Baby Name Pondering

I've been a regular lurker on the Baby Centre Australia forums since I was pregnant. Of course one of my favourite groups on their sit...

I found this one when watching ' Ellen ' the other day. As Ellen often does, she was surprising a deserving viewer with a presen...

A Cerberus doesn't have to be scary - fantastic artwork by Evolvana It's October again, which means another month of Halloween ...

Often these days we hear a lot of people complaining about how boys names have been hijacked by girls. You might find it surprising th...

Photo Courtesy of Unposed Kids Like many people, I hadn't heard of the name Brahminy (pronounced brah-MUH-nee) before - until I saw...

Photo Courtesy of Unposed Kids Photography Today's nature name Zaria was plucked from Waltzing More Than Matilda's debut book ...

Last year it was Emerald , but this year Pantone have declared Radiant Orchid to be the colour of 2014. Pantone describe this colour as ...

For something a little different, I thought I'd share a birth announcement I saw in Melbourne's ' Herald Sun' newspap...

Photo courtesy of Molly Wassenaar Photography What do you think when you hear the name Perdix? I'm guessing you're probably n...

Photo courtesy of Beth Wade Photography   For years, Atlas had been somewhat of a sleeper name. Since 1880 it has charted more years th...

Gorgeous photo by Nika Shatova For many girls (or maybe it's just me), there are two images of Enid in our minds. The first Enid i...

As a Gladiator, Spartacus would have used a Cestus When I first heard this word (pronounced KEHS-tiss) I immediately thought what a grea...

Name inspirations can come when you least expect it - and this beauty I spotted on a personalised number plate in traffic this morning! ...

I see a lot of movies every year, and one that really stuck in my head in 2012 was ' Argo '. We came close to almost not seeing ...

Love reading and writing? Love the idea of names inspired by this love? But it can be so hard to pick just one iconic writer, book or ch...

Photography by Glow Portraits , crown available at  etsy A couple of weeks ago I met a guy called Lor. Yes, that's his real name,...

Logan Lerman plays Percy (Perseus) Jackson Since the release of the Percy Jackson books and then the movie 'Percy Jackson and the O...

'Queen Zenobia's Last Look Upon Palmyra', painting by Herbert Gustave Schmalz I've seen this name mentioned lately and f...

I saw this name - Florinda - in the paper today as the name of a French model. Having never heard it before, I was intrigued. It sounded lik...

"My Musidora" by Vanitas Mori I was watching the first episode of a 1997 TV show called 'The Hunger' when the name of...