If only.

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I wish I could do what she does, just fall into the wind and let it carry me. If only. Instead, I'm gimping around in my therapy boot, the pain in my Achilles and foot completely off the charts for weeks now. And that's just the obvious pain; then there's all the rest that no one sees but is there every minute all the same. It's what's causing this deadly insomnia, and it's really affecting my ability to get work done now, because my entire schedule is completely shot every day.

And I now have ten days, essentially, to come up with everything I need to get us out of this month intact, and since that's going to be about 2 grand, I need to make some sales. Fast.

Those two new pieces I mentioned Monday night are both up at NDN Silver finally, and they are gorgeous; you can see them here and here. Two more major necklaces are coming soon, both hearts for Valentine's Day, plus a hook bracelet, and also the next grouping in his series The Winter Elementals, which should be up Sunday, if all goes well. This is our most expensive month of the year anyway (followed very closely by July, and that's not even counting April, which is tax month, in this). So while we had a far better holiday sales season than I could ever have hoped, we still have to keep the cycle going. This is our livelihood, after all, and there's a lot of expense ahead, medical and otherwise (and this has to be the year the drill the well because there's no other option at this point; "first thing," indeed). It's a twelve-hundred-year drought, and it's killing everything.

It always comes back to that one thing: more sales. A lot more, because we have two years' worth of a shattered pandemic economy to make up for, by which I mean we need to gain more ground ourselves financially to be able to be sure of making it through the winter and the rest of the year. If I could sell one of the big works, like the belt, 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. Which means that I'll be stepping back significantly in terms of my online presence, because there's just too much else to do, and I am no longer well enough to maintain the kind of pace I once did.

So, since we have to continue to make sales, links are here, and there's new work up today, with more to come this week:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the ladders);
• 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 twelve whole months of a new year, plus put aside enough for a new well when the ground thaws enough to drill in the spring. And there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

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