How'd you get your Username?

[Aunt Cookie]

My User name, Aunt Cookie, was lovingly given to me by my nephew who could not say Auntie Carol, but said Cookie instead. I have been Aunt Cookie to all my nieces and nephews since. And I love it. This nephew, Todd, was so troubled he shot himself at age 13, so I wear the name in his memory.

[tg13]

I´m so sorry about your nephew Todd, but this name is very cute Aunt Cookie.;)

[mommatrish1987]

momma - i'm a mom
trish - my name
1987- year i was born

[jusw8tn]

Mine is Jusw8tn and i am always Jusw8tn to win the powerball - for tailgatoers to get out of my trunk where my daughter sits etc.. always Jusw8tn

Hugs
Shirley

[scrappyfiregirl]

I am a volunteer firefighter and medical 1st responder where I live and I love digital scrapbooking. Thus the name, scrappyfiregirl!

[jusw8tn]

Scrappyfire girl - that is so cool i am a volunteer firefighter/EMT. in NH - During the day i am a Daycare provider.

I jus learning how to begin scrapping..

Hugs
Shirley aka Jusw8tn

[scrappyfiregirl]

That iiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssss cooooooooooooooool!!!! I don't find many fellow female firefighters on the scrapbook sites! P.S.. We have water shuttle rating tomorrow night so I will be very busy tomorrow!
Sandi aka scrappyfiregirl

[Ransons3995]

Hello my name comes from Randy which is my first name. (Ran) and I have 3 sons (sons) and my parents last four to their phone number (3995) This way I couldn't forget what my user name was. I have been scrapbooking about a year and my friend said try this dsb place. I'm having alot of fun playing.

[Carole]

Well, I live in a rural area, and over the last 25 years have adopted many orphaned cats and kittens. A lot of people think that you can just dump a cat in a farm field and they will automatically know how to fend for themselves. Not true! I have rescued half-starved cats and kittens from old abandoned barns, parking lots, wooded areas near my home, and even living in the air compressors of a local party store!

I currently have 21 well-loved and pampered pusycats. (no, my house does NOT smell like a litter box, they all go outside!) I can't imagine a home without cats!

PS - I almost used the name Crazycatlady, but I figured I'm not quite crazy yet!

[MandyT]

Well, I live in a rural area, and over the last 25 years have adopted many orphaned cats and kittens. A lot of people think that you can just dump a cat in a farm field and they will automatically know how to fend for themselves. Not true! I have rescued half-starved cats and kittens from old abandoned barns, parking lots, wooded areas near my home, and even living in the air compressors of a local party store!

I currently have 21 well-loved and pampered pusycats. (no, my house does NOT smell like a litter box, they all go outside!) I can't imagine a home without cats!

PS - I almost used the name Crazycatlady, but I figured I'm not quite crazy yet!

Wow 21! LOL about Crazycatlady... not MsCat either? As a cat lover, all I can say is thank you for taking in those cats and kittens.

[MandyT]

My User name, Aunt Cookie, was lovingly given to me by my nephew who could not say Auntie Carol, but said Cookie instead. I have been Aunt Cookie to all my nieces and nephews since. And I love it. This nephew, Todd, was so troubled he shot himself at age 13, so I wear the name in his memory.
Aunt Cookie is lovely. I am so sorry about Todd.

[minimd12]

I am pretty short 4'10" so Mini-Me was a nickname given to me in HS. I changed the me to my initials MD. I played soccer from the time I was 5 through college and 12 was my number. MiniMD12 =)

[NuyoricanMama]

Hi, I'm Nuyorican (new your rican) Mama. I was born and raised in New York of Puerto Rican decent. All Puerto Ricans born in NY are called Nuyoricans. Mama because that's what my grand children call me. My real name is Yvonne.

[metalmomma]

i listen to metal music.
my husband is a guitar player.
and i have a 14 month old daughter, so metal momma just popped into my head one day.

[NuyoricanMama]

My Username is very easy to explain.
I'm a Noob to DS and I'm sure I will learn a lot on this board. Already enjoy this board very much! ;)

Hi Noob ... I'm totally new to DS and this forum. What does Noob mean?

Thanks, Yvonne

[carolat]

Hmmm, heavy metal should figure in to my user name somewhere, but it doesn't. Mine is rather boring - carolat. Carola is my first name and t is the first letter of my last name. On one of the mommy sites I am a2i2mom - at that time my oldest, Alexander was 2 yrs old and my youngest, Ian, was 2 months old - the main thing with both names was to pick one that I could remember - kids ages keep changing, so now I am carolat everywhere!

[NuyoricanMama]

Hi, I'm Nuyorican (new your rican) Mama. I was born and raised in New York of Puerto Rican decent. All Puerto Ricans born in NY are called Nuyoricans. Mama because that's what my grand children call me. My real name is Yvonne.
PS My other internet user name is MustangBoop47. Mustang as in the car. My favorite is the GT convertible. I've had a green one and a blue one. Because of back problems I can't get in and out of them anymore ... they are too low to the ground for my back. I cried when I had to give up my Stangs. 47 is the year I was born. I'm also MustangBoop2001 the year of my first Mustang.

The Boop part is because I love all thing Betty Boop.

[thatjacigirl]

My name is Jacqui. For a while, I was spelling it JACI (college thing...I don't know). So I am "that Jacqui girl", or thatjacigirl.

[Jaegray]

"Jae" is my first initial and Gray is the first part of my last name. Another username that I have is Jayelgee, which equates to all 3 of my initials: JLG.

I don't know, I'm odd...or boring... or both. :p

Hi Noob ... I'm totally new to DS and this forum. What does Noob mean?

Thanks, Yvonne

n00b is leet speak for newbie.

[ArmenianGirl]

My father's family fled the Armenian Genocide, so that's just me, an Armenian Girl! (I try to be very conscious of my heritage and the things that are going on with the Armenians around the world.) Also, Marty is almost never free! LOL!

[MommaWebb]

I got mine because I am a mom of two precious kids:love2: and my last name is Webb.

[swatkins56]

Wow, this is an old string! I chose mine because "swatkins" is often how my name - Sheryl Watkins - is abbreviated for e-mail, etc. '56 is the year I was born.

[evry]

I got my username from my two boys, I used the first two letters in each of their names, Evan (ev) and Ryan (ry)- evry

[Marriedin79]

Ummmm ... we got married in 1979.

[Scrapping4Him]

n00b is leet speak for newbie.

LOL - I've always looked at noob as "New out of the box" but definitely here at DSP it's for newbie, which we've all been at one time!!!

As for my username, well, I'm a born-again Christian and while I scrap for my daughter, myself and my family, first and foremost I scrap 4 the Lord.

[gina_crosbytx]

What's the origin of your username?

Mine is Emma, because that's my first name. NO! You don't say?! :D
But my usual one is thepals for the Powells as in we are the Powell family, your pals, THE pals! And it's pronounced the Pals, NOT theeples!
Yeah, you get it.

Many usernames are weird to say the least! How'd you come up with yours? How do you pronounce it? Would love to know, and also know your real first name!

So again, mine is thepals for the Powells, but my first name is Emma ;)
How 'bout you?
Hey There!


Well, my name is Gina and I live in Crosby, TX

That is how I came up with it!

Do you have children???? Mine are grown. I have a 1 year old grandaughter ....who is just a ray of sunshine.

I am new to the digital thing! So, if you know of anything that might be of servie to me .... Please Do Tell!!!!

ttyl
Gina

[Kathy Ricker]

I'm using my real name here only because I put it in the wrong place when I was signing up. Everywhere else in cyberspace I'm known as styxdancer. That name's based on my favorite group, Styx, and my favorite pasttime, dancing. You can see in my Avatar that I am dancing. I actually requested to have my user name changed, but it never went through.

[ReneT]

I'm using my real name here only because I put it in the wrong place when I was signing up. Everywhere else in cyberspace I'm known as styxdancer. That name's based on my favorite group, Styx, and my favorite pasttime, dancing. You can see in my Avatar that I am dancing. I actually requested to have my user name changed, but it never went through.



I recently had my username changed because I didn't like the one I originally signed up with. I sent an email to help@digitalscrapbookplace.com. It didn't get changed, so I sent another email inquiring about when it might be changed, and that time, it was changed within a day, so you might try emailing them again.

[jeepmama]

Hi there! I'm jeepmama...but my real name is Angie.

My hubby is a Jeep freak and he's sucked me into it. We have a Rubicon-style silver Wranger now that gets lots of looks when were out and about....mostly because of the two little ones in the back.

My boys are 8 and soon-to-be 4 (Aug 31) and they love to go Jeepin'. I even rode around in it through pregnancy...talk about looks!! Imagine a hiked-up Jeep passing by with a 9-month pregnant woman in front and a car seat in the back...LOL!!!

So there you have it... jeepmama! :tup:

[aewalk07]

aewalk07 is what the univeristy of louisville game me once i was accepted to college. :) yeah it's pretty boring but it's easy to have the same log in!

amy elizabeth

[Toadzwife]

Well... Mine is semi self explanatory.. My hubby's nickname for years is Toad... he uses that on various boards he belongs to and I am his wife.. Hence......

I am just getting started in digital scraping and I am SO addicted already. I can't wait to learn everything!

[MomOfMax]

Well, my son's name is Max and he is my inspiration for digiscrapping, so I'm MomOfMax. Nothing too exciting.

[sgfala]

Mine is my initials and the state I live in.

[okekeca]

Well, I am old....LOL.....and my memory is not what it used to be.
My username at work is okekeca1 and I thought it would be better I used the same so would always remember it.....
But it is really easy....it is 5 first letters of my last name and 2 letters of my first name.

[wndyeliza]

Hey Carola...define old?! I'll be 49 at the end of the month and I am feeling old sometimes..but never act it!!!

[okekeca]

Hey Carola...define old?! I'll be 49 at the end of the month and I am feeling old sometimes..but never act it!!!

Defining old :rolleyes: here:

Well, when I was around 20 i thought everyone over 50 was old. :doh:
Now when I am 52 I feel old only when I look at myself in the mirror, :eek:
knowing my kids are over 20, :think:
the oldest getting to 30....:confused:,
feel the pain in my feet and bones :yikes:,
noticing I forget things I SHOULD remember...:annoyed:
But I feel young in my heart and soul.....and that is the only thing that counts.....:tup:

:hug: to you wndyeliza and everyone else

[carolat]

So funny - I have never met anyone with the same name as me so I automatically assumed that when this post said "Carola" it was talking about me! Although I don't remember saying anything about old . . . So, anyway, now it makes perfect sense - you were talking to another Carola!

About the age thing - I am always the oldest or (close to it) mom in my 1st graders class and I think it totally depends on how you act and feel (although some mornings my back definitely feels my age! - 43)

[idtwinmom]

LOL, Carola! Couldn't help replying to that!!!!

Old - when you can't stand up straight getting out of bed! And knowing there is no way any of the other Kindergartners Moms are as old as you are (almost 48 and menopausal!)

BTW, idtwinmom - twinmom was taken and twinmomplusone was too long (HeHe)! Since the twins are 'identical' = id.

[carolat]

I have one in Pre-K right now - can't wait until next year when we do an age comparison!

You know, when I started this user name thing mine was a2i2mom (Alexander 2yrs, Ian 2months) Well, now Alexander is 6 and Ian is 4. I figured that I would just go with my own name since my kids are going to keep getting older. So, I have carolat (Carola Tolleson)

[okekeca]

Hi Carola. :wave:
I have not "met" many name sakes on line either.
I know of a few, but never "talked" to one.....:lol:
So - what shall we do now - how will we know which Carola they are talking to :confused:

And idtwinmom I am just a grandma, have NO kids in kindergarten ;)
I really know that about not getting up from bed -thingy.
I think I need walking sticks very soon......:think:

[mellamella]

:wave: MellaMella (Pronounced like mellow yellow except with an a = mella)

People often call me in that famous southern draw (mella yella) like the soft drink and mellamella because my real name is Carmela. I've had others call me mellow bellow because that is my disposition most of the time....not high strung just laid back and very easy-going :cool:

I like mellamella and stuck with it through the years.

[supermotherof10]

:yahoo:My name of supermotherof10 is exactly what I am!

My husband and I have a blended family with 10 kids. :eek:
When we married in 2002 he had 5 kids ages then: 12, 11, 9, 7, and 3
and I had 3 kids ages: 8, 7 and 3

Why did we do this to ourselves????? Because we met online and fell in love. :love1::hug:

In 2004 we had our 1st daughter together and 6 weeks ago we were blessed with our second daughter (and final child!) You'd think adding to the family would make things harder but it really brought everyone together into one big blended family.


I think the laundry alone qualified me for the "super" portion of my title! Until a few years ago it should have been taximotherof10!!!

Our kids ages now are 18, 17, 15 (and learning to drive), 14, 13, 13, 9, 9, 3 AND 6 weeks

You can see our yours, mine & ours family at www.batemanfamily.org :yahoo:

[MandyT]

WOW -10???
I totally agree you deserve the 'super' portion of your title....

[WhiteMoonFlower]

Hello all!:wave: Congratulations and good luck with 10 precious children.

[tripsmom1974]

I had triplets on Dec 5th 2007 and 1974 is the year I was born. I have 4 children one 12 and the triplets which was a shock to me I wasn't trying to have any more children but they are beautiful babies. I just started scrapbooking because I got a digital camera when they were born. I wish they had them when my oldest was a baby! This is a great way to save memories and cheaper than portraits.:love3:

[Hunnyb65]

Well Melissa means honey bee.... but I like the way Whinnie the Pooh spells Honey.... so Hunny...b....plus the year I was born...Hunnyb65.

[Top Chef]

Just started Dig Scappin' and just joined DSP... am so interested in figuring this all out!

[Top Chef]

siggie not workin'??

[Top Chef]

ah ha, sorta what I wanted but not exactly. anywho....
My name: I absolutely love cooking and am an avid fan of Top Chef....... wish I had the guts to get on the show but can't slice and dice for crap! LOL

[debilou]

Well, called Debbie until high school - I shorted to "DEBI" because EVERY girl my age was named after Debbie Reynolds...

And, the LOU is NOT my middle name... my brother just started calling every single thing "lou'

And, Lou, just became my family nickname to this day..

so, Debilou it is...

[unico76]

Unico is short for Unicorns which I love even as an adult and 76 is the year I was born. :) It is funny cause I have that as my license plate too and some people have asked if it stands for the gas station. Ooops! :P

Unico76

[3grtkids]

Mine is 3grtkids 'cause I have "3 Great Kids!!"

[blue nun 77]

Greeings! My name is from college days "77" and I drove a blue volkswagon with a CB ( before cell phones) blue nun is a name of a wine.

[Meganleigh85]

Mines pretty simple first and middle name with my birth year... I kept it simple I use it a lot on other sites as well.

[kiwicpk]

kiwi cos im from New Zealand and thats our national bird, and cpk is short for Cabbage Patch Kid, as I collect them :-) Ive used this nik name for years and years for all my forums.

real name is Kim

[MidnightC]

Well, I really wanted Midnight Chardonnay 'cos I like the sound of it :cool: but it was too long - so I had to settle for MidnightC :cry:

Midnight Chardonnay

[nikki_p2002]

my screen name is nikki_p2002...my real name is Dena but i go by nikki due to nickole being my middle name. the "p" is the intial of my last name. and 2002 is the year i graduated from high school.

I have another screen name that i sometimes use and it is crzynmndslvr05..use it.. crazy in minds lover 05. (with no vowels) i got that one because my hubbys is crzynmnd and i am is lover lol and it is the year we got married.

[MsJessica]

It's my nickname from my hubbie, although not so much anymore since we got married :lol: I use it on other sites, and I am not that creative or good at remembering login names!

[TenaMarie]

Mine is just my first and middle names. My name is prononuced just like Tina but spelled with an "e" after my great-grandmother.

[Callander Girl]

Callander Girl.... is easy - Callander is my maiden name and the Girl is pretty obvious... and my husband used to joke he was dating a calendar girl....

Loving reading how everyone comes up with their user names...

[jangingerlee]

My name is Janet Lee. But when I was a kid for whatever reason my mom and my grandma called me ginger. I was never fond of the name Janet because I was the only one with it......but after I got on the internet I found that there are a lot of us out there......
But that is how I got my name jangingerlee...it is a combo.....lol:)

[Christie222]

Well mine is not very unique. Christie is my 1st name and the 222 came from when i was a teenager and we had pagers. Myself and friends would but codes in when we paged each other instead of out phone numbers so we would know who to call but our parents would know who paged us:rolleyes:...my code was 222.

[Rinachiyya]

My name is my Hebrew name Rinachiyya it are 2 names Rina & chiyya I combined them. My real name gives me too much trouble . I was born with the name Joke it is a very Dutch name and I came from the Netherlands.
We all know what that means in English LOL.
When I became a USA citizen I changed it to Yoka so they pronounce it right.The end is a eh sound not a ah sound. It is just easier to use my Hebrew name.
I am new here and just a beginner.

[MsJessica]

welcome rina chiyya!

[Rinachiyya]

Thank you MsJessica.
I love this site it is terrific there is so much talent here.
Looking forward to learning a lot.

[FrugalByDesign]

Mine is the name of a little company I run about frugal living - mostly frugal home decorating with a BIG focus on repurposing "stuff" so it doesn't end up in landfills.

[MoomMist]

Hi, I'm MoomMist, yes there are 3 m's there you know $ money :)Actually, When I first got on the internet in '99, I was using Netscape, is it still around, I signed up and wanted to use Moonmist, but typed MoomMist by mistake, luckly at that time is was not in use. It use to sound quite amusing but now it is rather a nuisence because I've changed servers so many times that now it is mmoommist with 4 m's and try spelling that over the phone or others thinking it is a typo :yikes:I like playing on Pogo, so when I signed up there I couldn't get Moonmist, so I used winter2frost which has since been changed to winter22frost, long story there.
Oh btw, my real name is Maxine, but everyone thinks I'm joking about that :rofl:
and I'm in Erie, PA where it is really Winter.:eek:
Nice to meet everyone!
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/data/500/myflairboard11.jpg

[Rinachiyya]

Nice top meet you all and what a interesting stories how we came up with a name.
Well , I try to be frugal in many ways.
I am now living in Ponte Vedra Beach Florida and it is cold here for the time of the year.We live at the beaches where is is always warmer in winter than inland and cooler in the summer.

Can any of you tell me how do you add a picture ?
MsJessica also has one FrugalByDesign and MoomMist. I also would like to have one but don't know how.
Have a wonderful day!!

[lmilgram]

I can't remember if I've ever posted in this thread...I searched with no luck so in any case I'll get my post count up :)

LMilgram is my user name...my first name is Lisa and my maiden name is Milgram...my married name is too common so any combo with it is rarely available.

[Rinachiyya]

Nice to meet you Lmilgram.
That sure is a very different .
My last name is also very confusing and they all pronouce it wrong but I answer it anyway.
Like your pictures I hope to learn doing that too.What are all the buttons for?

[lmilgram]

Nice to meet you Lmilgram.
That sure is a very different .
My last name is also very confusing and they all pronouce it wrong but I answer it anyway.
Like your pictures I hope to learn doing that too.What are all the buttons for?


The buttons are my "pieces of flair" - you can learn more about this by following this link:
Scrapolution: Flair (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/showpost.php?p=585168&postcount=1)

This is new in 2009.

[MoomMist]

Nice top meet you all and what a interesting stories how we came up with a name.
Well , I try to be frugal in many ways.
I am now living in Ponte Vedra Beach Florida and it is cold here for the time of the year.We live at the beaches where is is always warmer in winter than inland and cooler in the summer.

Can any of you tell me how do you add a picture ?
MsJessica also has one FrugalByDesign and MoomMist. I also would like to have one but don't know how.
Have a wonderful day!!

Here is Kim's FAQ on using your pictures here on DSP
I just found it today and it is perfect.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32209

MoomMist:yahoo:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/data/500/myflairboard11.jpg

[blkdog70]

Hello!

I chose my user name based on the fact that I have a black cocker spaniel. Two actually. Not very original, but it worked for me! My life does revolve around my dogs. lol :lol: All you dog owner's know what I mean!

Brenda
aka Blkdog70

[Rinachiyya]

Thanks you Lmilgram. I see the buttons and downloaded some but I can't find out how to get a card. This place is not easy I keep getting the same place .LoL .It is hard learning how to do things here and it does not help that English is my second language. I don't give up easy so one of these days I know I be able to do it .

[l-o-fantz]

It will get easier Rinachiyya, the people here are so helpful, if you don't understand something or can't locate it, just ask and someone will point you in the right direction. Here is the link to download the Flair Card http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=294687
hope that helps

[psu2172]

I chose my name psu2172 becasue I attended Penn State Univ. and will always be a nittany lion at heart. and i was born Feb, 21, 1972.

[Rinachiyya]

Oh thank you so very much L-O-fantz.This is so helpful you are so nice to help me. I downloaded it. I guess now I layer everything and ad the buttons that I picked ? I only picked 2 . After I do that I will have to upload it and I also want to add a picture to my profile. BTW I love the one you have of the feet.
There is so much to learn to this site but I like it the best,but it is hard to learn a old dog new tricks.
Made a few pages already and it is very addictive. I told 2 friends about it and they also want to learn.
I have trouble with intructions sometimes it might as well be Chinese.
Thanks again for the link .

[Rinachiyya]

I just found out what a nittany lion is. Had to ask my husband he is also from PA.
You sure are young.LOL

[fourlfclvr03]

fourlfclvr03...as in 4 leaf clover. My husband is Irish, and in 2003 I bought a green mustang on St. Patrick's day, thought it would be funny to have a custom plate, Shamrock was taken so we decided on 4lfclvr. Username just kind of evolved from there to fourlfclvr03.

[valera]

For some reason none of the combinations with my actual name worked when I tried to set up my account here so I decided on my cat's name, Valera (he's the one on the left in my avatar photo). Its a Russian name, I'm a Russian lit PhD student so Russian comes kind of second nature, but my real name is Jessika.

[Rinachiyya]

Nice to meet you that is a cute picture. I am allergic to cats so I have 2 dogs. I use my 2 dogs names a lot too.

[grammawamma]

Hi! This is my first post at DSP. I read how some of you got your user names, but not all 56 pages! My name came from my first grandson. When he was born, he had 10 grandmas all living w/i 15 miles! So when he started talking, he called me grammawamma. Took a while to figure where that came from but my hubby said that he might have said it using a Dr. Suess style rhyming word! Anyway, I NEVER have any problems with someone else already having my name! My real name is Carol.

[Rinachiyya]

Nice to meet you grammawamma. That is a cute name but how come he had 10 grandmas?

[Chrysanthemom]

I love to hear all the background on how usernames evolved for everyone. Mine came from my favorite children's picture book - Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. I became a mom to an amazing daughter through adoption in 2007. Chrysanthemom was the perfect play on words for my username :D

[Rinachiyya]

Very unique name. Nice to meet you.
Have been real busy our dog had serious surgery.

Happy scrapping,
Yoka

[bamabreeze10]

my name is BamaBreeze10, bamabreeze being one of my favorite Jimmy Buffet songs. the 10 is my (soon to be) husband's jersey number from baseball :) I will say the Bama has nothing to do with Alabama (I'm from Connecticut hehe) Thought I'd share!!

Happy Scrapping
Laura

[MarthaT]

It's a character from a book which I used to read when i was young...i've got very attached to it still...:D

[Rinachiyya]

Cool . We all think of different ways to come up with a name.


Yoka

[Havachat]

Well I have just read all 56 pages of how you all chose your names...quite amazing stories, some of them.
I often look at this forum and think, "I should do that"!!! I am sure you all understand the reason for this name though!!!! So, with much time on my hands today, I will fill you all in on it.
Havachat is a name I haven't been called for 35years...been called lots of other names since..he!he!...but have been out of contact with the ones who knew me as Havachat. I was working on Brampton Island in Qld, for about 4 years off and on, and when I started, there were 4 of us Bev's...the others all had new handles, and as I was the last to arrive, I ended up with this name, which stuck. I have never needed a username before, so this was the first name I thought of.

[Butterfly09]

I chose my username because I like butterflies.

[scrappydon't]

My user name happened by accident scrappydo was already taken soo i thought i'd be different.

[punkinsmom]

I received a little black and tan cocker spaniel from my mother back in 2000. Her name is Punkin....hence..Punkinsmom. My actual name is Sherrie. BTW..I also have two other fur babies to keep Punkin company:love3:

[JenJeninGA]

Very boring... My nickname as a kid was Jen-Jen and I live in GA, can't get more boring than that.

[motoscrapper]

Well, next in line after my first loves of my family and my computer, is my love of riding my motorcycle - that, and my usual forum name was taken. Hence, motoscrapper was born!

[Ted]

My mom chose my username. :yes:

[IdaIsAlive]

When I retired, I went to try living in a foreign country that did not have "easy internet access". I wanted my adult kids to be able to know at a glance that I was still alive, when I could find internet access.... hence, IdaIsAlive
A few months later, I decided to get a job and move back to the USA, but I kept the username.

[zyphrstar]

Warmest Aloha from Oahu!
I lived near Jacksonville and I had to pick a user name when I worked at AOL's call center in the Member Saves department. In training, I was looking at an old computer that said Windstar on it. Our user names had to be 8 or more characters long. Windstar was already chosen so I picked Zyphrstar. It's a far cry from Maggie!

[mandipants]

hmm mine is mandipants.
i am mandi. and i wear pants :O!!

[jazzieal]

Years ago when I got my first PC I was looking for a log in name and everything I came up with was taken and I didn't like their suggtestions. I was looking around the room and saw a Jazz cassette and thought of jazzie but of course it was taken so I tried jazzieal since I am from Alabama and the abbreviation is al and it was accepted..so thats how I got my user name..:)

[LovedinQuebec]

Mine I came up with, because I wanted something different from the gaming name I use for every other forum (MorganaShi), and because I am very, very, very loved here in Quebec:) So, LovedinQuebec came into being:)

[bob_r_ann]

Mine came about because my official name is ----Barbara Ann---- and by putting the 2 together I came up with bob_r_ann, beside it has a catchy tune somewhere doesn't it?

[lovemonkey]

my real name is kristy but that was taken so i use lovemonkey because thats what my fiance calls me:love3:

[bludlfn003]

bludlfn003-I chose it back in 2003 and it's my username for everything (except bills). It's really prenounced blue dolphin. But everyone says blud. I chose it because my favorite color is blue and my favorite animal is a dophin, to bad I can't have one at home :rofl: The real name is amanda

[lovemonkey]

i love dophins to i wish i could have one

[esaunders2009]

my username? too creative ei? lol

e-for Emily my name, and saunders is my lastname
i created it just this year and just been active lately this year.. so 2009 it is.. :)

just new here... digiscrapping is one of my fave- tho i just started joining sites on digiscrapbook

[ChezzyBabe]

ChezzyBabe......

I moved to Chesterfield UK in 2007... Chesterfield = Chezzy ... and my fiance was on another site as chezzylad and I thought why not have a babe too lol..... so I came up with ChezzyBabe :) .... I have had so many names but I like ChezzyBabe the most :D ....

( Pssst.... I shouldn't really be online lol .... I am supposed to be finalising my wedding reception guest list as the deadline is 1st May hehehe..... shhhhhh no one has to know I been on here.... then again hardly anyone in my family can scrapbook lmao :rolleyes: )

Hugs
Anne

[jenrou]

Mine is just parts of my two names, and I've used it for years on other artist forums, etc. Nothing too interesting.:D
Jean

[timtam]

How did I get my username? My avatar says it all! Yum yum. :D

[Nimil]

my name "nimil" is my real name translated into tolkien elf *nerd*

[nafeesa]

Well, I am a geek. My username Nafeesa, was the name of one of my favorite characters in an online video game I used to play. I love the persona for the character so much, that when I converted to Islam, I adopted Nafeesa as my muslim name. So, now I use it all the time.

My real name is Rebekah.

[Heidi]

Well, I think it sounds cool, Rebekah!!

[Sarilas]

Sarilas is an anagram for the full version of my name, Larissa! (I go by Lara.)

[lmilgram]

bludlfn003-I chose it back in 2003 and it's my username for everything (except bills). It's really prenounced blue dolphin. But everyone says blud. I chose it because my favorite color is blue and my favorite animal is a dophin, to bad I can't have one at home :rofl: The real name is amanda

:D I'm glad I found this post...blue dolphin makes so much more sense than what I kept seeing blud lfn (blood elephant)...I was SO confused. :D

[>>aruaL<<]

I couldn't think of what to use, so I guess I just figured it would be fun to, umm well, you know... confuse you all. LOL! Only it backfired on me because I honestly can't spell my name backwards and whenever I have to type it to get into chat/forum/etc it truly stalls me for a moment as I have to write my name on paper and THEN type it backwards. Ahhhh ahahahahaha!!! It actually makes me laugh now.

:-)

[Kathleen]

I couldn't think of what to use, so I guess I just figured it would be fun to, umm well, you know... confuse you all. LOL! Only it backfired on me because I honestly can't spell my name backwards and whenever I have to type it to get into chat/forum/etc it truly stalls me for a moment as I have to write my name on paper and THEN type it backwards. Ahhhh ahahahahaha!!! It actually makes me laugh now.

:-)

And silly me, I didn't even realize it was Laura backwards! Kept trying to think what interesting origins you name might have!

[>>aruaL<<]

Aww sheesh now I feel bad, Kathleen, for wasting your time thinking about it! LOL!!

[Aftershockgirl]

Well, I'm a girl and Aftershock is my favorite drink.

[monroesdragonfl]

My nick name is Monroe. Given to me by my fiances band cause when hair is all blonde I resimble Marylin Monroe. The dragonfly is cause dragonflies have followed me everywhere since I was a kid.

[cde]

my Username is my intials...how original...but the original thing about it is: they are in alphabetical order...how many people have alphabetical initials??:D My first name is Cheryl

[csu ram mom]

my son is a student at Colorado State

[SilverHealer]

It all began with a fantasy story I began writing years ago. A Silver Healer was a person of extraordinary magical capabilities. I think I picked it as a username because I couldn't think of anything else, LOL, and it's been my main username online for seven years :)

[StacieMac]

My usual scrapping moniker "ScrapMac" was taken. So I used my first name. (I know, I know... that level of creativity is hard to beat.)

[Katara]

My true name is Bertha, but the name of Katara i like a lot.
Have a nice day:p

[kkbellard]

well, hi, my username is kkbellard, which happens to be a nickname from chilhood (kk) and my married last name.. I am soooo new to this I don't even know where to get my assignments for the classes. Help anyone? Greatly appreciate it!

[Lorne]

Mine's boring, it's my real name. :)

My mom actually named me after Lorne Greene. :) She thought his name sounded "distinguished" and at the time it wasn't a common name.

My grandma gave me an old letter before she died, that my mom had written to her while I was still in the womb and she was thinking up names. It turns out if I'd been a girl, I would have been named "Christine."

I've always been really intrigued by that letter. I mean, at that point in time, I was still of indeterminate ---. I was like Schroedinger's Cat. I could have been a boy or a girl. (Heck I could have ended up both.)

I often wonder how my life would have turned out if I ended up as Christine instead of Lorne. Would I still have gone into programming? Would I have been one of the (too rare!) women programmers, or would the societal norms of the 70s and 80s have guided me into some other life?

So many questions. Would I have been a nicer person as a girl? Would I think I was pretty? Would I still have met my wife, and if so would we be friends?

[Kathleen]

What a cool letter to have, I bet you treasure it!

[Lorne]

What a cool letter to have, I bet you treasure it!Yeah, I do. It's a neat letter for other reasons too...I mean, it was my mom writing a letter to her mother in law (not her own mom) during the first year of her marriage, so the things she chose to write about were interesting enough without that stuff about my potential name.

[MaryElizabeth]

Mine is pretty straight-forward, I was christened Mary Elizabeth. My second name was the one my mother chose to use and in my teens I shortened it to Liz, much to her annoyance (t'was the rebel in me I guess:yahoo:). No-one has called me Mary except for some of the Nuns at school who insisted on it. When I signed up here all the liz's-lizzie's-elizabeths were taken so I just went double-barrelled. That's as close to sophistication as I am likely to get on this earth:no:
BTW Lorne one of my best friends christened her first born Lorne and her surname is Greene.

[ReneT]

How interesting that you were named after Lorne Greene. I used to know someone who was also named after Lorne Greene.

[Lorne]

That's cool. :) I wonder if Lorne Greene knew he was so inspirational?

I wonder if he had trouble ordering pizza? For some reason people seem to have trouble understanding my first name over the phone. It's just one syllable, no prominant consonants. If I slow it down or exaggerate the pronunciation it ends up being spelled Lauren or something.

If my wife places an order for me to pick up, half the time if I say "I'm picking up an order for Lorne" they just stare at me blankly, then I realize she didn't spell it out, and must have used her other name for me: "oh, I meant for Lorenzo." :lol:

[ReneT]

How funny. Yeah, the person I used to know had that kind of problem all the time too. And his last name was really different too, so that for sure didn't help. I have a similar problem in that I go by my middle name instead of my first name, so at doctor's offices and stuff like that where they call out your middle name people are always shocked to know that's not the name they know me by.

[Lorne]

Heh, my last name is actually French, so my last name doesn't help either. French people stumble on my first name, and English people stumble on my last name. :)

Rene, that's really interesting to hear you go by your middle name. My dad did the same thing, he always went by David although for some reason his birth certificate listed it as one of his middle names...at one of his first jobs when he moved away from home, the foreman refused to call him David and instead insisted on calling him Joe, because that's what the papers said. My dad couldn't convince him that his name was "Dave."

[ReneT]

When I had my son, I was determined that the first name I chose for him would be the name we called him and that he went by. I wouldn't even tell his grandparents what his name was going to be so that they did not have time to make up a nickname for him before he was born. I remember on the first day of school every year, the teachers would call the roll, and all the kids would laugh when they called out Connie instead of Rene because everyone knew me as Connie, so I was determined my child wouldn't go through that. Looking back on it now, it's not such a big thing, but you know how cruel kids can be. :rolleyes:

[abolsen]

My user name is a combo of my husband's first initial, my first initial and my married last name. I couldn't think of anything creative at the time and it was easy for me to remember for log in.

[DeeAnneK]

DeeAnneK= Dee (husband's nick name for me) + Anne (my real middle name) + K (initial of my last name).

I have been using this name online for over 10 years. my website is DeeAnneK Designs (http://deeannekdesigns.com). I have not worked on that site for a while because I let the busyness of life crowd it out. I am working on changing that. I wanted to improve my graphic design skills, learn Photoshop and create memories so I am here as a really new scrapbooker. I have also signed up for a blogger account to chronicle the journey: DeeAnneK's Digital Delights (http://deeanneksdigitaldelights.blogspot.com/) but I have not posted there yet. I plan to start by writing about the NKOTB that has been such a wonderful learning experience for me.

I have come across others with the nick of DeeAnne but not DeeAnneK so I guess it was a good choice to add the K way back when. :)

Thanks,
Denise

[tinabee09]

Mine comes from my nickname since I was but three years old :D
My name is Christina, shortened to Tina by family and friends and then lovingly adorned to tinabee by my doting and ridiculously awesome father :D
It's stuck and cannot be unglued!
And the '09 comes from my graduating year, that's right folks, she's a young'un!
Although at the time, I just liked the number nine xD!!

[Kathleen]

How sweet, Tina! Welcome to DSP!

[PQ]

WElcome Tinabee! We love all ages, so you will fit right in!

[Digimom2008]

Hi....I'm brand new here and this is my first post...gotta start somewhere eh.
My name is Digimom2008. I came up with the name years ago when my daughter was
young and liked to watch Digimon. I like the "Digi" part because digital is what I am all about with being a graphic designer of 20+ years (yup, started before there were computers). And of course I changed the "mon" to "mom" because ...I am a mom of
a beautiful 13 year old daughter who is my greatest joy in life, inspires me, and keeps
me young. I had to add the "2008" because other people have taken Digimom in different places I've subscribed. Adding the 2008 usually works so I stuck with it.

[stamparita]

I use Stamparita because I used to like playing with stamps...maybe I should change it to Digirita now LOL