So much work to do.

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We leave the dog run open unless they're locked up in it for their own safety. Yesterday was cold, and these two ran and ran and ran all day long, and then mid-afternoon, they went into the dog run, made nests out of the bales, and promptly fell asleep in the sun.

I wish I could sleep like that. It's been at least three months since I've had a real night's sleep, and it's breaking me. Rest is the one thing people with autoimmune disease cannot do without, and it's the one thing I apparently can no longer have for any price. It's affecting my ability to think, never mind work, and I have so much work to do, because I still have a couple of very big one-off bills to pay this month, and I have to bring in the sales to cover them.

Those two new pieces I mentioned Monday night are both up at NDN Silver finally, and they are gorgeous; you can see them here and here. Two more major necklaces are coming soon, both hearts for Valentine's Day (and at least one possible as early as this evening), plus a hook bracelet, and also the next grouping in his series The Winter Elementals, which should be up Sunday, if all goes well. This is our most expensive month of the year anyway (followed very closely by July, and that's not even counting April, which is tax month, in this). So while we had a far better holiday sales season than I could ever have hoped, we still have to keep the cycle going. This is our livelihood, after all, and there's a lot of expense ahead, medical and otherwise (and this has to be the year the drill the well because there's no other option at this point; "first thing," indeed). It's a twelve-hundred-year drought, and it's killing everything.

It always comes back to that one thing: more sales. A lot more, because we have two years' worth of a shattered pandemic economy to make up for, by which I mean we need to gain more ground ourselves financially to be able to be sure of making it through the winter and the rest of the year. If I could sell one of the big works, like the belt, maybe I could get us on the drill list for the well that is the only thing that's going to keep this land alive. But I've got way too much to do and too few hours and other resources to do it. Which means that I'll be stepping back significantly in terms of my online presence, because there's just too much else to do, and I am no longer well enough to maintain the kind of pace I once did.

So, since we have to continue to make sales, links are here, and there's new work up today, with more to come this week:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the ladders);
• 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 twelve whole months of a new year, plus put aside enough for a new well when the ground thaws enough to drill in the spring. And there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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