Thursday, August 26, 2010

Introducing..... A Lab Rats Team Welcome To Our Newest Members!

Our team is growing and we cherish each member! We are happy to welcome our newest members by introducing them to the entire team. Here is our opportunity to meet our new teammates, make new friends and help one another in our endeavor to make our shops better.

Lets give a big Lab Rats Team welcome to our newest members!

Introducing.....
Senioritis

1. What is your given name?
Garrick, Beth, & Jillian

2. How long have you been on Etsy (includes the time you were NOT a seller)?

We’ve been on Etsy since May 2009.

3. How long has your shop been open?
Our shop has been open since November 2009.

4. Which item in your shop is your favorite?
Hmm, with so many designs to choose from that’s a rough question; it would probably be our tributes to Mr. Einstein who reminds us that anything is possible with a little imagination.

5. What do you enjoy doing when not creating for your shop?
When not creating we enjoy sports & fitness, cars, food, movies, and a good book.

6. What question would you like to ask your new teammates?
Which person in history inspires you?

Introducing.....

RolyzCreations

1.  What is your given name?
My name really is Roly.

2. How long have you been on Etsy (includes the time you were NOT a seller)?
I've been on Etsy   since May 4th 2009.

3. How long has your shop been open?
I opened my shop on Auguste 13th 2009.

4. Which item in your shop is your favorite?
My favorite item keeps changing, right now it's this item the item you placed in the blog. I created it specially for the upcoming Jewish new year (on Sep 9), and I hope it would sell by that time.

5. What do you enjoy doing when not creating for your shop?
Watch TV.

6. What question would you like to ask your new teammates?
One year from now - what would you like to achieve (shop-wise)?

Introducing......
mrooart

1. What is your given name?
Shannon Dybvig (Mroo is my nickname -
"Mroo" rhymes with "through" - I am not a Mister!)

2. How long have you been on Etsy (includes the time you were NOT a seller)?
I signed up for Etsy in August of 2007, but I didn't start regularly perusing the site until August of 2008 (2007-2008 was a very busy school year, but in 2008-2009 I met a new friend who knits, and it occurred to me to introduce her to Etsy ^_^).

3. How long has your shop been open?
I started posting items in myshop in September of 2009.

4. Which item in your shop is your favorite?
I think that changes with my mood, but right now my favorite drawing print is "Blank Words" and there will always be a special place in my heart for my character Pandabot and my many Mroosaurs.

5. What do you enjoy doing when not creating for your shop?
I enjoy watching Star Trek (and other science fiction shows). I hang out with my boyfriend a fair amount, and my friends less often (most live in different states). I spend some amount of time tinkering with my computer (my degree is in Computer Science and I run Linux exclusively - it's fun to play with!). I find myself baking something around once every week or two (usually something chocolate-related), and I'd garden but I live in an apartment. However, I spend most of my time creating or working on improving my shop!

6. What question would you like to ask your new teammates?
What is your favorite fantasy race? (ie, elves, gnomes, hobbits, humans (yes, they count), faeries, halflings, dwarves, orcs, goblins, knolls, trolls, etc...)

Introducing......
 eccolights
1. What is your given name?
Troy Miller and Rob Logan :)

2. How long have you been on Etsy (includes the time you were NOT a seller)?
We have been lurking around Etsy for about a year now.

3. How long has your shop been open?
We opened our store on March 2, 2010.

4. Which item in your shop is your favorite?
Favorite item in our store... that's a hard one. We make so much each week and only a portion of it gets listed up on Etsy before it sales (we have a market we do every weekend) but if I (Rob) had to pick a personal favorite I would say its our pride tart warmers, the one you are showing here. Now if you asked Troy tho, his would have to be our Twilight family crest set of glasses:

5. What do you enjoy doing when not creating for your shop?
Honestly we love to watch movies while we create. Rob was able to quit his job back in April to do this full time, Troy still holds a job down full time and does Ecco Lights too, but we love what we do. Many people go out to eat or clubs but we enjoy eachothers company and love to make new things... be it our candles which were always experimenting new ideas or our glassware, its a passion for us.


6. What question would you like to ask your new teammates?
A question for our new team mates... What can we do to help? We are both kind hearted guys and generally just want to help others or be there to support our friends, so we ask nothing from anyone, but will always be there to help :)

Introducing...
AngelPearls
What is your given name?
Eva Svartz
2. How long have you been on Etsy (includes the time you were NOT a seller)?
I joined Etsy in January of 2009.

3. How long has your shop been open?
I opened my shop in October of 2009

4. Which item in your shop is your favorite?
The one you have showing here :-)

5. What do you enjoy doing when not creating for your shop?
I love taking photos,and  being in the beautiful Swedish archipelago with my children and man.

6. What question would you like to ask your new teammates?
What's your 'best secret trick' to get many sales at your shop?

Introducing....                                         
                                                       MollysMuses
1. What is your given name? (If you are only comfortable giving your first name that is fine.)
Molly O'Bryon-Welpott
 
2. How long have you been on Etsy (includes the time you were NOT a seller).
October of 2009
 
3. How long has your shop been open?
Technically I opened my shop in October of last year but I didnt really realize what etsy was, I just put a vintage piece on there, In March of 2010 I started hanging out in the labs regularly and trying to learn how to really work a shop on etsy. This summer has been a great learning experience, my kids start school next week and I hope I will be able to make it a lot stronger:)

4. Which item in your shop is your favorite?
My current favorite item is that little cowgirl you've used for me here. Its also my new avatar, I took it on a family trip this summer and it shows the direction I want to move with my work.

5. What do you enjoy doing when not creating for your shop?
I love being with my family, I like to read although I dont read as much as I would like, I spend too much time on facebook and twitter and my husband and I are doing every season and episode of the xfiles right now, we loved it them and love it now.
I also work as a licensed bail bond agent from home in the family business, it takes up a lot of my time on the phone so it is full time in that sense but part time in the amount of hours on the road. I am big at volunteering and I volunteer at the school as the after school enrichment lady. lol And I am the areacooordinator www.nowilaymedowntosleep.org Something I feel truly blessed to be able to do.

6. What question would you like to ask your new teammates?
How do you network with fellow etsians without getting stuck in the rants, I feel like I have been a photographer (as a portrait and wedding business before) to get into discussions that I think could turn other followers off? I am not big on tweeting everytime I list something, so how do you stay in touch with these people without crossing lines of how you feel about your business?
 

7 comments:

  1. Blog viewers, it might be fun to answer one or two of the new member's questions here in the comments :-)

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  2. Molly - You asked a tough question! But I would start with the Lab Rats forum thread ;)
    http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6589767

    Troy and Logan - You keep being you! Keep participating and we (the committee) will let the whole team know when we're looking for volunteers for specific stuff.

    Shannon - You're going to make my geek come out a bit. I may have played some online game where I may or may not have played wood elf, half elf, and high elf characters. Maybe.

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  3. We just feel so welcomed and love being part of the team :) Everyone has been so helpful and sweet, we just can't say enough about all of you :)

    RolyzCreations - One year from now, we would love to have our pictures perfected and maybe even hit the front page once or twice :)

    mrooart - Its gotta be the fairies :) YAY FAIRIES!!!

    AngelPearls - Promote promote and oh yeah, promote :) Be involved within the team and on Etsy and word of mouth when your away from Etsy :)

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  4. Welcome Each of you! It was a delight reading your answers to my questions and I believe you all will be wonderful additions to the team!

    Senioritis I've always been inspired by Dr Jonas Salk - his polio vaccine saved many thousands (probably millions) of children.

    MollysMuses Just be yourself! You are a fun, thoughtful, well read woman. Your work is marvelous and there are many many people who will discover that!

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  5. Thank you for 'having me' as a new member in this Team -I already feel how good and fun it's gonna be!! Love /Eva

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  6. Thanks for the warm welcome everyone, we appreciate it ;)

    Roly, in one year we would like people to see our work and instantly recognize it as ours without having to see a title, description, or any type of text!

    Mrooart, that's a tough one, minotaurs are no joke. We would say either minotaur or griffen if those count ;)

    MollysMuses, we haven't met any Etsians in person (at least not that we know about) but we've met a bunch of great Etsians in the Shop of the Day thread in the Promo section. Evereyone there is very friendly and we've gotten some great tips as well ;)

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  7. I am just seeing this for the first time, courtesy of THEAUNTKAREN
    Sorry it wasn't showing in my feed. I really appreciate this intro, very very nice and nice to see so much about other people on our team:)

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