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My other current project. It will likely be finished tonight, so I can turn my attention to three new things I have in the pipeline. Not sure whether it'll get used for its originally-intended purpose or not, which is to cover the center of that Wayfair ottoman where all the threads have begun to separate and leave big open gaps in the middle. But since until two months ago, I haven't been able to do any beadwork since I was 9 or 10 (when the inflammatory arthritis developed in my hands), it's very rough. Also stubbornly freehand, mostly, and that mostly because I never actually expected that 1) it would be anything beyond stitch practice, and 2) that the traditional medicine would continue to work long enough for me to finish it in the first place. Ehh. Wings likes it, so I've got the only opinion that matters.
Thank all that's holy we got as far as we did yesterday. It began pouring a little before 7 AM, then turned to sleet, then blew out on a freezing northeast wind. There's a lot more allegedly on the way, including a possibility of as much as 8 inches on the ground by the end off tomorrow night. I think we're more likely to get somewhere between a dusting and 3 inches, but at least the vast majority of the wood has at least one protective coat on it.
Of course, what all that has meant is that for a month now, Wings has had almost no studio time, and I have had no time either to write or to push sales, and the holidays are upon us, and I'm terrified. My pain levels are also jacked to eleven today, with the severe lower back pain that accompanies hip/pelvis subluxes thanks to the ladder work. I need to make some sales, but I can't do much beyond that, because I am very literally hobbling today.
And we have GOT to make sales. And I need help with it. Normally, Wings would already be in the middle of multiple commissions in the works by now, but nothing's normal anymore. I don't know what to do at this point; I can't conjure money from thin cold air. I posted two new pieces a few nights ago (links here) and another the night after that (links here). The new bracelet in the works is turning out not to be a bracelet at all; I'll explain when it drops, which might be this weekend. He has a number of other things in process, too; I'll post them as he completes them.
At any rate, my stress levels are off the charts along with my pain levels now. For those wondering about my own health issues, see here, although now there's a new wrinkle I'm not even going to bother to try to explain (suffice to say there's no affording treatment); with regard to the work being done, some of the details are here. Thanks to my Patreon subscribers (not sure who?) who updated their cards; I'm now down only between $25 and $50 for October. Still, I'm going to need help to get all this, the plumbing and everything else, done and handled, and I can't do it alone. Folks can help in several ways, and we really need it now:
Please share everything, because I'm suddenly back behind the eight-ball on a whole additional front, and yeah, I'm scared about covering everything and surviving, too. Thanks.
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