Not Exactly Knitting: Taking photos of stitch markers?

[JennyLeah]

I've had this sorely neglected Etsy shop for a while, and a huge collection of beads (from back when I thought making jewelry would be fun). A few weeks back, I figured I'd try my hand at making a couple sets of stitch markers for myself, and then I just kept making them.

Now, I have a whole bunch, and an Etsy shop, and so I figured I'd hop on the bandwagon and sell them there. But I can't seem to get a halfway decent photograph of any of them. Natural light, artificial light, indoors, outdoors, solid background, sans background... just about every photo ends up blurry. The only thing I haven't tried that I can think of is a tripod, because, well, I don't have one and can't afford one.

Help? I promise they're really pretty markers, totally worth photographing!