Inverted order today.

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Beautiful clear day, albeit with a hint of haze. The big twinned cottonwoods down the road are changing color measurably by the day now. The last two days' worth of heavy rains and cold nights have got a lot of leaves turning fast now.

Cold nights, but still no hard freeze. As you can see, the ragwort is still thriving [it'll be like cockroaches, able to survive any kind of collapse]. Which means that I still can't breathe, and I'm absolutely miserable, both for the whole, you know, lack of breathing thing, and also the pain levels jacked into the stratosphere and attendant inability to sleep.

And still no sales. None last week; none so far this week.

Inverted order today, because Wings is finishing up that big piece to feature today. He still has to string the beads and attach the findings, and that might be a quick process, or a very long one, depending on whether the colors and shapes and sizes come together properly on the first try or not. So it might be tonight before I have today's NDN Silver post up, but it'll be there; the work itself is also going to be phenomenal, so watch for it.

Meanwhile, there's lots of other new work. Around 5:30 yesterday morning [because no sleep, again], I got his new naja pendant up, here, and his new cuff, here [which is also featured in yesterday's post on the site]. The former features both an interior pendant and amber cabs at the ends; the latter is extraordinary, two strands of Deco butterflies set with something that's not a stone, but is phenomenal all the same. Tomorrow [Wednesday] should be the new necklace, which is also amazing, shades of purple and red and black together. And he has new earrings in the works, four pairs of sterling silver tab earrings with amazing stampwork, and eventually, the Picasso jaspers again. If I could sell them all, I'd feel a lot more confident about the next several weeks.

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. 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. Also, all indications are for extreme weather this winter [and potentially this afternoon, too], and our generator needs a solar panel set-up; it's now at the top of the wishlist, because at ~$500, there's no way we can afford it. But there's tons of new work on the site, in addition to all that's coming up shortly, so go look:

• 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 (Priority is that solar panel set for the generator at the top of the list; part of prepping for a hard winter. Next to that, 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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