January 17: Username (Journaling)

300+ words...

 

me too!!!! LOL!

 

Man, trying to make an interesting story out of that was not easy :-D




Journaling at the gallery

 

Hope I followed al the rules, great idea for a challenge, very different!

 

Now that I'm done, I need to go back and read everybody's. This is a fun one!

 

Super fun challenge! Since my username is just my first and last name, I decided to journal about my nicknames.

 

Here's my page. What a fun challenge idea, Courtney!

 

Thanks for the fun challenge! Here's mine with 165 words:

 

So I went with the 'how I got my name' prompt- as my forum name is so boring I literally cannot get 150 words! It's my first name, last initial & the number 1. BOOOORRRING!!! With this option- I got 223 words in! Amie & Michelle are both mentioned in my journaling as well as my title!

 

This was highly entertaining. Sorry, Mom!

 

At first, I didn't want to do this, but then I thought "why not?" And so I did. So thank you!

 

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Credits and journaling in gallery

 

MOC Challenge 17 Username Journaling TLP Camp Out by K Aagard Life is an Adventure Alpha set 2 TLP Cambria font

 

I thought this was going to be sooo hard to complete. Turns out it was a really fun challenge!

 

I started digital scrapbooking in the fall of 2007 when I was pregnant with my oldest child. Starting digital scrapbooking meant finding a username. That was harder than I like to think. I didn’t want to use my first name because back then it was still “dangerous” and I didn’t know what I was having so I couldn’t be ____’s mom or anything like that. I contemplated something about stepmom or something to do with Cainan, but I didn’t want my identity linked to their identity...not my (then) boyfriend, not my stepsons, not my own kids. I am my own person and that is what I wanted to be online. So, I went with ta_merkins. The ta part stands for my first and middle names: Teri Ann and Merkins was the last name I was born with. I put an underscore in it because “it looked cool”. *eye roll* Now that I’m married and I am settled into my life, I wish I had chosen something different that wasn’t tied to my maiden name- but was still about me and not my relationships to others like pandafriend or readnscrap. But since I’ve been digi scrapping for almost 11 years and have been all over the community, everyone knows me as ta_merkins and I’m not really wanting to “re-brand” myself.

 

I wasn't sure where I was headed as I started journaling, but I'm okay with the results. I'm also happy that I found a picture of my grandparents and great aunt (from whom I got my middle name). I may scrap this one again with a different story.