I heard (read) a lot of good things about Etsy.com. I bought beads from there (when I was into making jewelry) and recently, BumJoy cloth diapers. A couple of weeks ago I decided to try out Alchemy, the piece of Etsy where you can request custom items to be made by the crafty maidens and the crafty maidens bid on them. Kind of like the design-bid-build method of project delivery. Oh wait, I guess it's more like design-build...Anyway, I bid on a couple of requests for custom paintings and I won one! It is a group portrait of three little girls.  I promise to post the progress reports! :)