San Francisco Gift Center & Jewelry Mart

Yesterday, Sharon and I attended the SF Gift Center & Jewelry Mart show over at the Moscone center in downtown SF to check out, for the most part, the apparel and toy booths that were on display. Although, the event name is a bit deceiving, this show also hosts showrooms representing apparel as well as accessories. As usual when attending these types of shows, it was an all day event. We had a chance to speak to an abundance of folks ranging from sales reps to store owners. Each and every one of them were great to talk to. Whether the conversation was short or long, we all got a chance to talk about interesting things. I can't for the life of me remember every one that we came across, but here were a few contacts/companies that I can recall at the moment: Kailynn from chicBuds. She's a very awesome individual who is one of the founders for this cool and unique company that produces fashionable earbuds. In which BTW, Paris Hilton is a customer. Kailynn actually inspired us to go and attend MAGIC in Las Vegas. We just might have to attend the next one; Chris and Kristen from Kamibashi, a company that makes some of the coolest dolls spawned from Asian Art; Anna from enVbags. A Go-Green bag company that has desires on reducing the usage of both plastic and paper bags and flipandtumble. Unfortunately, I couldn't take any photos on the floor, so you'll just have to imagine the over 300 showrooms that showcased over 270 product categories at the show. We also found it pretty amusing to have people stop us in our tracks and ask us about our shirts that we were wearing (of course, we were rockin' our BnF stuff). They not only loved the designs and the name of our company, but also the concept behind it. Once we started telling these people about the stories of some of our Bastards that are readily available, they then opened up and started telling us their Bastard stories and which ones they'd love for us to design. Some of them even checked out our animations and raved about them to their other counter-parts. I remember this one conversation with a lady who said, "your company is so unique and different, I'm sure it'll go a long way since BnF relates to everybody in our society!" It was definitely inspiring to hear these things and see people's reactions! It definitely motivates you!

Jonathan (Bastard & Friends)