My husband and I have started a new book project together that is going to require us to take a great deal of photographs. Now, we did this same thing for Picture Yourself Creating Metal Clay Jewelry, but since doing that book together, we decided we needed to crank up our set up a notch or two. Plus, this book will be about more than just metal clay, so rather than take over the guest bathroom like we did for the last book (the bathroom was both photo & jewelry studio for many months), I cleared out all my sewing gear in the guest room and plan to set that up just for picture taking.

As part of your new and improved set up, we knew we needed more lighting, so I was eyeballing a light tent kit available through Amazon. DH kept going back and forth about what he wanted to do, and I was getting impatient because we really need to start taking pictures, so yesterday morning, I went ahead and purchase the kit without his go-ahead.

As soon as I finished the last “click” to purchase it, I realized something I totally forgotten about….I should have gone to one of my many blog buddies’ sites to enter into Amazon before making the purchase. Instead I gone directly to the site. Dang it! Granted, bloggers like myself who have these Amazon ads don’t make a ton of money from them, but every little bit ads up.

Of course, a few hours later, DH finally said to purchase the kit (which I had already…ha ha..) and to also purchase a new tripod (ours was not sturdy enough) and a book he saw about taking photos of collectibles. Thankfully, this time I remembered to go through a blog when purchasing these smaller items, but I’m still really bummed that I didn’t think of this when buying the almost $100 tent kit!

Between books and other items, I’m a regular Amazon customer, and I would be many of us are since it so convenient and they sell just about everything. Plus, I like the customer reviews too. So next time you plan to purchase something via Amazon, remember to click and support your favorite blogger, even if it’s not me 😉