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See You In 2026!
2025 has been a hell of a decade, eh? This is our last correspondence of the year, and its purpose is two-fold. First, we want to thank you from the bottom of our rainbow-slathered hearts. In a year full of microaggressions and aggressions against LGBTQIA+ people, you showed up. In a year of hardship, financial and otherwise, you were there to support queer artistry. We don’t have a gig without you and we want to express our love and solidarity to everyone out there who believes in us and our vision for a future where everyone has autonomy and art, expression, and creativity are celebrated part and parcel alongside true liberty.
Second, a small peek into 2026 plans! Our next major event will be a themed collection March release called “Midnight Masquerade.” You will be cordially invited to drench yourself in finery, and, oh, the plans they’re making. Following that will be our mystery box for the year, with new parameters clearly outlined in an explanatory video, themed to “Dragon’s Den.” The mystery box will have a coordinating collection afterward, too, if the theme appeals but the mystery part does not.
We wish you all the best this season and the next and the next after that, and may our 2026s be far less “interesting” than our 2025s.
Yours, with gratitude always,
- THE TEAM​​
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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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