Where can we find you?
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| Little Cowgirl with Pistol color print in the mountains |
My facebook fan page is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Molly-OBryon-Welpott-Photography/69616312990
My Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/MollysMuses
1) Please tell us about yourself, your shop and what brought you to the Etsy community. And walk us through a typical day from your daily life.
I am in the mountains of Pennsylvania between Pittsburgh and State College (Penn State University)
I have been a photographer for 15 years, with a wedding business, portrait business and commercial. Slowly I have come to the realization I am most happy creating art pieces that I want to create. I have focused on group and independent shows. When I moved to rural PA, from Daytona Beach, Florida 15 years ago I lost the community feeling of artists talking with each other and I am so thankful I found Etsy because I love that aspect of it as much as the opportunity to sell my work.
I am also a licensed bail bond agent that works from home, so a typical day without a bail client... I am up with my children, send them to school and I always check out what’s happening online. Then I like to look through images I am working on and edit pictures. If it’s nice outside I like to go and create more pictures. I am off and online all day and I love attending virtual labs since building an online business is newer to me.
If I have a bail client, well let's just say the day can hit the fan, depending on which courthouse, jail and family I have to meet with. I say it can hit the fan because I can't go a day without my photography so I make all of it happen :)
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| Classic Car Vintage Pink Cadillac fine art |
Books… My favorite books are The Red Tent, The Help, The Kitchen God's Wife
Music… I am huge into Pandora with stations like Johnny Cash, Jane's Addiction and No Doubt but my favorite band right this minute is Thousand Foot Krutch
TV… My husband and I are currently re-watching EVERY Xfile season:)
Web sites… Website favorites for me are FACEBOOK (I admit it) Geocaching.com (it's my families hobby) and Pandora because I work along side of it all day
But if you ask me about blogs....
I like http://theartistshouse.blogspot.com
http://mermaidscloset.blogspot.com/ and of course the labrats!
4.) What are your top 3 shops on Etsy?
It is very hard to narrow my favorite shops to 3. BUT I am obsessed with http://www.etsy.com/shop/tascha I have a print in my kitchen :)
5.) What projects are you currently working on?
My current project is working on featuring a different each week on my blog for a handmade countdown to Christmas. When I started a bucket list last year I decided I wanted to buy a year of handmade gifts so this is one way I am sharing that with others.
I am an area coordinator and photographer for www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org something that I feel blessed to volunteer for and it is an on going passion.
6.) Where do you hope your shop will be in a year?
In a year I hope I have tweaked my shop to have a consistent sales and have a 2 new lines of work, one based on the fruit of the spirit and the other surrounding a carousel horse I found in the trash... we will see;)
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| Beautiful Large SpiderWeb in Nature 8x10 print color photography |
My favorite tip for Etsy is buy something. Until I made some actual purchases and received them and saw the packaging, the quality and uniqueness it was really hard to feel like I was a part of the community :)
And by the way - for the month of October, Molly is donating 10% of sales from all of her images with PINK to the DuBois Regional Medical Center, Hahne Cancer Center for the MONTH OF OCTOBER for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
THANKS SO MUCH team for including me. I am flattered to be featured and I should mention this weekend I am having my first ever give-away in time for Halloween so hop over to my website and enter:)
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