Horizontal.

I made these necklaces a couple months ago from resale store pins.  I liked the idea of making them into horizontal pendants rather than the more common vertical type.  Lucky for me, all three sold while I was consigning at Design Collective in Minneapolis.  

While there are plenty of resale stores out here in San Francisco, many don't have the same price ranges that I'm used, but I'm still on the hunt for the good deals!

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.  

Lately I been plunking my time and energy into making jewelry.  The hope is that if I send enough local boutiques photos of my pieces, they'll want to sell them for me, and then I can eat dinner that is a step up from peanut butter sandwiches.

Sea Bean Pendants:

 

Rifle Shells and Charms:

 

Rock Pendants: