 
 <prompt> Rob Kalin learn di secret to success while e still dey for im baby bed. At age one, di Boston-bom teacher's son dey drag around one stuffed rabbit wey one of im mother's students lovingly sew. True, one of di ears dey sew on backward, but dat one just add to di magic. "E dey always special to me," Kalin remember of im first handmade craft.

Kalin's appreciation for di simple and di simply eccentric inspire am to create etsy. com, one online craft fair, probably di largest market for handmade goods for di world. Last year, 350,000 woodworkers and other craftsmen sell their one-of-a-kind crafts for di four-year-old site.

Dem dey sell everything from hand-knit sleeves for Macbooks ($32) to myrtle-wood electric guitars ($3,200). And for dis age of chain stores, e be like say still get big market. More than three million consumers for 150 countries buy about $87.5 million worth of crafts for Etsy last year.

Emily Worden, founder of Elemental Threads, one custom handbag and jewelry company, sign up with Etsy when she start her company two years ago. She dey pay Etsy 20-cent standard fee for each item wey she list for di site, plus 3.5 percent commission on everything wey she sell. Etsy allow am to track di number of times customers click on a particular item to view am. "We fit see say our necklaces dey popularly viewed item and which colors and sizes dey get di most views," she talk. "Dat one na guide to evolving our product lines."

Today, Etsy's staff don increase to 70 employees, and di company dey reportedly make more than $12 million every year.

Kalin's papa na carpenter and teach am early on how to use im hands. Indeed, for high school, e put im skills to work -- developing di photos of im classmates and handcrafting one graduate ID to attend design classes. Eventually, e gain admission to New York University, dey study classics and dey work as carpenter.

Kalin also start to sew some of im own clothes. "I gats make something physical at least once a month," Kalin talk, "or I go crazy." <response>: 1. Boston
2. while e still dey for im baby bed.
3. One
4. etsy. com
5. Kalin's appreciation for the simple and the simply eccentric
6. one stuffed rabbit
7. one of the ears dey sewn for back
8. one of im mama students.
9. yes
10. one-of-a-kind crafts
11. 70
12. more than $12 million a year
13. yes
14. New York University
15. classics
16. working as a carpenter 