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[caption id="attachment_11370" align="alignnone" width="620"] Imperfect -- and perfectly ok. [/caption] This Christmas, I gave away more hand-made gifts than I have since I was a child.

[caption id="attachment_11312" align="alignnone" width="598"] Image by Felix Kunze via Instagram[/caption] New Year's Resolutions are nothing if not ubiquitous; the idea to resolve to make a change is such a popular one that the US Government even tracks it as a metric. There are industries and ad campaigns and millions of dollars of investments made in the notion that people need to change and that January is the time to do it.

There's hardly a day that goes by that we don't find ourselves hopping on Etsy on the hunt for the perfect gift. This maker-friendly site has quickly turned into our go-to source for cutting-edge home goods, clothes, office supplies, and even furniture, so it's no surprise that Etsy has an estimated 26 million items listed at any given time.

[caption id="attachment_11100" align="aligncenter" width="620"] via Wesley Eller on Flickr.