...not the same. What's in a name? When I decided to start my Etsy store, I spent a long time thinking about the name. I wanted something unusual, something fun to say, and something that would pique a customer's curiosity. (Yup, it's pique, not peak...I stopped to look it up, because that's the kind of geek I am.) I also really wanted a word that started with the letter Q. Q is just such a beautiful letter. I could imagine it becoming the basis of a logo that I could maybe stampon the lids of my jewelry boxes.
So I pulled out a dictionary, turned to the letter Q and started reading. When I found "Quiddity" I thought it was perfect. It means "the essence of a thing which makes it different from all others." It carried connotations of uniqueness and a sense of being utterly yourself. I did a quick search of the web, and of Etsy, and found just a few other companies using the name. There was one closed Etsy account named simply "quiddity"; to distinguish myself, I tacked on the "Designs" I saw other jewelry makers using. And QuiddityDesigns was born.
Of course, when I started the store, I wasn't sure if it would last. Maybe no one would purchase, maybe I'd give up on designing jewelry...who knew? Because I thought it might be temporary, I did not purchase the .com URL or any of those other things I *should* have done. Now there are a few other "Quiddity Designs" businesses out there and they've snapped up the domain name. Ironically, "QuiddityDesigns" is no longer such a unique name.
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