Background on me is I'm an ex hardcore ccg-er who dropped out of the booster pack race after they killed off her favorite game (The eternal struggle turned out to be not so eternal...). After floating around for a year I ended up getting the itch to play games with people at the local game store again, so having sworn off anything in a randomized package I joined up into the minis game. Started with Warmachine (Khador), but I tend to hop around both factions (Trollbloods, Retribution, Minions, Menoth, now Cyriss) and games (Malifaux is my current big one as I write articles for Wyrd on BoLS, but I also dabble in anything that looks fun to paint.
Like I said, I write reviews and tactica for BoLS, but sometimes I want to showcase a different company's miniatures, or perhaps write a Malifaux article that delves a little deeper into other company's stuff than feels appropriate for a games spokeswoman (such as using Privateer Press' parts store to kitbash up some proxies for the beta. Got a great steamtrunk article out of that).
On rare occasion I do some commission work, but I generally don't feel my stuff is quite up to "pay me so I can impress your friends" levels, so I don't generally go out looking for commissions. Also, the pay for that sort of thing generally isn't very good, so I just go and work on my massive backlog (got almost everything released for Cyriss so far. Got two models painted...).
Non gamer background is I'm an overnight baker. Long, weird hours, however on my days off it leaves me with quite a few hours of solitude when no one else is awake, so I get to put in a lot of time practicing my craft.
And yes. Most everything I do is for my own personal enjoyment and gaming, I'm never trying to win any awards. So sometimes I just let a stray mold line or gap go without fixing it. Best to just go with the flow and enjoy yourself, rather than stress out over a hobby.
