Tiger Dust

Journal · field notes · essays

Writing from the shop.

Longer pieces — how we clean a skull, the history behind a mourning brooch, a pinball machine that came in weird. Not a blog in the SEO sense. Posts when they’re ready, nothing when they’re not.


What’s on the shelves right now

What’s on the shelves right now

A snapshot from the first week of May.

Vintage rings, religious medals, hand-poured candles, hats, chainmaille jewelry, and a card spinner full of local prints. Most of this won’t be here next month.

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A short tour

A short tour

Door to back wall, in five photos.

How to find us, what it looks like once you’re inside, and a few small things people miss the first time through.

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A few honest weirdos

A few honest weirdos

Singular objects that belong to nobody but themselves.

The Skink Angel, a sacred-heart plate with comic speech bubbles, a bottle of Lourdes water, a porcelain doll holding NO FUTURE, and one mossy gentleman.

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Meatball, she/her

Meatball, she/her

Head of HR. Listens well. Does not pet.

A tarantula on the counter, a corporate title, a memorial scroll for her predecessor, and a binder of customer fan art. Meet Meatball.

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Marcellus

Marcellus

Now in the shop

Fifty years in a secret storage unit. He's listening. Tell him a secret. Watch him bloom.

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A wunderkammer in Seminole Heights, Tampa — the shop that kept the weird ones.

New arrivals, event nights, the occasional rambling essay. No spam — we barely check email ourselves.