Jaded with the usual mass produced, commerical products out there? This etsy site will be a sight for sore eyes…another community virtual store, everything is handmade, you can browse by colours, by geography, by time etc…it’s not always easy to be specfic on this site due to the sheer volume of stuff, but but but I love looking at the creative stuff coming out from there! 

New York Times: Handmade 2.0 

“Only about two years old, the company is not currently profitable but is somewhat unusual among Internet-based start-ups of the so-called Web 2.0 era in having a model that does not depend on advertising revenue. It depends on people buying things, in a manner that the founders position as a throwback to the way consumption ought to be: individuals buying from other individuals. “Our ties to the local and human sources of our goods have been lost,” the Handmade Pledge site asserts. “Buying handmade helps us reconnect.” The idea is a digital-age version of artisanal culture — that the future of shopping is all about the past.”