*** This giveaway is now closed – see who won below! ***
After 10,000 interesting name origin stories, random.org has selected our winners as… Beth (who says “my dad picked it out and to this day I’m whole heartily a daddy’s girl.”) and Chelsea (who’s name story is: “My parents got my name from the 1981 movie, On Golden Pond. ‘Chelsea’ was played by Jane Fonda”) Congrats!
I realize from the name Online Fabric Store, you might have trouble guessing what this online store sells, so allow me to solve that mystery for ya. Fabric! And seemingly every kind of fabric – like upholstery, decor, quilting, apparel and even garden fabric. Which means that this week’s two winners (who are each getting $250 to spend there) could tackle anything from sewing some pillow covers or making a duvet to redoing the curtains in an entire room. And the cool thing about their system is that the more yardage you buy, the cheaper each yard gets – and once you get over that $50 mark, your shipping in the US is free.
- PRIZE: A $250 gift card to Online Fabric Store
- TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “FABRIC ME!” and tell us…
- BONUS QUESTION: …what’s the meaning behind your name? Does it carry some special significance within your family? Or is there a cool story behind how your parents picked it? Have you always wished it was something else?
- NUMBER OF WINNERS: Two
- PRIZE SHIPS: Wahoo, this giveaway is available worldwide!
- USUAL STUFF: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winners will be selected using random.org and announced on Thursday as an update to this post. That’s right, come right back here on Thursday for the announcement of our winners. Good luck…
- ***COMMENT ISSUES? If you’re trying to enter but keep getting a “duplicate comment” warning, click here to see how to solve it!
Note: We aren’t paid or perked for hosting these giveaways, we just do ‘em to thank you awesome folks for stopping in. See our Giveaway FAQ page for more info. Pics courtesy of Online Fabric Store.
Kim Hughling says
Fabric Me! I honestly have no clue; guess I should ask :)
Melanie says
FABRIC ME!!
My dad named me Melanie. He said it sounded like a song when you said it.
Jessica Morelli says
Fabric Me! I don’t know why my parents picked my name. They just liked it I guess. If it were up to me I’d pick something more original.
Tasha says
Fabric me! My parents claim they just liked it, but I prefer to tell people my sister and I were named after Russian princesses!
Lauren says
FABRIC ME! My great grandfather suggested my parents name me Loren for a boy. Mom loved it, but she loved it as a girl’s name, so she went with Lauren.
Tanya says
FABRIC ME!
My mom loved the movie Dr. Zhivago. :)
Laura says
FABRIC ME!
My mom was a big fan of Little House on the Prairie :)
Kathryn says
FABRIC ME!
BONUS QUESTION: When my mother first held the crying-baby me, she said “Shh, its okay Barbara.” My dad said “Nope, that’s not her name.” So, I was named after my great grandmother and the name had been passed down for generations in her family. Oddly enough, they named my younger sister Barbara instead. :)
Natalie says
FABRIC ME! I think my parents were looking for a unique name because I never encountered another Natalie in all my years of schooling – or work!
Molly says
Fabric Me!!
My name doesn’t have any meaning, but my uncle gave me a great “nick”name: Molybdenum. Apparently Molly didn’t have enough syllables for him. ^.^
Raha says
FABRIC ME!!!
My name means “to set free” or “to liberate” in Farsi. My parents were very anti the revolution there and picked a name that showed it for me. Persian hippies if you will. I love it now bc it’s unique, hated when I was growing up bc it was different and weird and kids love to hate on that.
Jenny says
FABRIC ME, PLEASE!!! I was named after my grandmother Jeannette who everyone called Jenny so they switched it up a but to Jennifer. With the nickname Jenny.
Flan says
FABRIC ME! I was named after an author (Flannery O’Connor) and my middle name is after my great-grandmother.
ali says
FABRIC ME!
I was named for two great grandparents named Albert – when they realized I would be a girl they feminized it to Alina!
Kyle says
FABRIC ME!
I am a girl but my parents named me Kyle after a boy my mom babysat when she was a kid because he was really smart!
Brittany says
FABRIC ME!
There’s no special reason as to why my parent’s named me Brittany, my mom just liked it. The only problem is that I think every parent around that time must have liked that name too. I went to school with a lot of Brittanys…
Fran says
Fabric me! I am the 4th generation with the same name and my daughter is the 5th! The oldest girl in each generation has the same first and middle name :).
Lauren says
Fabric Me! My name is Lauren pronounced LAWR-en. I love it but I’ve secretly always liked it when people mispronounce it like LAR-en.
heather says
Fabric Me!
My great-grandfather named me. My parents couldn’t agree, and the story goes he said, “If I ever had another little girl, I would have named her Heather.” He thought it was the prettiest name ever. I never got to know him as he passed when I was just a toddler, but rumor has it we have a similar sense of humor about us. My grandmother says we would have been best friends. :)
Mike says
Fabric Me! I think my mother just picked a name out of thin air- I was her third boy.
Stacy says
FABRIC ME! No special reason for my first name, but my middle name honors my aunts on both sides of the family!
Cathy says
fabric me!!
My name was suppposed to be Caty but the portuguese registrar’s office wouldn’t accept it because the “y” is not a letter found in the portuguese alphabet (or “k” and “w”). So my mom had to change my name to Catia but everyone’s always called me Caty, which got anglophonized (real word) into Cathy when we immigrated to Canada.
Margy says
FABRIC ME! Named after a great aunt, but my parents had to wait until the other great aunt, with the same name, died, because my mom didn’t like her, and didn’t want her to think they named me after her.
Nicole says
FABRIC ME!
I have always liked my name growing up! No changes here!
Clementine says
FABRIC ME!
My name means ‘merciful’. I love it!
Sarah says
FABRIC ME! After being one of 5 Sarahs in a class of 20 at school, I have tired to give my kids less common names, but you never can tell which way a name trend is going to go!
Rachel A says
FABRIC ME!
Biblical name… and my dad is a Bible scholar, and he was writing a book on Genesis at the time, so that was part of it.
Kate Ediger says
FABRIC ME! My name has zero significance and was actually their second choice. My first name is (was) Barbara, but I have never went by it; I’ve always been Kate. So finally at 28 I had my name legally changed to Kate and my married name as I was having issues with the DMV over what was showing on my drivers license.
Katharine T says
FABRIC ME! Oooh, I DO need to sew some new pillow covers for our living room.
My parents picked my name because they liked it, and then gave me a non-standard spelling to ensure that I’d have to correct people for the rest of my life. I’m used to it, though, and I kind of like it. Trivia: Katharine Hepburn’s name is spelled the same way I spell mine, with two As.
Kat W says
FABRIC ME!
My name is a family name (Katheryn). Plus my mother named all her children after English Monarchs.
Katrina says
FABRIC ME!
Ashlee says
FABRIC ME!
I am a “middle-namer”. I’ve never gone by my first name that is spelled like a boy (I was named after my grandpa).
Keilah says
FABRIC ME! My first name is spelled after a city in the Bible, can’t remember where it’s referenced. My middle name is the name of my mom’s good friend! :)
Elizabeth@ Food Ramblings says
FABRIC ME! Elizabeth is from the Bible :) My middle name is my great-grandma and my aunt’s
Emily says
Fabric me please! Not sure what it means…but i know the other option was Kevin!
Kathryn says
FABRIC ME!!
It was a name my sister could say easy (as she is deaf).
rachel p says
FABRIC ME!
I am the 3rd child, so my parents tried to keep it simple. They looked through birth announcements in the newspaper and found a name they liked there!
Ellen says
FABRIC ME!
Apparently even thought they didn’t know my gender in advance, my dad was sure I would be a boy. So he didn’t really pay attention to my mom’s girl name options and just agreed to her choice because he was sure they wouldn’t be using it… big surprise when I was born.
Angela J. says
FABRIC ME!
My name is an adaptation of my mother’s best friend’s name (Angeli) and my middle name is my dad’s grandmother’s name.
Megan says
Fabric me!!
Andrea says
FABRIC ME!
It was my aunt’s friend’s name…mom liked the name and dad thought said aunt’s friend was cute so they agreed.
heather s says
FABRIC ME!
my name has no special meaning, but i like it just fine :)
Liz says
FABRIC ME!
My name means Consecrated to God in Hebrew.
Kristen says
FABRIC ME!!
No real significance to my first name, other than it being my name, which is significant to ME… :) My middle name is Marie, and has been a family name since World War I, when my great grandpa, who was an Allied fighter pilot, was shot down over Germany and a woman named Marie found him and hid him in her barn until it was safe to get him back home. When he left he told her that all the women in his family would be named after her, and we are!! Makes picking out a middle name for my daughter easy! :)
Amie says
FABRIC ME!!
My mom’s family is French, so when my parents decided to name me Amie, my mom wanted the French spelling and my dad wanted the traditional “Amy” spelling. You see who won :) It’s also (I think), my great-great-great-great grandmother’s name.
Shayna says
FABRIC ME! My name means “Beautiful” and my parents picked it when they heard it on a soap opera…classy!
Susanna says
FABRIC ME!
I don’t think there’s a special meaning behind my name. However, my middle name was my mom’s and grandma’s middle name as well, and is some kind of family name, maybe the maiden name of a great great (great?) grandmother… or something. :)
Alicia says
FABRIC ME! I think that my name, Alicia, means “Noble.” I’m not sure about that. Haha. And I have no idea why my parents decided to give me the name, other than that they liked how it started and ended with a vowel (so more pleasing to say and less harsh on the ears) and they knew I’d probably be the only Alicia in my class, because while it’s a known name, it’s not overly common.
Jami says
Fabric Me!!! My name was inspired by Jamie Lee Curtis who was very popular when I was born (which explains why there were always a minimum of 4 in class at school). Of course, my mom tried to be original by spelling it wrong which has left me with a lifetime of correcting people and never finding my name on a key chain. I always wished it was more elegant like Elizabeth or Charlotte.
Michelle says
FABRIC ME! I want to make an upholstered headboard for my daughters’ room.