I'm so very bad at naming things

[tephra]

I'm contemplating setting up a blog in my domain for a craft blog. It would have postings about patterns I'll be putting up for sale (and I'll probably have a few free ones) and assorted technique and springboard ideas. Since I'm into more than one craft (even if it looks like all knitting all the time these days) I need a non-craft specific name for the blog. The blog name will end up being used as my Ravelry store name as well so it shouldn't be too cutesy or generic.

The sorts of things that are likely to turn up on the craft blog:
knitting patterns
"choose your own" knitting pattern (AKA, fill in your own gauge and measurement guides)
knitting technique tutorials
how to make knitting charts with a decent paint program (PSP for me but it plan to generalize)
crochet patterns
sewing patterns
how to draft sewing patterns (specific patterns that I don't feel like grading and working up PDFs for)
beading projects
wire projects
heck, maybe some soap recipes
tatting patterns, if I ever do more than dabble with it
ditto with sprang

You get the general idea. :)

I was thinking "Making Stuph" but that is very generic, even with the verging on cutesy Stuph spelling. "Teph Makes Stuph" is today's thought. Whatever I come up with will have a subdomain on tephras.com so whatever.tephras.com should also be a memorable URL easily associated with the site name.

I'm sort of tempted to swipe the name of my dead crafting comm on LJ, Internet Refrigerator, iFridge.tephras.com? :D Yes, I could do the technique posts to internet_fridge, and I may do that, but it wouldn't be kosher to take that comm for the pattern selling part of the plan.

Some one toss me some ideas? Random thoughts?

Crafty Pantry just popped into my head. I need to kill it with fire.

Comments

[watanukisuki.livejournal.com]

*lol* I misread that as crafty panty! XD Probably because the naughty me wants to suggest: making.tephras.com >3

What about simple crafty.tephras.com; that implies all things craftable, and the fact that you are crafty, in more ways than one, perhaps. ;)

Or there's craftsho.tephras.com. That could imply: crafts, ho!, craft sho[w & tell,] and/or that you're a crafts' ho.

[lonita.livejournal.com]

Why not 'craftable' or 'craftables'?

[tephra]

Craftable and craftables are names of brick and mortar stores with web presences and websites.

Naming things is hard. :(

[tephra]

The misread to panty is why it must DIAF. :D

And after the gutter hauling anything with "ho" is out. *LOL*

Crafty gets into the problem of generic names, there are a lot of sites using crafty in their name (or AS their name).

[watanukisuki.livejournal.com]

Hmm... you could play around with the 'artful' meaning of crafty. Maybe some thing would come to mind with that? But yes, naming things well is very, very hard. Which is why there are entire corporations whose sole purposes are branding.

[watanukisuki.livejournal.com]

If you were a crazy old man, you could call it the artful codger! :D