***Closed Winner Announced*** Forum Name Game | DSD 2023

Discussion in 'DSD 2023 Party Pad' started by mocamom, Oct 2, 2023.

  1. mocamom

    mocamom Runs on coffee. And with scissors.

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    It's finally back - DSD that is! This is one of my most favorite events and I am just giddy with excitement! I love getting to know people as they post in the challenges, take part in the chats, and play in the games. In fact, the sense of community is what draws me to The Lilypad and keeps me here! I'm hoping to get to know y'all even more this year. If you know me at all, you know I love to learn about people so I'm going to use this game to do just that. Take a moment please and tell me the story behind your forum name!

    I'll start by saying that my forum name is mocamom. A decade or so ago I led a Girl Scout troop and was fortunate to be with these girls from their first grade through their high school years. You aren't allowed to pick your own camp name and instead are given it by the rest of the troop. These girls gave me the camp name of "mocamom" because I drank so many mocha coffee drinks at campouts and meetings. Keep in mind that they were young enough when they gave me the name that they spelled "m-o-c-h-a" as "moca", and of course I wasn't going to correct them, so "mocamom" I became :)

    That's my story, now tell me yours. Everyone who answers will be entered into a drawing and one person will be randomly selected to receive a $3 gift certificate to the store. Y'all have until 11:00 am on Tuesday, October 10th to play along and I hope y'all do so as I'd love to hear your story!
     
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  2. pagefrocks

    pagefrocks ♥•:*¨¨*:•♥•:*¨¨*:•.♥

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    More years ago than I can remember with certainty, I started designing at a no longer open store. I needed a name and thought Page (layout) + Frocks (dress) . . . "Dress up your layouts" was a clever name and tag line. It seemed a lot of people didn't know what a frock is . . . but, I kept the name PageFrocks anyway.
     
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  3. AlyciaIN

    AlyciaIN Well-Known Member

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    My forum name is AlyciaIN and there's not much of a story behind it. My first name is Alycia and I live in Indiana.
     
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  4. 3BluEyedBabies

    3BluEyedBabies Falling for pumpkin ...

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    I have three babies (although now they are 19, 16, and 13) who all have their Daddy's blue eyes. So 3 Blue Eyed Babies. I just shortened it to 3BluEyedBabies. They are who I scrap the most so it made sense to me.
     
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  5. wvufan04

    wvufan04 Well-Known Member

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    My forum name is probably not that great of a story - I graduated from WVU in 2004 - and of course it is hard to graduate from WVU and not be a Mountaineer fan :) but Mountaineerfan is just really long so I went with wvufan04
     
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  6. Hillary

    Hillary Her Royal Majesty has entered the chat

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    Unfortunately my story isn't funny or exciting. Hillary is just my name. :giggle
     
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  7. StefanieS

    StefanieS Think it over, think it under

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    I am with Hillary, just my name.
     
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  8. littlekiwi

    littlekiwi I charge by the hour for anything before noon

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    I was part of a paper scrapping forum where my mum was a member. Her username was kiwicanuck (a Canadian living in New Zealand) so I figured since I was her daughter I’d be littlekiwi.
     
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  9. Angela Toucan

    Angela Toucan I keep looking for THAT wardrobe

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    I'm a retired designer. My forum name is a mixture of my real name and my old designer name.
     
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  10. stephc777

    stephc777 Active Member

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    My name is my first name plus last initial. The numbers 777 go way back to when my husband & I were setting up our very first email (back in the 90s). His first name plus last initial was taken so we chose 777 to add to it to make it unique. We've used it on all of our succeeding email names and I use it for forum names as well =)
     
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  11. Roxana

    Roxana Bananas for radishes

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    Well, not much to say here, because Roxana is just my name. Well, my second first name in the official papers. My first given name is Ilyana, because of my father mistake when he went at the City Hall to declare me, he told them in the wrong order. But no one calls me Ilyana. Roxana is a pretty common name in my country, so I was never able to use it as it is in local forums, or site. I was really happy I could use it here.
     
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  12. bellbird

    bellbird Pollywog

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    Would you believe Bart is really B.A.R.T, it's an acronym.
    Best
    Amphibian
    Really
    Truly
    [​IMG]

    ( :giggle actually that's not exactly true but it obviously could be)
     
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  13. jagruti patel

    jagruti patel Now where did I put that artifact?

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  14. Annsofie

    Annsofie Crime Books & Cozy Nooks

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    I’m a boring one, my name is Ann-Sofie, I just skipped the hyphen in my forum name.
     
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  15. crazsquaw

    crazsquaw I can totally make that...

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    My forum name is a nickname my (then bf) hubby gave me 20y ago.
    I tried to get license plates with it, but it was too controversial and denied. I hadn’t even thought of it being that way, and I hope it doesn’t upset people. I’m a happy kind of crazy
     
  16. lm44west

    lm44west All You Need is Ice Cream

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    When we got our first email address, way back in the day, that was the name my husband used, something to do with Jerry West. I started using lm44west back then for everything.
     
  17. Ferdy

    Ferdy Heavy Metal Head Banger

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    I'm from Brazil, and when I started scrapbooking, all of the old scrap forums were from other countries, like My Scrapbook Art, Catscrap, Scrapartist...My name is not difficult, Maria Fernanda, but I decided to create a nickname that could be easier for my foreign friends and also a shorter version of it, that's kinda how Ferdy was born...
     
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  18. dawnmarch

    dawnmarch Actually, no. You are not funny!

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    Mine is just my first name and an abbreviation of my last name. I think this was an MOC challenge a few years ago and I made a page about it.
    [​IMG]
     
  19. jagruti patel

    jagruti patel Now where did I put that artifact?

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    I just used my name - nothing fancy and creative! Plus easy to remember!!
     
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  20. mcurtt

    mcurtt give me all the paleo brownies

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    Back in the mid-1990's, I was one of the selected few that was getting an email account thru with my employer. The service allowed a maximum of 6 characters. It was suggested to me that I go with the initial of my first name, and the remaining characters be the beginning of my last name. So mcurtt I became, and mcurtt I shall remain.
     
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