All the signs of a hard winter ahead.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

That was late this morning. A few more puffy white clouds, a difference in the angle of the light, but that's all that's changed since. It's a beautiful day. Then again, this is our most beautiful time of year. 

You can't see it in this shot, but the aspen line started going gold three days ago. That's virtually a whole month early. We really are showing all the signs of a hard winter ahead.

 

Of course, here, "hard" = "good" when talking about winter. We need the cold and the heavy snow. But my task right now is to make sure it's not a hard winter in the other sense, meaning monetarily, and right now, I'm not doing very well at it. No sale so far this week, and I really do still need to make at least one sale between now and tonight. I'm already down on the month.

The rest of the month [hell, the rest of the year] is going to be geared around making sales, because I don't have a choice about that. No sales yet this week, and I'm so tired after all the nonsense of this year to date, but I can't let up, because so far, we're not even breaking even on the year, and I will have to worry about next year's tax bill soon enough. I need to bring in at least on sale this week, preferably two or even three. And Spirit knows he's got a ton of new work up on the site (with a new naja pendant, a new big necklace, and a new dual-strand cuff to be finished shortly, too, as well as hopefully, some new coil bracelets soon, in addition to all those new earrings, including those five pairs up there in waiting):

• Completed just last weekend, two absolutely phenomenal new cuffs, here and here;
• Completed the previous weekend, an all-new wristband, here;
• One extraordinary new belt buckle set with an incredible Skystone, here;
• Another new vintage-style cuff with a mysterious Skystone, here;
• Three new pairs of earrings in his gemstone-bead series, here, here, and here;
• Three new cuffs from last week, two set with incredible turquoise focals, one solid silver; go here, here, and here.
• Six pairs of new concha floral earrings in the Earrings Gallery here [larger are garnet, golden rutilated quartz, and malachite; smaller are amber, carnelian, and iolite];
• Art Deco Labradorite cuff here;  
• Triangle wire youth bangle here; 
• Art Nouveau vine pattern-wire youth bangle here; 
• Small Art Nouveau pattern-wire bangle pair here; 
• Malachite butterfly/leaf-wing earrings here; 
• A big solid silver classic cuff here; 
• Ten new pairs of the gemstone-bead earrings are also up in the Earrings Gallery;
• And another new cuff is also here. 

There's more on the way very soon. And I need to sell them all, because I still need to make multiple sales daily for us to catch up on the year [and that's just breaking even] and cover all the stuff still in the pipeline that needs covering [roof, more medical, etc.]. 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 far worse than the last, we really need to get what's left of 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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