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[alexseanchai]

Dead comm is dead. *pokes at it*

Hi, I'm Ellie, and I have problems with buying things on impulse. This may be related to my thousands of dollars in credit card debt. I have a full-time job which, after monthly expenses, gives me four hundred a month to pay down credit card debt with. Somehow the debt keeps not going down. Does anyone have suggestions for ways to convince myself I don't actually need any of the books and probably don't need any of the crafting supplies I buy?

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[waldo]

Where are you located? If you're anywhere near me, I'd be happy to help with your Etsy photographs.

If you're not, shoot me a few and I can give you some feedback. For Etsy any camera will take a 'good enough' picture. It's a lot about 'styling' your product and lighting it well.

I typically try to make my Etsy 'self-sustaining'. I don't buy more stuff until at least one thing has sold. Like a few weeks ago when I went through a rash of sales of my bath and body products, I "let" myself do an order from a soap mold company I've been wanting to try.

If you're doing earrings, you need to *really* promote yourself. It seems everyone and their dog is doing earrings. So much so that I've stopped listing mine for a while. Like you said, it's hard to sell them there.

So maybe when you feel like going out and getting more stuff, instead spend an hour promoting your shop (push them on Twitter, cross post to Facebook/LJ/DW, whatever.) It may satisfy that "LOOK I MADE STUFF WITH STUFF" urge a lot of us crafters have. :)

[alexseanchai]

My Etsy shop's sunbowgems, but there's no need to look at it to find out what's wrong with the pictures. A bunch of them I used a dark red background not realizing it would dominate the picture. A bunch more, I think I had the shutter speed set wrong; everything's all washed out. And the rest are kind of monotonous, because I've only got one blanket with light enough colors and a sufficiently nondistracting pattern to use as a backdrop.