Monday, December 17, 2007

Too many bento babies?

Konnichi wa!

Welcome to my first post of my Bento Baby blog. Many many months ago when I bought my domain name for my website, I scoured my brain and the web for names for my company. After checking to make sure I wasn't stomping on anyone, I decided on Bento Baby. http://www.bentobaby.com I thought it had a nice ring to it, and it was available on the register website. I was idle for awhile, my designs and ideas were resting neatly in my notebook as I nursed Toby and survived on less sleep than I do now.

Then, a few weeks ago, our cousin Darin, a complete and total computer genius visited, and brought my ideas and designs to life. In about five days, Darin had my website up and running, and we used cafepress as a fulfillment site to get my Japanese inspired baby clothing and products printed with my various designs. I excitedly typed in 'Bento Baby' in Google, and I came up with an absolutely phenomenal site about bento. The bad news... it wasn't mine! Apparently, a very creative and amazing mom is a master at making real bento for her kiddos, and has a wonderful site about it.

Now, my site doesn't even have anything to do with bento, other than having Bento Baby as the name of the company. I don't even have a bento baby character design on my site. I would love to switch the name of my company and website so to avoid any confusion, but I have already purchased my website for five years and registred my company name. So, I am at a crossroads. Do I contact the other Bento mama to let her know I am "out there" too? Do I ignore it? I really respect her site and her creativity. I don't quite know what to do...

I also found another website called Bento Babeys. Spelled just like that. Apparently the collective conciousness was really making a point this year. I don't quite know what to do, other than keep on working on my business with a clear head and conscience and hope that all the Bento Mamas out there are taking care of their Bento Babies in the best way they know how.