And your name is?

I think it's safe to assume that to a lot of bloggers coming up with a great blog name is a matter of some importance. I am embarrassed to admit when I started my blogging journey the best I could come up with was "My Thoughts". Not that I mean to offend anyone who named their blog that and is happy with it. See, therein lies the difference. I wasn't happy with it. I like to think I'm a funny girl. I mean I tell people I am all the time. Just ask Nancy, I probably tell her 4 to 7 times a day, just so she doesn't forget. So I'm funny, I can also be a tad snarky, maybe a bit sarcastic and I can only hope that once in a while I come across as witty. So "My Thoughts" just wasn't cutting it for me. Plus I have a brother who can write me under the table. A brother who named his own collaborative blog The WinterBeard because he has been known to spend those rough winters up North growing a beard. So yeah, the pressure was on.

There are a lot of great blog names out there in the blogosphere. Some of favourites in no particular order are;

bleeding espresso... a regular commenter here and my first What's Cooking Wednesday participant. Who also in a flash of brilliance wrote a similarly veined post on Friday. It just further proves the theory, great minds think alike. Much like myself, sognatrice received a bevy of comments in regards to her blog name and how it came to be.

Virtually There, another regular commenter here. I love hers because don't we all feel like that sometimes?

Bread Crumbs in the Butter, have I mentioned that I want to be Chantal when I grow up? Oh wait, yes I have.

I also love MUBAR, Postcards from the Mothership, Kerflop, Mom to the Screaming Masses. Oh I could go on and on.

So after I had been blogging for a while I was considering, after my brother's strong recommendation, to move on over to wordpress. If I was going to move I needed a new start, a fresh look and a new name. One night while I was annoying Mike with my complaining, he shot out, how about Tales From the FairyBlogmother. Which made me laugh instantly because I have always been a big Cinderella fan. In fact we even had a Cinderella wedding. Don't worry it was very subtle. Although we did have a glass slipper on a pillow.



And I may have pretended to misplace my shoe, and there were the invitations, programs and cake topper but that was it, I swear!



So here we were years into this "fairytale" marriage with a little girl who was also a Cinderella/princess freak and it just seemed to fit. It was a couple of minutes later I blurted out, "hey know what the tagline should be?" And just like that a tagline was born. Really the kudos must go to Mike since the whole fairy blogmother concept was his. And this was not his first time bestowing a name upon something other than the kids of course. He did the exact same thing when Grandma Linda and I were trying to decide on a name for our basket business. Mike blurted out Two Basketcases and it stuck. Before you get too impressed I'd like to point out that just minutes ago he was asking me for the egg beater, but what he was actually looking for was the pastry blender.