How'd you get your Username?

[Emma]

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?

[4jacks4me]

4jacks4me -- I am owned by 4 jack russell terriers - yes FOUR! You have to be crazy to have 4 Jacks. We started out with Buster and 2 years later added Babs. Together they added Harley Jackson & Trakker Jaxx. Since we just had the 2 pups we kept them. So now we have more dogs than people living in our house. The good thing is I don't have to worry about my family asking me to host thanksgiving, easter, christmas, etc. We don't get many visitors - but we wouldn't have it any other way.

My real name is Mary.

[Col Coon]

My user name (Col Coon) comes from some family nicknames. Col is sort for Colonel. I play Army with my brothers a lot and we all have ranks mine is a Colonel. :) The coon part is because I have a coon skin hat I used to wear a lot. I also have a friend who calls me, "the Coon" I thouht about useing my real name (Emma) but there already was a Emma on here.

[valeri]

Well, I got mine because my name is Valeri.. how boring huh?

[mekstamper]

MEK is really my initials and at the time I adopted the handle mekstamper my first hobby was rubber stamping! I first started scrapbooking years ago - a decade ago actually but I got tired of the limitations at the time so I set it aside. Then almost six years ago I started rubber stamping. I loved it! I stamped everything. One day it clicked - I could stamp in my scrapbooks! Then I got back into scrapbooking in a big way. Only last fall did I learn of digital scrapbooking. I think the rest of the story is obvious!

Mary Ellen

[Amber]

Ok so I was real original- my name is Amber and therefore my user name is *amber*! :)

[Emma]

Col Coon is Emma? COOL coon! NOt so many over the age of 5! I'm 27 and a lone Emma. Fidelis is Emma too, but she's English and I think it's a bit more common there for people my age! My mom grew up in England, so that's how I got it in between the grammas and babies!
Wonder how Fidelis got her name?

[nc_josie]

Mine is nc_josie
My name is Jo Ann and a friend started calling me Josie a few years ago and I found that there were a few more Josie's on the net so I stuck nc in front cause I am from North Carolina :cool:

[femsawyer]

Mine's femsawyer! One of my favorite hobbies...(up until I found digital scrapbooking) was woodworking. I have an 12X10 shed that houses all of my woodworking tools. Hubby is not allowed to touch them!!!! Anyway, when I first got on the internet, I wanted something to do with woodworking, but most woodworkers out there are male...so had to add the fem to it. I also sometimes go by femsplinter.
That's my story - and by the way...hubby loves telling everyone that he gets to buy me power tools for Christmas, birthdays and anniversaries!

PS - Real name is Lianne :p

[Elizabeth]

Well, mine is very hard to figure out. ;)

[u.k. lady]

I am fidelis sis, our last name is Wilsher which means fidelis in latin which means faithful and we are:).I got my user name because I am from the U.K. and I try to be a lady lol ,well most of the time.

[elizabethlmccoy]

Well...I really am imaginative but you wouldn't know by my username :-) I figure not too many people have my name so it was safe to use that and I like to keep things simple for logging into all the sites I need to use a username for! :p I also go by wwwebgurlie which is the screename I've used for about 6 or 7 years. That was when I was addicted to the the internet and would be on all the time!! :D Now I'm only addicted to 1 thing digiscrapping :p

[luv2skidoo]

well mine user name came about almost as a joke. When hubby and I decided to get married we chose the year 2000 because (and I'm serious about this) we loved the color of the new ski-doo snowmobiles (purple and silver) so we planned our wedding around those colors (which are my favs anyways) and we decided to have a wedding on March 4th so that we could leave the church on snowmobiles.

We decided to have ppl respond to our wedding via email and since we both love to ski-doo (ride our snowmobiles) that's the name we came up with. We contacted ski-doo and told them our color plans and a week later a 4' x 24' banner arrived from them with SKI-DOO and color splashes to match the colors from our wedding. (That banner hung over our head table at the recption.) A few days after that I received a call from the marketing director and she told me that the day before the wedding the local ski-doo dealer would be dropping off 2 brand new prototype sleds for us to use for the weekend for pictures and to ride. Needless to say "I was da' bomb" according to my hubby. He was absolutely THRILLED to say the least.

Unfortunately although we usually have plenty of snow in March - 3 days before our wedding all the snow melted and the day we got married it was 65 degrees! We didn't get to ride the sleds but we took plenty of pictures and our getaway from the church was driving our pickup with the snowmobiles on the trailer, lol.

The luv2skidoo name has stuck with us ever since.

Jen

[elizabethlmccoy]

Jen LOL what a great story!!! We need to see a layout done about that :D :D

[Margie]

great story! bummer on the snow tho!
i've been scrapster for a while. still have www.scrapster.com. i wanted to be someone more exciting than margie, so i tried scrapster, who indeed did have more fun! then in starting this site, we felt like we should be real people, so we're all using our names. so now i'm back to boring margie. tho life's not been boring since about 2001. :D

[sskFlyer]

Mine came after a lot of headscratching about a year ago, when I started using IM. My sister had it easy...Col Coon. But, it was more difficult for me. We finally decided on "ssk" since they are my initials and "Flyer" since I have always LOVED aviation and flying.
As a note, my friends call me the "Gorilla".
My real name is Samuel Kordik, and I am mekstamper's son, and Col Coon's brother. I started out doing desktop publishing after an intensive course in it a couple years ago. I really latched onto PS (version 4 then) and worked through the entire PS4 Wow book. I was hooked. When my mom was at a Blessed Memories scrapbooking retreat that Margie Lundy spoke at, she emailed me some stuff about it, and I had to try. The rest, they say, is history.
-sskFlyer (Samuel Kordik) a.k.a. "THe Gorilla"

[sallyscrapper]

I recieved my user name from a friend who introduced me to digital scapping.
She signed me into a site at first I was embarrassed :o {not knowing what I was getting into} now I think it's pretty normal considering what we all get up to here. :rolleyes:
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My real name is Sally :D

[Cris]

Well, mine here at DSP is my name (middle actually, short for Cristina) but some may know me as inahayes, which is because I can be kinda lame at times (ie, I am "in a haze"). You know the type; book-smart but ditzy (at times). For example, I was watching Oprah last year and when my dh came home, I couldn't wait to tell him about these poor people who lost millions in their retirement funds when their company got indicted for fraud. Well, the company was Enron and it was months after the news broke so he just shook his head and asked me when I was going to take mine out of my you know what :o
It's so funny how people read these usernames. I can't tell you how many times I'd get comments to "Ina", as if that was my 1st name. I never corrected anyone because I kinda enjoyed the giggle ;)
Anyway - I also realized [later] that *ina* is actually the last 3 letters in Cristina as well, so it fits all the way around I guess :)
Very interesting that so many family members are here :) I am the lone computer scrapper of my family, although I am swaying an aunt to try it...
:cool:

[Mamascrapalota]

I got my name just because I couldn't think of anything else to use. I'm a mama of two girls 5.5 and 7, and I made the switch to computer scrapping cold turkey last November I think it was. I've been scrapbooking for so long now so the name just fit. Not to exciting....

Mary-Kay Tilden

[jessie97]

My username is jessie97. I chose jessie bc I am a really big Toy Story fan and one of the characters in Toy Story 2 is jessie and 97 is the year we were married. My real name is Lisa.

[sandi]

Emma I'm so glad you started this thread! I've been thinking about it for ages and just never followed through. I've always been curious about some of the usernames I see.

As Margie said - we're using our real names (Sandi) but I go by scrappinsandi.
I hope to read some more interesting stories about usernames.
sandi

[Rhoda Jayne]

My real name IS NOT Rhoda Jayne. Actually it's Rhoda Elisabeth. When my dh & I were dating, his mom would tease him about Rodney Wayne going to see Rhoda Jayne. On our first Valentine's Day as a married couple, I put an ad in the paper saying "Rhoda Jayne loves Rodney Wayne". My dh has carried that in his billfold for 19 years now!
So for 20 years now I've been known as Rhoda Jayne or RJ by my dh & his family. Even my own family calls me that now! My 22 year old calls me MIZ Jayne.
Guess what. I can sign up on any internet site as Rhoda Jayne. There's not another one ANYWHERE!
Our 20th anniversary is next month. Any ideas on what I can do with the Rhoda Jayne & Rodney Wayne theme? I'm putting it on the radio for sure.
(And now you know the rest of the story......)




Emma I'm so glad you started this thread! I've been thinking about it for ages and just never followed through. I've always been curious about some of the usernames I see.

As Margie said - we're using our real names (Sandi) but I go by scrappinsandi.
I hope to read some more interesting stories about usernames.
sandi

[luvsPSE]

I know there are lots of photoedit programs out there, but I fell in love with PSE after graduating up to it from PhotoDeluxe. I just love the way it does things and I'm completely monogamous!! :p It's kind of cool to see how much it can really do. I've bought Hidden Power of PSE but haven't read the first page yet...maybe this summer???

Who knows, maybe someday I'll move on up to PS, but since I can't afford it it will have to be an older version from ebay ;) !

BTW, my name's Judy. Hi everybody!!

[Janet]

SnowMoon is our kennel name...decided on that when we joined the Samoyed Club of America. The first two dogs that started our road into the dog world were born on Valentines Day. The February full moon is the Snow Moon...and both my husband and I love snow and especially the full moon on snow...so it all fit.

Janet White

[Chevellegirl]

My husband got me interested in muscle cars and drag racing some 15 years ago. My favorite car is a 1968 metallic blue Chevrolet Chevelle SS...I could go on further with more details...but it might bore some of you. Thence...the name (I had to come up with something when I signed up for an e-mail account). Right now I have my dream car sitting in my garage; however, it's only there because it belongs to a friend and we're doing some work to it for him. BUMMMER! It's still neat that the neighbors think it belongs to us though :D

[elizabethlmccoy]

Oh man...what torture :p Well at least you get your dream car up close & personal for awhile...mine is down at the lot and they don't let me spend time with it anymore ;) :p hehe...


My husband got me interested in muscle cars and drag racing some 15 years ago. My favorite car is a 1968 metallic blue Chevrolet Chevelle SS...I could go on further with more details...but it might bore some of you. Thence...the name (I had to come up with something when I signed up for an e-mail account). Right now I have my dream car sitting in my garage; however, it's only there because it belongs to a friend and we're doing some work to it for him. BUMMMER! It's still neat that the neighbors think it belongs to us though :D

[canay]

Many years ago we wanted to give our pet wolf an Indian name. I contacted the Napa Historical society and they put me in touch with a woman who was an expert on the Wappo Indians. She had a lot of literature about the Wappo Indians and looking down a list of words we came upon "Canay". It translated into "One and Only". Our wonderful pet was surely one of her kind and we picked this name. All though Canay is no longer with us her memory will remain forever. Since scrap booking is a way to preserve memories forever I have chosen the name "Canay" for my on line scrap booking "alias"...

My "real" name is Mary

[Chevellegirl]

Oh man...what torture :p Well at least you get your dream car up close & personal for awhile...mine is down at the lot and they don't let me spend time with it anymore ;) :p hehe...


That's probably because they were tired of cleaning up the drool off of it. hehehe :p

[lynzriches]

Mine is pretty original, too....lynzriches = Lyndsay Riches.

Of course I go by seneca_scrapper on a few other groups. My heritage is Konadaha Seneca of the Iroquois Nation. :) And I scrap. ;)

It's been fun reading everyone's stories!

[_17]

sports. I've been #17 in all sports for as long as I can remember. I was also married on the 17th of May and my son was born on the 17th of February.

[Sybrina]

My username online has been Sybrina for at least 9 or 10 years now. My real name is Tammy. When I was first getting into chat rooms I wanted to use my Cat's name she was a rotten evil hymalyan that my Dh saved when she was just a baby, also I wanted a name that didn't require a # after it .. like tammy19887773939. well Sabrina was way to common so I played the spelling and came up with Sybrina, I have only ran across maybe one or two other people that spell it that way. :) I love it when people correct the spelling as if I spelt it wrong :rolleyes: I just laugh and don't say anything. I have used Sybrina online for so long now that if I type in my real name it looks and feels funny. LOL

The pic attached is a sigtag I used with Sabrina's Picture She is no longer with us.

** this thread is a neat idea**

[sindea]

Well, um, uh.... Sindea- my name. Said like Cindy. Of the Brady Bunch.

[stanpix]

Some of the names are well thought out. Mine: Stanpix, I had to come up with a copyright name quickly so hence Stan for me and pix for picture, I just have to add the year and like someone else here, no one had the name. One quick question? (17) you told us how you got the name but not your name.

[dinotien]

My dad passed away two years ago, 3 weeks before my marriage to my actual hubby. We watched the flinstones as kids, and my dad used to call me dino. Tien means ten in dutch (I am dutch speaking), and that is because my mom used to treat me like I counted for ten.
So it should be dinoten but it has become dinotien because the dutch part.

My real name is Catherine Lucas :) :) :)

[scrapaddict_mom]

I'm new and my name's Lori but I use scrapaddict_mom. This is self-explanatory because I'm a mom of 2 boys and I am addicted to scrapbooking for 2 years now.

Lori

[3beautifulkids]

this username is brand new for this place, and I think I'll use it more I'm liking it so much :) I have the three most beautiful kids is why :D but i'm really trudy, I love my name but don't like using it as a username since it adds 30 years to my age!

[Kristen]

Another non-creative name here<g> I've been kskold since I first got online. Only once (on ebay) have I found someone who grabbed it first. With a last name like Skold, there's not a whole lot of competition<g> Especially since my sisters got married...

The K stands for Kristen - although I get called Kirsten and Kristin a lot, and Karen more often than you'd think<g>

The name's Swedish. It lost a J and an umlaut coming through immigration<g> It had been Skjöld. Pronounced, according to Grandpa, as fwil.

An interesting topic!

Well, since I posted this I got invited to be a moderator, and the fashion for the team is to go with first names. So - kskold became kristen.

[iluvdollz]

iluvdollz started years ago when I first started on the internet with my then hobby of fashion doll makeovers. I loved that hobby and used that name and so it has stuck with me. Although I've gone through other hobbies this name still follows me.

[Emma]

hobby of fashion doll makeovers.

My mom does this! She doesn't paint the faces, but makes and sells clothing and sewing and knitting patterns for Cissy, Kitty, Alex, and Jean and a few others. Her site is here:
http://home.comcast.net/~deezdollz/

Looks like fun, but I'm just not into dolls! I prefer sewing for real people :p

BTW, she also makes quilts, her site for that is here:
http://home.comcast.net/~quilts4u43/

Welcome to DSP!

[iluvdollz]

Emma I only did this for the Barbie dolls although I own Jackie, Marilyn, Tyler Diana, Julia, Gene and some others that are 15 1/2". I did the hair, make-up, beaded designed gowns and all jewelry. It was a lot of fun but really time consuming. Plus my collection was adding up so I gave my MIL and family a lot of my work. I never got into selling since I did it for fun. I still own quite a few but do more scrappin these days.

[blessedbyGod]

Well, mine's not too hard... I am sooo blessed by GOD that I chose that name to brag about how GOOD God has been to me... :D (I originally wanted to be TrulyBlessed but when I first started on another site, that name was already used... I now use blessedbyGod b/c I can't handle having diff names for diff sites lol!) Really simple, huh? ;)

[LorrieProth]

First name and part of last. I am a member of so many sites, I can't go original or I'll forget what it was. LOL

Lorrie

[Angel]

Well... my name is Angel so that's pretty simple... when I first went online I didn't like using my real name... but w/ the popularity of the Angel, Princess, etc running rampant, I developed a new liking for it :)

[tedxanmama]

I really wish I had just tried to use my real name here. Tedxanmama is so hard to remember, but thankfully my computer remembers most of my usernames for me :P "Ted" is my oldest son (3 years!) and Xander ("Xan") is my second son (he's 15 months) And I am their "mama" I used to be Tedsmama a lot but felt bad for Xander, so i used his name here as well. I hope to have lots and lots of kiddoes, so in 15 years I may have the longest username on the internet :D

By the way...I'm Lindsey :) You can call me Linz too, Emma does.

[Schmoopy]

Hmmm ... I was sure I posted this before, but it isn't showing up, so chances are I just "dreamed" it!

Schmoopy -- dh has called me schmoopy since we started dating, one of those icky sappy ridiculous pet names. When we got our first computer years and years ago he registered everything as schmoopy and it just kind of stuck. Jerry Sienfeld came along and used it in his show "no you're schmoopy" and we laughed and laughed!

That is the origin of Schmoopy -- I also liked schmoopsy-poo in Monsters Inc.

Stace.

[Mommaoar]

My name is mommaoar. I started using this name on Yahoo! a couple of years ago. It is pronounced momma oar. It stands for Momma of Owen, Audra and Rachel.

My name is Sylvia. :)

[AfterMath]

I found this old thread while I was doing a search and thought it might be fun to resurrect it for those of us who are newer around here. I especially enjoyed reading about "luv2skidoo" - I always figured it was a reference to Blue's Clues! ;)

As for mine, I have a BS (ha, ha) in math and have used the name "mathlady" for a long time. I was trying to think of something new to use, and since I got married right after college and quit working to have kids shortly thereafter, I figured this is my life "after math." When I asked DH which one he liked better, he said, "Well, AfterMath sounds like Mathlady's arch nemesis. I like the eeeeeevviillll one!" So for better or worse I listened to him. I also go by "jkb13" and "jennR8R" (as in the jenn-erator, a silly nickname from high school) in some places.

Can't wait to hear about the rest of you!

[Amber]

Mine is real original. I changed mine from *amber* to AmberK simply because I was tired of typing in the astericks and so I chose AmberK because that is my first name and last initial! Boring- I know! :)

[andyapc]

Boy, I could have sworn that I posted a reply way back in May when this started but I can't find it, so here goes...

My real name is Andrea but no one ever calls me that unless they're angry with me (and then it has to sound like ANNNNNDRRRRRREEEEEEAAAAAAAA to sound exactly like my mom). Everyone has always called me Andy - even my husband although he got a few strange looks from some co-workers when he told them he was marrying an Andy - and the "apc" is just my initials.

*sigh* - no one could ever accuse me of being original

[scrapqltr]

I go by scrapqltr because I scrap and quilt. Pretty simple.

[valeri]

im boring too... just valeri no reason other then that is my name! lol

[Sandra314]

My name and I added my birth month and my birth date. I didn't list my birth year in it.

Would you believe I am going to be 40 years old this coming March 14th?

[Els]

My username is Els because that's my first name :rolleyes:

I have a few usernames for different sites, but try to keep things not too complicated or I won't remember... I am also known on the web as ElsGray, Libra76, and cuddles. There, now you all know my secrets ;)

I picked Els for this site because I am actually getting sick of not being known for who I am IYKWIM. I mean, it just doensn't sound personal to me when people reply to one of your posts with 'Hi Libra76' :rolleyes: And I figured chances were high that this username wouldn't be taken...

By the way, Sandra, you look way younger than 40, believe me!!

Cheers!

[WyoGal]

I sure have enjoyed reading these stories! What a great thread!

I am pretty boring in my choice. I live in Wyoming and I am a Gal! :D

My real name is Linda.

Now, some of you other newbies come sign in .. there are several I am wondering about! :D

[shazzt]

Mine is pretty boring:

Shaz because I am Sharon (and often get referred to as Shaz)
T because my last name begins with T

And the extra Z? I just added because it was cool!

PS - Sandra there's nothing wrong with being 40 - better than the alternative! :-)

[GingersGirl]

Well, I just adopted a dog from the SPCA, I called her Ginger..anyone who owns A dog knows you really don't own them, they own you!! hence: Gingersgirl ....& lovin it!!!!




Shannon

[VAL DER RE]

Well, I was given my nickname at work because I used to wear lots of bling and make funny noises with my mouth in the style of Justin Timberlake - lol. Anyway, my full title at work is actually MC Val Der Re and my friend is called the Scratchmaster after she got caught her car on the gates at work.

[Haley64]

My user name came from my web-site business and my dislike for my real name Tracey. My brothers both have cool names Ross & Wade. I don't think Mom had a girl name picked out and she just named me!! ;o)
My friends all call me Trace!
Haley (Hal-ee) was suppose to be after the Halley's Comet, but I am blonde and mistyped it when doing my domain name so it stuck as Haley.
But then do a search on google and a lot of people are spelling it wrong!!
Just added the 64 for my birth year!
I am 40 and life is only getting better and better I almost can't wait for 60!! :p

[melodiustenor]

Mine's femsawyer! One of my favorite hobbies...(up until I found digital scrapbooking) was woodworking. I have an 12X10 shed that houses all of my woodworking tools. Hubby is not allowed to touch them!!!! Anyway, when I first got on the internet, I wanted something to do with woodworking, but most woodworkers out there are male...so had to add the fem to it. I also sometimes go by femsplinter.
That's my story - and by the way...hubby loves telling everyone that he gets to buy me power tools for Christmas, birthdays and anniversaries!

PS - Real name is Lianne :p
Gee, my real name is Lianne too... but my husband has all the woodworking tools! Actually, I'm pretty handy with them too, but he wouldn't admit to it! In the meantime I scrap and compute (he pretends he can do that like I do woodworking)
Catch you later... Lianne :)

[melodiustenor]

Gee, my real name is Lianne too... but my husband has all the woodworking tools! Actually, I'm pretty handy with them too, but he wouldn't admit to it! In the meantime I scrap and compute (he pretends he can do that like I do woodworking)
Catch you later... Lianne :)

I guess visual and tactile is not my main creative side. Most people know me for my music, and that is why I am melodiustenor... tenor because that's the part I sing in barbershop, and melodius because I always am. ( how do you do a brag sign!) No, really, pretty good musically, but I actually play keyboard mostly and second as singer.
I have an artistic side, even though I was pushed to accounting as a profession.

[melodiustenor]

Well, I was given my nickname at work because I used to wear lots of bling and make funny noises with my mouth in the style of Justin Timberlake - lol. Anyway, my full title at work is actually MC Val Der Re and my friend is called the Scratchmaster after she got caught her car on the gates at work.

Hi, I get MC, but what does Val der Re refer to? and what is bling? Is that lots of flash stuff?
Does Justin Timberlake make funny noises with his mouth, apart from singing?

I should be called scratchmaster too, I took my daughter to the airport at 4am, and in pitch black departure at home backed into a horrid scratch attack with my son's car! My car is worse than his... but shame, first ever accident for me... what name will they come up for me next week!
Lianne, melodiustenor.

[VAL DER RE]

Hi, I get MC, but what does Val der Re refer to? and what is bling? Is that lots of flash stuff?
Does Justin Timberlake make funny noises with his mouth, apart from singing?

I should be called scratchmaster too, I took my daughter to the airport at 4am, and in pitch black departure at home backed into a horrid scratch attack with my son's car! My car is worse than his... but shame, first ever accident for me... what name will they come up for me next week!
Lianne, melodiustenor.

How did I get my nickname - well, my name is Valerie, when I was born my Mum and Dad were wondering what to call me and at the time - long, long time ago in black and white days - there was a song out called "The Happy Wanderer" which went like this - "I like to go a-wandering along the mountain tracks and when I go I like to take my knappsack on my back - Val der re, Val der ra, Val der re, Val der ra ra ra ra ra" and so on. Please don't ask me who sang it, anyway they heard it and decided to call me Valerie. I told them at work and although I am the oldest in the office I liked all the up to date music out at the time and so they were all messing about saying how 'hip' and 'cool' I was. I also liked jewellery and so they coined my nickname as MC Val Der Re.

[kmarquez]

Just my first initial and my last name. I'm so boring! :)

[Judyy]

My username is an example of a bad nickname that stuck. My real first name is Judy, but when I was in the Navy, Bad JuJu was my radio call sign--sort of a nickname you use when you're talking on the radio. You don't usually get to choose your own call sign--oh, no, that would be too easy--usually somebody senior comes up with it. So I got Bad JuJu--lucky me! :rolleyes:

Anyway, in the spirit of embracing what irks me and making it my own, I now use this call sign as forum username. I'm learning to love it!

[SimPenguin]

The first thing I did with my first computer in 1992 was load on SimCity (simulation game) and the second was to get internet access. I could tell that along with my passion for Penguins, the Sim thing was going to last so I became SimPenguin. 12 years later, I couldn't have picked a better name for myself - it's still perfect!

[Diginellie]

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Hi I am Diginellie cos my name is Helen but I like nellie better - the Digi just speaks for itself! :)

[Emma]

Gee, my real name is Lianne too...Actually, Lianne, I was hoping you'd share your username with us in here, it's one of those I have often wondered about! I thought it was for Melody Ustenor like that was your name, because unless it's a foreign language or a wacky acronym I just could NOT come up with an alternative...what IS it? :D :confused:

[MaureenH]

Until recently when our knees started to give us trouble my husband and I loved biking and we own recumbent bikes. People who ride recumbents are called "bent riders" and we call regular bikes "wedgies". Needless to say we get a lot of comments when we ride them, but boy are they comfortable. There is a photo of us riding on this layout. bentrider was too long for most usernames so it got shortened to bentrdr.

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=21458&password=&sort=2&cat=500&page=2
Maureen

[MA#3]

Hi Gang, My Name is MA #3...Mary Ann is my Real name the #3 Represents Our 3 Children, ( since We Lost our youngest Son Scotty and His Favorite NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt...I Use the #3 in Honor of them) I also have the #3 Tatto Over my Heart. :cool:

[LadyAdina]

My full real name is Linda Adina Maritha (although it should be Maritha Linda Adina since I'm sometimes mistaken for being called Linda). Adina wasn't mine from birth, but when I was about 13-15 years I got interested in my ancestors, and so my grandma told me alot about her mother, whose name was Adina. I fell so in love with the name that I actually added it to myself.

I haven't used it online until I not too long ago developed a very strong interest for the regency era, and who's not wanted to be a lady in beautiful dresses and accompanied by handsome gentlemen...? :cool:

So then LadyAdina was born! :D

[clikchic]

My dad passed away two years ago, 3 weeks before my marriage to my actual hubby. We watched the flinstones as kids, and my dad used to call me dino. Tien means ten in dutch (I am dutch speaking), and that is because my mom used to treat me like I counted for ten.
So it should be dinoten but it has become dinotien because the dutch part.

My real name is Catherine Lucas :) :) :)

Nice to see another dutch speaker! My parents are both dutch and migrated to Australia before I was born. We spoke english at home but I managed to pick up a fair bit when they were talking to each other thinking we wouldn't understand them! LOL

Then when I finished school I spent a year in Holland getting to know my huge extended family over there and I spoke Dutch that whole year which really did wonders for my Dutch skills.

I will post my username story shortly....

[clikchic]

There! Finished reading all the replies now! LOL

It is interesting to see where all the usernames are from!

I have only started using clikchic over the last few years because it took me ages to think of it! For ages I went by robyngo (cut down version of my full name) but I always found it boring and wanted something that better reflected me.

So one day I was trying to think of a new username for ebay (I buy and sell a lot on ebay) and clikchic came to me... unfortunately on ebay clikchic was taken so I had to use clik*chic but I prefer to use clikchic.

I like it because I have a photography background... it has been a while but I LOVE working in the darkroom.. tho now the way digital is going I am not sure I will ever get back into it! I have partially completed my diploma in photography and hope to get back to it one day. Anyway... I love clik because it stands for clicking the shutter on a camera as well as clicking the mouse... and I love chic because well I am one and also because our business name is Chic Upholstery (as in shabby chic not as in baby chicken)

I am a huge computer addict and photography is my long time hobby so it all fits me perfectly and I LOVE going by clikchic... Unfortunately tho it is not always free on forums or other areas of the web etc which is disappointing but then I just throw in the asterisk.

Oh and my real name is Robyn :-)

[Aussie Pam]

Aussie Pam !!! well my real name is Pam and at a PSP signature site I belong to on MSN there are 3 Pams so another Australian member puts Aussie Pam on the message boards if she wants to get my attention.
I have a different username on MSN sites.

[grannypatt]

:p Hello All, I am new here too. I pick my username because I love being a grandma (granny) and my name is Patt.

[goneriding]

I owned and rode horses for 10+ years. I sold my last horse two years ago when I purchased my first Harley Davidson. I have always had the same user name and it transferred from one passion to the next. I have also used crzmoma (Crazy Moma) which is the license plate on my Harley. :cool:

[tshirt]

I usually use "skulldrinker" as you can see from my avatar but I thought that might be a little to much for here so I used "tshirt" and that's on my Harley license plate because I am a t-shirt screenprinter amoung other things.

http://www.bikersaloon.com/littleskulls2.jpg

Matt

[melodiustenor]

Hi Matt,
what kinds of things do you screenprint on Tshirts? Bike things and stuff? or other? My son is getting into that sort of thing, putting his artwork on tshirts (cars).
Lianne

[tshirt]

Hi Matt,
what kinds of things do you screenprint on Tshirts? Bike things and stuff? or other? My son is getting into that sort of thing, putting his artwork on tshirts (cars).
Lianne
Hi Lianne,

Yes bike stuff and other stuff. Mostly what ever the customer wants or brings to me. One job might be the local tuckpointer and the next might be the local tow truck company. Usually the art is what they have since I am no artist. I can't don't come close to creating art like the Nascar or Drag Racing or Bike Week artists make. However the terrible samples they sometimes bring to me which have to end up looking great on t-shirt come close to being a miracle. An art all by itself in taking their logo and doing a layout with nice fonts getting it all just right. I also cut and apply vinyl to vehicles and signs. Also embroidery which I contract out. I want an embroidery machine real bad but they cost so much.

If your son is interested in that industry then he simply must check out this great web and forum at.

http://boards.screenprinters.net/

It is the best. I would have to say that it's equivalent to that industry as this forum is to Scappin'

Edited- I forgot this forum which is comprised of the best artists around. Cars bikes and whatever. Your son would like to see some of works from these people.

http://xlntscreenart.com/



Matt

[donnaw2kids]

It took me a while to come up with my name :rolleyes: . My name is DONNA and I have 2 kids sooooo donnaw2kids. Mind blowing huh! :eek:

[Bird Lady]

Bird Lady.....HHHHHMMMMMM....I think it was because I have over 50 birds....but I could be wrong..... :rolleyes:
Barb

[txminx]

My friends in the UK called me the Maltby Minx because of where I lived and the amount of trouble I would try to stir up with the NE ukscrappers. So when we were transfered back to Texas I decided to keep my friends nickname but refer it back to Texas - thus txminx

real name:

Melinda

[cinderella8013]

well my real name is Ella and when i was younger read a cinderella story book that said that Cinderella's real name was ella and i have loved Cinderella ever since the 80 is the year i was born and the 13 is the day was born

[jennijenni]

I just made my very first post at this site a couple of hours ago, so I must be on a roll here :p . My user name is jennijenni, I chose it because I'm a child of the eighties. Well, I was a teenager in the eighties let me put it that way. Those of you who came of age in the same decade probably remember that song by a group named Tommy TuTone called "8675309" (JenniJenni who can I turn to.... :) ). I thought it would make a fun user name!

[Biddy]

My User name 'Biddy' was given to me as a child by my late father. Well it is a shortened version of it. He used to call me 'Biddy Nooks'. My son and husband had gotten hold of it and come up with all kinds of variations of it :rolleyes: IddyBiddy; Bidsley and The Bids are to name a few.

But I have shortened it to just Biddy

I know I am going to love this site as I have just discovered digital scrapbooking by accident, and I already am spending way to many hours on the computer because of it. The site looks fantastic and I'll be back all the time with Questions as I am just starting to use Photoshop Elements 3 [probably bitten off the thick end of the log first up] and it is about as clear as mud at present, most aspects of it anyway

Biddy

[haylo1573]

It sure takes a while to read 6 pages of posts, so I thought I'd help make it 7!

My real name is Hayley, named after my Grandma Haley and my mom's favorite actress at the time, Hayley Mills.

Once upon a time I could use my real name anywhere and be an original, but with its popularity these days with the computer raised generations, I had to start getting creative. I used to use "redcomet" for Halley's comet and I'm a natural redhead (my elementry school janitor used to call me "Big Red"). After trying every variation of that on some website I was trying to register at, I gave up and checked their suggestion list.

After disregarding haystack, I went with a variation on halo so that it looked abit more like my name and added some birthday info. I also liked it because it is a vague ties to the past nickmanes of red (halo of red hair) and comet (halo of light). Signs of a compulsive disorder somewhere here?

Anyway I use it quite a bit so if you see haylo1573 elsewhere it's probablely me :)

Hayley

[tshirt]

...--cut--Those of you who came of age in the same decade probably remember that song by a group named Tommy TuTone called "8675309" (JenniJenni who can I turn to.... :) ). I thought it would make a fun user name!

Over here it was on TV news that some woman (whose name also is Jenny) waited 10 years for that number to become available for her car license plates. The TV station did a little interview thingy with her and showed the plates on TV. She was happy as a "pig in a poke" whatever that means....

[souperscrapper]

Well, mine is souperscrapper.

I tried using just scrapper first, but it was already taken. Then I tried superscrapper - but it was already taken, so I tried a variation on the word "super". That one worked...

I also have 6 children to keep fed, so the "soup" has a double meaning.

I have to keep a log of who I am on various sites because different names are already taken on each one.

My real name is Kelly

[jennijenni]

Over here it was on TV news that some woman (whose name also is Jenny) waited 10 years for that number to become available for her car license plates. The TV station did a little interview thingy with her and showed the plates on TV. She was happy as a "pig in a poke" whatever that means....

Read your reply :) . I wasn't as happy as a pig in a poke with my user name but I think I can explain the meaning of the phrase. It's probably a southern thing- a poke means a sack or a bag and I read somewhere that when a farmer buys a baby pig and transports him to his house that it's better to do it in a sack because it feels secure there. Kind of like putting blinders on horses when taking them through a situation that might cause them stress (did you ever see Gone with the Wind- the big fire towards the end, Rhett, Scarlett, and the horse with the blindfold on? :) ). I use jennijenni everywhere I go online and so far no one else was using it yet although I'm always amazed by all the variations of Jennifer on different sites. Actually, I take that back, I think there was already a jennijenni on e-bay so I became jennijennijj instead. ANYWAY just a little piece of pig in a poke trivia for those who are interested in southern colloquialisms (which I probably just totally misspelled :) .

[Cupcake]

Hi,

My name is Vicki and I live in Pleasant Grove, UT. I am am so far below newbie I will have to work and study to get that far. I was so blown away when I discovered this site. Since then I have totally changed my ideas about scrapbooking. I am excited to start taking classes and learning. I got my name after having a slew of grandsons my daughter adopted a little girl. I started calling her cupcake as a pet name. Well when she started talking I would say goodbye cupcake and she would say (of course) goodbye cupcake. Her older brothers thought that was so cute they started telling her to say goodbye to grandma cupcake...it spread to my other grandkids and well I guess the rest is history.

[SilverLady]

I used to make jewellery and sell it at the weekend markets. There were a sweet group of kids who used to sit and watch me making peices at my stall and they had trouble remembering my name, Megan ;) , and so what do you think they called me? - the Silver Lady :)

It was kinda endearing and it just stuck, so now I am SilverLady

[Samara]

I don't know why it has taken me so long to reply to this thread, but it's time now!!!

I'm Luv2Crop and have been ever since I started with the internet and message boards.

For the most part I'm Luv2Crop at just about every scrappin' message board out there, except at Two Peas...when they redid our names (a few years ago) I lost it, so now I'm Samara aka Luv2Crop or Luv2Crop aka Samara... (I can never remember which one!)

I picked the name because I love to scrapbook... Now that I'm pretty much all digi, it still works!

I guess I could become LuvPixels or LuvPSE or even LuvDSP, but for now I'll stay Luv2Crop!

Sorry that I rambled....it's early and I'm tired.

[bonni]

It's my real name! :p

bonni

[nannalynn63]

My name is Nannalynn63 and I really am NOT a granny! LOL! I got that name because some friends used to talk about things I didn't want to hear, so I would put my fingers in my ears and say "nanananananana!" :p! Lynn is my middle name and the 63 is NOT my age! (but it does have something to do with it... :)

I am very new to scrapping, actual and digital. My friend at work got me hooked on digital photography, then scrapbooking and finally digital scrapping! I am currently making a birthday calendar for my family. We are so large that we need reminders about those special events. It is going well and I will post it when I am done.

Oh, and my real life name?

Shari :D

[Jaderose]

Lets see.. Mine is Jaderose. My real name is Hoa (pronounce Hwa and its vietnamese for Rose/flower) I also love Jade especially since Im part viet :)

Im turning 34 this year.

[mumof4]

I'm stubborn_taureans...
chosen because both DH and I are Taureans and we're both VERY stubborn :p

[mumof4]

:o ok so I'm signed in as "mumof4" on this site...THIS is why you sholdn't have too many different usernames!

mumof4...self-explanatory

[lyzzydee]

Well I use this name on most boards, my name is Elizabeth Davidson, so Lyzzy from my first name and Dee the initial of my last name!

I am pleased to see Val de Re is a member here, she was the lady who single handedly sorted out my digital problems with resizing allowing me to to do my first layout!

[Calamine]

My username, Calamine, is the name of one of the characters I play on Everquest, which is a role playing game.

[Riyallyn]

We're major geeks, and used to play Dungeons and Dragons all the time. Riyallyn was one of my favorite characters (a bunch of us sat in a history class one night trying to come up with her name, and then figuring out how to spell it). I started using it online cause it is really easy to get "my" name on forums and in MMORPG's (multiplayer online games).

My real name is Erica.

[gilsgirl]

Hi...I'm gilsgirl...I use it because my hubbys name is Gil [short for Gilbert] of course!! lol! And last I looked ,Ive been his girl for the last 8 1/2 years.lol!! We met and he proposed less than a month later ...we were Married less than 6 months after that and been together ever since. :)

[fawn321]

my name is lafawn, so Fawn. I am a police officer and so is my husband. 321 is my husband's badge number

[karenmc6]

mine's not terribly exciting - my name is karen mcgowan and i have always gone by karenmc. i picked up the 6 along the way 'cause there are six of us. i prefer my initials (kym), but then everyone thinks my name is kim. sometimes i wish that i had some really clever nickname, but i don't and my own name suits me.

[tripod]

mine of course is tripod .I am very much into taking pictures and every one has always called me that. My real name is Nila..Tripod just seems to fit. one of my yahoo screens is tripodscorner

[lunafaerie]

mine is lunafaerie because i love the moon and i love faeries. i usually spell faerie the way my favorite artist brian froud spells it. i'm sometimes called spiritmoon, which is essentially the same thing, but belive it or not, lunafaerie is sometimes taken and spiritmoon isn't. go figure. anyway, i'm new here. i've been trying to scrapbook for years, with no luck. cause i'm positively addicted to my computer. so i think i've found my niche. i'm excited to get started. i'm so glad i found all of you. :)

[clepatb]

I came up with my user name like this:

cle (Cleveland)
pat (my first name)
b (beginning of my last name)

[mm2239]

I got mine from my favorite football players when I was a kid: Mercury Morris wore number 22 and Larry Csonka wore number 39.

My real name is David

[loudlucky]

I got my username from my pet parrot's name, Lucky... he's very vocal & VERY loud LOL. I used it on birdforums because "lucky" is always taken already, so loudlucky kinda stuck!
My real name is Cindy :)

[Scrappymomoftwo]

Scrappy = A nickname my DH gave me sometime ago I don't think he even remembers my real name...

Mom of two comes from being a mother of two..

Kelly

[jdsgirl]

Great thread! I'm always intrigued at how nicks come along.

I'm jdsgirl..my husbands name is John Derek hence the jd. And I'm his girl of 17 years :)

I'm also known as SevenBlessings. We were blessed with 7 children. It's all logical to me! lol

My given name is Dena, Dee Dee for short.

[Sunny Days]

I like sunny, not cloudy, days :)

[mom23terriers]

Hullo...

I'm TerrierMom23... no I don't have 23 dogs... it's terriemom to three...
I have two Cairn Terriers and one Scottish Terrier. My rescue Cairn, Barney will be 16 next month and I hope to do a special book for him so I'm out with my camera a lot. Barney is like me in that he is also a cancer survivor.

My girl terriers are Sophie, my wheaten Cairn Terrier and Gwen, my black Scottish Terrier.

[carine61]

Hi everyone!
I'm not too imaginative either! my name is Carine and I was born in 1961. I was so surprised to find other people with my name, because up until I first went online (circa 1993, yes i remember when it was all text based!), I had never known of anyone with my name spelled the way I do. It's pronounced "ka - reen" like careen around a curve! I am very sporadic about my scrapbooking so if I go awhile with out a post, I'm just in a lull!

[Pinkldyslpr]

Pinkldyslpr = Pink Lady Slipper; which is the New Hampshire State Wild Flower. :)

[minni]

When I first started going out with my wonderful man (whose nickname is "Mouse"), his nieces started calling us Mickey and Minnie.
So for the past 9 years, I have been known as minni (as minnie is terribly popular on most forums).
Although now the girls are much older, they just call me Sue. :rolleyes:

[AmyShell]

Nothing real creative here, my first name is Amy and my middle is Michelle. My mom used to shorten it to Shell and call me Amy Shell when I was little.

[Timmysmum]

My actual name Susan, Sue , Susie or anything in between (even susieq has been known ) :eek: is usually taken so I just took my sons name Timothy... Timmysmum..

[aurora 2]

Aurora 2

Only discovered forums middle part of last year and as I've never had a nick-name because my real name 'Dawn' has never been shortened etc.

I came up with the name Aurora coz she's the 'Goddess of the Dawn' and had to settle with Aurora 2 on this forum coz there's already an Aurora on here.

[BeTina]

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?

Hi Emma :)

My name is Betina :rolleyes:
But here in Danmark is there many Betina/Tina, but not so big some me :rolleyes:
The T in BeTina is big to, iam 187 cm ;)

Hugs from BeTina

[jadedolphin]

My name is jadedolphin because it's the name my stepfather chose 20+ years ago for his boat, that he never built. And I love dolphins and the colour jade.
Simple!!

My real name is Breedeen or Brídín in Irish. It's pronounced Bree (as in desparate housewives) - jea -nn or Bree - dee -nn.

[ladyborden]

My name came from my honey... We got married on 12/31/04... Thus Lady Borden... I had to stick his name somewhere... :)

[galaxygal]

I got my name from the name of my favorite vehicle - Ford GALAXY - and of course i'm a gal!!! hence Galaxygal!

[tinyirishdancer]

tinyirishdancer - my nickname is 'Thai-nie' which is pronounced "tiny" and Im also short (4 foot 11) + Im and irish dancer so put them together = tinyirishdancer :)

[Margaret]

My name is Margaret--How original

Margaret

[CrystalMarie]

My UN is CrystalMarie because my first name is Crystal and my middle name is Marie! My mom also used to call me CrystalMarie sometimes and I thought it'd make a good UN. :)

[cyberchick]

Not too difficult there. I'm either called that or 'webmistress' because of the amount of time I spent in cyberspace and because I can rattle off URLs easier than phone numbers.

CyberChick :p

[whammabunny]

I usually choose one of two userids. My id most of the time is tilia4him, which comes partly (tilia) from a story I wrote in college as an escape from the daily grind of it all, and the 4him is reflecting my faith. I started using whammabunny after I got married, and we started trying to have a baby. It started out as wannabmmy, but in another forum that I don't read anymore, someone misread it and replied in the thread to whammabunny. When we finally got pregnant, I thought it fit, so now I use it.

--Beth

[BeTina]

My UN is CrystalMarie because my first name is Crystal and my middle name is Marie! My mom also used to call me CrystalMarie sometimes and I thought it'd make a good UN. :)

Hi CrystalMarie :)

It´s a lovly name you have :o

Sorry i not have respons to you before :cool:
I have no time to the pc :(

My internet is bad to the 1 july then it vil be fast ! :p

Here in Denmark its summertime and it vil be a buteful day :o

Hugs from BeTina

[BeTina]

I got my name from the name of my favorite vehicle - Ford GALAXY - and of course i'm a gal!!! hence Galaxygal!

Hi Galaxygal :)

dont no much aboth cars, but hope i have understad it rigth :D

Sorry i not have respons to you before :)

I have no time to the pc :(

My internet is bad to the 1 july then it vil be fast ! :p

Here in Denmark its summertime and it vil be a buteful day :o

Hugs from BeTina

[CrystalMarie]

Thank you BeTina! It's great to meet you. Shiesh! You're far away! It's so neat that the internet really makes the world a smaller place you know? Again, its great to meet you.


Hi CrystalMarie :)

It´s a lovly name you have :o

Sorry i not have respons to you before :cool:
I have no time to the pc :(

My internet is bad to the 1 july then it vil be fast ! :p

Here in Denmark its summertime and it vil be a buteful day :o

Hugs from BeTina

[jo-gurl]

Wow this is the loooongest thread I've ever read in one sitting, and now I can't remember a username OR a real name OR what name goes with UN!!! :p

Anyway, my username came from my name, "jo", and I added "gurl" because I'm the only girl in my family. It's always raining men in my life: husband and three sons. :)

[alliani]

Mine's oh-so-original...

Alliani is my last name (firt name's Lori :wave: ). It works for a user name, though, since there aren't any other Allianis in the U.S. besides DH's parents, and they aren't on the 'net to be able to steal my name! :D I have a few other UNs, but sometimes I forget them which makes signing onto a forum kinda difficult sometimes! lol

Obviously I'm still sifting thru old threads. :rolleyes:

[Tara]

In college, a friend used to make up silly rhyming songs and wanted my name to fit better with her rhymes...so she started calling me Tara Sue (my real name is just Tara...pronounced Tera). It evolved into Tara-me-Sue (Tiramisu), Suester, etc. And people who know me from that era still call me some derivation!

Orange is my favorite ugly color. Yes - I used to think it was ugly and (back then) I felt like it was under-represented. So I adopted it as "my favorite ugly color." I am now the owner of a million orange things from Orange CareBears, to orange dresses and purses, orange tinted sunglasses, etc. It has become my signature color...even though it is much more popular now.

So I put them together and use OrangeSue for fun!

[dobegal]

Since I'm attempting to learn Adobe, why not Dobegal? Anyways, I thought it sounded good! My name is Francey. Love this place!

[scrapalongsadie]

Well....Sadie is what my grandfather always called my grandmother who's real name was Sarah shortened to Sally. The scrapalong part came because I always seem to have a laptop with me and often scrap when I have down time so I'm sort of carrying my scraping along....get it???

this is a really interesting thread!! :cool:

[alamodedesigns]

alamodedesigns is my nickname. No, I'm not from Texas, but from Wyoming. When I was doing webdesign, I needed a name for my company. I chose alamodedesigns that to mean you didn't have to choose a package deal you could randomly pick items. Hence alamodedesigns and use it as nick and username most everywhere on the net. Mainly so I won't forget what I use. I'm getting old--don't have alzhemiers but could be approaching it soon. Love this site and have learned so many things and have so much more to learn.

Real name is Barbara--like Barb the best.

[lvg4him]

I chose my user name because I am always trying to live for the Lord (living for Him).

[txmusicmom]

Well I'm from Texas ( not born here--but got here as soon as I could- :eek: )

I love music-- play and teach piano and sing.........

And I'm a mom!

Plus it's something *I* can remember!

There you have it - txmusicmom

Donna :)

[Fawkes]

I love Harry Potter and the bird in the 2nd movie's name is Fawkes.

[BeTina]

Thank you BeTina! It's great to meet you. Shiesh! You're far away! It's so neat that the internet really makes the world a smaller place you know? Again, its great to meet you.

:D Yes, far far away! And in a littel country too :-))))
Thanks CrystalMarie :)

Hugs from BeTina

[BeTina]

Mine's oh-so-original...

Alliani is my last name (firt name's Lori :wave: ). It works for a user name, though, since there aren't any other Allianis in the U.S. besides DH's parents, and they aren't on the 'net to be able to steal my name! :D I have a few other UNs, but sometimes I forget them which makes signing onto a forum kinda difficult sometimes! lol

Obviously I'm still sifting thru old threads. :rolleyes:

:D Hi Alliani !

Thanks for Re.mails :)
soory for the long time to respons.....................its far away from here ;o)

Its a god user name :)

Hugs from BeTina

[KY Bumpkin]

bump·kin
n. An awkward, unsophisticated person; a yokel.

I'm from KY and I'm unsophisticated. Don't give two flips about which side of the plate the fork goes on, and really now, do we NEED to dirty more silverware up just to have a special fork for the salad? Someone (ie MOM) has to wash all those things you know :p

Oh wait, I do hold my pinky out while drinking tea, does that count as sophisticated ;)

[lmntree343]

Hello~ My username is LMNTREE343. It stands for elementary and the school district that my children go to and I use to work for. My real name is CarolAnn. :eek: I do not care for it much because I was named after my mother and who (being a girl) wants to be named after their mother? ;)

[Elenelle]

I'm Elenelle, because it's my name... and one that my parents seem to have concocted out of nowhere, at that. My family's Welsh, and as far as I can gather, the name is a combination of two Welsh names. My brothers got off lightly really, having been given the somewhat standard names of Edward and Michael.

Usually I go by either Ellie or Lene, but online I tend to stick to my actual name because it's unusual and therefore unlikely to have been used by anyone else.

[BeTina]

I'm Elenelle, because it's my name... and one that my parents seem to have concocted out of nowhere, at that. My family's Welsh, and as far as I can gather, the name is a combination of two Welsh names. My brothers got off lightly really, having been given the somewhat standard names of Edward and Michael.

Usually I go by either Ellie or Lene, but online I tend to stick to my actual name because it's unusual and therefore unlikely to have been used by anyone else.

Hi Elenelle :)
Wort a cute name fore os in Denmark, i think you vil be call for ´Nelle here ;)))
I have a name more Blenda non in Denmark have this name and anyboddy here thinks its a sope. Well my engligsh is bad so i stop for nav. :D
Hugs from BeTina

[jstdawnee]

It's been fun reading through this thread!!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in May.... luv2skidoo posted how she came about her name. I thought that was GREAT! Lvg4him... you are just a dear and your name is great! And I love to read BeTina's posts, cuz she's so cute.

ANYway... jstdawnee... no great mystery here! LOL jst = just, dawn is my name, dawnee my nickname. I've used jstdawnee online for the past 12 years. :)

[brianna]

:p it's just my name and its pronounced like bree on ah... whatever, i am no good at explaining it ;)

[csgebhart]

I just use my name - first and middle initial and last name - for my user name. My first name is Cheryl. Not very creative or original, but at least I can remember it.

[aubero]

I'm French and in France, if you are the 1st born grandchild, they insist on giving you a first name + the names of your grandmothers (grandfathers if you happen to be a boy!), my user name is a combination of my 3 names "au" is for Aude, "ber" stands for Bernadette and well "o" is for the last one which I really dislike because it is terribly old fashion, but I had to add it otherwise I would have had to share my user name with a Parisian tube station... Who wants to be called like a tube station, you tell me ?

[moosie]

Moose is a nickname my boyfriend calls me. I'm really not too sure how or when it started but ever since then I'm known as Moose or occasionally Moosie....real name is Carmen though. I've just moved to the UK from South Africa about a month and a half ago :)

[moosie]

I'm Elenelle, because it's my name... and one that my parents seem to have concocted out of nowhere, at that. My family's Welsh, and as far as I can gather, the name is a combination of two Welsh names. My brothers got off lightly really, having been given the somewhat standard names of Edward and Michael.

Usually I go by either Ellie or Lene, but online I tend to stick to my actual name because it's unusual and therefore unlikely to have been used by anyone else.

Elenelle, I think your name is beautiful and quite unique. I've never heard it before....

[hawaiianbrat96]

hawaiianbrat96....

Well, first off - I am hawaiian. LOL

Second, I once went by "hawaiiangirl96" - but that was a bit innocent for me - so I picked "brat" instead - it kind of spoke up for my slight attitude I can get.

96 - Well, that is my HS grad year!

[Stacey42]

My name is Stacey. :)

The 42 is not my age yet....I've got 4 more years. ;) 42 is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe & Everything (any Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans here?) Since it is the Ultimate Answer, I use it whenever I need to modify my name.

[cat_woman]

I acquired the handle "Catwoman" because I love cats. I have two cats, rather they have (tolerate) me. Their names are Mimi & Kinko. I've had them since they were each 4 months old and they are now 10 years old. Mimi is a munchkin cat - they're bred for the gene for dwarfism so they have very short little legs and are very affectionate. Kinko is a fluffy tabby with a kinked tail (hence the name) - this too is the result of a special gene. I guess you could say I have genetically deformed cats, but I love them to death just the same. :) This is my first scrapbook page, a picture of my cats of course:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=48219&cat=500&page=1

[HippyChickKelly]

WEll my name is Kelly and In College My friends used to say I was A hippy Chick!! they all swear I was concieved at Woodstock!! LOL

[LuluRose]

Well, My name is Lucy but everyone calls me Lulu and my middle name is Rose. There you have it!

[Polly Ester]

Hi. My nick Polly Ester came after someone else on the net several years ago... I borrowed it... because I think it was a funny nickname.

I usually use the nick wander - which is some of my first and some of my last name... I wanted to use something different here.

My real name is Wenche...

[Marriedin79]

I teach technoloy to grades K through 5. One little Kindergartener said to me, "I know who you are! You're the compooper teacher!"

It's a good name to use because I've never had trouble getting it to work as a screen name when I've joined a new site.

Of course, one of the places I visit (http://p066.ezboard.com/bconstantinerocks) (I'm a big fan of Constantine Maroulis) has some crazy ladies who have shortened my name to pooper!

[honeyblue]

HoNeY - the meaning of my real name
bLuE - my fave color

[allfortiny]

My username is not so creative, but it is heartfelt. We changed ISP's just after dd#1 was born and I had to come up woth a new e-mail addy. I used to call her my "tiny angel" so I chose "allfortiny." I like to keep the same ID from place to place since people I know from elsewhere online will recognize me. I thought of changing the name now that I have another dd, but the sentiment is still the same, just X2. :-) My real name is Julie.

I have been working at learning digital editing for maybe a year now and only a few months ago thought to put that together with scrapping. I am LOVING it!

Julie, a.k.a. allfortiny

[Biffylady]

I got the nickname "Biffy" years ago in 7th grade. A boy in my class said that I looked like Buffy from "Family Affair". Well, I HATE that name and threatened to beat him up if he didnt change it. (Yes, I was a bully! haha) He changed it to Biffy, and it's been with me ever since. There seems to be a rock group named "Biffy", so that name was taken everywhere I went. I decided to add "lady" to the end, for obvious reasons. ;)

My husband has recently started calling me "Sweetheart Ladybug", but it's rather long to use as a screenname. :p

[lbth-mi]

lbth-mi = my initials plus michigan :) seems easy enough :rolleyes:

[curlycarol]

My username is curlycarol. Curly because a have very natural curly dark hair (which a straighten every week) and Carol because my real name is Carolina, yes like the states. :p

[Seagal]

Mine is pretty simple :)
I have ALWAYS been a beach baby :p hence the "sea"
I am a girl ;) hence the "gal"
I live in Seattle (or near it anyway) - more reason for "sea-gal"
and am also a Seahawks fan, whose cheerleaders are the... SeaGals ... :D

[FlwrGrl731]

FlwrGrl731
I am a floral designer. I love flowers & gardening.
I must admit, I snatched part of my best friends email addy because i thought it was cute & added my bday, july 31. (the flwrGrl part, but she spells out "flower", and adds her own bday)

On some sites I go by Mel731. (but a lot of times its allready taken.)
or FlwrGrlMel731.
:)
Melissa aka Mel

[kecpa]

kecpa - my maiden name initials are kec, and I'm a Physician Assistant (pa) :)

[LindaSH85]

It was random and I was in a snarky mood. That is about it.

[ktjrdn]

My name is Katie. My mother ran a day care when I was young and one day one of the kids told me he knew how to spell my name - KT. My last name was Jordon before I was married. When I got my first car I put ktjrdn (the Wheel-Of-Fortune version - no vowels) on my license plate. That's been my userid for just about everything since, even though am married now.

[Chatcat723]

My name is Cat and I use this ID to chat :p

[lisalisa8878]

My name is Lisa - no dual personalities or anything, but a friend of mine used to call me "Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam" when he feeling 80ish. The 8878 part is for my birthday :)

[Cam_Cam]

Hi my user id Cam_Cam. A family shortning of Camie. Which is what everyone calls me. My real name is Cambria (mothers brillant ideal).Which is a county in Penn.

[Emma]

I used to babysit a little girl named Cambria. Her parents couldn't decide between Camilla and Brianna, so they used both! Beautiful name. Welcome to DSP!

[Cam_Cam]

Thank you Emma
Mine just came about cause my mother thought was pretty when she went to visit my grandpa family in Pa.

[MuddyPawPrints]

Mine came about one day when I saw my kitchen floor and just sighed. I just couldn't keep it free of the Muddy Paw Prints that were always tracked across it. My precious little furbaby Maddie is my the absolute love of my life (outside of my husband) and I it makes me giggle now everytime I see them. :D

[carlies*angels]

My username is from my last childs name Carlie, her middle names are Eliza Angel after her great great grandmother. Then I thought how similar sounding it was to Charlie's Angels if i used Carlie's Angels and it incorporates her first and one of her middle names. Very Clever :)

[Tobili]

My Username came from our Son, he´s name ist Tobias, a german name.
And Tobili is more cute. :D

My really Name is Dany, in german: Daniela!! :o

[Waterqueen]

Water Junkie. I have also used this handle to chat and its my email so it is almost atomativ to type it in to the "username" field at this point
-Bell

[Twinmum]

When we first got connected to the internet and I had to have usernames for sites, our twins were just babies, so Twinmum seemed the obvious choice. Since then, I have usually used Twinmum or KingFan (big Stephen King fan here) in some form no matter where I go.

Norma

[Whisper Pink]

My name is Christine...my log in is Whisper Pink...

I originally wanted to login when I first started chatting as Pink Hearts, however, MSN being MSN wouldn't let me ... so I finally came up with Whisperpink and it stuck...so I use it, and infact opened a new hotmail account with that as my addy...I actually love the color Pink so whatever my login...it had to have Pink in it...lol

[cooksalot]

I like to cook and spend alot of time in the kitchen. At the time I started on the internet this was my big hobby along with collecting vintage cookbooks. Now I'm into scrapping and have just discovered digiscrapping. Most of all it allows me to get back into my photography.

[LindaBelle]

No matter where I go there always seems to be too many Linda's...and they're almost always about my age. I can remember being in classes at school with 5 Linda's in the room, pretty good when there were only 30 students total.

When I got interested in Renaissance faires and became an official "wench" I had to pick a name, so I came up with Belle because it means the same as Linda. (My complete Ren name is Belle la'Donna...beautiful but deadly ;) It's also a little inside joke because in real life I'm a pharmacist.

So because "Linda" always seems to be already taken on any and all web sites...I've started using "LindaBelle".

Only problem is that when my husband read the name he thought it's pronounced "Linda Belly". Aargghh! Back to the diet!

[LokiZ]

LokiZ that is me pronounced Low-Key-Z

Loki - a Giant turned god via a trick played on the Norse gods of old. He is the god of Mischief. Well how fitting ;)

Z - a backwards S My name is Stefan - I have a minor case of Dislexia, Also Z is the end of alphabet it is the final letter it is completion.

And also Low-key yes that is me. setting back in the shadows as I watch my pranks unfold. getting my start back in highschool in a group we called T.R.U.M.P. which stood for...

The Royal Union of Master Pranksters

who ran with the motto...

True Rebels Unleash Mystifying Pranks

Lol...well you asked...And that is where it came from. Gotta run, I see the men with white jackets coming to take me away... ho ho he he ha ha. You know its bad when you are watching batman and rooting for your hero the Joker ;)

I could go on but I don't want to bore nor scare anyone LOL

Peace,
LokiZ

[ScrapSlave]

My emails and instant messanger screen name has been SchipSlave for years now. My dog is a Schipperke, pronounced SkipperKey. They are a breed that is a major handful, they are a little black furball of fire and energy.......very similar to Jack Russell Terriers if you know about them. Anyway, it's a common joke among Schipperke owners that we are "slaves" to our Schips......hence came the screen name SchipSlave. But when I started scrapping and joining scrap sites I decided to alter it to ScrapSlave since I'm completely addicted to my scrapping.

My real name is Michele but most people call me Cheli (pronounced Shelley).

[kattcom999]

Hello, my name is kattcom999. I am owned by 4 cats, hence the name "katt". The "com" part is reference to the computer. My cats are on the computer (literally) as much as I am. Our home consists of 3 humans and are outnumbered by the wanna-be's! I took up scrapbooking on the computer not that long ago. I never thought about looking it up on the computer though, duh! I hope to learn much being here...mine sure don't compare to the beautiful work I've seen here.

BTW my real name is Lisa. I have 2 sons, Mike and Ben, and my furbabies, Jasper, Jade, Peanut, and Pandora. :)

[Art-C]

Art-C comes from my art background (BFA in Interior Design) and my love of plein air oil painting, silver jewelry making, quilting and scrapbooking. "Art" is obviously for the art I love and "C" is the first letter of my last name Cuddihy. Hence, "Art-C". There's just not enough time in the day to do all I want to do!

Bonnie Cuddihy

[cooksalot]

I agree with you Bonnie. So much to do so little time. :D

[untmom2003]

untmom2003--my daughter graduated in 2003, and attends University of North Texas + I'm her mom. Not real creative, but at least I can remember it since it's where all my $$ goes!

[Capmom]

Capmom is short for "Captured Moments" my registered business name, it is simple for this aging brain to remember . . .and The "C" "M" first letters are also the first letters of my first and last name (Marilyn Charlesworth) - now, if that makes sense it would be a miracle . . .

[Margie]

i've always wondered where capmom came from! :)

[emdonovan]

Boring - emdonovan is my first initial (Eileen), my middle initial (Marie) and my maiden name (Donovan). It might be boring, but I've never forgotten it!

[Cyndie626]

I'm afraid mine isn't real original, Cyndie for my real name and 626 used to be the prefix for our telephone number when I first started on the internet... I love reading eveyone's posts! ~Cyndie

[vanillalatte]

I'm a caffeine fiend. I start each morning at work with a vanilla latte with 4 shots of espresso.

Which reminds me...where's the coffee cart? ;)

[jussara]

Mine is my own name.. never met anyone in the US named Jussara hehe
I am from Brazil by the way and just became an American citzen. The cerimony was really nice!

[Dicaprio]

My original name is Maria,the nickname came from my husband
and my home is in the Netherlands in a place named Dordrecht
I love scrapbooking and cardmaking.

[talie]

Talie is short for Natalie. Workmates call me Nat, and friends call me Talie or Tals.

[slackart]

From the church of Bob.

[Crop_companion]

A while ago 3 friends and myself attended one of those weekend crops and we wanted to have matching sweatshirts to wear. So I designed the iron-on artwork with the name Cropping Companions. I've since started my own small scrapbook business called Cropping Companions. So I use the name Crop_companion.

Laurie

[Just Jan]

When I was born my mother wanted to name me Jane. A good friend of hers told her that I would be called "Plain Jane". My mother didn't want that so she dropped the 'e'. So instead of Plain Jane I am Just Jan. I used to hate explaining it to people all the time but since I discovered the net it has come in very handy!:D

[CharleesAngel]

My username is CharleesAngel, real name is Shannon. I got my name because of my husband. His name is Charles Lee but he goes by Lee. And I collect angels. So I came up with CharleesAngel.

Shannon

[fivebales]

Mine is from my last name and five in our family...fivebales. Our motorhome, that we live in for half the year, has the name Hey Bales! Get it??? And our boat, that we live on for the other half of the year, is named "Last Class"; because we are retired teachers, and she is our last class. The dinghy for our boat is "Class Cutter". Always enjoy a good play on words.

[JustScraps]

Well I picked JustScraps for two reasons. #1: a lot of times, before I found digital, I would run out of whole sheets of paper and I would make my layouts with just scraps.... #2: Someday I plan to open a scrapbook store where I will offer paper AND digital I will call it JustScraps.. SO .. I am JustScraps.

[mpwife2715]

I got my user name from my kids and my husband!

My husband is in the Military Police (mp) Corps. So thats where the mp and obviously the wife part come from :) and the 2715 are the days my boys were born! So its just a simple name but its easy for me to remember!

[stampinmad]

Hi - I have been playing around with digital scrapbooking for a while, but haven't even really done much yet. I think I'm having a hard time getting started. Any tips? I have years and years of pictures!

My username - I did rubber stamping for about 10 years and then have been cross stitching for a couple years and playing around with the digital scrapbooking for almost a year.

There is so much to learn and I love it all.

Have a great day!

[wigirl5]

:) My user name Wigirl5 means...WI (Wisconsin), girl cause I'm a girl and 5 is cause we are a family of 5.

[gsnap1000]

My name is Ginger and as you can imagine I have been subjected to being asked repeatedly where Gilligan is and being called GingerSnap, people assuming I like anything ginger flavored, etc. As I've grown older I've learned to just accept it and enjoy it. One of the docs I work for just calls me "Snap". I like gsnap1000 because it was my very first email addy when I first got on the Internet and it seems to suit me so I use it as my screenname for other things as well.

[usmcdaisy]

I am usmcdaisy. I could say that's because I'm McDonald's girlfriend...but REALLY I work for the U.S. Marine Corps and my name is Daisy.

[coranoir]

coranoir = french = cora black/night = black cora ;)

i love this color.

[morganivy]

I like to keep things simple for logging into all the sites I need to use a username for! :p

Boy do I hear you!!

Morgan is my first name, and Ivy is shorted version of my last name. Im so glad for the "Remember Me" option!!! Its such a sanity saver ~ ; )

[Nomeskome]

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?
My user name is a nick name, which is a play on the name Naomi. It is pronounced gnome-skome (they rhyme). It's better than another name, Skid. I was called this because I was always falling on the ice and snow. Imaginitive.

I'm new here, so I will go ahead and introduce myself. You know my name. I received a BFA at SCSU, which included a number of collage classes and printing. Because of this, my books end up pretty good. I'm a perfectionist, so it can always be improved. I just recently started a website showcasing my photos and was searching for info on digital scrapbooking to livin up the old photos. So I am all new to this. So I joined the group.

I look forward to maybe give some pointers and get help in my web page development.

For more info on me and my photos go to www.freewebs.com/throughmylens/

[uwillplzme]

Mine is uwillplzme. Hmmm kinda says it all. I am a lifestyle domina. I can explain if someone needs more details...LOL!
Paula

[trudy]

My user name here is my first name but elsewhere my user name is Vatwana. She is a computer game character that my husband had a strange little crush on.

[knbbro]

My user name, knbbro, has several meanings:
First: My name is Kimberly Nadine Brogdon, so "knb" is my initials and "bro" represents the first three letters of my last name.:)
Second: My name is Kim and my husband's name is Bob - thus, K "n" B for Kim "n" Bob!;)
Third: My husband and I have a corporation which we named KNB Corporation.:D

Kim

[jenaRN]

I don't think I've posted in this thread-so here goes-it's really deep.......
My user name is jenaRN-my name is Jena and I'm a RN!! Hehe!
Back when I had taken my state boards and was waiting for my results DH decided to switch internet providers and without my knowledge picked jenaRN for my email address-I was so mad and worried that he had jinxed me-putting RN after my name before knowing whether or not I had passed! Thankfully I did and the name stuck!

[d2vasquez]

I haven't seen this one either until now - nothing original - when I got married my husband was tired of using my email for everthing and asked why he didn't have his own. Thus was born the "d2vasquez" for Darla and David Vasquez. Unfortunately since posting - our mailbox is filled with just stuff for me and occasionally one or two for my dh. So he has his own now and I just kind of keep this one cuz I love the memory behind it.

[Sonorazona]

Sonora = Sonoran Desert + Arizona. It's where I live and my favorite place on earth. I love the dry heat and don't miss the cold or snow one bit.

[gracelikerain]

It just occurred to me that I don't think I have ever posted to this thread. I wanted to pick a name that showed a bit of my faith (Christian) but never beat anyone over the head. I loved other people's usernames that were little phrases, so after I heard Todd Aignew's song "Amazing Grace (Grace Like Rain)" I new that was the phrase for me. So there goes!! :)

[fatdog5]

i am from greenville nc-born and raised in wilson nc-got from around middlesex nc-small world huh?

[fatdog5]

years ago-in another lifetime-while employed with sprint, my password for my computer was fatbird, then fatworm etc. every so often i had to change the password-so i ran out of worms and birds -so then after i retired and started working with a government enity-i began using fatdog-its been 5 years so it's fatdog5 now-

[dapupsmom]

Hi, my real name is Cynthia. My user name refers to bing "mom" to 4 dogs. We have a bichone frise, a boxer/siberian husky mix, a chocolate lab/cocker spaniel mix, and a chocolate lab/siberian husky mix. Our house is a bit hectic with all of them running around, and at night the bed is extremely crowded when they all jump up, but we wouldn't have it any other way. Any other dog mom's out there?

[Jo Dee]

My user name Jo Dee comes from my name, which is Joyce. My dad used to call me Joycie (which I hated) when my little brother started to talk he called me Jo Dee ‘cus he couldn’t say Joycie – it’s been that ever since. Have never been called by my name, DH has always called me Sunshine,

My oldest GD stayed with us for a couple of weeks when she was little (Mom and Dad went on a cruise) and DH would go in when she woke up and say “Good morning Sunshine”. When they took her home, she kept saying “Grandpa Sunshine” in her baby talk way, they finally called us to ask what she was saying. Finally figured out it was Sunshine. Since then we have been Grandma and Grandpa Sunshine. That’s what all the grandkids call us, even though a couple of them are in high school now.
Jo Dee or Sunshine

[vhs_bandgeek]

well the vhs part is my high school:Vicksburg High school. And since i'm a hardcore band geek, i added band geek to the end. i've used this particular username for a while and the vhs_bandgeek part came from when i got my gmail account and couldn't think of a name, and used bandgeek2007.

[Art-C]

Jo Dee-

I used to greet my daughter every morning when she awoke with "Good Morning Sunshine", too. She's 36 now with 2 children that can share the same wakeup call. What a great way to start the day.

[lilac lady]

That is a good story Jen. I love the colour purple and I was going to be purplegirl, but when I went to make an e-mail addy for myself it said that username was already taken and I thought "girl" might not be a real representation of who I am, so now I'm lilaclady

[omiof5]

Omi (oh'mee) is what my 5 grandchildren (ages 3 to 18) call me. I'm Judy. ;-}

[Kutnkudly]

Well, I've had mine since about 1985 when I first got an AOL account. It was my first time online and I wanted something cute and clever.....well ok, I was really trying to get at something that described me and there's no modesty in my family (LOL). I also didn't want it spelled normally (I don't do things normally) and AOL would only allow so many letters....so I came up with cuteandcuddly in a round about sort of way. What's been funny is when the lightbulb goes on and people realize what it says...I chuckle over it.

[CaroB]

Hi,

This is only my 2nd posting but figured I might be on a roll:-)

My name is Caroline (well actually it's Carolina, I'm south American, but no-one calls me that) My maiden name started with a B and Caro B (bee) was what my cousins called me to tell my other cousin caroline and i apart... when i got back to australia I started emailing my cousins and the name kinda stuck... when i met my DH, he later revealed he thought it stood for carob, the bittersweet healthfood alternative to chocolate... I'm still trying to figure out if that was a good thing, but hey, he married me so it couldn't have meant anything too bad... (could it?) At least it beats having to type out the longer name!

Love this site by the way.. I'm still trying to work up the courage to do a layout...

[dblj_5]

My user name is dblj_5. The dblj stands for double j (a nickname I got while working at Six Flags St. Louis) My first name is Jennifer and there were WAY too many of them working there at the time so my supervisor started calling us all by our initials and my name became JJ or double J. I went by both and still do sometimes. The five comes from my volleyball number which just happens to be my favorite number ever! I don't know how it became my favorite number, I've always liked the number 5.:)

[smileycreations]

Well my user name is "Smiley Creations" Smiley comes from my last name "Smilowitz" and I do all kinds of creations. Not real fancy, but cute.

[kapua75]

"kapua" (the flower) is short for kapuanani (the beautiful flower) a given name from my hula teacher; "75" is the year I graduated. :)

[yessenia1974]

I hear this name on a south american tv show from Venezuela and I loved so I decided to keep it for in a futur if I have a baby girl to put her this name.

[obsessedfae]

i love faeries and easily get obsessed with things like scrapping lol.

[Dobby]

Dobby is from Harry Potter! I love socks, the wilder the better. Typically I don't even care if they match. So when Dobby was first introduced in the books (and his love of socks, which set him free!) my husband started to call me by the name.

[lilac lady]

very cute Dobby :)

[Tink2Zoe]

When our first granddaughter was born there were so many grandmothers and grandfathers running around that she started to call me Tink and dh is Pan. Now all three gk call us by those names. Since Zoe started it though, I use her name in her honor.

[omiof5]

Wonder how many grandparents get their names from first grandchildren? I was the oldest grandchild, and the (odd) name I came up with for my grandmother has gone through her great-great grandchildren.

[Tink2Zoe]

It would be interesting to find out wouldn't it?

[Carla]

Well... "C" is simply my first inital and Ware is my last name. I was going to use my first name, Carla, but it was taken. I also, sometimes, go by "Tiger" in memory of my big yellow cat.

Carla

[evergreen100]

"Evergreen" was my most favourite line dance ever (my other hobby!) (living in Country Music Capital Aussie, it's beat 'em or join 'em so I joined "em) and the 100 happened because just Evergreen was already taken. My Grandmother name is Mardie, from my first grandson adding y's to everything, just plain Ma became Mardie!