If you have a umbrella on your patio:
It probably has a base for that looks something like this:
Which you bought as an afterthought. It was pretty expensive, and it looks at best utilitarian or mundane. It could look like this:
or like this:
But some enterprising and artistic young person needs to start a small business building artistic umbrella bases. Stones, Fossils, Mosaics, Faces, Tiles, Found Gears the possibilities are endless. The good news is that they are too heavy to be economically imported from Asia.
I am the ideapreneur for a reason.