Echo-echo turned ONE this week!

To celebrate, Duncan suggested we run another contest and have a big party,

I considered it for a second and decide we’d do something a bit more subtle and simply answer an oft asked question ...

How did Echo-echo get it’s name?

It goes like this ...

Whatever new acquisition to our family, (a house addition, a baby something, a new car, new shoes ... anything really), considerable time is spent mulling over a name.  We call it out, we rhyme it, we swish it around and we remember good and bad memories it conjures up. Hundreds are discarded before one is deemed appropriate and then we practice it for a while.  Just call this a family tradition.     Always! on these naming exercises - dad kicks back, listens and simply observes the gyrations.  After everyone has used up every drop of their creative juices and submitted their choice, then dad drops his proposal in the name brainstorm game.  Sort of take it or leave it style.

Naming my shop was no different.  The tag line - was already a given - "home furnishings worth repeating" - we didn't realize the name was right under our nose - minding her business in her pasture.

So I wasn't too stunned when I got a phone call from dad.  It was pretty much a one word conversation.  “Echo”, he said.  “Echo echo --- (his creativity showing)  home furnishings worth repeating”.   The spark of his idea? ... His beloved donkey - Echo.  A bit of a home body in the barnyard, a good neighbor, a good friend  and a thrifty

decorator herself!  Her barn is more eclectic than your usual  donkey barns and her donkey furniture, just a tad sturdier than other donkey furniture.

The name fit.  Dad got all the credit even though we all know sweet Echo inspires us all.

So ... Echo - Home Furnishings it became!  Thanks everyone, for a great first year!

Realizing my dream of having my own business, plus the serendipity of meeting a variety of people who share a goal of starving our landfills.  Together we have re-homed lots of good used furniture.  Here's to more treasures you will find in my mini-warehouse in year number two!!

Here is Echo ... pondering a re-model on her fence, and looking forward to something fresh and green in her personal gazebo.