in green, yellow, blue, red and black are all in the same bracket, which is why they work as stocking fillers.

The DONG-A Miffy ballpoint set gives you seven pens with 0.5mm fine tips and oil-based ink for less than twenty dollars, which makes it one of the better value picks here. The Retro Hello Kitty Agatha notebook has 208 lined pages of 100 gsm acid-free paper, wire-o binding, a double-sided storage pocket and full-colour reminder stickers. The Miffy pattern pencil pouch matches it, so a notebook and case together come in under forty.

The Molang set is the one to pick for a child heading back to school. It packs three pencils, a four-colour ballpoint, an eraser, a sharpener, a mini ruler, deco tape and two pencil caps into a carrying case, measures 20 by 14 centimetres and suits ages six and up.

For something softer, the plush pieces are where people tend to spend more. Miffy has been drawn the same way since Dick Bruna created her in the 1950s, and the plush versions sell to adults as often as to children. The sitting corduroy and the terry peach are both nine inches.

These work as small presents because they are recognisable, inexpensive and easy to post. Collectors tend to work through the characters, and the range changes as new releases arrive from Japan. If there is a particular character or item you are looking for that you are not able to find on the website, reach out to us and we will be glad to help.