What's In a Name? More Than You Think Part II

An Angel's Share of Cognac Necklace

This is the newest necklace I've listed in my etsy shop. I've had this dark brass chain for a while and some of the beads. When I received an order from a seller who carries unused vintage beads from Europe, I knew the light and dark topaz beads and brass chain belonged together in something! It took a while to plan, arrange and execute but what to name it? Each of my designs is unique, so I don't like to reuse names. I envy (not really) the etsy artisans who tweet "Sold and Relisted" or who can use the etsy "relist" option. But a big part of what makes threepeats "threepeats" is the one-of-a-kindness (is that a word?) of my jewelry so I feel I owe it to my customers to come up with one of a kind names.

The large plastic beads in this necklace reminded me of lots of things, all of which I had used in jewelry names before. They also reminded me of liquers (don't ask) especially cognac. OK... cognac...French Cognac? Glass of Cognac? Armagnac? Yeah,...like that's going to be a common search word on Google. I decided to do a search myself...for "phrases containing the word cognac" and the first one I came across was "angel's share of cognac" which I learned means the amount of cognac that leeches out through the wooden barrels during the aging process. The older the cognac, the larger the angels' portion. Perfect!

What's In A Name? More Than You Think!

Sometimes, the name for one of my jewelry creations comes to me before I even start working on it. Sometimes, the name comes to me while I'm putting the beads together and sometimes the name comes to me only when I go to list the necklace or pair of earrings in my etsy shop. My newest necklace, which I ended up calling Hint of Nostalgia caused several days and one sleepless night of thinking...about colors, inspirations, memories, phrases in common use, song titles, movie titles, places I've been, places I haven't been...you get the idea. To me the name of my pieces should give an idea to customers of my creative process and because each of my pieces is unique, their names should be too. When I've been completely stumped, I've run "naming" contests on this blog and I've been fascinated to learn (duh?) that what other people see in the finished product sometimes has little or nothing to do with my idea or inspiration.

I almost called this necklace Midnight at the Oasis (song), Black Butterscotch (????), Chelsea Evening (place) and Corner Candy Store (memory). Since the black beads reminded me of licorice sticks and the butterscotch colored beads reminded me of bit o' honey candy I thought of all those stops I made on the way home from school to the corner candy store to purchase bonomo's taffy and jaw breakers and red hots and pretzel sticks and egg creams and comic books.

Then I realized those kind of stores don't exist anymore....hence, Hint of Nostalgia.

I Don't Even Like Fruit Loops!

A few months ago, I found a wonderful "purveyor" (always wanted to use that word in a sentence!) of unused vintage beads. I bought several batches of plastic hoop beads in a great variety of colors and finally got around to using them in a necklace. When I went to list it today in my etsy shop, I could not think of a catchy, descriptive name for it. And I had two cups of coffee this morning! I called it Fruit Loops because...because...I liked them as a kid...but I didn't! I liked Toucan Charlie (or was it Pete?)

Then I realized that for trademark reasons, I better change it to Fruity Loops Necklace and now it sounds like the necklace is "weird."

What's in a name? Everything! You can tell I need help...please give me suggestions for names for this cute, colorful, funky, eclectic necklace!

And the name is.......

a combination of the two great suggestions given (thanks Angie and Liz)

                     Urban Funk + Lemon Merengue = Urban Lemon Funk

Necklace was listed  on etsy today

Name This Necklace!

"Naming" the jewelry items I make  before listing them in my etsy store is challenging and fun. Thought I'd give some other people a chance to see what I mean. Comment me your idea(s) for the name of this necklace which I will be listing on etsy tomorrow. The name needs to be descriptive and evocative....colors in the necklace are pale grey and various shades of yellow!