Website Morphing from Arty Interests into Lifestyle offerings

 I have my baby, my website entitled: BrandingByPeg.com (now under construction, yes I am morphing again)

I had known all along that I  intended to include affiliate marketing, but once it happened & I was getting approved right & left as a host, it hit me that I need to revamp the whole thing!

I understood that the companies that were approaching me with their approvals all represented my own way of thinking & shopping. Having created an opaque lifestyle sampling. I coined "a lifestyle emporium for the independent creative"...like it?

For the majority of the lines, I went through Rakuten Affiliates.

I could be assured they companies were all legitimate & well-established. I grouped the product lines into the following tabs with links to each company:

   Be Artful:  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

                           Marimekko Design

  Be Happy:  Moroccan Oil

                        Dr. Martens

    Be Thoughtful:  Franklin Planners

                        RocketLawyer

  Be Well:    Boomer Naturals

                        KULCBD

                        MenoLabs    

  Be Hydrated:  Buddha Teas

   Pegalomania: Paper-dolls

                        Peg's Legs Handknit Dancewear

                        Video Archive

Pegalomania Presents

In 2004 I finished writing, or so I thought, my original play with original music thus creating a musical in the traditional form.

My place in time is located in NYC in the 1970s, so although I have written bits & pieces of music, the music I have chosen for the sound-bed, is actually historical rock, pop, & folk. I was living with a classical musician, with Bach fugues & guitar scales as a constant, being peppered with temper tantrums & sulking that only the truly brooding artist can admire.

When I did go to college, later in life than most, I was tasked with a  homework assignment to write an experience that we had where we lived in a culture other than our own. Since I had grown up in a small logging town in California, & had married into an old money New York family, I asked my instructor if that would suffice to satisfy the assignment criteria for my "Ethnography". She said sure, so I began. Twenty years later I had put the meanderings, comments, scraps of memory & movement, I had been a serious dancer, into a four part script. I did this to present to TV producers, but now this format is irrelevant, an easy fix, so one with the show!

Fortunately, today there are means of notating music that do not require 20 years of study, but a computer program will do. For an amateur as myself, with only melody lines & lyrics to put forth, I will happily hire an audio wizard to mix the classical ballet scores, Bach fugues, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix & my own songs into something rather fabulous. Yes, alas, this is where my "gofundme" rests.

Because of my antiquity, I can no longer do my grande battements or pirouette on pointe, but I can choreograph & direct my show. Small cast, big ideas, no in person audience, due to Covid19 this has led me to the  realization, I could cast & produce my show in a video format...back to "gofundme".

If any of this interests the reader, my best email address is: Molloy.Marketing@outlook.com

I prefer email so that we both have a paper trail that time-stamped, any money discussed is documented, & any grievances notated. I use Paypal for any money exchanges because they have an excellent record keeping function.

Below is my gofundme account link. Should you be so kind as to read through my account description, that would be great. I did the digital stage scene drawing. 

Thank you & God bless.

https://www.gofundme.com/manage/pegalomaniapresents

Real Estate Exodus & Regulation

Carson Mansion Photo Converted by Peggy Molloy

Real Estate Exodus & Regulation

I have begun to study Real Estate for a salesperson license in the state of California.
No sooner had I signed up & begun the coursework, but the state was locked down for the first time, due to the Covid19 Pandemic.

Due to the Pandemic, the state exam offices have been shut, then re-opening to backlogs of exams to be scheduled. Long story short, I insist on making lemonade out of lemons, & since the exams must be taken in person, I consider this time to wait as an opportunity to excel, to study harder & longer, to enhance my knowledge of the Real Estate industry in general.



Looking around, it appears to me there is an avalanche about to happen. People have been months without work, thus becoming delinquent on their mortgages & rents. This domino effect will end up in the laps of the bankers & real estate investors. Now what?

Let's pretend I am an urban dweller with fantasies of a small, real dirt garden, & a fixer-upper with low overhead except for the building materials, & a personality from a previous era. What would I do? In fact I have stumbled upon a website with wonderful information if a person is resourceful & has an interest in history. My suggestion is to visit: https://circaoldhouses.com/
Circa Old Houses is a fabulous find to dig through from mansions to modest homes, all over the country. You can choose your state, your era, your budget, sign up for newsletters, & in general have a lot of fun creating a new future for yourself & your beloveds.

I want to complain about regulations for builders & contractors. It is a privilege to own property & have building skills & budgets, however, when such persons of good faith are confronted with government entities, city, county, state, federal, it is a nightmare of forms, many being redundant.
Yes, we have a serious homeless problem, but yes, the population of California (for example) has doubled in the last 30 years. The zoning laws & regulations were created in a different social topography. I cannot fathom how many percentage points of increase there has been in rules & regulations for the average builder/contractor in the last 30 years, in California! Next series of creative, perhaps silly ideas.

Let's convert old fashioned outdoor movie theaters into tiny house communities. They are set up with equal spaces, electricity is running to each space & most have a common building that could be used for group meals, laundry & washing rooms, cyber communication stations, etc.

Let's convert empty malls & office buildings into temporary housing for people to have immediate shelter & safety. Many have empty restaurant facilities for serving food & bathroom facilities for personal grooming. Not ideal, but better than having people living on the sidewalks.

I do not have a crystal ball. I do want to be optimistic about facing the future because I know we have so many talented, smart, young people in our midst who will help us understand. Between the preppers settling into Victorians with large pantries & boomers reducing their square footage because the family has basically moved away, jobs are lost, or beloveds are seriously ill, take heart that many others are also facing these new trials. New answers will be created for old problems.

Once I pass the California Real Estate exam, I will gladly entertain more serious property buying & selling, but in the meantime, I am watching with eyes wide open, fingers crossed, hoping for the best.
Blessings everyone & stay safe.