Friday, September 10, 2010

Oh, no! I'm Fizzling Out... Can Customs Keep Me Alive?

I was afraid it would come to this. Like much of the card bloggers out there, I've recently hit some doldrums. I haven't been the most prolific of posters ever, but I think this current streak of 11 days without a post is my longest, not including being on vacation. I just haven't bought a lot of cards recently. Part of the reason is desire and part is money. I really like 2010 Topps Football but don't really have much money to spend as we're trying to better budget ourselves around the BigD household. Besides, pretty much all the baseball stuff sucks now anyway. I'm sick and tired of Topps retro! I wanna see something new and modern, maybe even a little creative. Call me crazy! Basketball season doesn't look to be much better as the stuff Panini is previewing for this year LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE EVERYTHING THEY DID LAST YEAR! I'll pick up every Dirk single I can get my hands on, but other than that, probably not much else. Bummer! So if I'm not really buying many cards, what will I post about? Well, I'll still pick up singles from ebay and COMC (I've got a couple posts upcoming) and then there's always these puppies...


I guess if there isn't much I want to buy, I can always just make my own. I don't know how long they'll keep me in the blogging biz, but at least they're free. Now if only I could get one of those aforementioned companies to hire me, maybe cards could make me a profit instead of burning a hole in my pocket! Later.

7 comments:

  1. well, everything I've seen you do is better than anything panini/donruss has put out in the last 20 years, so.................

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  2. Very nice football design. I think a card with red, white and blue stripes under the name would look great. Too bad there isn't a team that uses those colors...

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  3. If nothing to buy means more great customs from you, then I hope Topps never puts out another baseball product again!

    Haha kidding. But these look great as always - the Hester is especially cool!

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  4. Great card design. Simple, but very effective.

    Customs have really been a huge source of both inspiration and collection building for me.

    And the best part (as you mentioned)....they're free.

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  5. I'm not a Hester fan, but that's a really cool looking card. Great work on finding such a great image to use.

    As always, top notch work on your customs. Very Cool!!!

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  6. I know you've got a Cowboy or two...Let us see them! Great work Derek!

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  7. Panini needs to give you a call... that Rodgers card is sweet! Keep up the great customs... I liked the Batum/Chewie you sent to G.

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