You Name It

A new journal page and the name that inspired it

May 06, 2026

There’s a donut shop in my hometown with the perfect name: Lady Glaze. Doesn’t that just make you want to see what’s happening inside? I can confirm, from personal experience, that delicious things are happening inside!

I snapped a photo recently while I was out and about and thought it would make a fun paper cutting project. Here’s a peek of what you might see if you walked by one afternoon:

A colourful paper cutting depicting the storefront of a donut shop called Lady Glaze. Shown on a dark grey cutting mat with exacto knife and a little bowl filled with paper scraps.

Working on this little sketch got me thinking about names: perfect names, the things we get to name, the things we’d name differently if it were up to us.

It’s a tricky business, don’t you think? I feel like I’m naming things all the time: journal pages and posts, new ideas, pitches and presentations. It can make all the difference in how something I’ve made is received and perceived. I don’t always get it right and it never gets any easier. But there’s something so wonderful about the perfect name; one that just rolls off the tongue, evokes a deep emotion, or creates an instant image of what to expect. And then there are the names of the people and places we adore; how the mention of their names brightens our days. Anyway, before I knew it, there was a new journal page humming its way through my printer. A quick and colourful reason to spend a few moments thinking thoughts about names.

A colourful journal page titled You Name It, filled with journal prompts about the names we give things. Shown on a wood background with blue pen and colourful notebooks.

If you’d like dive into the meaningful names in your world, the download link is below!

You Name It Journal Page By Christie Zimmer

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P.S. The PDF file includes two page sizes: letter and A4.

P.P.S. If you’d like to see the paper cutting project above from beginning to end, here’s the video I made:

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