Co-Owner
By day, Hillary slings words, with ten books under her belt. By night, Hillary slings beads. Hillary started The Peculiarity Shop with partner Becky back in 2016 and it's been going strong ever 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.
Artist
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.
Artist
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
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
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.
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
As a child Nchanter thought of themselves as a mix between Data and Deanna Troi, but wanted to be Lwaxana when they grew up. These days they are an accountant, convention organizer, and mixed media artist living in Halloween Town (Salem, MA) with two partners and three black cats, so they might not be all that far off. Their current crafting interests lean heavily into paper crafts (like card making) and textiles (patchwork, quilting, and embroidery) but loves embellishments so has more rhinestones and ribbons than sense.
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