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.

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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.           

Winter's Wings of Golden Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an all new work, completed only today, a pair of earrings in the shapes and shades of the Sunbird's feathers. It's a subtle, gentle, yet bold and brilliant pair of dangling drops, sunny citrine at the center of winter's wings of golden light.

The post is herehttps://wingssilverwork.com/winters-wings-of-golden-light/. 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.        

Done, but not done.

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Okay, so I was wrong. The new ones are done, but not done. Today wound up being constant derailments and chaos for multiple reasons, and he was lucky to get them this close to finished. 

One pair of earrings is not in the shot; it's on his anvil, in the same phase of completion [meaning stones set, but wires not attached]. That pair, and those in the upper right, both have different stones from what I said they would be, too . . . because apparently vendors do not know what the word "calibrated" means, and the size they insist a stone is is not the actual size at all, and I had to scramble to find him stones that would fit the bezels already made for them. Upper left is citrine now instead of Labradorite; on the anvil are malachite instead of turquoise.

They'll be done tomorrow, and hopefully I'll get them all posted then, too.

Meanwhile, yesterday 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 days 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.           

Friday Feature: A Cold Clear Geometry of Mystical Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a single work shown from four perspectives, one whose ethereal focal stone and freehand silverwork embody the geometry of light. It's a cuff bracelet with extraordinary silversmithing and a truly otherworldly cabochon of banded golden Labradorite, together capturing this season's gift of a cold clear geometry of mystical light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. This is it: 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.        

Four new pairs of earrings that'll be done tomorrow.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

More work in progress; four new pairs of earrings that'll be done tomorrow. That's in addition to a pendant and a coordinating pair of earrings [those will have Welo opals], and gemstone-bead necklaces, earrings, and coils in various stages of completion. These four pairs are going to be spectacular:  The long millwork pairs will be old turquoise and blue-flash Labradorite, respectively; the conchas will be sunstone and iolite.

Meanwhile, today I posted four new works in addition to yesterday'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 arrives [and clears, of course]. 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 days 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.