Hello! We are James and Angel - a very silly couple living in Houston, Texas. We have been fascinated by the natural world for our entire lives, and have both been heavily involved in passing along knowledge to younger generations through professional childcare, education, and public outreach efforts. Stone and Strata was founded to further our goal of establishing a widely accessible gemological and natural history museum. We accumulate mineral and fossil samples of both visual and academic interest, and use proceeds from selling some of the samples to expand our collection and work towards opening a museum to display the collection in.