Today's been a mess.

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More work in progress. Wait 'til you see what he's planning on doing with this one, though. 

He got a little studio time late in the day; that was it, though. Today's been a mess. The truck is going to set us back at least two grand [cash]; we had to go in and give him half down to order the part today. Yeah, a thousand bucks, cash, right off the top. Ugh.

The one bit of good news [not really, but it's more convenient] is that we can probably get out of next week's roof repairs for something over a thousand. Hopefully. This is a stopgap; they're going to re-do the brai and torch it down properly this time. We need to wait for everything to dry out to do the ProPanel [sheet metal], so they'll do that in the fall.  Which means that it's actually going to cost a hell of a lot more, but here we are.

So while last week's sales/breathing room helps right this moment, over the long time, it hasn't materially changed a lot of things. The expenses from last year and the first half ofput a big chunk on our tax bill, which is weighing heavily on me constantly. I have four child bangles and a pair of earrings that I an optimistically hoping to get to tonight [unlikely; this is two days in a row of no sleep, so I'm not very functional], plus that other pair of earrings that I mentioned. He has multiple pairs of bezel-set gemstone earrings, two pairs of silverwork-and-stone earrings, and I think four new bracelets in the works, too, finally getting a chance to get caught up a bit on stuff that he's had to back-burner since last year. And I will still need to make sales at a rate of at least two per week for the rest of the year for us to catch up [and that's just breaking even]. So: Go buy! Please! Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Amazon cards are probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one already even worse than the last, we really need to get 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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