When the notion first entered my head about starting my own home-based jewellery business, I went online and read all I could about starting a business in Ontario, which is where I live. The very first hurdle was deciding on a name.
I trolled through dictionaries, thesauri, collections of sayings and proverbs, names of plays and books. I tried so many names, covering pages of notebook paper, like a lovestruck teenager linking her name to her boyfriend's last name. I wanted a name that was distinctive, didn't use my name or the word "creations," (I just don't like that word) and that implied a focus on natural materials, which I tend to use in my jewellery. After settling on a likely possibility, I would Google it, and invariably find it was already in use. I was beginning to despair of ever finding a name, when my friend emailed me a few suggestions. One was Bead Planet.
