Let’s face it. The Internet is a wonderful place to find one of a kind stuff, especially affordable art.

But to me, Etsy its just about as good as finding a vintage chanel bag that you can afford (ok maybe that’s a stretch but I know you’re getting the point.)

I came across the site while I was searching for a less expensive version of a poster I found online at Shabby Chic – A reprint of a vintage British wartime poster.  (lets just say one was $295 and the other $25).  I fell in love with it and even had to buy this pendant made out of a scrabble letter by a married couple in SoCal (also via Etsy). You can buy two and get one free :)

The artist behind the poster reprint has a great blog where she links to “affordable art” as well as a list of sites that sell recycled art.

You can find anything on this site- and it gives artists an easy-to-use outlet to sell some really creative and fun merchandise. And it’s not just limited to the USA… people all over the world sell through the online marketplace. The vision of the company is to “provide a better choice.” not bad, eh!

But most of all, it’s well done. Not surprising when you find out that investors include the founders of flikr and del.icio.us

For all you techies out there, check out this wall clock made out of a hard drive, or the other recycled Geeky items available via Etsy.

I feel more artsy already. haha.