Take a look on Etsy when you are thinking about buying garden stuff. Etsy.com, for the uninitiated, is a worldwide craft store online ( www. etsy.com ) that gets about 5 million unique visitors a day.
Each Etsy artist runs his or her own shop, creates product, ships and handles billing.
You can find garden-related shops by logging on to Etsy.com, clicking on Housewares, clicking on Outdoors, and then further clicking on Garden Decor, Lawn Ornaments, Planters and more.
What do I love from the Garden Decor category?
Hammered silver spoons re-imagined as plant markers. San Diego artisan Allison Cecil managed to quit her day job and realize her dream of hammering out art. monkeys alwayslook.etsy.com
Stained glass window ornament made by a nurse in Boston who crafts on the side. etsy.com/shop/pinky98
Florida artist Natalie Bowman does some really beautiful things with gourds grown in Georgia. etsy.com/ shop/natskreations
Historical products is a father/daughter team from Texas who make sturdy hose guards and plant stakes with a royal flair. etsy.com/shop/ historicalproducts
Sewer Kelly McCants from Virginia has been in front of a sewing machine for 27 years and recently creates with oilcloth. If you used to love oilcloth but forgot all about it, you can jump back in at etsy.com/shop/ modernjune
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