Storms within storms.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

We've had some amazing clouds today, storms within storms. Very little rain, though.

Even tonight, when we're apparently surrounded by storms, it keeps getting pushed back. Now, I don't know whether we'll get any at all overnight. We could just as easily get nothing at all . . . or a cloudburst. There's just no way to predict it anymore.

We've made a couple of sales today, and it looks like there are one or two more in the offing, so on that score, it's been a decent day. It's going to be a very hard week, though.

There's never enough time or hours in the day. And I've still got to bring in a lot more sales than just today's. This year has been hellishly expensive already, and we've also got a couple of other big-ticket things to take care of this month, and that only happens if we make some sales now. And we can still use help with shares, testimonials, wishlist stuff I can't get to yet, etc. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [I'll be adding some new items soon, things we could really use but that I can't justify spending money on right now, like some sheets and towels];
• 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 to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, a year that, so far, has been very grim.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Where the Blue Corn Grows Once More

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for what should be the weeks leading up to the harvest, and for the native plants that should be thriving now. It's a necklace from Wings's signature series, The Beaded Hoop Collection, one to inspire us to the work of repairing this land, of returning it to a place where the blue corn grows once more.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Stages of progress.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Newest work in progress. He's currently doing an alteration to one of his older pieces for a friend, plotting out some commission possibilities, and has something like three other works in various stages of progress. This one is going to be a link bracelet, set with chiastolite.

Yup. Rare stone. From Santiago de Compostela in Spain. 

::Sigh:: hot in the studio today, though. I'm surprised he could get anything done. My illness has progressed to the point where I simply have no heat tolerance at all, and I cannot wait for real fall weather. Which, in theory, should start arriving in the coming week, but as always, we'll believe it when we see it. 

Still, never enough time or hours in the day. And I've still got to bring in a lot more sales [$1,700 to replace our tires Tuesday, just so we could make Wednesday's trip safely], and I can't even get enough time to chase them because of everything else. This year has been hellishly expensive already, and we've also got a couple of other big-ticket things to take care of this month, and that only happens if we make some sales now. And we can still use help with shares, testimonials, wishlist stuff I can't get to yet, etc. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [I'll be adding some new items soon, things we could really use but that I can't justify spending money on right now, like some sheets and towels];
• 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 to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, a year that, so far, has been very grim.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Fall's First Light Is Here

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for these early days of the season, when the light holds our world in an autumnal glow of fire and ice in one. It's the newest entry in Wings's signature series, The Beaded Hoop Collection, a wearable and beautifully luminous distillation of the truth that fall's first light is here.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Never enough time or hours in the day.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

No matter what the calendar says, or the mercury either, it's very clearly fall. It felt like it this morning, and again this evening; the afternoon, though, was miserable, high well into the nineties and just suffocatingly, miserably hot.

Supposedly we were in the actual process of getting rain an hour or two ago, but nope; not a drop. As usual.

It's been a miserable day across the board, though. Just hard on every conceivable front, and never enough time or hours in the day. And I've still got to bring in a lot more sales [$1,700 to replace our tires Tuesday, just so we could make Wednesday's trip safely], and I can't even get enough time to chase them because of everything else. This year has been hellishly expensive already, and we've also got a couple of other big-ticket things to take care of this month, and that only happens if we make some sales now. And we can still use help with shares, testimonials, wishlist stuff I can't get to yet, etc. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [I'll be adding some new items soon, things we could really use but that I can't justify spending money on right now, like some sheets and towels];
• 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 to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, a year that, so far, has been very grim.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Friday Feature: The Constant Is the Autumn Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a trio of works that capture, from portal to firebow, the geometry of the light at this extraordinary time of the year. It's a pendant and two cuff bracelets, all set with variant forms of the same jewel, all created independently of each other but clearly perfect together at this season when the constant is the autumn light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

All about the drought.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

That stand of trees? Shouldn't look like that until early November. None of that has anything to do with fall; it's all about the drought.

There was a fire toward the south somewhere this morning, the smoke plume visible from here. No idea what or where; the local rag rarely reports anything, and the supposed official reporters haven't even scratched the surface of the actual number of wildfires in this state. That much was painfully evident yesterday.

And after that trip, I've been utterly useless today. My pain levels are off the charts, and nothing touches them. My right [dominant] wrist is subluxed again, meaning slightly dislocated, which makes all this damn near impossible. There's no respite, and pretty soon, there won't be any medical care, either, and I have no fucking idea what we're going to do.

It's just been a rough day. I realized a few days ago that I'd missed one marker, one I'd rather forget, on the 5th. Today? Four years ago today was when we lost Miskwaki, my beloved red paint, to a colic caused by a hidden tumor. It doesn't seem possible that it's been four years already. And yet, this seems like the longest freaking year in existence, simply because everything's terrible.

And I've still got to bring in a lot more sales [$1,700 to replace our tires day before yesterday, just so we could make the trip safely], and I can't even get enough time to chase them because of everything else. This year has been hellishly expensive already, and we've also got a couple of other big-ticket things to take care of this month, and that only happens if we make some sales now. And we can still use help with shares, testimonials, wishlist stuff I can't get to yet, etc. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [I'll be adding some new items soon, things we could really use but that I can't justify spending money on right now, like some sheets and towels];
• 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 to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, a year that, so far, has been very grim.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.