ARE WE MERRY YET.
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1) The shop is releasing a special Black Friday collection at noon EST on 11/28. We list the items early so you can peruse (but not buy) mainly because there are eleven of us and over three hundred items per release; giving you the opportunity to build wishlists helps you get a better chance at scoring that perfect thing. Our goods are handmade, and many are one of a kind. A handy tutorial on how to build a wishlist is in the works. It's easy, and allows for instant checkouts when the items go live on 11/28. Shiv, Lia, Sara Eileen, and Nibs' collections are all complete with no further inventory being added. The other seven folks on the shop have more going up daily, so check back!
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2) As of 11/1/2025, due to rising costs, all domestic USPS orders will have a flat $4 shipping charge. We DO combine orders and refund if you place multiple orders over, say, a week so you will only see that charge once. This change is so that we can pay our artists at a continued rate of 70/30 and the overhead doesn't eat into their take-home. Thank you for understanding.
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3) Tariffs and other USPS nonsense means that sometimes, to ship internationally, we need to use FedEx or UPS. I am hoping this changes, but please plan accordingly, international customers.
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4) We have added a Tip Jar. Tips will go toward supplying our LGBTQIA+ artists with supplies and classes to advance their skills. Thank you!
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Co-Owner
With twelve novels under their belt, Hillary has gone from so many words to so many beads, but that's interchangeable at whim. Hillary started The Peculiarity Shop with partner Becky in 2016 and it's been going strong since. Hillary's aesthetic tends to slant classic, cosmic, and spooky.
Co-Owner
Becky is an enby of many hats, including a special ed teacher, a mom, and an artist. From astonishingly pretty hand-wrapped pendants to jingly charm bracelets and chainmail, Becky's been crafting weird and wild jewelry for well over fifteen years and has the bead stock to prove it.
Assistant Manager
Lauren is a writer, a tabletop RPG developer, a former bookseller, and a giant space nerd. Her bead collection is starting to rival her yarn stash, but neither can hold a candle to her TBR pile.
Marketing Manager
Meg Frank is a painter, a baker, and a jewelry maker living and working in NYC. They’ve never met a medium they didn’t want to work in, a bookstore they didn’t want to shop in, or a kitten they didn’t want to cuddle.
Administrative Coordinator
Vavia (she/her) is a dramaturg/cataloguer who doesn't work in either of those fields! She's also a lifelong magpie with a profound love of sparkles, dragons, and speculative fiction by people of historically marginalized genders.
Artist, Bog Witch
Nibs is a writer, editor, gamer, and collector of hobbies that have recently expanded to include making jewelry and dice. She aspires to be either a plant witch or a forest gnome, and her jewelry is appropriately botanical and/or spooky in theme.
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Artist
Sara Eileen Hames is an artist, parent, and part-time dragon living in Brooklyn. When not chasing after hir two fairy tornados in the forms of human children, ze makes art about monsters, landscapes, bodies, dreams, and other aggressively beautiful things.
Artist
Lia is a metadata librarian by day and a crafter by night. They love making jewelry with very tiny beads and crystals. Lia likes sparkly things and thinks they were probably a raccoon in a past life.
Guest Artist
Rachel is an amphibian and reptile steward in Hollywood by way of The Bronx. Game dev, tax law specialist, artist, writer, and mother of the house dragon, Liora, she became a jewelry maker by accident after too many years of being a tax advisor to the video games industry. Rachel's work harkens back to her roots in NYC's punk and goth scenes to her present day as a reptile mom (even working with real reptile skin sheds!)
Artist
Shivani is a writer and artist who has been collecting hobbies and shinies since she first learned of craft stores. Always willing to find new patterns and new techniques, their work is constantly evolving (as is their craft space). Their current focuses include polymer clay, glitter and whether their household can contain another cat.
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Artist
Caz is a butch transmasc enby living in Minneapolis with their two tiny dragons. Their paracord habit began with wanting to make better harnesses for the dragons, but quickly expanded into a wide variety of useful and decorative things best described as "tacticool, but make it queer." They believe creating things is good for the soul, and that everyone deserves a little treat that feels beautiful and meaningful to them.
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Steven Stephens
Cursed Object
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Lauren found this nightmare in the storage of the museum she works at so now he models rings.
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