It's taking a while.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

Making a wave stamp. It's an incredible amount of work to do by hand; there's none of the automatic calibration or symmetry that you get with commercially-made stamps punched out on an assembly line. And he's a perfectionist, so it's taking a while.

So is everything else, apparently. This has been an absolutely god-awful week, and we're both completely wrung out by it. Never enough hours in the day, never enough resources, never enough anything. I think he might ave the fourth of the autumn gemstone-bead series ready to drop later today (or if not, tomorrow), but then there's the next one, and that will require a massive, and massively expensive, order of high-grade beads that I can't swing right now. The costs keep mounting, but the pace of sales continues to drop, and I don't have any options now.

I need people to buy his work. We need it. We don't make some steady sales VERY SOON? We don't make it through the end of this year, never mind the rest of the winter or '22. And I have to carry the worry about all of this, every minute of every day.

So here we go again with the endless chasing of sales to make everything meet where it needs to. And I need to bring in those sales. Desperately. They're already way, way down for the year because the colonial governments' pandemic mismanagement has trashed the economy. Also? Time is short, a lot shorter than you realize. For folks who are planning on Christmas shopping with us, you will need to order early this year, because thanks to DeJoy's damage, we can't guarantee shipping times.

Also, if you're planning on commissioning gifts for the holidays, DO IT NOW. We're dealing with the same supply-chain issues as everyone else, and at some point soon, Wings is going to have to get silver and stones to produce holiday inventory, and I'm hearing that the price is already spiking on the metals. More to the point of what customers care about, we also can't guarantee shipping times this year, because see above. But I've posted a ton of Wings's new work lately, and there will be more in the days and weeks to come. If I could sell one of the big works, like one of the belts, maybe I could get us on the drill list for the well that is the only thing that's going to keep this land alive. But I've got way too much to do and too few hours and other resources to do it. 

Anyway, I have GOT to make some sales, so links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the ladders, because see above, and coffee coffee coffee, which we're finding it harder and harder to get locally);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to cover all this staggering outlay somehow and get us through what's left of the year. And right now? I have no way to do it.  But there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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