Hello Everyone!

ASE hopes that everyone had a wonderful weekend! Although we wish this weather in NJ would stop- -enough with the rain and on with the sunshine please! So if you follow Allison Sargent Events on Twitter or Facebook (and if you do not then you should), then you might know that last week our ASE team ventured into the Big Apple for the 2011 National Stationary Show held at the Jacob Javits Center.

The National Stationary Show is in its 66th year and is the world’s most comprehensive collection of stationery and related lifestyle products, and stands alone as the only business event and tradeshow in the United States that focuses specifically on these profitable, powerful product categories. With over 900 exhibiting companies featuring more than 10,000 lines we had our day’s work of making sure we visited each booth cut out for us!

The products showcased in the National Stationery Show included greeting cards, invitations, imprintables, gift wrap/ribbons, stationery, specialty party supplies and paper tableware, bridal accessories, customized/personalized products, in-store printing equipment, decorative home office products, luxury leather goods, writing instruments, paper-crafting supplies, frames, journals, calendars, specialty giftware, scrapbooking and back-to-school.

ASE scowled each row from top to bottom and is reporting back to you now with our day’s top picks! ASE’s top picks for the day were first, the green eco-friendly paper cards booths which featured innovative recyclable paper products that were infused with seeds; so that after you received your green paper product- postcard, business card, hang tag, etc.- you could actually then grow the card!



Next, ASE just loved the fresh new “preppy patterns” that seemed to be a new common trend we noticed amongst the booths at the show. The deemed “preppy patterns” are similar to the recognizable Lily Pulitzer patterns of the girly pink, green, polka dots, and vintage motifs.



The last ASE pick of the day was almost one of our last stops, with our feet tingling from covering so much stationary show ground; we were instantly revived by the Paparte’s personalized gifts! Paperte is a new giftware line by Inscribe Inc., a chic line that features trendy patterns and bright colors, and like all Chic products, they can be personalized with any name or initial. They continued to impress us even more when they gave the whole ASE team a free chic sample mug of their new personalized giftware line!



The ASE team overall had a wonderful time and experience at the show and will definitely be back next year… Athlough, one tip we also found out and would share with all of our followers is, if you are going to cover a lot of or all of the ground ( which we did :) ) flats are not ideal for walking around for long periods of time because there is a lot, a lot to see! So, next year we will return in cute comfy sneakers!!

XOX ASE