Right after I quote myself:
I don't make money (directly, anyway) by blogging, and I would fail miserably if I tried, because I don't have the traffic to back up that sort of business plan.
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That was from a post I wrote earlier today. Never mind that I misspelled "successful" twice in that post (including in the title, where, unfortunately, I make most of my mistakes) and didn't notice until hours later. The point is that I know I don't have the chops to generate income by driving traffic, and now, I'm going to try to do it, anyway.
For those of you who actually see the Zazzle blog panel in my sidebar, it should be noted that hawking my Zazzle stuff is different, because it's mine. Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine. But now, I'm going to try to sell you someone else's stuff (as soon as I get through rambling for a bit), and, to my mind, that's a totally different thing. When I try to sell my Zazzle stuff, I still feel like an artist, or at least a "drawer of things". Trying to sell someone else's stuff makes me feel like a marketer, which is a) something I don't really want to be, and b) something I'm pretty sure I'd suck at.
But I digress.
I used to love making icons. Back when I was playing in Mac OS 9, there was a program I loved called "Iconographer". Iconographer is one of very few pieces of software that I've ever purchased. It allowed me to draw my own desktop icons, pixel by pixel, and I adored it!
When my Mac died, and I moved to Windows XP, I found another icon-making program that I used for turning my pen-and-paper cartoons into cute little desktop icons. They looked like this:

It was a quick, efficient app for turning drawings into icons, but I missed the fun and simplicity of building icons in Iconographer.
And, now, I don't have time for drawing icons.
So, today, when I wanted to pretty-up this blog a bit, I grabbed some free social media icons from WeGraphics. It was only then that I remembered that WeGraphics has an affiliate program!

Hell, I've even blogged about WeGraphics, before, on a different blog, and used an affiliate link to do so!
But, sometimes, kids, when we get old, and life gets complicated, we forget some of the crap that we've done.
What I didn't forget, however, is that I've used free textures from WeGraphics for backgrounds on some of my Zazzle products. (Don't hate. Not me, anyway. You can go ahead and hate making textures, if you want, 'cause I damned sure hate that, too.) So I know that the company offers quality images, at least in terms of the stuff they give away.
I'll assume that the members-only stuff is better. But I don't know that, since I'm not a member.
If you want, though, dear reader, I wouldn't be offended if -- after joining WeGraphics through the banner I've posted above (or the one in my sidebar, assuming it's still there when you read this, given that I'm as flighty as I am forgetful) -- you left a comment on this post, letting me know what you think of their stuff.
:D <--This is my sneakily-selling-you-stuff smiley.
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