One of the first challenges that I had when starting this blog was coming up with a name and URL. Todd is very good at coming up with names, slogans, etc. Me…not so much. When we lived in Irving and Todd worked at a Spinner's Pizza store, they were looking for a name for a new product that they were launching that included two pizzas. Todd came up with the name "Twin Spin." The owners liked the name and it appeared on all of their advertising including their TV commercial. The jingle on the commercial had a rap beat. I remember some of it to this day:
Twin spin, twin spin, that's the word,
Spinner's is the best, or haven't you heard?
A couple of years ago I had to come up with a name for a small business that I was starting. I like names to mean something, so I reached into my memory bank to see what I could come up with. When I was growing up, my great grandparents had a home in a small community in south Texas known as Hackberry. We would have family reunions there every few years and it was always fun for me as a child to go there. Interestingly, we never had a reunion "in Hackberry," it was always "at Hackberry;" kind of like having an event "at the White House" or "at Buckingham Palace."
Considering all of the fond memories that I had of Hackberry, I decided to use that as part of my business name. I added the work "creek" to it because I liked the idea of flow that I associate with running water. Thus, Hackberry Creek was born. My whole family, including my boys, help out with the venture. We sell beads and jewlery making supplies and sell through our site on eBay and through our website.
Since so much of my life and the life of my family revolves around my business, I decided that I would like to use the name "hackberry" in the title of my blog. I used the url name finder at NameBoy, which is a pretty nifty tool. You can put one or two words in and the generator comes up with a list of available url's. These were some of my favorites:
Thehackberry.com
Hackberrytime.com
Hackberryzine.com
Hackberryzone.com
Hackberrywire.com
Hackberryworld.com
I finally decided on thehackberrylife.com. Hackberry for me has come to symbolize some of the things that I value most in life such as simplicity, fun, working together and family.
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