Sound and fury.

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That was late this afternoon. The storm was more sound and fury than actual rain, black skies and lots of trickster winds, but not a lot of water.

It looked cool, though.

Actually, we got a lovely soaking rain this morning. I woke up at 6:15, it was bone-dry, and I decided to go back to bed because I got to bed really late and got very little sleep. And 15 minutes later, the herd of buffalo, by which I mean two medium-sized dogs, came thundering up the stairs and I had to get up anyway. Just my luck, probably the one and only time all year that I've fallen back asleep immediately. But in that quarter-hour, it had begun to pour.

They wanted to go out in it anyway. 

It's been a ridiculously busy day, directly work-related, and yet I'm only just now getting to sit down to the daily posts. That's what this time of year is like: three months of this nonsense. And we need both kinds of rain, but the metaphorical kind is just as urgent, and with everything in the outside world as terrible as it is right now, sales are very, very slow. But this is the time of year, now to the end of. December, that gets us through much of the following year, or at least it should. And we're not having much luck with that.

The last two years have all but killed us financially, and I need to get us caught up to make it through the next several months. There's a lot of gorgeous new work up [and there will be a new silverwork necklace and two new pairs of earrings this week], but I've got to sell it for it to make any difference. I posted four new ones the other night, around midnight: those two pairs of earrings, both Goth-y and perfect for Spooky Season, here [this pair now sold!] and here; and two new necklaces, very different but also seasonally apt, here and here. And there's a lot more to come, once these two sets of commissions are done and with their people. But in the meantime, we [which means I] have got to change this trajectory, and fast. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here;
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

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