Several of you have asked about the new camera I'm using. It's a Canon Powershot S5 iS. We got it "refurbished" via Amazon from a vendor called Warehouse Deals, which was a great deal because it was cheaper, in perfect condition, and still came with all the original packaging and manuals. My camera that I used to use is a Canon Powershot SD200 digital Elph that I got for Christmas 04.
Also, in the interest of full disclosure, I did use a little photo editing software on the notecard photos. So they didn't go straight from the camera to the blog. It was especially hard to get the navy dots to look right. I don't really have any method for editing photos. This tutorial on the Switchboards was a good starting point. Mostly I just click around in things that say "curves" or "color saturation" until it looks the way I want it to.
I use GIMP which is a free alternative to Photoshop. I'm a big fan. One day, if I get my act together, I want to write a guide for all of the free Open Source software that you can use for your biz in place of the - expensive!- Adobe suite. There are free versions of Dreamweaver (NVu, which I use), many vector drawing programs that can stand in for Illustrator and more. Luckily I live with my techie boyfriend who can help me find and use these programs, but I don't know if I would have found them on my own.