One think that really irks me is when people see a product in a shop with a solid reputation and declare its excellence on no uncertain terms when one fully knows that if they saw it on a shop on the Whitby seafront they would never look twice. Many shops rely on their reputation to sell goods but one must see past that as once a product is in your home nobody will actually know where it came from. The product below is, of course, homemade but that does not change the fact that it looks fantastic. The moral of the story: people pay a lot of money for handmade goods so if you have the artistic might and the will you could potentially save yourself a lot of money and have fun in the process!