Extra fine handmade boats for your bath

You really can eschew the plastic monstrosities that threaten to overflow your bathroom when you realise there are bath toys of this fine quality out there. Could it really be that phenomena such as Etsy really are helping us defeat the big stores' determination that our homes be full of brash plasticky rubbish? One can only hope.

The seller is Friendly Fairies, and her profile tells a story of a corporate drone made redundant and relaunching herself as an independent seller. From big business to small-scale, from plastic trash to wooden boats made with care: it's all part of the same story, really.