Maybe i'm just imposing my baggage on you.
I'm having one of those bad weekends. It's going good on a personal level but not so much for my forum.
Just a transition i think, needing to get out and find more real members to talk with me there.
Would have helped if i'd bothered to niche early on, but did not. So hard to establish an audience now.
Anyway, as for the skins you were creating, they were very nice, very detailed. But i can see how that would take a good deal of time. I used to design blogger templates and just one took about a week to do.
That's just me, i'm sure another person could have done it in a day. Not me with my schedule.
We all have our own situation. I understand where you're coming from.