#ThrowbackThursday: A Feathered Blue Sky

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

It's #TBT at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #ThrowbackThursday work that dates back only six weeks or so, and a very special commission from very dear friend seeking to add to her collection of Wings's work. It's a pair of millwork barrettes set with extraordinary cabochons of Sleeping Beauty turquoise, a pair of silvered wings holding aloft a feathered blue sky.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. As always, this work will never be duplicated exactly, but if the style speaks to your spirit, simply inquire via the site's Contact form; Wings can create a version uniquely your own. We truly need to begin this new calendar year on a better note, which means that we will need to make consistent sales, so shares are very much needed and much appreciated.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.     

More works in process.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

More works in process. And yes, so much for him taking a break. These should be done tomorrow; they're a little larger than the ones I'm hoping to get posted tonight, and the pair on the left, obviously, will be set with stones. They're going to be incredible. 

And we need to sell them. All of them. All the new works just finished, and those under way. And yes, you can pre-order either of those pairs, should you desire. Also yesterday's new work, featured in that post, which is phenomenal and needs a home. 

I'm so overwhelmed with physical pain and bureaucratic health care bullshit and the upcoming nonsense with taxes, and I can't focus on any of it because the need to make sales is so extreme. After last week's hideous outlay [in our third week without a single sale, and with my January Patreon payout $250 short] I have got to bring in more income somehow. But there's no getting blood from a stone, and it's really rocky around here right now.

As always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities now are the liquid soaps and especially the vacuum, because mine has died a complete and ignominious death, and if I don't vacuum every single day, the dog hair takes over completely [and the dustbuster is just not cutting it]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site about a dozen all told over the last three weeks or so, cuffs and earrings and pins, plus the necklace and earrings to come. After such a grim 2023, we really need to get this year started off on a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.             

The Water Web of the Sky

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a masterwork that embodies water as medicine, as shelter and sanctuary, as the gift of a world born of the waters, no less than life itself. It's a necklace manifest in the form and shape of a humble but powerful spirit, one who created a world for the First People beneath the water web of the sky.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We truly need to begin this new calendar year on a better note, which means that we will need to make consistent sales,  so shares are very much needed and much appreciated.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.          

Red Willow Spirit: Riding the Arc of the Blue Winter Sky

Photo copyright Wings, 2024; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for a world out of its seasonal rhythms and in need of inspiration to reclaim them. It's two gorgeous images linked a single phenomenal, all-new work of wearable art, reminding us that riding the arc of the blue winter sky is only one crescent on the path of the hoop.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. As always, his photos are available in any of the usual three formats; simply inquire via the site's Contact form. We truly need to begin this new calendar year on a better note, which means that we will need to make consistent sales, so shares are very much needed and much appreciated.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.   

Failing.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

New storm trying to gin itself up, and so far, failing. 

Like everything else right now, apparently.

Out of order today, because it's Tuesday and this is the longest post of the week and I'm behind to begin with, and also because we have a new major work that's being included in it, which requires taking, downloading, editing, and uploading the photos, and then writing the description, and it's a lot at the best of times. These are nowhere near the best of times for me. I also have two new pairs of concha earrings and a vintage-style ring, but if I get to those, it'll be late tonight.

Of course, everything will be late anyway, because my body is failing me, and so is my brain, and I don't have the faintest idea how to fix that. The pain is completely unmanageable right now, and I don't have time for this. After last week's hideous outlay [in our third week without a single sale, and with my January Patreon payout $250 short] I have got to bring in more income somehow. But there's no getting blood from a stone, and it's really rocky around here right now.

The other new necklace was posted Tuesday; you'll see the [far more fabulous] just-completed one in today's post. With a little luck, I'll get the earrings and ring up yet tonight, too. And as always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities now are the liquid soaps and especially the vacuum, because mine has died a complete and ignominious death, and if I don't vacuum every single day, the dog hair takes over completely [and the dustbuster is just not cutting it]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site about a dozen all told over the last three weeks or so, cuffs and earrings and pins, plus the necklace and earrings to come. After such a grim 2023, we really need to get this year started off on a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.             

My brain is not managing any of it well.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

All these lovely clouds this morning, and nothing out of it. Mostly sunny now, and much too warm.

And much too much pain. It's a product of the joint damage, which in turn is a product of the medical establishment refusing to treat it for a quarter of a century. I'm never getting those years back, but by now, I'm also never getting the function back, and between the knowledge of what lies ahead and the side effects of the pain itself, I'm increasingly depressed. It'll pass, but the weeks and months to come are going to be very, very difficult, and the pressures on me right now, financially and functionally both, are immense. And my brain is not managing any of it well.

As I said yesterday, I was hoping that with a new week, we could leave the mess hat was the last one in the rear-view, except that it cost us such a terrible, decimating outlay. We've still got all the septic pumping [every 8-10 days until they can dig] the digging and figuring out whether we have a blockage or need a whole new leach field, and the taxes that are already the thing that's keeping me up at night. And I still feel like absolute death today. Nothing I can do about that.

But I have GOT to make some sales. 

The new necklace was posted Tuesday; another is in the works, as are some simple concha earrings [all of those items likely done tonight or tomorrow; yes, I know I said that yesterday, but yesterday turned out to be awful on every front, and we're both way behind]. And also as always, all the links are listed below, and sales are the most important:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities now are the liquid soaps and especially the vacuum, because mine has died a complete and ignominious death, and if I don't vacuum every single day, the dog hair takes over completely [and the dustbuster is just not cutting it]); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

There's lots of fabulous work on the site about a dozen all told over the last three weeks or so, cuffs and earrings and pins, plus the necklace and earrings to come. After such a grim 2023, we really need to get this year started off on a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.             

Monday Photo Meditation: The Promise of the Midwinter Sky

Photo copyright Wings, 2024; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for a week of unseasonal weather amid hope as stubborn as the sunlit skies. It's a remembrance of what was and a reminder of what should be, and a call to the work now of fulfilling the promise of the midwinter sky.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. As always, his photos are available in any of the usual three formats; simply inquire via the site's Contact form. We truly need to begin this new calendar year on a better note, which means that we will need to make consistent sales, so shares are very much needed and much appreciated.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2024; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.