Scarier than anything Halloween has to offer.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

That's all that was left after dawn:  bright blue skies, with alpine winds kicking up ground blizzards off the peaks. Scattered bands of puffy white clouds have been around since that point, but it's been basically clear and cool and blindingly bright. And still no hard freeze, but maybe tonight.

Or not.

We still haven't had a first snow down here at the base of the mountains, and we're fast running out of month for it to happen. If that scenario comes to pass, we [we, collectively, the whole area, the land, the watersheds] are in trouble. That's scarier than anything Halloween has to offer.

As I said yesterday, I'm still trying to get caught up, and I'll be at it for the rest of the year, obviously. I'm slowly getting to everything [yes, yesterday was a workday for me, too, like every other, with no notable difference]. But we've made a few sales this weekend, and it seems like a good omen [I hope] for the holiday season, which, in creative terms, is solidly in swing now that Halloween is very literally around the corner.

I'm also taking on the project of a local-only FB group for mutual aid, because there isn't a convenient central point for such things, and local people are being forced out of their homes and otherwise suffering at a truly diabolical rate now. Somebody needs to do something, and, well . . . . I'm trying to get that launched today or tomorrow, hopefully, although it'll be a work in progress for a good while yet. Whatever economic indicators your party is bragging about? In places like this, it not only doesn't trickle down to ordinary locals, it heightens the stark difference in survivability for local folks compared to the invading hordes of colonizer cash that they use to help only themselves. People here are suffering, and  no one gives a shit, and that's not acceptable.

Also, help us help other folks, and buy! Here's the updated list of his most recent new works [with those already sold omitted instead of simply crossed out]:

I posted four new pairs of earrings last week, and the only left is here. The week before, I posted the four new pairs of sterling silver tab earrings, all with Deco-infused stampwork and at a lower price point than most of his earrings: here, here, here, and here. That new necklace I'd been talking about [it's phenomenal] is here. In addition, his new naja pendant is up, here, and his new cuff, here. 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. The first links are the four pairs of sterling silver tab earrings with amazing stampwork that I promised. 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. But there's tons of new work on the site, in addition to all that's coming up shortly [which I believe includes two new pairs of turquoise earrings and two new simple pendants within the next few days], so go look:

• A new stackable solid silver cuff with a Deco influence, here;
• The last pair of the new Picasso jasper earrings in current inventory, here;
• Two absolutely phenomenal new cuffs, here [landscape jasper] and here [extraordinary freehand stampwork];
• An all-new wristband set with turquoise and malachite, here;
• One extraordinary new belt buckle set with an incredible Skystone, here;
• Another new vintage-style cuff with a mysterious Skystone, here;
• Two new pairs of earrings in his gemstone-bead series, here, and here [$175 each];
• Three new cuffs ftwo set with incredible turquoise focals, one solid silver; go here, here, and here.
• Five pairs of new concha floral earrings in the Earrings Gallery here [larger are garnet, golden rutilated quartz, and malachite; the remaining smaller ones are amber and iolite];
• A truly breathtaking 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, bold, solid silver classic cuff here; 
• Five other remaining new pairs of the gemstone-bead earrings are also up in the Earrings Gallery;
• And another new seasonal cuff, set with snowflake obsidian, is also here. 

There's more on the way very soon. And I need to sell them all, because I still need to make sales weekly for us to catch up on the year and cover all the stuff still in the pipeline that needs covering [roof, more medical, etc.]. So: GO BUY! Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priority is the liquid soaps and Amazon cards, 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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