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Post by honeypea on Mar 8, 2022 14:26:19 GMT
April just announced she’s pregnant again. 😳 Let’s take bets on names! She has a Kit and she has a Cal (calico). Think if it’s a boy it will be Stu (studio)?  I never made the connection with Cal. Kit was funny enough. I think you’re on to something with Stu! 😂 |
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Post by mom on Mar 8, 2022 15:43:56 GMT
Not to defend April…but Cal is for Cal Ripken. They made a big deal about it when she was pregnant.
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Post by dawnnikol on Mar 8, 2022 22:03:35 GMT
Not to defend April…but Cal is for Cal Ripken. They made a big deal about it when she was pregnant. Party pooper.  |
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Post by mom on Mar 8, 2022 22:07:38 GMT
Not to defend April…but Cal is for Cal Ripken. They made a big deal about it when she was pregnant. Party pooper. Sorry, 😂 |
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Post by Skellinton on Mar 9, 2022 0:55:46 GMT
Not to defend April…but Cal is for Cal Ripken. They made a big deal about it when she was pregnant. So she says! We know someone naming their baby Lydia and depending on who they are telling the name choice is either from Pride and Prejudice or Beetlejuice! Guess which one we were told? |
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Post by blemon on Mar 9, 2022 2:35:32 GMT
So she says! We know someone naming their baby Lydia and depending on who they are telling the name choice is either from Pride and Prejudice or Beetlejuice! Guess which one we were told?  Has the person who is naming their kid Lydia after Lydia in Pride and Prejudice actually read the book? Lydia is the obnoxious one who runs off with the dude Lizzy had a crush on, ruins her reputation, and has to get forced married while Darcy bails them out. And sorry for the spoiler alert but, no. It's been a couple hundred years. There has got to be a better Lydia to name your kid after. I'd go with Beetlejuice. |
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Post by mom on Mar 9, 2022 2:54:25 GMT
Not to defend April…but Cal is for Cal Ripken. They made a big deal about it when she was pregnant. So she says! We know someone naming their baby Lydia and depending on who they are telling the name choice is either from Pride and Prejudice or Beetlejuice! Guess which one we were told? ok that’s funny! |
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Post by Skellinton on Mar 9, 2022 3:03:54 GMT
So she says! We know someone naming their baby Lydia and depending on who they are telling the name choice is either from Pride and Prejudice or Beetlejuice! Guess which one we were told? Has the person who is naming their kid Lydia after Lydia in Pride and Prejudice actually read the book? Lydia is the obnoxious one who runs off with the dude Lizzy had a crush on, ruins her reputation, and has to get forced married while Darcy bails them out. And sorry for the spoiler alert but, no. It's been a couple hundred years. There has got to be a better Lydia to name your kid after. I'd go with Beetlejuice. Yep! They both love Jane Austen books. They just liked the name of the character, not the actual character. |
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Mar 9, 2022 9:43:42 GMT
Has the person who is naming their kid Lydia after Lydia in Pride and Prejudice actually read the book? Lydia is the obnoxious one who runs off with the dude Lizzy had a crush on, ruins her reputation, and has to get forced married while Darcy bails them out. This was my first thought too. And if someone told me they named their kid Lydia after this particular character I'd be assuming it was because of the character, not because they liked this relatively common name. |
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Post by elegantsufficiency on Mar 9, 2022 12:20:29 GMT
Thank you all for a great conversation!! Love it  |
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Post by Skellinton on Mar 9, 2022 15:39:00 GMT
Has the person who is naming their kid Lydia after Lydia in Pride and Prejudice actually read the book? Lydia is the obnoxious one who runs off with the dude Lizzy had a crush on, ruins her reputation, and has to get forced married while Darcy bails them out. This was my first thought too. And if someone told me they named their kid Lydia after this particular character I'd be assuming it was because of the character, not because they liked this relatively common name. I dunno, not my kid, not my pregnancy, not my decision. I did ask where they got the name because I know them so well and figured it came from somewhere and my first thought was Beetlejuice. And they told me it depended on who they were talking too, old olds or young olds. (I am a young old, so I would have just been told Beetlejuice). I have not heard that name on an actual person ever, so that is why I assumed it came from somewhere and asked. I have been working as a teacher for 25 years and never encountered a Lydia at school, it is certainly a name I have heard, but not one I have ever heard used. Like Ethel or Murgatroyd. I was just pointing out that April.can say her son was named after Cal Ripken all she wants, doesn't make it true or less funny that she runs a scrapbook kit company and has two kids with names that seem suspiciously close to the names of her company and business. It was just supposed to be funny like if Milton Hershey had named a kid Candy or something. |
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Post by honeypea on Mar 9, 2022 15:58:17 GMT
Lydia has come back in vogue the last five years or so. Very trendy name, similar to how Olive and Hazel were suddenly popular again. I’ve only known one adult Lydia in my life, but can think of a handful of kids named Lydia online in the last few years.
I wouldn’t place bets on Stu Foster, but we can be sure it’ll be a one syllable half-name. Other options: Kev, Mat, Pen. Actually, I can see Pen happening. 😂
Not to leave out girls: Lil, Lyd, Pen. 😜
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Post by blemon on Mar 9, 2022 16:19:36 GMT
I have bits of a song that has the name Lydia in it running through my head. My ear thinks it might be musical theatre. My brain can't remember anything other than the Lydia part.
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Post by Skellinton on Mar 9, 2022 16:27:44 GMT
Lydia has come back in vogue the last five years or so. Very trendy name, similar to how Olive and Hazel were suddenly popular again. I’ve only known one adult Lydia in my life, but can think of a handful of kids named Lydia online in the last few years. I wouldn’t place bets on Stu Foster, but we can be sure it’ll be a one syllable half-name. Other options: Kev, Mat, Pen. Actually, I can see Pen happening. 😂 Not to leave out girls: Lil, Lyd, Pen. 😜 We have had our share of Hazels and Olives! I wonder if we will get a bunch of Lydias soon, nary one yet but I do work primarily with 3-5 year olds (but in an elementary school, so I see and know about 200 kids who utilize our before and after care or are in our section of the building) One year we had a whole class of girls with “old lady” names and we joked about how we would have to teach the kids to play Bridge and how to crochet. What is funny is that boy names are pretty standard and don’t seem to cycle the way girls names do. I can tell you there were 4 Charlottes sitting at one lunch table yesterday and one year we had so many Sophias we had to call them solely by their last names as there were so many and multiple with the same last initial. This is my very first year without a Henry in class, but other then that and Jack and Ben being super consistent they don’t cycle all at once the way girls names do. I love the idea of Pen, I can totally see that happening!! |
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Post by JavaJones on Mar 9, 2022 18:00:28 GMT
I have bits of a song that has the name Lydia in it running through my head. My ear thinks it might be musical theatre. My brain can't remember anything other than the Lydia part. Me too. In my case it is the song that is song by Katherine Hepburn's younger sister in The Philadelphia Story. Love that movie  . Also sung by Groucho Marx and I think the Muppets We almost named our dd Lydia (chose the similar Olivia instead). Then Olivia became so common, now I sometimes wish we had named her Lydia "Lydia, oh! Lydia, say have you met Lydia Oh! Lydia, the tattooed lady She has eyes that folks adore so And a torso even more so Lydia, oh! Lydia, that "Encyclopedia" Oh! Lydia, the Queen of tattoo On her back is the Battle of Waterloo Beside it the Wreck of the Hesperus too And proudly above the waves The Red, White and Blue You can learn a lot from Lydia" |
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Post by craftymom101 on Mar 9, 2022 18:03:06 GMT
Lydia has come back in vogue the last five years or so. Very trendy name, similar to how Olive and Hazel were suddenly popular again. I’ve only known one adult Lydia in my life, but can think of a handful of kids named Lydia online in the last few years. I wouldn’t place bets on Stu Foster, but we can be sure it’ll be a one syllable half-name. Other options: Kev, Mat, Pen. Actually, I can see Pen happening. 😂 Not to leave out girls: Lil, Lyd, Pen. 😜 We have had our share of Hazels and Olives! I wonder if we will get a bunch of Lydias soon, nary one yet but I do work primarily with 3-5 year olds (but in an elementary school, so I see and know about 200 kids who utilize our before and after care or are in our section of the building) One year we had a whole class of girls with “old lady” names and we joked about how we would have to teach the kids to play Bridge and how to crochet. What is funny is that boy names are pretty standard and don’t seem to cycle the way girls names do. I can tell you there were 4 Charlottes sitting at one lunch table yesterday and one year we had so many Sophias we had to call them solely by their last names as there were so many and multiple with the same last initial. This is my very first year without a Henry in class, but other then that and Jack and Ben being super consistent they don’t cycle all at once the way girls names do. I love the idea of Pen, I can totally see that happening!! My son is a Jack (age 12) and my fiancé is a Ben! I love one syllable names. |
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Post by cbscrapper on Mar 9, 2022 19:04:10 GMT
For boys, there was a time where there were a lot of what I refer to as Lil cowpoke names (Wyatt, Cody, Hunter, Jackson, Walker, etc).
I had a Lydia in my grade, although it wasn’t very common (unlike Jennifer😉).
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Post by zima on Mar 9, 2022 19:11:21 GMT
For boys, there was a time where there were a lot of what I refer to as Lil cowpoke names (Wyatt, Cody, Hunter, Jackson, Walker, etc). There were also a TON of medieval professions: Chandler, Cooper, Fletcher, Hunter, Porter, Fisher, etc. |
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Post by blemon on Mar 9, 2022 22:20:48 GMT
Me too. In my case it is the song that is song by Katherine Hepburn's younger sister in The Philadelphia Story. Love that movie  . Also sung by Groucho Marx and I think the Muppets How freaking stunning is Katharine Hepburn? My god. She is exquisite. And that girl should not have been in pointe shoes. She's going to hurt herself. But no, that's not it. I'll try to find it. I teach as well and one year I had 4 Madison's in my class. Of 25 students. |
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Post by elegantsufficiency on Mar 9, 2022 22:45:53 GMT
As soon as Lydia was mentioned upthread I thought of the tattooed lady! The men in my dh's choir sing it as part of their repertoire and it always gets such a laugh - I had no idea where it came from, so thank for the link. I agree about Katharine Hepburn too blemon! (Though he now tells me it was originally by Groucho Marx? I have no idea!) |
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Post by jenna on Mar 18, 2022 20:39:44 GMT
17% off thru Monday (3/21!) with luckyyou17
I grabbed an older iacb national park stamp I've been eyeing.
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Post by honeypea on Mar 23, 2022 14:05:01 GMT
A couple things:
I was griping in a post a couple weeks ago that the January kit I received was missing a specific journal card (baseball) that I wanted. I was wrong. I discovered the missing card tucked into a pocket several pages ahead in my PL album. Apparently I popped it in there so I wouldn’t have to hunt it down in the future. Whoops!
Secondly, I got the March stamp sub with that $10 off code. If arrived quickly (yay!), but I was amused/befuddled to find they had layered the stamp set, the cardboard backing insert thing, and the clear stamp pocket in a pile and just put that pile in the adhesive cello bag. Lol. I thought maybe I got an oddball or something, but then found the March DK 3x4 stamp was packaged the exact same way.
It’s no big deal to me to put the stamp and cardboard in the stamp sleeve myself. If them foregoing this minor assembly in the warehouse is helping them get stuff shipped quicker, then fine.
It made me realize how tedious some of that warehouse work is. I can’t imagine standing there just stuffing stamp sleeves all day. It reminded me of the fiasco of them rounding the PL kits by hand in-house that first year. 😵
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Post by QueSeraSera on Mar 26, 2022 1:57:16 GMT
March is the last monthly color theory kit.
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Post by Skellinton on Mar 26, 2022 2:19:44 GMT
March is the last monthly color theory kit. That kit could have been so good, they totally dropped the ball on that one. |
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Post by QueSeraSera on Mar 26, 2022 2:23:48 GMT
@skellinton I completely agree
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Post by mom on Mar 26, 2022 5:26:03 GMT
March is the last monthly color theory kit. countdown til those kits are sitting around for years and years! |
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Post by mom on Mar 29, 2022 14:11:44 GMT
Stamp prices are going up on 4/1 by $1 on 4*6 and 6*8 stamps.
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Post by janamke on Mar 29, 2022 14:23:03 GMT
Another awful kit. As long as I can remember, SC knocked it out of the park with Feb-April kits. Not this year, dang. So glad I cancelled. I still have one month to fulfill my stamp sub, definitely skipped this month. Kind of a useless stamp.
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Post by craftymom101 on Mar 29, 2022 15:50:22 GMT
I’m disappointed the color theory kit is going away. I have used and enjoyed that kit each month, especially the alpha stickers!
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. Also sung by Groucho Marx and I think the Muppets 
. Also sung by Groucho Marx and I think the Muppets 
