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!!

Happy Jubilee Weekend Everyone ...

What a treat! A full four days off work, pity the weather forecast doesn't look that good.

We were in London at the beginning of the week and the City looked lovely with all the shops decked out in red, white and blue.

I am off to deck my house with lots of our very own Paper Salad Union Jack Bunting, see you next week!

All set for PG Live

Tomorrow morning we set off to London to exhibit at PG Live at the Business Design Centre in Islington. It has been a hectic few weeks, we arrived back from New York on Thursday morning and had a day to finalise our stand, samples, brochures etc, before the couriers collected it on Friday lunchtime.  Hopefully everything will be on our stand when we arrive at midday, we have made it a simple design as the show is only two days long, so fingers crossed it will look okay?!!!

Tomorrow evening we will be meeting our Australian distributors for dinner, so really looking forward to that.

We have loads of photos to post from New York, we will start with a few of our arrival, and post the rest over the next couple of weeks.

The impressive skyline on the way in from Newark

The weather was beautiful when we arrived, this is the view from our room overlooking Times Square

First things first!!  It was over to the Blue Fin for a cocktail

The first cocktail of many was called "Stormy nights"

All the above photos are of our hotel bar and the view from the bar window.

Times Square is always full of people, at all times of the day and night.

If you are visiting PG Live on Tuesday or Wednesday, please stop by and say hello, we are showcasing our new collection!

We are on Stand 207 on the Mezzanine.

Hope to see you there!

New York New York

Really sorry for the lack of posts this last couple of weeks but we have been so, so busy.  We finally managed to complete our age range, it was tricky as we were using florescent inks for the first time, so had to be careful they didn't look too garish!!  We were pleased with the results when we went to pass on press on Monday morning...

Sorry about the fashion, we had to wear these as our printers do food packaging as well so we have to cover up!!

Yesterday we had to rush over to the Hallmark offices to finalise details of the new merchandising details of the new merchandising agreements that Hallmark now have with Waitrose, then straight back to work to get our Diamond Jubilee Picnics ready that we are sending to some of our customers, consisting of lots of our licensed products and a bespoke personalised coaster! 

We are off to NYC tomorrow morning for a week so won't be blogging, we will take lots of piccies from The National Stationery show and our escapades!!!

See you next week!