More pics of our New York Trip ...

Claire and Warren from PG in the beautiful courtyard of Barolo's in Soho, hat provided by Jakki!!

Jakki and Ian from Progressive Greetings and The Licensing Magazine with South East Agent Rose Trow (again at Barolo's)

One of our favourite places for breakfast, Pigalle in Midtown, just off Broadway

Lovely eggs benedict mmmmmm.....

On a beautiful Sunday we decided to go on a sightseeing tour on an open top bus instead of going to the National Stationery Show. After visiting New York 13 times it was a first for us and it was great, we would highly recommend doing it, the Sunny day added to the experience.

We felt like true tourists ..

Central Park looks beautiful in the sunshine.

The Dakota Building, where John Lennon lived and died ..

We love the brownstone buildings!

Newlyweds, eating Hot Dogs.

The beautiful Guggenheim Gallery

The first part of the Bus tour was Uptown, we travelled on the West Side to the top of Central Park and into Harlem, then back along the East Side along Park Avenue.  We got off the bus at the Apple Store where we both treated ourselves to an ipad.

What a fantastic day!!

Jubilee Party Preparations ....

We have got a very busy four weeks ahead of us.  Two weeks today we fly out to New York to visit the National Stationery Show and Surtex.  We are very excited as we didn't go last year and really missed it, we love the Vibe of New York City and always come back full of inspiration.  Before that we have to finalise our new age range, which we have now decided to call 'Bright Spark', due to the fact that there will be a splash of neon included in the designs, it has been very hard to judge how they will look once they are printed as on screen you cannot see the neon colours, but we are pleased with how they look so far...

These are only printed on thin paper from our computer, but you can still get an idea of how they will look when printed.

We will arrive back from New York on the 23rd May and on the 28th May we will be travelling to London to exhibit at PG Live at the Business Design Centre in Islington, this show has been great for us the past couple of years so we are hoping that it will be just as good this year.

We have started our marketing for the show and are designing some personalised coasters to give away to some of our customers.