It's been pretty quiet around here recently, and I'm sure that's been well noticed. It's been an up and down month and a half or so. After losing my job of three years due to store closure around mid-December, I was jobless until about the beginning of May. Not for lack of trying though. No matter where I applied, even minimum wage retail/food jobs, simply no one was biting. Then I managed to get a job as a baker's assistant at this cake shop I really like. It paid better than my old job, and things were fine for a few weeks. Then I got a call about a week ago. The owner had overestimated how much business the shop would be getting. For whatever reason, the amount of traffic and orders they were getting wasn't comparing to previous years. The owners barely had enough money for the shop, let alone me and the few other people they hired, so I'm currently on a weird sort of hiatus. I might be called back if things pick up, but no one knows if such a thing will occur. I've been told, of course, that I am more than free to look for other work, but I'm running into the same silence I ran into all those first months of the year. It doesn't help that I've already expended most of my reasonable choices. The cake shop was already quite a drive away.
My main point with this update is to let you all know what's been going on and why it's been harder to post. My other goal was to gauge interest in an idea. Someone once asked me why I didn't try out a Patreon. I said at the time that I wasn't sure if it was worthwhile, but now I'm debating on whether it might be worth it to at least try. The plan would be to focus both around my Sim writing and my normal writing to hopefully pull in some sort of following. Everything would still be free here and on my Tumblr, naturally, but there would be those extra Patreon perks. I've even been considering learning how to make poses. It's something I've always wanted to do, and I know there's always demand for that. In any case, what are your impressions? Even if subscribing to a Patreon isn't something you'd like to do, how do you feel about helping to advertise the blog/my Tumblr/my normal writing? Just, how do you feel in general about the whole thing, is what I'm after. Predictably, I'd be overjoyed if I managed to find some sort of constant monetary support from it. It would definitely mean Color My World would return almost right away.
I'll get back to posting on a more constant basis as soon as I can. I'm unsure if I'll continue transferring the Vampire Coven posts over though. The formatting gets ridiculously messed up copying from Tumblr to Blogger, and it's rather irritating fixing it.
In order not to leave you with nothing, here's a little something I did one night when I had free time. A Tumblr I follow,
TaiNoodles, made adorable mermaid dolls with the Sims from her main rainbowcy, so I made some for the Vivid family. You couldn't get even a fourth as intricate with the children and younger mermaids as you could with the adults, but I still think Prism, Desire, Coal, Cerise, and Glade came out cute.
