What's here, and why

The first thing I ever collected was a mini Mjolnir — Thor's hammer, small enough to close a hand around. I still sell a version of it. That's more or less how all of this started. I liked small objects that stood for something, and I kept buying them.

For a while I ran a vending machine in a mall, stocked with Funko Pops. One of my first customers bought one and told me the machine was the best part. He had a point. The machine is gone now. The inventory isn't, and this is where the rest of it goes.

On the jade

When I was a kid, my parents gave me a piece of jade. They told me that jade and the person who wears it look after each other — that the relationship runs in both directions.

I can't prove that. I've also never stopped believing it.

It's why the jade side of the collection exists at all, and it's why every piece here is certified by the Gem & Jade Quality Supervision Inspection Office of Yunnan. If someone is going to wear a stone for thirty years on the strength of something their parents told them, the stone should at least be real.

On Middletown

The town is changing, and I like the direction. There are family storefronts that have held their corner of North Street for decades, and newer places arriving with a different kind of ambition. Both are welcome. It's a small, busy, mixed downtown getting more interesting every year, and I'd rather sell from here than from nowhere in particular.

That's also why there's a directory of neighbouring businesses on this site. If you're coming to collect an order, you may as well make an afternoon of it.

Pickup

Pickup is at Jason Place, Middletown. Text 917-809-8958 and I'll sort out the details with you.

Buy three items and take 15% off when you collect them in person.

What I won't put on this site

Nothing here is written to alarm you, and no product is described as doing something it can't. Jade is sold as jade. Traditions are described as traditions. That's the whole policy.