What's in a Name?

 A lot of people ask how I came up with the name "Lulu's Petals." Well...my middle name is Lynn, so growing up, my Dad called me Lindsey. Lindsey evolved into Lindsey-Lou, then Lou, and then LuLu. This is about the time I started my business, and I didn't want to just be "Staci's Designs" or something like that....so I started with Lulu. Now, my Dad's nickname for me is still evolving...right now he's stuck on Louise. (which has occasionally turned into "Weezie") One time he even called me Lupus (I put a stop to that one right away).

Dad and his "Lulu"

Once I settled on "Lulu", I had to come up with the rest of the name. Lulu's Designs? Lulu's Creations? Art by Lulu? No, still too generic for me. It took me a few days (and sleepless nights) of brainstorming before I remembered ZuZu from the Christmas classic, "It's a Wonderful Life."  This is a movie my whole family loves. In one scene, ZuZu had a flower and a few petals were falling off. Her father, George, pretended to fix it, but all he did was hide the fallen petals in his pocket. I'm assuming most of us know the story, so I won't go into great detail here, but George is pretty down on his luck, and made a wish that he'd never been born. He got to see what his family and friends' lives would have been like if he never existed. He freaked out, didn't like it, and wanted things back the way they were before. Shortly thereafter, George finds Zuzu's petals in his pocket, and exclaims, "Zuzu's Petals!"  This is one of the signs that things went back to normal and he existed again.

SO....I changed the Zuzu's Petals to Lulu's Petals. Does it make sense? Not really, but I don't care.  

Zuzu  and George in the "Petal" scene