Here via Snowflakes. (Hiiii!) I'm doing IMadeAThing too, and I actually have some thoughts about #1. I use photobucket, which is free to sign up for and ad-supported. Adding files is pretty painless, and you can set them all to be "private" if you want. It lets you do some basic manipulation after uploading if you want to. You can get links for thumbnails with click-through-for-full-size links embedded, or you can get img, jpg, or html code for full size pics. It does a lot of other stuff too, but I find these two options work pretty well for 90% of my needs. Hope this helps!