Etsy – For all you crafty people

Are you the type of person that loves handmade products and just don’t know where to shop for them anymore? Or, maybe there’s a nice little shop in your little town that you visit frequently, but you’d like to expand your shopping area. Or, maybe the bigger opportunity for you is to sell your own handmade crafts and make a little money on the side.

If you fit in one of these areas, then Etsy (www.etsy.com) could be just the place you’ve been looking for on the internet. Etsy reminds me of Makezine.com, without the techno-geek spin to it. Here’s a little bit about Etsy from their site:

What
Etsy is an online marketplace for buying and selling all things handmade. Etsy lets you shop by color, place, time and material.

When
After several months of planning and building, Etsy was launched on June 18, 2005.

Why
There are lots of new ideas and technologies opening up new ways to shop online. The big corporate sites like eBay and Amazon seem to be content with a text-only advanced search. We’re here to show the range of possibilities, and just what’s possible.

Etsy has products in numerous categories that may interest you: Accessories, Art, Bags & Purses, Bath & Beauty, Books & Zines, Candles, Ceramics & Pottery, Children, Clothing, Crochet, Everything Else, Furniture, Geekery, Glass, Holidays, Housewares, Jewelry, Knitting, Music, Needlecraft, Paper Goods, Patterns, Pets, Plants & Edibles, Quilts, Supplies, Toys, Vintage, Weddings, Woodworking.

If you’d like to learn more about Etsy, Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte just featured them on their podcast, Inside the Net.