Where did your "house name" come from?

[Cloud]

I've been perusing the gallery and am intrigued by the use of "house names" for people's doll crews. Some of them are wild! How do you come up with them and what do they mean for you? I confess I don't have an imaginative name for my bunch...yet.

[Tereya Chan]

To be honest, the real origin of my dolls' house name is pretty lame. The letters FC came from the first two letters of a candy called Fruits Crunch that I ate tons of the first time I came to Japan way back in high school. I dropped the Fruits Crunch part and just kept the letters FC and generally say it stands for whatever combination of two letters you think works, but normally it stands for four/five children which represents the main cast of my series and the world they live in.

[saishuu]

I still have all my links labeled as saishuu ressha, which is 'last train', the name of a song and more of a fan girl type thing.

I've developed a slightly different back story and use "Sector 12" now, which is a section of an organization my main characters all work for :3

[BunnyChan]

My Lost Boys- Dakota, Noah, Scott and Shawn (chiwoo, red, yder twins) were original characters long before they were dolls...And I never thought up a title to thier story. The story focuses around them while they 'find themselves' through difficult, life changing incidents though...So for short I just called them my Lost Boys whenever I talked about them. They were lost in life. Eventually I decided to use "The Lost and Found" for their house name...Because a group of lost items, lives in the lost and found =D

Kodona and Hiko's (michael and Kumi...and my future Saint will be there too) house is called Captive Souls. That name comes from a revelation I had one day telling a friend about these dolls. I said to her 'its almost like they have a little soul in there somewhere..a captive soul'..and so it just stuck. Kodona was my first doll, and he's my most alive doll..In his STORY however...Captive Souls is the name of a brothel house that he was adopted into after running away from home and passing out in the snow. Kodona is also very much captive, because he hasnt really had much say in what he wants to happen to his life thus far. My kumi, Hiko...who is Kodona's little brother has nothing to do with the brothel house..but took on that house name by asociation. Iosha, my saint, is the owner of the little Captive Souls building.

The two house names I have are from two completely unrelated 100% differant, night and day stories..Which is why they dont all share.

[cloverfirefly]

My "house name" is a typo of a song title that I actually found more interesting than the song title itself. :blush

[Myriai]

Villa del Sol roughly means "House of the Sun" in Spanish and I live in Arizona and my dolls' current story just happens to take place in something that amazingly resembles the Southwestern United States. It's always sunny here and I like the flow of the Spanish words better than the English words.

The name "Three of Spades" came from me trying to come up with something cool to call my original group of dolls (who are currently in limbo awaiting new resin incarnations) and it kind of just came to me ^_^ "Three of Spades" can also roughly be "Three of Swords" on a tarot deck ^_^

[Gallye]

Jack was both my first doll and the pivot point around which the rest of the cast revolves, so, naturally, it's The House That Jack Built. :)

I also have a second, separate doll grouping called The Madding Crowd, but since at the moment it's two unfinished doll heads, it doesn't quite exist yet. That one I just stole from the title of the Thomas Hardy novel--despite never having read the book. :sweat

[Jyuni]

Higher Breath is the credit song to Boku to Maou (Okage: Shadow King). The song is the reason why I have a save at the last battle and own the OST. Plus, the credit format is awesome and much better than typical credits than most sparkly games (*cough*KH*cough*FF*cough*Bunch of others*cough*).

[celestia]

Ex caelis is the root of all origins involved- inclusive of external/internal components where the main body of practical work resides. It is the house for the entire workload- portfolio, portraits, plans, fashion, aesthetics, drafts, other characters, information et al relating to everything encompassed within the story. Also roughly translated into: 'From heaven'- roughly concerning Caelum, where the story concerns most... [better referred under 'Liber' (Latin for 'book' and... 'free')].

From that, comes the 'house' name for its members, or rather, those i've accounted for, is a broken phrase, the part of which forms '...in the highest of...' (in excelsis).

[Osaka]

While my crew has the unoriginal name of "Arcadia" attached to them, I can at least explain where it comes from in my case.

It's kind of a three-way tribute, I suppose. Firstly, I'm a bit of a "Captain Harlock" geek, and "The Arcadia" is his ship.

Secondly, I have a long, long love of Greek mythology, and decided that "Arcadia" seemed to be a more likely place-name location in the United States than "Thebes" or "Elysium."

Thirdly, I was looking for an "A" name, since my fictional college is something of a tribute to Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Everything else just sort of fell into place from there.

So, now you know where my "Arcadia crew" gets their name from!

[Jenova]

Hmm, "Levalier House" is fairly easy to explain... :D Devin (the main character of the attached storyline) was adopted by a man named Geoffrey Levalier, and when Levalier died, Dev inherited the large townhouse where they lived. The place is rather large, so he rents out the top floor; 6 of my characters live in or around the place, so I figured it was as good a name for the entire gang as anything. ;D

[thesaraghina]

I wouldn't say "Thy Lovely Argument" is necessarily a house name for my boys, and I don't call them the Thy Lovely Argument crew per se, even though I do mark all of my photos with that tag, as well as having that as the title of my LJ, where most of my photos are showcased... Basically I chose that name when I was thinking of having a separate doll site (which I may do at some point, but don't know anything about coding and am far too busy/lazy anyways) and wanted to come up with a name. It's from Shakespeare's Sonnet LXXIX, where he's speaking to a young man (lover? I think it's been debated..) who seems to be his muse, but is currently being favoured by another poet as well. The lines, "I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument / Deserves the travail of a worthier pen," come across to me that Shakespeare is belittling his ability to properly describe the true beauty/charm of this person, much in the same way that I feel my photographs don't properly showcase the beauty of my dolls. :sweat (Though the sonnet as a whole comes across that he's rather jealous about this other poet, who he feels is inferior and is doing the subject disservice by bestowing his mediocre talent upon him.)

Uh, so yeah. That's where "Thy Lovely Argument" comes from. Plus, I just liked the way it sounded. :p

[Brightfires]

The original Turtle House, Kyuden Kame, was the home of all of my game crew's player characters in our old Legend of the Five Rings games. (L5R is a tabletop RPG based in a pseudo-Japanese historical setting-) Since Harumatsu was named after one of the non-player characters from those games, it seemed appropriate.

"Turtle House" is also what my husband and I have always sort-of jokingly called the place where we live... He collects little stone turtles, and has a lot of them sitting around... Since we were hosting those L5R games, Kyuden Kame's name was very much a play on that. That's also why Turtle House is always referenced *as* Turtle House, rather I'm showing something "on-stage" with the crew or off-. ^_^

[Silence Spoken]

Well . . . when I first got Yukio (as a Yen) there were some . . . creative and punky photostories. In one he decided that since he was taller than my laptop (which he deduced was worshiped and must be a god) and since bigger was better that he must be god. He was quickly put into place . . . but the joke kind of stuck in the title of my website "Resin Deities." :sweat

[mylittlefighter]

For House von Reisner, I wanted a Germanic sounding family name for my dolls, and I picked one out of Volks' stock names, because my doll "family" is all Volks dolls.

Robot Parade- the name I use for my shops and such- came from a TMBG song. :D

[eveshka]

Mine had been around for a while before I decided to do anything formal with it, and then about two months after I did... I discovered that someone else had named their doll forum almost the same thing. We seem to be co-existing for now, but I'm secretly worried that there may be trouble later. :sweat

[Kimber Rose]

I feel so unoriginal. I just call mine "Azure's crew," 'cause they're all related to Azure in one form or another. I haven't been able to figure out anything more formal yet, but I want to, because it needs to be a little broader. It's not all about Az anymore!

The other crew I eventually hope to own, will be called "Captive Hearts," after the story they're from. It's got a lot to do with forbidden love, not being free to love the person you want, and slavery.

[rattimoth]

I don't use mine much, but The K'Trala Clan is my online dragon family... there are literally thousands of us in a matriarchal society.. its an RP thing...

Seek peace

Carol

[Sakura]

I didn't really pick mine to be lofty (though it's been suggested that I'd be the governess to these dolls which I thought was cute LOL). I just used a domain I had registered and really liked and turned it into my dollsite, and now my group are the inhabitants of the castle, Castle Wisteria ^^

[nakitama]

Naki & Co.

I am Naki, and they are the Co.! ;3

[Taco]

Bats in the Belfry

I got the idea from a line in a song. My doll site was originally "Falling Angels", but it really didn't fit them at all. Bats in the Belfry works much better--most of my guys are are kind of nutty.

[Melaidhrin]

Well, while working on my doll site (which I should hurry up and finish) I needed a title of some sort. "Maybe Lucky" was just a lyric from a song I was listening to at the time, so I figured hey why not?! :D And continuing my streak of laziness I decided if my dolls are going to have a "house" it might as well be "Maybe Lucky".

[Cloud]

Thanks to all who shared the origins of their House names-it feels like a gift to be in on their creations. I am continually amazed by the creativity of BJD owners.( Brightfires-I love L5R! I was thinking of making some doll characters too.) I'd love to read more!

[Akkhima]

My group goes under the title of "Ardent Song" which is an anagram of "Dragon Nest", 'cause I have a dragon and a half dragon in the group, and it sounds pretty!

[Karhys]

Oh, it's interesting to hear people's different ideas and reasoning! :D

My crew's website is "Fallen From Briah" and I usually refer to them as the "Briah boys" or the "Briah crew" or whatever. So usually just Briah for short.

My flatmate and I got our first two boys within a few weeks of each other, and chose their names (Zafkiel and Mikael respectively) separately ourselves, for our own reasons. But then as I was researching them and trying to pick a good website name, I found out that both those names were included in the 10 Sephiroth or ArchAngels who watch over "Briah", which is a section of the Tree of Life. (And several of the remaining 8 names had been on my short list for Zafkiel.)

So the site got named "Fallen From Briah" as I consider them more 'fallen angels' than just angels (heh) and the naming theme got decided. Most of the rest are (or will be) named from the remaining Briah Sepiroth and so they've always been the Briah boys since then. :)

[decadentarisu]

Well, mine isn't very developed yet. It's actually a joint crew between my dormmate and I and we've called it Dormitorya Tzara. Well, the idea of Dormitorya Tzara emerged from the fact that we both are dormers and that although our dolls reside in the "same building" or in the case of the web, the same blog, they have very separate lives and storylines that intersect once every so often. The name Tzara was taken from Tristan Tzara of the Dadaist avant-garde art movement. It was a shattering of art norms, so we sort of take inspiration from the avant-garde notion.

Not to mention that the name Tzara is a pretty name :D

[vampireanneke]

This thread is really fun to read. I like the 'family' names people have for their dolls. Mine is pretty simple...

Malfoy Manor - Because my first doll was Lucius Malfoy, and the rest are all Harry Potter character based dolls. There are actually two different 'time lines' to the dolls but it's easier to just group them all together. They have their own room which is slowly getting decorated in true Malfoy style.

-Anneke

[MosaicWolf]

Mine are The Wolves' Den

Which I figure is fairly appropriate given that my usual handle is MosaicWolf. I'm the mama wolf and they're my cubs, and we all live in the den together. Or something like that. :sweat

[V chan]

I keep changing mine but I've settled on Safe Haven and it was previously Safe House. The Safe House/Haven is part of the story that I have going with my main character P'rinka. It's a place where troubled people come to relax and find themselves. It's a join thing between me and my sister. Her house name is Pledged to Insanity and together we're A Safe Haven's Pledge to Insanity.

[VersionSix]

Thumbtack Candy came about through this thought process:
"Hmmm...I think I'll juxtapose a bunch of words that don't make sense and pick the one I like the most."

And bingo, TC won.

[ShadowLink]

Starshipangels or the SA logo & main characters with their jewels or mostly different types of wings drawn by me begun back in 1996. Not really a "house name" but the tittle of my story~

I starting writting the actual storyline back in 1997 as a school project in which I had to come up with a fictional letter written in the past to warn future generations. Needless to say it was a very exciting project that I enjoyed a lot! The letter was written to warn generations at a time of distress not only on a particular planet but throughout an entire and somewhat fictional galaxy.

[chibinezu]

The house name I've only recently started to use is The Silken Dollhouse, named after the um.. tea house/harlotry that my Exalted character doll Ivory Silk Doll runs.

Since my dolls are split into 3 different universes I just went with this one because it had an association with dolls.. plus it's origins amused me to no end.

[Songblade]

Oh wow... I never thought about giving my dolls a crew name O.o Reading everyone's reasons for theirs... now I want to give them a collective name LOL

[Tro-chan]

This thread is so interesting :)
The website I share is 4oni because there are four sepparate sections on it run by different people. Not sure of the whole thought process behind the Angel's dream part of it, as that was the idea of Darkmothflame, master of all things website and photography for our little opperation.
My store name, 221b is a random reference to a little set of stories by some British dude named Doyle ;) and I'm kicking around the idea of a commision shop called "Bakers St."
As for my dolls, after reading this thread, I'll pick up a name I have for some of my OC's from a set of stories I have, "The Caleiopine Embassy and Home for the Terminally Weird"
Which pretty much explains it all... :)

[carawen]

The Mortal Moon, which is the main name for my bunch, comes from Shakespeare's Sonnet 107. No real reason, it's just something I've been using for several years now for my domain name.

My two storylines each have their own name as well. UNbeautiful Creatures, my family story, comes from a D'espairsRay song. I picked that because the characters are all normal, everyday people.

Grown Up Orphans, my fantasy group, is from a Goo Goo Dolls song. I chose it because the characters are all from different periods, and they don't really have anything left but each other as they go through time.

[Celebare]

Mine was 'Baku House' for a while, since Roo - my first doll - is related to the Baku from Japanese myth, but... that seemed dull/didn't connect to my other dolls. So I've been toying with a few new names :B

My current favorite is AnchiTheorem, from anchitherium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchitherium), which was an ancient three-toed horse ancestor.
Tapirs (the Baku is sometimes depicted as a tapir) have three toes :B Also, the Baku is occasionally given the body/head/limbs/whatever of horses.
And the others? They're all very old XD; Almost everyone in my house/planned for my house is either a) ancient or b) old even in mortal years. So naming the place after a very ancient horse species... *shrugs* It makes sense to me! 8D;
Why AnchiTheorem rather than just Anchitherium? ...'Cos I wanna sound like a pretentious ass, that's why 8D

[gayle]

All of my character dolls have names that start with "A". I didn't start out to do that, but after I got my fourth doll and realized I had also given him an "A" name, it started to become intentional. From there, the jump to calling them "The "A" Team" (from the 80's TV show) was a very short leap!

[kaorucamui]

Interesting thread, I love reading about how others have come up with 'crew names' for their little resin families! :) For me, the name of my photolog (fatalREVOLUTION) differs from the name I use to watermark my photos (mitternacht/mitternacht productions).

So which can be considered the true name for my crew? I'm really not sure. ^^ Fatal Revolution was just something that came to mind when trying to decide on a username for the photolog... plus I guess my characters are all erm, rather dangerous in their own right, although to them they are just trying to bring about a change in the world/societal order. In their canonical storyline anyways. XD

Mitternacht is German for 'midnight', and is the name of a E Nomine song that I like a lot. It was chosen for its connotations of darkness, mystery, secrecy and perhaps even a tinge of the malevolent - qualities that I think my characters embody in some way or the other.

[sailorstarsun]

'Back of the Sun' is the English translation of a Japanese song title (Taiyou no Senaka). Everything in my life tends to revolve around a sun theme, so I thought it was appropriate. :nod

[rottenlullaby]

My official house name is "Children of the Revolution" its taken form the title of the collection of stories that my dolls come from and its one of Bailey's faviorte T-Rex songs. I chose it because its Baileys (my main character in my story) dream to create a "a glam rock revolution" alternately they can go by "GlamPopTart" because thats the name of the band Bailey, Nomi & Company are in but it dosent encompass all of the external characters like the first name does.

[jacksandjokers]

'Jacks and Jokers' came about after I'd had Orchid for a while, and I just kind of like the name. It refers to my three current dolls (Orchid, Adrien, and Eris), while my next doll will be Rook, and his group's name will likely be 'All the King's Men'.

I have a thing for cards and chess, can you tell?

[Shankula]

Casa Goofballia is where my BJD's reside...named after me, the incurable Queen of the Goofballs.

[Ephemeralice]

For many years I have called my house and garden "Tangley Manor". It was a reference to Great Tangley Manor, an English country house with a famous Victorian garden and at one time the residence of George MacDonald, a fantasy writer and great influence on C.S. Lewis and others. ... "Little Tangley Manor" was the obvious step down in scale. :-)

To be honest, even though "The Princess and the Goblin" was one of my favorite childhood books, I didn't know about Mr. MacDonald when I started using the name. I just thought it was perfect for the sort of romantic, ambitious and disheveled garden that I was meaning to have. I think I've overshot "Tangley" by a bit now, but it makes a great backdrop for the dolls.

Ephemeralice

[KeiCai]

I have two I tend to use off and on.

The first is one I struggled with for quite some time: I really wanted a House Name but had no clue what it would be! Then one day it sort of hit me.

Broken Haven came about because, with my story, all the characters of my dolls come to live at one place, and thus that one place is a sort of Haven for them. It's Broken because they can conflict, and it's not always a place to escape from danger.


The second kind of happened because the first has been bothering me.

The Crossroads came to me mostly due to the fact I live in Indiana, whose slogan is 'The Crossroads of America.' After thinking on it it truly fits. A crossroads is where several roads meet, and my house is where several characters (my dolls) of different origin and background meet.

[Paul_Julian]

I call mine :"boys " or "team "
So for example when I write email to dollie friend i finish it with :
Paulie and team

Paulie ==> me :P

[Kittywolf13]

my first doll has a wonderful story...I recieved him from Brightfires as a gift. She ran a raffel to give away his head because she felt it was wrong to sell a gift head. After i got him in one piece, i kind of refer to Brightfires "Turtle house" as sort of Ringo's first foster home...and quickly assumed that Ringo was an orphan.

Ringo has such a soft expression that his personality quickly unfolded for me, and since i love to adopt all unwanted things...it was soon apperant that Ringo wanted to adopt all orphan resin kids.

So i began thinking what would be Ringo's "job?" for a background story...and i decided that he would be so terriably touched by his life as an orphan that his only dream in life is to provide a home for all orphans or those who live misplaced lives and dont fit in or have a faimly of their own.

SO i began to think of a name which would be appropriate for the "house" that Ringo and I (in story anyways) purchase for just the purpose of providing a home for the new additions. I wanted something soft like Ringo, and inviting...calm and soothing...something that could easily feel like home. I thought and thought and thought...the word Haven came to mind. i liked it, but thought it was too short and simple...

This is were work strangely plays a bit in the name. I work in the building department of our county and thus i see all sorts of street names and such...i started playing with street "suffixes" so to speak...and came to "Way." I liked the sound of it...and it made it sound like "If you take this WAY you can find your HAVEN". i thought it was nice and it stuck ever since. :)

[erushi]

Mine's S:thete. It is taken from the word (a)esthete, meaning either one who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature, or one whose pursuit and admiration of beauty is regarded as excessive or affected. I rather felt that such a definition could very well apply to me in this hobby. The poseur-ish S at the front is linked to how all members of my crew have names beginning with the letter S.

[miss sha]

I don't actually remember exactly how the Dog Kings came about. If I think back, I can maybe come up with an idea of how... I've taken note of a few songs on my playlist than include some kind of 'king.' "Bring Me The Disco King" by David Bowie, "The End is the Beginning is the End" by the Smashing Pumpkins (I am crystal chrome / I am shatter dome / I am kremlin king of angels avenged / To destroy the end) and most importantly, Pulp's "Mile End": The pearly king of the Isle of Dogs. So there you have it: the Dog Kings.

Initially the Dog Kings was meant to be a group of riff-raff living in a post-apocalyptic world; murderers, prostitutes, thieves. But then the group involved into a secret, elite group of assassins... but as not all my planned dolls are actually members of the group, I'm going to need to change the name. Dunno what yet, though. X3

[Voodoo]

Mine (Sanguine Planet) is rather unromantic. Its just a domain name I've has knocking around for a while. I can't remember why I came up with it; something to do with hope and blood.

[harlowe]

Le Lis De Velours (The Velvet Lily) is the name of my French dolly brothel and all my dolls are a part of this theme.

The name immediately came to me when I was creating the concept. I wanted something classy and yet naughty. I think it works. =)

[Kahli]

Since I started getting the bjds, they've lived in what we call The TN House for Incorrigible Tinies. Now that I have all the different sizes of bjds, we've added "Impetuous Minis and Felonious Biggies".

I guess that makes me the warden.

[GothicKDM]

mine is "The House of Shattered Souls" and my friends is "The House of Broken Hearts"
i think its symbolic of the types of residents we have in our home...and they just seemed to work really well

[SapphireMusings]

Well mine is a tribute to a doll I used to own called Momoko (the translation is Peach Child), and I really liked the sound of it so I kept it. Plus, I really like peaches (and fruit as a whole!)

I'm trying to think of a better one, but I'm having trouble...XD maybe I'll just stick to mine!

[wickedstitchery]

I don't have a house name for my resin crew, but I find other member's reasons for having them very interesting.

[digikym]

I don't have a name for my collection, either. I suppose my collection isn't extensive enough to warrant a House name.

[glass_mountain]

We don't have a house name as such, but nearly all my 60cm dolls relate in some way to my novels. Annat and Huldis both appear in the book I'm writing at the moment.

I think it's for that reason they haven't acquired their own collective name. Not all of them belong exactly to the world of the novels. My Souldoll, Febe, seems to belong to a different universe :)

So mostly they get referred to as the resin people or the Ball Joints. They may get their own book eventually...

[Janne]

Angel Base is my science fiction background for my dolls. In the story, Angel Station was an orbiting space lab where everything was pristine and beautiful, and children were made to order - genetically engineered "angels," complete with wings (which would be removed when they went to their adopted families - sort of a rite of passage, and one they looked forward to.)

But it was an expensive process, and the Conglomerate moved in to make it more profitable. A few children who were not quite ready for adoption were seized and became prototypes to be mass-produced as beautiful slaves. With budget cuts, the station fell into disrepair, and space was given to the military arm of the Conglomerate (and the name changed to "Angel Base." )

The prototypical angels survive on the base the best they can - these are the core of my family.

I actually have a second group of dolls too - these are Rhunei's family. They're Lord of the Rings inspired, but I don't have a name for the group other than Rhunei's family. *^^*

[derilan85]

Well I don't post my crew's house name since it is weird, and some of my dolls are from another planet so it's hard to explain:blush

[Hitasura]

Normally I'd just call my gang of characters the Schismatical crew as they mostly come from my comic by the name of Schism. But since I had other characters and there was the possibility that i wouldn't want to stick strictly with the Schism cast for the dolls I brought home, I ended up using the name No Gentlemen for themm which I pulled from the song "Transformer" by Seabound. It fit really well, since all my dolly plans are for male dolls save one. And none of them are particularly gentlemanly.. and of course, my one female doll in being female can't exactly be a gentleman either. So it works out really well in my head. :D

[lemonsky]

Oh this is so interesting! I didn't know people gave a group name to their dolls. Usually do you give dolls a 'house name' only when you have more than one? I'm loving some of the names people have come up with. ^^

[eidolon tree]

In all honesty?

Happy-Lovely (http://happy-lovely.org) came from a Geico commercial. The lizard used it. I thought it was cute.

[april]

I don't use my house name too often... mostly just for the website and LJ... it's Viresse's Journal or Viresse's Haven or Viresse's Grove... Viresse being an elven (Tolkien) word for the 4th month (24 March to 22 April or thereabouts). Closest thing to "April" I could find in elven... :)

[hoshinokachi264]

i only have one doll, but i do a lot of clothing and accessories for dolls and decided to name all of us deus ex machina. it means divine right, it was something i got into when i was reading henry the 5th, and it was also part of a year long art project i did. O_O i guess it sounds a little dark.

[aernath]

I've always wanted to say "meanwhile, back at the ranch..." ;)
My boys are aernath's ranch. (laughingly subtitled: and Stud Farm)
Not too terribly inventive, but it works.

[Lugi-moo]

hn...mine is D.I.G

Doppelganger Industrial Garden.

Ah...fancy no? XD The first word is because the majority of my dolls are from the "trilogy" with the same name. 3 seperate stories, every one has a character with a double, in some form or another. Typically I refer to my place and shop (if i have one) as the Industrial Garden. Rather random, but I like the images it creates.
All my Volks dolls however are not from DIG....but rather a currently nameless tale, but for now they still fall under the house name. ^__^

[onegreyelephant]

Why?-- 'cos that's what they are. A waste of space. XD

[ruaki]

1890 E Street is my "house" name. :dance

It's actually the catchall name that I now work under for anything I make or sell. It made sense for the dolls to be under that too, even if I don't sell doll services or the dolls themselves, because they're still an artistic endeavor.

The name itself comes from my online comic. 1890 E Street is the address of the uh... agency... that the main characters work in.

Moreover, the address itself is a pun relating to the series. "1890" is the year HP Lovecraft was born (as the story is heavily based on Lovecraftian mythology), and "E Street" was lifted from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, as nearly everything in the comic is named after something pertaining to classic rock.

[Artemille]

The three of mine are part of the Lafontaine Manor. Their characters are from a story I wrong a really long time ago, and some of my favorite characters just stuck. Among past/future characters, there are the Lafonts, the Bonveirres and some of the dragons from the Lafontaine Mountain Ranch are being depicted as yo-sd girls.
The two boys I have are the two sons of the main character.

[jinkosei]

Cool. This looks like an interesting thread. :3
(Wasn't sure what house name meant until I read the first post.)
I have only one doll, but I don't think it matters, because I'm going to get more.

jinkosei [or] the artificial life

This is what it means in Japanese (roughly anyway.)
Because they are dolls, I felt this was the best name.
However, it doesn't include or exclude them.
The characters themselves are not dolls.
But it's a name I could use for anything.
I like names to be broad sometimes. ^^

Some of my characters are not connected.
They may belong to different stories.
But as I said, this name is broad so it can include everyone. ^_^

[Anhelika]

I named my boy Oseary Drakoulias after the character from the movie The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, so it's after that character I guess. :o

[Baakay]

I don't actually have my crew name ON anything except what I laughingly refer to as my photo album. It's... the Horde. For obvious reasons (there are so dang many of them).

Now my younger progeny wants me to call them the "Baakay Bunch." Um. Dunno. ("here's the story.... of a bunch of resin....")

[Xi-feng]

My catch-all title for my crew is "The God in the Web", referring to the heads of the two major families the story is about. Dee has always been symbolised in my works as a spider, spinning his webs and snaring all the other characters pretty darn effectively, even if they're unaware of it. Sharakti is the God-King of his world and the central character of the story, though for all his power even he is far more soundly entangled in the web than he knows :)

...Of course, 'the web' can also refer to the internet as well, and I like that interpretation just as much as the first. Very Ghost in the Shell vibe, if you look at it that way ^_____^

[mrscollins]

My home has been called Jasmine's Cottage forever.. Jasmine is my 4 lb kitty.. I love the name and adopted the "house name" long ago for knitting, stories and other things I do.. so all the girls live at Jasmine's Cottage. :)

[Vega]

Oh, interesting topic!
*clears throat* To quote wikipedia:
"The (latin) phrase deus ex machina (literally "god out of a machine") describes an artificial, or improbable, character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot.

I heard the term in a philosophy class a while ago, and really liked it, especially as my prof described it's meaning: "a little God in a machine". I chose the title Deus X Machina for my little resin fraternity over here based on that phrase. Mostly because that's sort of how I see them - they are larger ideas/characters from my head inside smaller resin shells.
Also, since my dolls are based off of original characters of mine for an agglomeration of different stories/RPs/etc... I like to think of their existence all together, living in the same house (since some of them are technically supposed to be from different worlds) as a very large and improbably plot device of sorts. :p
I shortened "ex" to "X" because it looked cooler. :XD

[hyschara]

One of the main reason I bought my dolls was to take photos of them. In the end, I decided to opt for an amateur model studio kind of setting. And taking on my long-standing base nickname (number304) that came from a Japanese song (Room 304, cherry blossoms of white death) I decided to go with the name 304esque, proposing the meaning of "in 304's style". I used this name for the DeviantArt account on which I posted up my doll photos.

Now though, I've abandoned DA for completely cowardly/selfish reasons, and turned to LJ for my new dolls post. This time, instead of 304esque, I've decided to go with a... well, phrase?

"A slice of love, with diced corners" , meaning a love that has been taken forgranted, represented with cut corners in order to fit a mold/to please. It has nothing to do with my dolls, but I needed something completely different and I was emo :P Of course, not the whole phrase is my lj account. Just "asliceoflove" XD

Anyway, I don't call my kids "A Slice of Love /Asol" kids even though I use it for my watermark. I'm not sure I call them anything other than "my kids" XD but if I would, I'd possibly call them 304esquers, or 304'ers :3

[Tabris]

Not that it really matters except that I feel like posting, I just named my doll group after my domain name. Mostly because I have a domain name and web space that I'm not doing anything with, but I like the name too much to just get rid of it, so I randomly decided to put a doll site there.
And then I got lazy and distracted and forgot.
But I still like the idea of my group having a name.

Besides, it kinda fits, since they're mostly Changelings, from the game Changeling:the Dreaming.

[sometimesusually]

I don't have a house name quite yet, but it will probably be le Bastille du Somnabulistes, the Fortress of Dreamers (or thereabouts) in French. It's the name of the labyrinthine castle in my macabre Alice in Wonderland styled world. It's also where most of the characters I'm making into dolls (or planning to) are from.

[MaddPuss]

Chimera Junction. >_> Where flights of fancy come an go. Since the doll I have is a flight of fancy, there ya go. =3 And the name sounds nifty.

[Kiyakotari]

[chiaroscuro] came from my love of high-contrast, in both images, comics, narrative (fiction and nonfiction), and poetry.

[aikoe]

I use different names depending on the day. I generally use "knave" or "_knave_," but I've also started using "nothing truth." knave was originally an acronym for my dolls' names, in order of their appearance, back when I had my first set of plans--Kai, Namu, Aidri, Vywn, Elle. _knave_ is based on that because I like the name, and the underscores are blank spaces that symbolize other dolls being added in... except that I now have two Ks, two As, no N, no E, and Vyn has lost the w in his name. nothing truth is just part of a line in a Gackt song, "I had nothing to lose, nothing truth." I thought it sounded cool for my group of boys, since they're very real to me and not very real to anyone else. :oops

[flpinkboxsociety]

This thread is pretty neat. To finally have the inside knowledge of all the catchy house names is so fun!

Clawson Couture is the name i sew under, and so my kids are The Models of Clawson Couture. Clawson was my grandmother's last nane, and since she taught me to sew and was my childhood best friend, it just seemed right. Now my mother and aunt both have these resin cuties and also sew for them, so the fact i used their maiden name also helps tie us all together.

Thanks everyone for sharing, this was a super fun thread to read.

[Lucy~Nyah~Sama]

I have never thought about naming my doll crew...

Now I must think about it...

[L Mikia]

"The Family Gungnir" is not an exciting find. Thanks to the series Aa! Megami-sama (Oh! My Goddess) I got hooked on Norse mythology. When rewatching the movie prior to receiving my dolls the weapon/vaccination "Gungnir" struck me. It's Odin's weapon but had such a ring to it that I felt it fit my family. They're a strong bunch, but they belong to me :)

[s0yuz]

I don't have a "house name" per se. Heck, I don't even have much of a mutual story for everyone. They all just sort of live together, completely random folks from random walks of life, so to speak. Y'know, the more I think about it, the more I'm reminded of The Strangerhood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slgM2Kwi_d8). Maybe that's what my resin crew's story is meant to be like. :p

[toshirodragon]

I had originally planned to only get the characters from my book Chasing Fairy Tales.. yeah right.:D

Anyway, Tamas is a blacksmith so it just seemed appropriate to call this The Smithy.

[Karie Chaos]

Well, for now it's only two so there's not really a name but I tend to call the collection of characters my dolls will eventually be from the 'Menagerie' XD It was something I picked up in high school, doing a project for drama class. We had to 'pretend' to be producing a play and we were given a random play to make a playbill, tickets and a brochure for. I ended up with one called "The Glass Menagerie", and the word 'menagerie' intrigued me, it was new at the time. So I had to look it up.

Menagerie - Noun: An unusual and varied group of people.

XD It fits, since my group has fallen angels, demons, vampires, elementals, shape-shifters, and all sorts of random hybrids. XD So, I suppose they are, affectionately, my Menagerie. X3

[countrygirl]

I actually live on a small farm. I have hairless dogs, tailless cats, spotted chickens, and bjd's. One of the chickens follows me around like a dog. When I go to the mailbox the animals follow me down the driveway. Yep, chickens also. So I call my dollies my crew and we are at home on the "funny farm".

[pbrennan42]

I haven't thought about it yet. Seriously. It has not yet crossed my mind what I would like to call my household once they start arriving. I got a feeling that I will be having a very dark elf (Druichi not Drow) / Unseelie Fae theme going on with them, so now I got to think up of a good name for the household.

I might just give a nod and a wink to an old White Wolf RPG and call them House Ailil after my favourite Unseelie House from Changeling: The Dreaming.

Any ideas welcome.

Phil.

[Kagurei]

I just call mine the Doll House because they're a bunch of dolls...in an "abandoned" house...and I'm totally unoriginal past that, so...Doll House dolls!

[AmyAngel]

I tend to refer to them collectively as "the crew", though I really have three crews at the moment. The (sort of very casually) steampunky group are the crew of the airship Resolute (named after an actual airship - the last vessel to operate as a privateer under a Letter of Marque from the US), the pirates are the crew of the Bella Cecily (Cecily is an upcoming doll character, Finn's first name is Isabella - they grew up with the captains of the two crews...), and the rest so far are staff (and landlord) of the Sweetwater Saloon (given an old west style name after one of the towns in The Young Riders tv show, I'd like to find Mona a saloon girl outfit at some point, LOL!).

I also have a couple of academics/archaeologists, and I always forget to mention them. They have no collective name other than "the big guys", since they're my only SD size dolls. And they have only one body to share, so I haven't done anything with them in storyline yet.

[pbrennan42]

Hmm I am still thinking about it. The house of lilies has a certain ring to it, considering how much I like the beauty whites.

Argh is it so hard to think of these things... (pulls out hair)

Phil.

[lemon_pulp]

Could perhaps, someone elaborate more on what a house name means? This is a really new concept for me. It it sort of like a family name for all your dolls? Or is it a common theme between them? Or is it some like what the clothing designers use to distinguish their work? Like House of Chanel? Or am I totally misunderstanding it?

[pbrennan42]

It is basically like a family or clan name for your dolls. It could be an actual surname made up for them, or a fictional company name that the dolls' characters belong to, or a secret society or whatever - it is basically a fun thing to do to bind all your dolls together in one whole entity.

Thinking more about my love of the old Changeling: The Dreaming Role Play Game, the new Changeling: The Lost RPG, and the old Unseelie House of House Ailil, I could call my group of dolls "The Freehold of White Lilies" which links back to those two favourite RPGs and the fact that I have a thing for pale skinned dolls (but not necessarily Beauty Whites as Bobobie's normal skin is rather pale too).

Now I just need a nice watermark / symbol for it...

Phil.

[Ryuichi Sakuma 13]

Because I'm such a huge fan of the manga/anime 'Gravitation,' I started out by creating my favorite band from the series, Nittle Grasper, in resin. Because of that, I have a tendency to call everyone "the Band," even if they're not actually in a band!:sweat

Ryu

[pbrennan42]

It seems as if I am gonna have two households at this rate.

The Freehold of White Lilies is still gonna get put together for my MSD dolls.

The "Dolls of Iniquity" name for my adult community on LJ will also be the house name for my 1/6 Obitsu dolls, especially with what I have planned for them...

Phil.

[ayas-shadow]

My crew and I don't have a house name...yet...the different 'sets' I'm working on getting together don't all have their own titles, either. I'm sure that at some point a 'House Name' will jump out at me, and I'll use it...but until then...*shrugs* No house name for me!

[Raouken]

My 'house name' is Fleurs du Mal, which is also the name of the high class French brothel where my dolls are situated. Fleurs du Mal means 'flowers of evil', and it was named after a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, which is called 'Les Fleurs du Mal'. It was a collection of-at the time-quite shocking poems, and as Baudelaire lived in the Victorian times-when my doll's brothel was started, I could see the owner-Madamme Lucette-name her place after his poems. Some of the poems fit the inhabitants of Fleurs du Mal rather well, and Lucette would enjoy reading them.

Also, I like the poems and I like the name XD

[pbrennan42]

Hmmm one of the poetic shockers that were contemporary with Arthur Rimbaud. I have not read much of Baudelaire, but I have read a lot of Rimbaud. He was ok but a total brat most of the time. Funnily enough, he had given up poetry by the age of 23 and spent the rest of his life as a gunrunner around Africa.

If you like Baudelaire you will probably like Rimbaud. He came up with the name "Les Fleurs du Mal" and let Baudelaire run with it IIRC. That is, before he fell out with everyone in Paris...

It is an interesting choice of House name, and entirely appropriate for a brothel...

I like.

Phil.

[V chan]

Phil: What's your house name?

[pbrennan42]

For BJDs - The Freehold of White Lilies

Phil.

[richila]

Navarro House comes from my SCA (Society of Creative Anachronism-we recreate the Middle Ages and Renaissance-the way we think it should have been) name Valeria Richila Navarro-as does my online handle. LOL I started referring to my dolls that way when I started making and collecting dolls and it has stuck to the Resins as well.

[Geass]

Never really thought about it before honestly. A certain part of my guys could probably be called the Romantics buuut as a whole I'd call them Ludi Invalidi, Russian (though probably romanized badly) for the Invalid People. And of course, not in the sense that they're handicapped.

Yuup, guess that'd be it.

[gloombox]

I suppose since I have so many dolls, they have different universes entirely. I don't really have "house" names. Just groupings I give my dolls, such as "the twins" or "the lovers" or "the girls". Some day I'll probably organize things a bit more. XD;

[lolkat]

I actually live on a small farm. I have hairless dogs, tailless cats, spotted chickens, and bjd's. One of the chickens follows me around like a dog. When I go to the mailbox the animals follow me down the driveway. Yep, chickens also. So I call my dollies my crew and we are at home on the "funny farm".

Sounds wonderful ^_^ Dogs cats chickens and dolls are some of my favourite things :D

I've never thought of having a house name before. Of course, I've only got one doll at home and one who hasn't arrived yet so I'm not sure they qualify as a house. If I do, maybe they could take the name of my domain, nijikon.net but I dont think that would work....Hmmm I'm going to have to think about this now.