Here are a number of sites dedicated to helping you create and source items of your own invention.

(rather than just buying new ones) A stitch in time saves nine...And other things your grandmother said, were probably right! if it's broke...fix it!

"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew." Abraham Lincoln