It's always something.

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More work in progress; earrings, all. These are pairs that he had intended to get done back in September/October, but . . . this is what our schedule has been like all year.

It's always something.

Anyway, he's hoping to have them done in a couple of days, and if so, that will be another five pairs, albeit mostly in autumnal shades. I haven't even been able to get the new coils posted yet.

But that's what the pace is like this time of year. Looking forward to being able to breathe again in a few weeks; I just wish we could have snow with it.

We were blessed with a really good sale last week, so the pressure to cover immediate things would have been off in a few days when the payment clears, were it not for the thieves that shoved our account into negatives. But even aside from that bullshit, there's still all the rest, all the stuff we couldn't cover all year because of one catastrophe after another, the taxes that still need to be prepaid, all the January bills that will be here before we know it [which include truck insurance and a whole bunch of business-related expenses that come due once a year, but total well into four figures]. So we still need to make the equivalent of a sale a day now, on average. And he has so much new work!  I'm hoping to pull another late night to get five of them up yet. yeah, I know, I shouldn't, but it has to be done, because the last two years have all but killed us financially, and we're almost out of year. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [somebody got the vacuum! which makes priorities now the thermos and the rugs];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly [daily now, really] sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.           

Red Willow Spirit: The Gift of Winter's Evergreen

Photo copyright Wings, 2025;
all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for what should be full winter now but is nothing like it, in a tribute to the heavy snows and heavier cold of Decembers past. It's two images linked by a single all-new work of wearable art, completed only days ago, all of them designed to honor the blessings of the cold season here, and the gift of winter's evergreen.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. This is it: two weeks left in the year to catch up. The last two years have been nightmares of catastrophic repairs and other astronomical costs, and the damage has been incalculable. We now need to bring in multiple sales virtually daily just to break even on the year.

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This day . . . .

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This day . . . .

First, it was dealing with the theft of our debit card data. We had to call it in, then go into town to the bank to file the affidavit and sign, etc., etc. The we have to wait from the claw OUR MONEY BACK.

I am so fed up. We don't use our card at sketchy places, IRL or online. Somebody either stole it outright, or somebody got hacked; either way, I guarantee you that it'll be like it was 3 years ago, and we'll find out that a ton of local folks had the same thing happen. But I am pissed; we didn't have time to waste two days on this now, nor do we have the ability to lose that kind of scratch, especially right now.

Anyway, there was that, and a bunch of other things, and so ONCE AGAIN I'm only now getting to my work, which, I should point out, is OUR work, what pays the bills, but it's always lowest priority for seemingly everyone and everything. I'm fucking tired, and I'm fed up. Oh, and of course, snowclouds this morning notwithstanding, there is no snow, and no real cold, and no winter, either.

We were blessed with a really good sale last week, so the pressure to cover immediate things would have been off in a few days when the payment clears, were it not for the thieves that shoved our account into negatives. But even aside from that bullshit, there's still all the rest, all the stuff we couldn't cover all year because of one catastrophe after another, the taxes that still need to be prepaid, all the January bills that will be here before we know it [which include truck insurance and a whole bunch of business-related expenses that come due once a year, but total well into four figures]. So we still need to make the equivalent of a sale a day now, on average. And he has so much new work!  I'm hoping to pull another late night to get five of them up yet. yeah, I know, I shouldn't, but it has to be done, because the last two years have all but killed us financially, and we're almost out of year. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priority is the vacuum! mine died two weeks ago, and we're being suffocated by dog hair];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly [daily now, really] sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.           

Monday Photo Meditation: A Spirit of Piñon and Sage In Winter

Photo copyright Wings, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for the midpoint of a December of trickster conditions that look and feel nothing like winter now. It's an image that dates back some twenty years or so, with Coyote in residence, a spirit of piñon and sage in winter and a cousin to this evening's celestial canine harbinger, the sun dog.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. This is it: just over two weeks left in the year to catch up. The last two years have been nightmares of catastrophic repairs and other astronomical costs, and the damage has been incalculable. We now need to bring in multiple sales virtually daily just to break even on the year.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.          

Finished.

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Okay, here's what it looks like finished. It's not up yet, but it will be late tonight. The cabs in the pendant and earrings are all Welo opals, and the beads are also [mostly Welo opals, a mix of greens with some orange and white, plus fine silver, Madagascar Labradorite, gray moonstone tapered bugles, and tiny emerald beads. And I think he's planning to sell it as a set, which he almost never does, but this one? It doesn't seem right to break it apart.

In addition, there are two coil bracelets going up tonight. One is greens [no opals, mostly jades, but it looks like it belongs with this set] with some black and white; the other, fiery, smoky reds, like the new gemstone-bead necklace from the other night, a mix of smoky quartz, red spiny oyster, red jasper, and a few other things. All already available for purchase, and shipping this week should [not guaranteed, but should] get items there in time for Christmas.

I also posted four pairs of earrings last night, in addition to the new works from last week:  sterling and citrine, here; sterling and malachite, here [and already sold]; sterling and iolite, here; and sterling and natural Oregon sunstone, here. Last week's are that extraordinary solstice pendant [and I now have a photo with the chain, athough it's not posted yet]; two small barrette pairs, one set with malachite, the other with snowflake obsidian; and those two gemstone-bead necklaces, the one in fiery, smoky reds, the other in stormy, shadowy blues. All are available immediately, and we have a little over a week in which we can ship and still likely get it there in time for Christmas.

We were blessed with a really good sale last week, so the pressure to cover immediate things will be off in a few days when the payment clears. But there's still all the rest, all the stuff we couldn't cover all year because of one catastrophe after another, the taxes that still need to be prepaid, all the January bills that will be here before we know it [which include truck insurance and a whole bunch of business-related expenses that come due once a year, but total well into four figures]. So we still need to make the equivalent of a sale a day now, on average. And he has so much new work!  I'm hoping to pull another late night to get five of them up yet. yeah, I know, I shouldn't, but it has to be done, because the last two years have all but killed us financially, and we're almost out of year. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priority is the vacuum! mine died two weeks ago, and we're being suffocated by dog hair];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly [daily now, really] sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.           

The Cedar's Wintry Magic

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's one of Wings's all-new works, completed only yesterday — a pair of earrings for the moment when the cedar bird spreads her wings. It's a pair that's already sold, too, but the feature stones so extraordinary that they deserve to be seen, rich forest greens that resemble a bird's wings, in a setting manifest with all the beauty and power of the cedar's wintry magic.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. This is it: fewer than three weeks left in the year to catch up. The last two years have been nightmares of catastrophic repairs and other astronomical costs, and the damage has been incalculable. We now need to bring in multiple sales virtually daily just to break even on the year.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.        

The rest will all be up tonight.

Photo copyright Ai, 2025; all rights reserved.

Here's the opal dragonfly set [sold as separate pieces]. The pendant is now on a strand of beads that took all afternoon, basically, because those opal rondels had such impossibly tiny drillwork:  Welo opal beads, very small, mostly greenish with some orange and white, plus fine silver, Madagascar Labradorite, gray moonstone tapered bugels, and genuine emerald.  It's strung, but he hasn't gotten as far as the findings yet, so that will post tomorrow. The rest will all be up tonight. The citrine earrings are already; they're today's feature, here.

Today has been a bitch of a day across the board, which is why I'm only getting to my own work now, and I got less than nothing done of what I actually had planned for the day. So tomorrow is going to have to be mine, and it's going to have to be enforced, because I have too work to get caught up and it cannot wait any longer.

Meanwhile, the other day I posted four new works in addition to Wednesday's extraordinary solstice pendant: two small barrette pairs, one set with malachite, the other with snowflake obsidian; and two gemstone-bead necklaces, one in fiery, smoky reds, the other in stormy, shadowy blues. All are available immediately, and we have a little over a week in which we can ship and still likely get it there in time for Christmas.

We were blessed with a really good sale a few nights ago, so the pressure to cover immediate things will be off in a few days when the payment clears. But there's still all the rest, all the stuff we couldn't cover all year because of one catastrophe after another, the taxes that still need to be prepaid, al the January bills that will be here before we know it. So we still need to make the equivalent of a sale a day now, on average. And he has so much new work!  I'm hoping to pull another late night to get five of them up yet. yeah, I know, I shouldn't, but it has to be done, because the last two years have all but killed us financially, and we're almost out of year. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priority is the vacuum! mine died two weeks ago, and we're being suffocated by dog hair];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly [daily now, really] sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.