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		<title>Imagine if I actually had a silver tongue</title>
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		<dc:creator>Holly {Artist Mother Teacher}</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to focus more on my Esty shop over the last week or so. I made a new banner and set a goal to post at least a couple of new listings per month. I have a bunch of work I want to put in there but I always freeze up when [...] [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been trying to focus more on my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/birddoodle">Esty shop</a> over the last week or so. I made a new banner and set a goal to post at least a couple of new listings per month. I have a bunch of work I want to put in there but I always freeze up when it comes to actually listing an item. It&#8217;s two things really—photographing items that do not have existing digital information and writing the listing copy. I struggle fiercely with both of those things. Which is silly considering that I&#8217;ve been seriously into photography for over a decade and have been writing on this blog for almost six years.</p>
<p>And yet I do.</p>
<p>When it comes to photographing my listings I just don&#8217;t have the right set-up. Lighting sucks and I struggle with photographing prints. Getting a really good shot is so important and I find myself deleting my efforts more often than posting a new listing. So I need to work on that. I also need to find the right size models for some of the t-shirts I have to sell. Or come up with a good way to show them that isn&#8217;t just laying flat. Like on actual people. Don&#8217;t you like seeing a shirt actually on a person? Am I making too big a deal of this? Probably.</p>
<p>Then there is the listing copy. Oh how I loathe writing the listing copy. Coming up with something clever that makes you want to throw your money at me in exchange for my work. I suck at that. It&#8217;s the whole &#8220;this is so awesome because…&#8221; part that really gets me. Great listings make me jealous because I never have any idea what to write in that little box. Dimensions? Check. Boring details? Check. Something really well written? Nope. So there&#8217;s that too.</p>
<p>And yet, even with my issues, over the last few weeks I have found myself in…</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2049" title="Picture 2" src="http://artistmotherteacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Picture-2.png" alt="Picture 2" width="451" height="630" /> an Esty Treasury of green things for my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21222920">Lime Green Sunrise</a> print,</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2052" title="Picture 4" src="http://artistmotherteacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Picture-4.png" alt="Picture 4" width="522" height="632" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">a <a href="http://www.byhand.me/wintergarden/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=16447">ByHand Spotlight</a> for my<a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=39544584"> Peach Pit</a> print,</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2054" title="Picture 6" src="http://artistmotherteacher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Picture-6.png" alt="Picture 6" width="515" height="433" />and in a <a href="http://www.8cpassport.com/2010/02/cupid%E2%80%99s-8th-continent-12-days-of-valentines-day-8/">12 Days of Valentines feature</a> on  Lopez&#8217;s blog for my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=40111445">Love Suits You</a> prints—one of which sold within a half hour of listing it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Which is totally exciting. You should stroke my ego some more and <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/birddoodle">go check out the rest</a> of the new stuff.</p>
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