I need a brandname.

I've been toying with the idea of selling my art for ages. I'm near enough now that I was looking at what it costs to get little fabric tags with your name on it (reasonably cheap, unless you want your own design, boo). But, I need a name for my stuff.

I want something that can be consistent across everything I do, since it's always changing, so a generic kind of name for an etsy shop, a website, to put on tags on my crochet work, whatever. I sign my real name on my drawings, I go by Ananda Daydream on most websites, my last name will be changing somewhere in the next few years (HINT HINT Mr. Thomas)... I need something else. And I like a general name better anyway.

I asked Tom for ideas a few nights ago, and he rambled on for about half an hour. Unfortunately, his conclusion was...HA! I TOLD HIM I'D NEVER REMEMBER IT!!! crap. what was it? Yigotz. That was it. Which, for many reasons, would be an awesome brand name for something on the internet. But would not work for me.

Along the way though, he threw out a handful of interesting names, and then described the concept he was working around. From his perspective, the common thread that runs through all of my art, is... well basically a spiritual nature, something "celestial" was his word. Something otherworldly. And I totally agree with that - I love the idea of twilight, of that misty area halfway between dreaming and waking, I love the idea of ghosts, and that the past is layered on all the things we've touched, and the people who lived before us touched. The whole concept of Beneath the Dust, my capstone project, really did pretty well at reflecting the way I see things. Even in my crochet, there's a bit of fancifulness, and then too, I really love the idea that when you're making something by hand, your thoughts and your emotions are worked into it. Every time I pull the crochet hook through the yarn and make a knot, there's a little wisp of my thoughts caught in the fibers... so the whole concept of prayer shawls, and of binding up your good wishes for someone in the blanket you've made them, I really love. (So all of you getting crochet goodies from me - I really do put all of that into what I've made you. :)

Unfortunately, Tom is a scientist, and I am an artist, so I can't use words like "brain" in my brand. But I love that concept of duality, that there's another layer to the world around us, and I'd love to play off of that.

And, of course, there are my flower lists - remember, the ones I've been drawing off of for all my Phisto things for like, oh god, four, five years now? I started skimming through my list of flower meanings, trying to find a flower that I love (preferably one I feel an attachment to, or have some association with), that has a meaning that suits. The various meanings of Dianthus unfortunately don't suit, though I love the sound of the name as well as the flower... my current favorite is Osmunda, which is fern, and means "dreams", or "I dream of thee".

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