CUSTOM DESIGNS BY

Starr Wilde

Artist Starr Wilde creates everything you need for your alter ego:

Bags & Purses; Barrettes & Hair combs, Hair Tiaras; Binoculars/Opera Glasses; BTS merchandise- Photocards, custom jewelry etc; Canes- including telescope canes and ones that break down; Clocks; Crossbows-Wrist Gauntlets; Fans; Garters-Arm & Leg for Men and Women; Gauntlets & Bracers (including Vegan options); Gloves; Goggles & Glasses; Hats & Helmets; Home Decor- including Christmas Ornaments & Wreaths; Jewelry- Bracelets, Cufflinks, Earrings- Clips & Pierced, Necklaces, Pins/Brooches, Rings, Tie Tacks & More; Masks; Parasols; Pocketwatches; Purses; Ray Guns; Skirt Lifters; Stockings/Thigh Highs; Tea Dueling Supplies (including Vegan options); Top Hats- Mini & Full; Umbrellas; Vintage Ladies Jewelry Collection- Performers from the Belle Epoque photos into jewelry; Watches; Weaponry-Knives & Swords (Real and Replica); Wings and More. Starr can also repair your precious jewelry, restring pearls, change pierced earrings to clip earrings or clip earrings to pierced earrings. She can also work with you to design a custom piece of jewelry or hat, or weapons etc. She can also customize any piece we have in stock such as adding a veil to a hat, etc. Call or e-mail to make an appointment. Visit our store: Steampunk Fortress.

JADE

Jade is the birthstone for March. Jade displays hues including green, white, pink, red, black, brown and violet. Over the centuries "the stone of heaven" ignited emotions, compassion and obsession of the powerful in Asia and caught the rich and famous of the West in the 19th century. In Antiquity, as well as in the Middle Ages people believed that the cosmos is reflected in gemstones. Jade is assigned to the planets Jupiter and Pluto. This gem is regarded as a symbol of the good, the beautiful and the precious. It embodies the Confucian virtues of wisdom, justice, compassion, modesty and courage. One test for genuine jade is to hold it up to a bright light. If possible, examine the internal structure with a 10X loupe. Can you see little fibrous or granular, felt-like, asbestos-like intertwinings? If so, it's probably genuine nephrite or jadeite.