by Maria Koropecky
the Peninsula News Review newspaper
Wednesday, September 9, 1998
Bubbles and kids go hand in hand.
And for seven-year-old entrepreneur Molly Greene, the bubble wand making business is a tough one to pop.
Her mother, Bernadette, said she saw the idea in a magazine while looking for crafts they could do for Molly's birthday party in June. Knowing that Molly enjoyed the process of making the children's toy, Bernadette suggested she start her own little business.
Molly began making and selling the enchanting wands, fashioned out of wire and colorful beads, at the beginning of July.
Her favorite colors are blue and green. "I like to do patterns with the beads," she said.
'Under the Sea' is the name of one of her color combinations. "It comes with a dolphin," said her father, Ben.
The star or heart-shaped wands sell for $3 each at Kiddin' Around, a children's clothing consignment shop on Fifth Street in Sidney.
The wands are proving so popular that the store ran out of stock and although they called the Greene's while they were away on vacation, Molly sent a whole new shipment, attaching a professional business letter to seal the deal.
Molly was the one who approached Kiddin' Around with her idea. Her mother said she even made her own business cards, which Molly describes as "very business-like."
It takes her about 10 minutes to craft a new wand. Her mother helps her with the glue gun, and her younger sister, Talia, sometimes strings her own bead patterns.
Keeping her priorities in check, Molly's tucking half of her money away for university, she's saving the other half for fun. She's got her eye on a doll called Felicity who's "about this big" she says while placing her hands about a foot apart from each other.
