Ponoko - Our new favorite time suck

There's a reason the new online marketplace, Ponoko, is taking the design world by storm. It's sort of like etsy meets Flick'r meets the Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, all with an underlying current of eco goodness.

Browse the showroom if you're all about the shopping. If you're all about the making, you'll find free instructions and kits that artists share, or you can submit an idea to a panel of designers who just might bring it to life for you.

Of course us--we're all about the shopping. With a quick look, we found a whole lot of affordable jewelry (like the alphabet soup necklaces shown), plus housewares and other assorted doodads like this Polaroid picture frame, a cool modern chandelier, and a plywood rocking horse for kids.

This stuff is truly priced to go. Happy Ponoko-ing, mamas. -Liz