Selling-or Not-On Etsy

An online buddy of mine sells her jewelry and scarfs on Etsy at Chrysalis Jewelry TX, she offered me a bit of advice once I decided to give a shot at selling my fine art photography images there. She helped me and I appreciate it, but I haven’t really done my part. If eBay is an online flea market, than Etsy is an online Craft Mall. Like real world craft malls, there is an interesting array of items for sale. The prices range from really cheap to really not so cheap. Like eBay it’s up to the seller to set the…

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The Prophets of Smoked Meats

Barbecue is a little bit different as one moves around the country, but I never paid much attention to how much it changed when I moved around the great state of Texas.  Author Daniel “BBQ Snob” Vaughn and photographer Nicholas McWhirter have done an amazing job of bringing these differences to light. As a photographer I have to say that I like the style of most of the images in The Prophets of Smoked Meats.  They have a nice fine art feel to them, Nicholas McWhirter does great work with depth of field and putting as much info in the background of an…

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Eat Pray Love

The story of a writer who wakes up one day to discover that she is not as happy with her life as she would have hoped.  Much like the woman Julia Roberts plays in Larry Crowne, our hero finds that her layabout husband with his half-assed plans and never fulfilled dreams is not going to be a part of her future.  She throws her hands in the air and leaves him. She instantly hooks up with a whiny actor and moves in with him, seeing as she gave all her worldly possessions to her soon to be ex-husband.  While living…

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