WILD.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

That was what showed up here today, and it was WILD. The latest wave is coming right now, and in between, while the sun was out? That was when the Internet chose to crap out completely for well over an hour. No notification, no explanation, nothing, just eventually back up again.

We have no fucking infrastructure here, and they keep making it worse.

We have the truck back, thank all that's holy, and I think he gave us a break because of the problems reaching him for so long, because it wasn't as much as he had quoted us originally. Still costly, though. And on top of everything else . . . .

Speaking of storms, we still need the metaphorical kind of rain, too. I'm so relieved to have the tax thing [mostly] in the rear-view now that it feels like a ten-ton boulder has rolled off my chest. I didn't realize how little I was able to breathe, and I mean that literally, all summer long until now. Now, if I can just bring in regular, steady sales between now and Christmas, life will be much easier, or at least less capable of killing body and spirit. My body, at least, is close enough to the edge as it is, with incessant pain that never gives me a break, and at least as many nights as not keeps me from sleeping at all. Like, say, last night. Again. I have felt like absolute hell on every single level all day today, but stuff has to get done.

But I do still have to bring in those sales, and this would be a good time to start. It would be really helpful to get September under way with a few good sales to begin the month, and the fall season. There's still the roof replacement, there will always be more medical, there's so much that needs to be covered. And I will need help to make all of it happen.

There is a ton of new work on the site from just the last couple of weeks [with three or four new bracelets in the works currently [one shown above, a wristband], and some collectible items coming soon] the top item brand-new today: 

• Completed just over the 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 ppeline that needs covering [truck, 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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