Every spare minute now.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

We're both at it every spare minute now, trying to prep for the holiday season, which begins in October and is normally the time of year when we [hope we] sell enough to make it through the long, brutal half-year of winter. Unfortunately, spare minutes are increasingly scarce, and today was awful; today's errands and associated bureaucratic bullshit took us half the day, and entailed dealing with a bunch of health-code violating maskless colonizer bullshit, as well.

Before we get to the usual, there is a young Indigenous family who has one shot at buying a home of their own on their home tribal lands. We shuffled some things and I put off a couple of things and we donated. You should donate, too, here. Time is of the essence, and they're up over $20K as of this moment, which is great, but they've got along way to go. As I understand it, the list cost of the house is $45K, but then there are closing costs and also the repairs without which, unless completed, there will be no closing, of course. But it's doable! So help them do it.

Meanwhile, I have to make sales in a pandemic-ridden climate where almost no one's buying, because folks are afraid of how much worse all of this might get. We were blessed yesterday by a donation from one pair of friends and two sales by two others, and now I'm not worried about making it out of September in one piece. But I still have to make sales to get us through the rest of the year, I have to bring in something somehow, and I can't do it alone. I especially can't do it alone when it comes to bringing in enough to remedy the disaster depicted in those photos in Monday's post. Oh, and I added those damn ladders to our Amazon wishlist, since Wings insists on cosplaying the Lorax these days, and I'd like him to keep life and limb (his, anyway) intact.

Wings has 2 new pairs of earrings and another new cuff coming up tomorrow, plus the next two of the gemstone bead sets for fall hopefully also this weekend. I've also already posted 4 new pairs of silverwork earrings here (one of those is now sold), the first of those pairs of silver-and-stone earrings and one complete group (necklace/earrings/coil) of gemstone bead jewelry here, a second three-piece gemstone bead collection here, and five new pieces that I posted last Monday: three Warrior Woman pins, two absolutely incredible new cuffs. If I could sell them, or any combination of any of his other newish pieces, it would get us out of this month. If I could sell one of the big ones, like one of the belts, maybe I could get us on the drill list. But I've got way too much to do and too few hours and other resources to do it. 

But there's all that new work, and I'd be grateful to everyone who shares all of it, and of course, if you're in the market, keep us in mind for purchases. Thanks to a dear friend, it looks like I'll be able to pay our quarterly taxes later this week and our other bills, but there is still my eye appointment to schedule (that'll set us back about $1K before it's done), and I really do need to build up some reserves to get us just a tiny bit ahead of the eight-ball of expenses.

Anyway, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are the ladders, because see above, and coffee coffee coffee, and Miika's LaminaSaver supplement);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to cover all this staggering outlay somehow and get us through what's left of the year. And right now? I have no way to do it.  But there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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