The Pros and Cons of being a Pro and attending Cons

Hey everyone! I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what the future hold for me and cosplay and I want to start of by saying thank you to everyone who been a part of this crazy journey! What patreon is and what it means to me has changed so much.

I Remember when I started I was only posting once or twice a week and even those posts were usually nothing special. It would take me so long to get costumes finished, and many of them went forever unfinished (RIP poison ivy, doom man, magikarp, Wonder Woman). At some point I was able to really push myself and now I’m trying to have new looks every month and attempting to post QUALITY content nearly everyday. I Who are genuinely struggle to think of any other content creator in the cosplay world doing this much. and that says something because you all know I hate to give myself a compliment. That said…

I really need to find a bit more balance in my life. I find that I am struggling to stay in love with a Cosplay, because it is what I spend every waking hour doing. that isn’t even necessarily a complaint, I consider myself to be very very very lucky. OK look, I’m gonna stop rambling and get to the point.

I’m trying to figure out how to bring more balance to my life and I think what I want to do moving forward is focus a bit more on costume making, and content creating. Right now I feel like I don’t have time to make new costumes because I’m spending too much time on the other parts of Patreon. One of the ideas I have is that I will only send prints out on every second month and limiting the smaller prints.

These two things would give me mcu more free time for making costumes and would also fit my shipping cost in half which would be more money for supplies and locations. With that I would also add monthly digital prints as a bonus. I know logistically it might end up being a nightmare if people only stick around for one month or leave halfway through, but I guess that’s some thing I’ll have to figure out.

Anyway, I’d love some feedback on this because nothing is set in stone, it’s just an idea that popped into my head when I was brainstorming ways to try to focus more on the craft and get some of my time back.

So yeah, let me know what you think, or if you have any other ideas! I love you all so much and I can’t thank you all for everything you do for me. Y’all are my care Bears.