July 11, 2008

Double Milestones

I can't believe that I've reached these Etsy milestones, let alone on the same day! Wow, thanks to all of you who've supported my shops.

Since moving the monkeys into their own location, iSew has been very slow. Perhaps it's the addition of the new sewing pattern that gave me the recent boost in sales. Whatever it is, it's given me new hope to keep going.

As for the monkey milestone, the new shop has made 150 sales. That's way more than I could have hoped for in 6 months. And according to my monkey list, I've actually created 304 monkeys to date. I had hoped to do a giveaway when I reached 300, but I just didn't have the time. Instead, I'd like to ask for some help.

304 is a lot of monkeys to name. Usually I pre-print name tags and have them ready when monkeys are made. I just flip through until I find a name that suits the monkey. Well, I'm down to my last two and I'm ready to print a new batch. I try not to use the same name twice, at least for the same kind of monkey, so you can see why I'd run out of ideas. And yes, I've used the baby naming websites! Please help me with your suggestions. I'm desperately trying to get some new monkeys made and I wouldn't want them to be nameless, would you?

20 comments:

  1. I name my owls after old relatives. Maybe you could do something like that?

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  2. Off the top of my head: Blair, Tootie, April, May, June, Lily, Posie, Poco, Billy-Bob, Juan, Albert, Tom, Suri, Hubert, Hermes, Fry, Scruffy, Steve, Ginger, Basil, Rose, Mary, Taffy, Panko, Sugar.

    (Email me if you need more.)

    : )

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  3. Okay, here are all the names I'd like to give kids one day:

    Joshua
    Rex
    Brady
    Noah
    Ruth
    Esther
    Emmanuelle
    Louise
    Georgia
    Paloma (Lola)

    Keep going? and CONGRATS!!

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  4. Oh - and congratulations on the milestones!

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  5. How about my brother's names - they were like little monkeys when we were kids...

    John
    Michael
    Chip

    And, here are some other ideas:

    Jude
    Issac
    Darwin
    Luke
    Jack

    Jayde
    Ellie
    Emma

    Also, here is a link to the names of fictional monkeys (film and literature) that may spark an idea.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_monkeys

    Congratulations on both milestones!
    Wishing you many more sales!!

    Jodie

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  6. Oh, just thought of another one:

    Jake

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  7. Congrats on your milestones!

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  8. Congrats on the sales!
    How about: Jasper, Jo-Jo, Sasha, Sienna, Sydney, Shelby, Pipi, Marco, Olive, Helmut, Poppy, Giselle, Heidi, Rocky, Chuck, Sheila, Jilly, Tilly, gee, I could go on and on...lol

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  9. 304 monkeys?...no wonder your hands hurt! Silly girl SLOW DOWN. You're a monkey making fool!

    Paco, Chipper, Mugs, Eore, Capri, Sonya, Lucy, Ethel (can you see where I'm going here?) Fred, Dessie, Monica, Crumb Cruncher.

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  10. You need to go international with the names! Or just watch movie credits to grab name ideas. Credits have to be good for something right?

    Congrats with your Etsy milestones!

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  11. I've been watching a lot of the Young and the Restless lately as the kid wants to nurse (conveniently) between 12:30 and 1:30 most days.

    Here are all the characters I can remember:

    Sabrina
    Victor
    Victoria
    Nikki
    Nick
    Phillip
    Jill
    Catherine
    Colleen
    Adrian
    Daniel
    Phyllis
    Sharon
    Jack
    Gloria
    Jeffrey
    Michael
    David
    Lauren

    Ok. That's all for now.

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  12. Here we go with some of the names from my family: Kyli, Kortney, Kelton, Kannon, Lily, Scott, Haylia, Karen, DeAnn, Barry, Carol, Walter, Nathan, Heather, Peter, Ned, Phillip, Hal, Ray, Cathy, Jane, Gary, Pam, Gail, Alene, Judy, Ruth

    Some other names I like for monkeys: Eric, Gwen, Poppy, Jill, Jack, Babette, Patty, Leonard, Leo, Steve, Danny, Alice

    Hopefully there are some there that you haven't used.

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  13. I like Ike, Ham, Mo, Beany, Bones, Clems, Jazzy, Fritzy, Flash, LuLu, Skeet, & Sqeeky :)

    Have fun!

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  14. Here are some names:

    Philbert, Norbert, Bertram, Wilber, Otis, Credence, Ollie, Orville, Beaufort, Delilah, Cal, Wade, Wayne, Cletus, Dora Mae, Bubba, Duke, Chester, Dale, Cooter, Earl, Dwayne, Ford, Dodge, Garth, Horace, Homer, Jackson, Jed, Lee, Roy, Rufus, Roscoe, Brandine, Sierra, Dakota, Savannah, Niles, Hugh, Rupert, Eustace, Percival, Melody, Chauncey, Clea, Nemo, Lawrence, Clark, Becky, Luly, Corrine

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  15. I think Heather is a fine name!! :)

    phoebe
    Tiffany
    Rebecca
    Lloyd
    Jesse
    Gretchen

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  16. If you want some foreign names for your monkeys here is a list of fairly common names in Norway:

    Female: Sigrid,Trude, Marte, Maren, Trine, Tora, Astrid, Ida, Elin, Live.

    Male: Sigurd, Harald, Ivar, Haakon, Olav, Kristian, Karl, Fredrik, Martin , Erling, Matias.

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  17. one thought, go through your high school/college yearbook if you have it or go through the phone book, tape some soap operas and write down all the crazy names of the characters. name ideas: aidan, liam, hugh, seamus, damian, emmet, daisy, lily, petunia, lucy, louise, pumpkin... just some ideas :)

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  18. Congrats on hitting your milestones! I've always been a fan of Mathilde and Mildred and Marge.

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  19. Hmm, names. Well you might have these already, but:
    Molly, Ida, Lena, Shelly, Brittany, Kenny, Fred, Jason, Darrick, Maurice, Samantha, Wilma, Cece, Kyran, Joanne, Seth, Mika, Polly.

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  20. Hows about

    River
    angus
    morag
    rose
    joseph
    ross
    lauren
    poppie
    dasie
    franky
    grace
    ............

    Hope you find a nice new list of name's soon
    oh and congrats on reaching the mile stones

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