The problem with unique names
Another weekend of baking and cooking like crazy for the upcoming week! I never have much time during the working week to cook healthy food, but I know that if I don’t I’ll end up eating something terrible out of convenience at work. So, major cook up days it is! Along with the scones I made, and stir frys, and cookies, I also managed to fit in some crafty things too. I started a new painting that I am so keen to finish but have to be patient about. I also started another project of making personalised china for my love and I. I have been looking for a while for some things for the wedding and found some plain white mugs that I thought I would try to DIY into something cuter. Now the thing about having the name Eliza and my love having the name Rex is that we never see those personalised key rings, or mug, or hats with our names on them. I cursed this as a kid when I would go somewhere and never find my name, but I do like that my name is a little less common. This inspired me to personalise the mugs for us – but we don’t call each other Eliza and Rex and I’m not the biggest fan of babe, or baby so we don’t use those either…. As always, my DIY work looks DIY and I like it 
Check ya mug!
Echee and Wallancee – I call him Echee, he calls me Wallancee, don’t ask me how they evolved into that, but these are the names that have stuck and I love how unique they are. I can’t wait to show you what other things I have come up with to decorate a beautiful white tea set a friend gave us, as well as some soup mugs I found! Oh – and all it is – a sharpie permanent marker, I used the washing machine proof one, write/draw on a super clean surface and then I popped it in the oven at 170C for half an hour whilst I was making my cookies, the recipe for which I will post later! So simple, so fun, and finally we can have personalised things with our less common names!
I don’t think they look DIY. Sweet and cute.
Thanks! I’m a sucker for silly little things like this, but I do draw a line at matching couples t-shirts… Even though Rex did get us matching t-shirts! He’s worse than me
I’m not too sure about the t-shirts but it is the thought that counts and I think it is sweet that he did that. I don’t know of any man that would. You have a keeper!
Don’t ask me how it happened, but he went from a tough military guy who did “wall-to-wall” counselling with misbehaving airmen, to a complete push over! He is 100% a keeper, I am incredibly lucky, and the t-shirts are nerdy ones that just say the same thing but in different colours, so not terribly bad
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Aww, this is a brilliant piece of work! =D
Thanks
I totally agree about the less common name. You don’t see too many people with the name Ara.
I’ve come to like my unique name and that I don’t find people that have it. I love your DIY mugs. Super cute!
I have loved having a unique name, although it had become slightly more popular lately to my dismay! At first I hated it, but then I became possessive of my uniqueness
I actually asked Rex about your name, I’d never heard it before and wondered if (stereotyping here) it was a Mormon bible type name. He said there is an Ara mentioned in passing in the book of Mormon but he knew nothing about the name – why did your parents choose that name?
It was my great grandma’s name. I remember when I was a little girl always wanting a common name that everybody else had that wasn’t hard to pronounce, but then when I got in to my teens and was able to appreciate where my name came from, I love it. I’m told that my name is a derivitive of the Irish name Arabella.
I have wondered exactly how to pronounce it, but that’s really beautiful! I love names with meaning behind them – all my names are family names too!