Where Did You Get Your Screenname?

Well I have noticed some neat screen names here and always wondered where did the inspiration come from....And the meaning of name too....

Please share everyone.

I will start with mine (Martica)
It is the child name for Martha, my family calls me Martica since I was a baby. To distinguish my mom who has the same name (Martha)from me. So I decided to use it as my screen name here and all over....I added Designs after Martica to my Ebay and Etsy account to make it sound more business like.....After all I sell my creations/designs....

DH assigned it for me along time ago when I was more afraid of technology ... he based it on my job before I retired sort of ... flight O B L stands for flight on board leader, because I was a flight attendant. Never bothered to change it to anything else.

My 1st granddaughters name is Chandler.
so Chans + Gram = ChansGram

I got mine because I am left handed and I crafty. I have people in my family call me crafty so I added lefty on there because of me bing left handed we tend to use the creative side of our brains which is what brings me to scrapbooking.:)

I've always loved my pet rats - they're such adorable little curious critters! My screen names on various sites all reference them - papermouse, knitrat, paverat...

I'm also the Chinese year of the rat...and, lesser-known fact: my one and only tattoo is the silhouette of a mouse...

first name charlene, last name starts with a K. Hence charK....and I'm also a tad bit sarcastic and opinionated.

I picked up the title "Mother Goose" some time ago. Its just stuck on so when I needed an avitar pic, I used one made of me at Ren Fest holding a white goose.

It is the first 3 letters of my kids names put together.
Lenna, Ethan, Renia = Lenethren

I use to be known online as Leneth for a couple years before I had my youngest and added her name in.

I enjoy taking pictures of many things and scrapbooking is all about telling your own life story, so I came up with life through a lens. It's a little long but I like it.

My ds' children have two grandmas named Mary so to distinguish us my dgd started calling me Grandma Mary from the Snow (and sometimes grandma Mary with the tangles for my messy hair - glad that didn't stick).
A couple of years ago I got tired of writing the whole title out on tags on their Christmas presents so I abbreviated it. I knew they liked it when dgd made me a beaded name bracelet with GMFTS.

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I used to live in Chile and my nickname all through high school was Chicken because of my chicken legs!

I use DNA as my screen name for three reasons...first, I decided to become a scientist based on the movie "Jurassic Park" and the idea of using DNA to clone dinosaurs. Second, genetics is my favorite area of scientific study. Finally, ironically enough, my initials backwards spell out "DNA." The 301 bit is just my birthdate LOL!

TwoSmilesToday

I have twins. I look forward to their Two Smiles Today (everyday actually)

When dating my hubby 34 years ago, one of his good friends couldn't remember my name so he called me "sweetthing" all the time. I us it a lot but sweetthing with all the dbl letters is annoying so I shortened it.

Pretty simple on my screen name. DH and I enjoy going to car shows together and I scrapbook. Hence, hotroding scrapbooker was born.

My screen name was created but my first and middle initials, which are TJ and I am very crafty, with all my different crafts I do, and the Witch part is also because I am a solitary Witch. So I became TJCraftyWitch. It has stuck for years.

ozmagi is because of 3 things in it, oz for australien . ma for my name, gi for the familyname , and so was ozmagi born. lol have a great day magi

We have squirrels in our garden at home which we love. DH used to try and tame them, and build them obstacle courses. We also had one slightly dippy one which used to sit on the bedroom window sill and tap for food - tremendously endearing.

"Squirrel" was taken, so I went with our native RedSquirrel, although ours are greys.

Kelsey is my last name. Melissa is my first. I've used "kelseymel" for years at lots of places.

I wish now that I would've picked something different because people inevitably call me Kelsey or Mel.

I go by neither. I'm Melissa or Lissa.



Interesting thread, thanks for starting it!

Mine started about ten years ago - I liked rain and it always rained when I visited the college where my boyfriend and his friends were. One of them made a pun about it one time, and I let it stick - the nickname started with Aqua, and I used the full nickname a lot of places, where people tended to shorten it to Aqua - even that group of real-life friends. (I also chose it as a screen name because I liked that it shared the starting initial with my first name.)

Now, some years later, I'm no longer in that city or spending time with most of those friends (I married the boyfriend, though). But I still feel like I identify as Aqua. I had a house rabbit at the time I signed up here, and still love house rabbits a lot, so now it's AquaBunny.

name of my child care!

Mine is a pun - based on a common expression of "something else" for brains. I'm always thinking about scrapping.

Great thread! I always wonder about screen names too.

MercyTiara is an anagram of my first and second names, Tracy Marie. A friend came up with it when i was in grad school, using one of those anagram-making websites. He did anagrams forthe whole class but mine was the only one that stuck (although I'm not much of a princess so the tiara part doesn't really describe me).

Wow ladies awesome screennames and stories....I enjoyed it immensely.....Hope to see more .....thanks for sharing

I had a white cat with blue eyes named chris e, the spelling is a long story, So many times i have used CE as part of my screen name. and the fact that i'm a scrapper just fit for this website. so hense i am cescrapper.

At my age, I've just used my name. That way if wake up in the morning and forget who I am, I can always pull up scrapbook.com and check!

Great thread!

I had just started scrapbooking and was a writer (had just finished my first novel, which if you ever find a copy let me know ) It's seemed only logical that the only two things outside of computers was these two things.

Mine is a little weird....

The first message board I went to was the TY website cause at the time I collected Beanie Bears (bears ONLY)I don't collect anymore though but it stuck.


I am a trained photographer even though that is not what I do for a living and my name is Samantha. (actually only my Dad ever really called me Sam)


So

Photo+bear+Sam

Mostly, I wanted to be the same screen name everywhere. So, my name seemed simple enough to work for everything.

That way, when I talk about scrapping, I am Manda, when I chat about Adam, I am Manda, when I am on FB, Manda. I am always me.

My screen name, I'm sorry to say, is very simple and very unimaginative. It is simply my initials.

• dwelch Said:

I like your way of thinking. Mine is the same. First initial of my name with my last name. You'd think I could come up with something more creative.

• dwelch Said:

how cute!!

GREAT thread Martica!!! I too have always been interested in how people come up with their nicks.

My signature line explains it... I once had a Kat named Lacey.....
I have used this nick online since 1998. Has anyone ever chatted on MIRC chat??? Well... that's where online chatting started for me.

my dog's name is Fargo. Since she was a puppy, i have always called her Fargomutt - well really she has several names (Far-D-Go, FarFarz, Beast, Big-Butt) but i love this one the most!

Mine is from being a huge disney fan and I and sneezy both sneeze alot add to the fact that I was born in 1956.

I'm a hula dancer. When you belong to halau for a while, at some point your Kumu Hula will gift you with a name that suits your personality or means something to the both of you. My full gifted name is Kamananuielaweo'uluakala. From then on, that is the only name you will be known as in our halau. The brief translation of my name is: With the rising of the sun comes great strength/knowledge.

Misa was my first Siamese. She was a beautiful seal point that came into my life over 20 years ago and was the child I never got to have. I have used MisasMom on several sites and even though Misa passed on a few years ago I kept the name. The tortie-point Siamese in my avatar is Sapphire (Saffy) and she has been with me for 9 years since she was a 7 week old kitten.

I've gone though so many over the years! I started out as CamsMom. Then I was CamSamMom (I think! or maybe it was CandSmom) or something like that. Then I switch to loving3boys. I only had 2 sons but figured if I had a 3rd, odds are it would be a boy. And, if my DH happened to look over my shoulder, he thought it included him too. Then, my 3rd ended up being a girl. So I switched to loving3boys1girl but that was annoying and dh and I were having issues so I didn't want him in my name and that led to CSMmom. My kids initials and I'm their mom! Real original right?!?!

• laceyKat Said:

Ha, yeah, I used IRC from 1999 through 2007 or so. It's where I first learned to download music, when the digital music environment was much much different, and later where I chatted with video game friends while we played a virtual pen-and-paper version of a particular game.

I have had Scrap Princess for a couple of year, my Bf always called me Princess and then I added the Scrap part when I need a new screen name so it has always stuck, the 72010 is the date the new BF and I got together and have never been happier before in our lives. I love the date because you can make it out to be july 2010 or the date july 20th 2010!!! It works out both ways so its really cool!

• Fargomutt Said:

Awesome stories eveyone...

Hey Nancy glad you did not go with Big Butt instead....

I'm definitely not as original as some, but when you have a name like mine...well, there aren't many Sharmins out there, so I just used my first name (well, middle name, I don't go by my first) and first initial of my last name. Sharminj

Back in 1998 or 1999 I needed a screen name for a mineral collector's board and since I collect all things rocks, minerals and fossils and I was busy with my kiddos I became rockmom.

I am known as Throwscraps on this board. When i started scraping a long time ago, i use to throw away all my scrapbooking scraps, so a friend of mine started calling me, Throwscraps.

No creativity with my name, just a proud mom of 2 Eagle Scouts.

My cat is named colby after the cheese and he is a cat lol!

When I was a little baby my parents came up with the nickname 'Joogzy', and my cousin, who is also my best friend still calls me this or 'Joogz', so I use it here and on a few other sites! Great thread by the way

I luv all things pirate and Johnny Depp! I am a princess as a child of my Lord who is a King so the two together came up as Pirate Princess! Have had it for a long time! Luving this thread and all the stories!

AK Teddy Bear

I'm from Alaska. My first name is Terri but when my sister was little, she couldn't say Terri. It came out Teddy. I have been addicted to bears since my first stuffed one. Hence AK Teddy Bear.

Great question!

ScrappySnooks. I believe we can all figure out where "Scrappy" comes from, but "Snooks" is very special to me. My mother called me "Snooks" when I was a little girl and she also loved to scrap. She passed away in January '05 and I still miss her with all my soul, but when I scrap I feel especially close to her, almost as if she were there.