Fraught.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

More of his work in progress; he didn't get much time to work on it today, because long-postponed errands took up most of it. Those black smudges are oxidation, which gets swabbed on, then buffed off, both to give it a lightly aged look and to make the stampwork pop. The big stone is Koroit opal, which comes from the lands of Koroit, Asutralia, and here it's in brecciated host rock, only little matrix hints of blue fore showing (which you can see on its lower left if you click on the photo here). Also tiger's eye, lapis lazuli, golden rutilated quartz, iolite, citrine, and more iolite. Might be ready as early as tomorrow; my guess is more likely on Sunday.

This weekend is going to be fraught. Today was the Feast of San G, and we didn't go, because pandemic. Bad enough to have to be crushed in with unmasked and infectious rude colonizers at the grocery store; we're not going to subject ourselves to it voluntarily in this context. We also got our notifications today for our bivalent boosters: Next Thursday, which means that we'll be scramblin to work around the rain Sunday through Thrusday, and then recovering from whatever this iteration does to flatten us thereafter.

Meanwhile, there's so much work to be done on every front; so much that lies ahead of us these next three months. And Wings needs to be creating more for holiday inventory, but as I've said, he needs to be able to stock up on silver for for that, and with it having tripled in cost just this year, I don't know how we manage it. So I'm doing my usual juggling act, trying to make everything work with too few resources.

I posted five new works by Wings a few nights ago, here, and four remain available (the iolite ring is sold), plus another new cuff Monday, here. They're all amazing, so go look, share, buy if you're in the market. [If I could sell them all? I could get the taxes off my desk for the rest of the year, and some other stuff, too.] All the other links are here; please, share them too:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priority is first and foremost, the other ladder and the wheelbarrow);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

We're still hoping to put aside enough for a new well when the ground thaws enough to drill in the spring, too, Nah, we've given up on the well. No one's available to drill before late next year at the earliest, and this year's tax burden means we would never be able to afford it anyway. But it's even more of a good time to make a purchase, because Uncle Sam is a vindictive colonizer, and my current stress levels about paying it all are off the charts. And there's lots of fabulous work, so please share all of the links. 

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