Lately, due to a bit of traveling, a plethora of projects, and my laptop's fan being almost completely useless thus resulting in a very slow computer and me not wanting to burn my wrists on a hot console, I haven't really been online at home as much as I used to be. For example, this weekend I was away Friday night through Saturday afternoon, came back and checked my email once, then didn't turn my computer on again until Sunday afternoon, briefly, and not again until late Sunday night (which is now).

And what a difference it makes! I feel more efficient with my time spent online, things seem more interesting, and I have more emails in my inbox upon checking, which is quite dorkily exciting.

Anyway, this will likely continue, as I'm liking the new pattern my life has taken. I want to be more email communicative than AIM, because 1. it feels more purposeful to write emails and 2. i've realized that i've lost the ability to write paragraphs in email, because i've spent too long with the quicker back and forth of IM.

Also - I have a project. And I'm asking for some input:

As some of you may know, I make greeting cards. Sometimes I sell them, sometimes I use them, but either way I have plastic bins full of supplies and old inventory under my bed and four-year-old plans to make a business of it. Since I've been at Digitas the women on my team have caught wind of this hobby of mine and often request my services, and most recently I've signed up to sell my cards at the Spring Craft Fair on May 11th.

Since I signed up about two weeks ago, I've been sketching out designs for new cards and making bulk amounts of them in preparation - some Mother's Day cards but also all-purpose cards (since May 11th is cutting it a bit close for Mother's Day). But now I'm thinking that if I'm going to be sitting there with my collection, presenting them to a whole lot of people, perhaps I should be a tad more organized.

I need a business card, possibly a website, and a name for my business.

Now - I've been toying with the idea of a name for my creative business, which would include anything that I make: websites, cards, jewelry (remember the rings I made around the holidays?), etc. The name that I already use on the couple live sites that I designed is "une petite chose" which means "a little thing" in French. However, the problem with that is that the domain name unepetitechose.com is already taken. (So are petitechose.com, lapetitechose.com, and lespetiteschoses.com) For a business, I don't want any other suffix but .com, and I'd rather not have any hyphens.

As alternatives, I've come up with the following options:

1. Forego registering a new domain and just create a subdomain: unepetitechose.bellechanson.org or chose.bellechanson.org or petitechose.bellechanson.org
2. Use petiteschoses.com
3. Use petite-chose.com (I know I said no hyphens but with two words it's not too bad)
4. Use petite-chose.com but only as a redirect to the subdomain in option #1 (to save money on webspace)
5. Think of a new name... but... what?

Help me!!