Breathing room.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

Two more works in progress, these for inventory. He's got some commissioned/honor gifts in the works that are taking a lot of studio time, but he's filling in inventory around them as he can. And yes, these will be two different pieces, both of them dual-strand cuffs, one with the turquoise focal and another (the first of the cuff strands is out of camera range in the foreground) with a focal out of tiger iron.

No idea yet when they'll be available for purchase, but I posted five new pieces last night, here. The Spirit Lines barrettes have already sold, but the other four works remain available, as well as a lot of other extraordinary Indigenous fine silverwork in inventory. If I could sell the other four works, plus another three or four, I could take care of what's left to pay and be able to breathe a little bit. Breathing room is something I haven't had this year.

My whole focus now has to be on making sales. All of it. If I don't bring in more income soon, we're done, and there is no way around that. Not this month, not next month, not the rest of the year. This has been a spectacularly bad year for sales (and my Patreon, too, which is down several hundred dollars a month [one patron kindly gave me a few months' heads-up, but the rest is just cancellations and attrition courtesy of a terrible economy]), and between last year's installment payments (now done) and next year's quarterly payments (not done), the tax burden is killing us. 

As I said yesterday, my health is killing me, too, and the financial stresses are only compounding that. I know people don't understand what my illness actually does. The constant barrage to my immune system from the COVID vaccines is only making it worse, and there's nothing I can do for any of it. I would like to catch a break on something in this mess, but apparently that's going to be denied me yet again. The financial stuff has me at the absolute end of my tether, and I need help.

All the links are here; please, share them, too (and there's a new wishlist priority, the automatic composter, which will do wonders for saving on waste and allow Wings to compost the land and trees regularly even through the winter; my physical function is impaired enough now that things can only get done if I have the help of equipment like this):

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are, first and foremost, the automatic composter and the wheelbarrow, then the other ladder);
• 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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