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Cairo Steele

@cairosteele.com

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Artist & leatherworker. NSFW 🔞 33, trans-masc, they/he New gear drops frequently! http://shop.cairosteele.com http://cairosteele.com http://ko-fi.com/cairosteele https://trello.com/b/vp6V9y6z http://cairosteele.carrd.co

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Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · Aug 9

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Hi, I'm Cairo! I'm a trans leatherworker! I specialize in bondage gear, but I also make wallets, bracers, bags- you name it!

Shop: shop.cairosteele.com

Portfolio and pricing info: www.cairosteele.com

Collar commission application: forms.gle/Pw4E1G6ETHWv...

A handmade leather collar. It has a medium brown base strap with tooled scrollwork across the entire body and a feather on one side. The scrollwork is painted white and turquoise, and the feather is metallic silver. The top straps of the collar are dark brown with silver colored hardware. It's lined with super soft white rabbit fur and stitched together with white thread.

A handmade leather collar and matching short leash. The base straps are golden brown and tooled with vines, flowers, and gears across the entire body of both collar and leash. The vines are painted green with red flowers, and the gears are various shades of metallic gold. The collar has dark brown top straps with brass hardware and a dark red liner.

A handmade leather collar in bright pansexual pride colors. The top strap is magenta over a yellow base strap and aqua liner. It has nickel hardware and white stitching.

A handmade leather wallet. The shell of the wallet is natural beige with blue and pink marbled stripes resembling a trans flag. The interior of the wallet is solid natural beige with a makers mark in the bottom right corner. The wallet has white stitching around the edges.

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 1h

Make no mistake though, Antonio Banderas was the best part of that movie

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 1h

Book Armand: A cherubic young boy with curly auburn hair
1994 Armand:

a man with long black hair is wearing a red coat

Alt: gif of Antonio Banderas as Armand in Interview with the Vampire (1994)

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Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 4h

TRULY

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 4h

We really do, Etsy has just become offbrand Amazon at this point 😭

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 4h

No, it’s more like a webhost than a market, which is how I ended up on Etsy in the first place— but I will say, after a couple years on Etsy, I only had maybe 2 sales that came from Etsy search. Discoverability is dismal if you’re not paying them for advertising

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 4h

(Real talk though, I’m saving about $1k a year by switching from Etsy [which charges a % fee] to Shopify [which charges a flat fee]. It was extremely painless to move, highly recommend)

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 4h

Etsy sent me a bill for $0.20 lmao

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 4h

Jesus Christ Etsy haven’t you taken enough from me??

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 4h

I don’t know how I’ll ever pay it off 😩

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 4h

Etsy sent me a bill for $0.20 lmao

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 4h

Suspicious windows update right as win10 support is ending… is Microsoft about to brick my computer

Reposted by Cairo Steele

Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 5h

BSky! Clearly you need some spooky books for the ides of spooky season! Well I GOTCHU

Ghosts and monsters and haunted Canadian landscapes, oh my 😱😱😱

...and hey look they're on sale!

🍁: www.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/...

B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/s/amelinda%2...

👿: www.amazon.com/stores/Ameli...

Three books by Amelinda Berube: The Ones Who Come Back Hungry, Here There Are Monsters, and The Dark Beneath The Ice

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 5h

Mom, to my sibling: I should get you one of those giant dog beds for people
Me: Haha, everyone I know has one of those dog beds
Sibling: Everyone you know is furries
Me: TRUE

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 5h

RIGHT?? I’m in love with this jade green dye, I need to use it more

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 5h

Some progress from today! The pull collar just needs to be stitched, and this lovely burgundy and jade collar is coming along beautifully as well

A jade leather pull collar with undyed leather top straps and liner, and brass hardware

A wip leather collar with a jade base strap between a burgundy top strap and liner. It has been dyed, but not burnished or punched for assembly yet

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 5h

Thank you so much, that's so lovely to hear 💜

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 5h

MELLO 😭💜

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 6h

*Rings a large cowbell* PUPPY COLLARS! COME AND GET 'EM!

shop.cairosteele.com/collections/...

#BSNM #handmade #leather #bondage #bdsm #TransArtist #QueerArtist #furry #PupPlay #PetPlay

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 9h

Two new puppy collars hitting the shop at 6pm est TONIGHT! These will be the last puppy collars for a bit, until I restock on hardware!

shop.cairosteele.com/collections/...

#BSNM #handmade #leather #bondage #bdsm #TransArtist #QueerArtist #furry #PupPlay #PetPlay

Two leather puppy collars, stacked. The top is marbled orange and black, with black hardware; the bottom is marbled violet and black, with black hardware. Both have a side-release buckle, D-ring, and adjustable slider.

Both collars unbuckled and laid flat

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 6h

Entirely possible

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 7h

#CairoCar Oh, and I DID replace the camshaft position sensor, but back 9/12. Yes, this is my log for when I have to tell my mechanic everything I did >_<

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 7h

The shaking and misfire previously would start mild if the car had been sitting a while, and then get progressively worse as I drove it. It's hard to say after only 10 mi but it definitely wasn't worse by the end, if anything it felt smoother? We shall see what happens

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 7h

I had intended to empty the tank (just under 1/2 full) before I did this and fill it up with fresh gas, but this turned out to be annoying to do so I just dumped the bottle in and filled it the rest of the way up. Took a trip to the grocery store (~10mi round trip) and its still shaky but WAY less

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 7h

#CairoCar update: Okay, after procrastinating on taking it in to the mechanic for an entire month (I hate spending money lmao), I decided to do one last desperate attempt at a fix and dumped a bottle of techron in the fuel tank. Presumably I need to drive it around for a while to let that circulate?

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 8h

Thank you!!

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 9h

Two new puppy collars hitting the shop at 6pm est TONIGHT! These will be the last puppy collars for a bit, until I restock on hardware!

shop.cairosteele.com/collections/...

#BSNM #handmade #leather #bondage #bdsm #TransArtist #QueerArtist #furry #PupPlay #PetPlay

Two leather puppy collars, stacked. The top is marbled orange and black, with black hardware; the bottom is marbled violet and black, with black hardware. Both have a side-release buckle, D-ring, and adjustable slider.

Both collars unbuckled and laid flat

Cairo Steele @cairosteele.com · 13h

I recognized that Nic Cage sticker IMMEDIATELY