So Emerald has been wanting to do certain themes in a set for some time. The first theme was a food smashing theme. The second was a size teasing theme. For weeks we discussed a few different ideas, but then came up with the idea to do both in the same set. The food of choice - bananas.
Our original idea was to have your regular, everyday bananas compared to miniature bananas and then let Emerald have tons of fun showing you which one is better. Well, that's where we ran into a problem. When we set out to do this set, we couldn't find mini bananas anywhere! We stopped in several stores and kept striking out. At that point Emerald grabbed her phone and began calling around to see who might have them. Still, no luck.
Just when we thought we were screwed on the idea, Emerald made one last call and the employee who answered the phone told us her they didn't care mini bananas, but they did sell red bananas. Neither of us had ever heard of these before so we Googled them after the call ended. Seeing they also of a small size, we set the store in the GPS and picked them up. And while in the check out line I joked about candy bananas and low and behold, on the way out of the store we saw them in a vending machine. We put in a quarter and grabbed those too.
We made our way to a public park for this set, which was going to be themed as a picnic. This was all Emerald's idea because she INSISTED that this set be outside where people could see her doing this. I'm not going to lie, this made me blush just a little. Even in the planning stages of this set, Emerald was teasing me beyond belief about how this set was going to work out.
We ended up setting up next to the lake, but not too far from the main path around the lake. There was also a pier/overlook behind Emerald where some people looked our way on more than one occasion. I'm totally sure people walking the path looked our way, especially when those bananas were smushed under her feet. Emerald loved how it felt and had a blast doing this set and teasing the f**k out of me!
