Banana Florist Blog

***Update*** Blogging with Moveable Type is like breakdancing while wearing a straitjacket as difficult as producing a decent analogy on two hours of sleep.  Sorry we can't make this photo clickable for larger view.  Take our word that we're holding a messenger bag, and on this bag is an image of a matador. 

San Fran, December 2007.  We meet Kelty from Satchel Studio at her booth near the Ferry Building.  We spot the matador design and oh my gosh, we just have to have it.  The only problem: Kelty doesn't have the design on a messenger bag.  She tells us we can visit her website and have the messenger-sized matador shipped to us back home. 

But that's no fun, is it?  Buying the bag in SF and having it shipped to us create two completely different stories:

Story #1 

Q: Nice bag; where'd you get it?

A: I ordered it online.

Story #2

Q: Nice bag; where'd you get it?

A: In SF, from this awesome designer nobody knows about yet. 

So, we asked Kelty if there wasn't something to be done.  She came up with a solution, giving us a third story, and the best one yet:

Story #3 

Q: Nice bag.  Where'd you get it?

A: We met this awesome designer in SF, at those booths -- you know, near the Embarcadero and Market (as if we have any idea what we're talking about).  She didn't have the bag we wanted, so she went out of her way to make the bag and meet us later in the week to give it to us.

This got us thinking about conversations we'd like to start about Banana Florist. 

Banana Florist Story #1

Q: Nice flowers.  Where'd you get them?

A: Oh my gosh, I just gotta tell you.  From (name of wonderful, thoughtful person).  They also gave me this little white box with a banana inside.  The sticker on the box said bananaflorist.com, so I checked it out and the name of these flowers is actually The ****Head from Buckhead.  You remember last week when I told you that (name of wonderful, thoughtful person) forgot...

Instead of giving me a product, Kelty gave me a story.  We wanna be like Kelty.