Pyrite

Over the weekend I visited one of the most amazing stores in San Francisco, Paxton Gate.  It's located on Valencia Street in the Mission between 19th and 20th street.  Paxton Gate offers unique landscaping services but it's store is filled with wonderful artifacts of the natural world.  Various taxidermy line the walls along with terrariums filled with moss and succulents.  They have wonderful one-of-a-kind jewelry, numerous books on critters and gardening, and carnivorous plants to rid you of any fruit fly problems.  I found a nice chunk of pyrite for $3 and turned it into this hefty piece of jewelry.

I highly recommend stopping in to see what beautiful creations they have come up with and it's a perfect place to buy a one-of-a-kind gift.