Etsy is the world's most vibrant, online, handmade marketplace, located at www.etsy.com. It connects consumers with independent creators and designers to find the very best in handmade goods while providing the artists with the technology and information they need to start and grow their own businesses.

Etsy is a community with a shared goal of offering alternatives to mass-produced objects, highlighting the true value of handmade goods and to encourage awareness of the social and environmental implications of production and consumption.

Etsy reconnects producer and consumer, and swings the pendulum back to a time when everyone bought bread from the baker, produce from the farmer and shoes from the cobbler. Visit www.etsy.com to connect to the Etsy community. Buy, sell, blog and learn more about this unique and industrious site.  Here are The Boulevard’s favorites.