All set for the show

PG Live kicks off tomorrow at 9.30am – be there or be square!

Busy busy busy! There’s so much going on at the Business Design Centre today as to finishing touches are being put to the PG Live stands.

It all kicks off at 9.30am tomorrow, 4 June, for the annual two-day festival of greeting card fabulousness in London where over 220 exhibitors await the hordes of retailers and distributors from the UK and across the world.

**Above & top: London’s BDC is resplendent in its PG Live livery and the Max Publishing team of Jakki Brown, Jackie Lomax and Warren Lomax have been busy getting the tote bags full of goodies**

If you’ve been a silly billy and forgotten to register yet, you can still do so here to make it to the UK’s only specialist trade show for the greetings industry, and get yourself to Islington to find all the lovely newness that’s on offer.

Here’s a brief round-up from the stands being set up over the weekend and today – see anyone you know?!

Above: A very happy Dean Morris (stand 312) with PG’s Jakki Brown and Tracey Arnaud: “Lovely to be presented with some bubbles and a cute gift to celebrate my 25 years in the industry this year. That will certainly be drunk during the duration of this show, thank you!”

**Above: Quick finishers Nigel Quiney Publications (stand 221) are all ready to go midway through Monday! Alison Butterworth, Jenny Weare and Carl Pledger whizzed up the stand in double-quick time.**

**Above: Day one of set up saw Sarah Hopkins pleased to get the panels up at Holy Mackerel (stand 217) – then off for a well-deserved G&T last night**

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Above: The reel above shows Amanda Kinghorn getting ready to present All Shades Cards (stand 769): “Each step through these doors is a step towards reshaping narratives and creating a more inclusive and diverse greeting card industry. Today, I’m unloading and making my way into a space where minority voices like mine can lead and inspire change.”

**Above: Derren and Ceri Seal are very happy with their painting at Bare Cards (stand 730)**

**Above: Having spent yesterday teetering on ladders and fuelled with iced coffee, Emily Nash has gone orange at Emily Nash Illustration (stand 612)**

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Above: Klara Hawkins (stand 111) managed to set up in record time, as can be seen in the reel above, and proudly posted that the nerves which made her a quivering wreck when she first exhibited couple of years ago have now gone and she’s “just excited and looking forward to seeing everyone”.