{"id":660,"date":"2010-04-03T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2010-03-30T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:41:17","slug":"featured-friday-mollyjey-papercuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/featured-friday-mollyjey-papercuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Friday &#8211; MollyJey Papercuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mollyjey.etsy.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" title=\"Deer and the Pink Snow papercut\" src=\"http:\/\/ny-image1.etsy.com\/il_430xN.103824249.jpg\" alt=\"Deer and the Pink Snow papercut\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deer and the Pink Snow original Papercut by MollyJey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mollyjey has beautiful handmade papercut dioramas in her <a title=\"Etsy shop\" href=\"http:\/\/mollyjey.etsy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Etsy shop<\/a>, mostly in white with small touches of color. She was born in Locarno, Switzerland , a gorgeous mountain valley village on the southern border next to Italy &#8211; she then went to Florence, Italy where she studied Industrial Design and Communication. She speaks Italian, French and English a- very cosmopolitan!<\/p>\n<h4>Where are you from?<\/h4>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Locarno\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Locarno switzerland\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/26\/Locarno_Madonna_del_Sasso.jpg\/220px-Locarno_Madonna_del_Sasso.jpg\" alt=\"Locarno switzerland\" width=\"220\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Locarno, Switzerland<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was born in Locarno (Switzerland), a beautiful place to live; after that I moved to Italy in Florence, for university studies (Industrial Design and Communication). Currently I living in Florence but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m planning to move soon.<\/p>\n<p>I travel often, I love to meet new people.<\/p>\n<h4>How did you first become interested in making papercuts?<\/h4>\n<p>Paper has always fascinated me, it is a unique material, it seems to live and change \u00c2\u00a0over time.<br \/>\nI started my first shadow box as a Christmas gift for friends and then after they proved popular, I thought to open a small <a title=\"Mollyjey's etsy shop\" href=\"http:\/\/mollyjey.etsy.com\" target=\"_blank\">shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>What do you do when you&#8217;re not making your art?<\/h4>\n<div style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=23313285\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"bunnies in love\" src=\"http:\/\/ny-image0.etsy.com\/il_155x125.64906028.jpg\" alt=\"Bunnies in love\" width=\"155\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">I love you! - by mollyjey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I work as a freelance designer for various brands.<\/p>\n<h4>Any new projects or ideas coming up for the future?<\/h4>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m writing a children&#8217;s book with the characters of my work.<\/p>\n<h4>And Finally, what&#8217;s your favorite way to spend a Saturday?<\/h4>\n<div style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=9508103\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" title=\"Daffodils\" src=\"http:\/\/ny-image3.etsy.com\/il_430xN.19368787.jpg\" alt=\"Daffodils\" width=\"160\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">White Daffodils - by MollyJey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I like to spend Saturday relaxing: long walks on the green, tea with friends and playing with my cats. My favorite weekend dinner is either Pizza or Sushi.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds good to me! Thanks, Molly!<\/p>\n<p>You can check out more of Molly&#8217;s gorgeous handmade papercut shadow boxes at her <a href=\"http:\/\/mollyjey.etsy.com\" target=\"_blank\">Etsy Shop<\/a> &#8211; she ships worldwide! You can also see more of her work on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mollyjey\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mollyjey has beautiful handmade papercut dioramas in her Etsy shop, mostly in white with small touches of color. She was born in Locarno, Switzerland , a gorgeous mountain valley village on the southern border next to Italy &#8211; she then went to Florence, Italy where she studied Industrial Design and Communication. She speaks Italian, French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[102],"tags":[84,139,140,138],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthbleakley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}