Got my Valentine early.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

Yes, Wings made sure I got my Valentine early. That was yesterday, and he didn't even tell me he'd done it, just let me stumble across it; I'm lucky the horses and dogs hadn't trampled through it and destroyed it, though.

Haven't looked there yet today; the elk showed up last night, so they may have wrecked it. I looked out the bedroom window about 1:30 this morning, and they were all lying in the snow in a single-file line, facing the house, just chilling; they were gone again by 4 AM. I've never known of them to be willing to sleep this close to humans other than here. 

Yesterday was a mess, which sort of fits at the end of a mostly terrible week. Thankfully, it's over, but it always takes a toll on me physically, and between that and lack of sleep, I'm really paying for it today. Next week is going to be fraught, too, with a bunch of costly one-off tasks and medical stuff for both of us.

Then there are all the newish concerns now with my worsening lupus, and they're adding to my already considerable stress. January is always our most expensive month of the year (followed very closely by July, and that's not even counting April, which is tax month, in this). We're out the other side, but there are still bills yet to pay that followed us into February, never mind taxes upcoming and the rest of the year, so I have GOT to make some sales this week. I need help. I can't do this alone; hell, I can barely walk most of the time right now. But there are ten new pieces since two weekends ago: the new trio in his gemstone-bead series Sunday, here; Saturday night's all new vintage-style cuff, here; a new hook bracelet the other day, with a fabulous flame-red Rosarita heart, here; you can see the previous new gemstone beadwork set, the next in his Elementals series, here; and the really phenomenal big works from two Saturdays ago are here. Those other two new pieces I mentioned last Monday night are both up here and here. More hearts are in the works for Valentine's Day including another hook bracelet and a pair of earrings. And we urgently need to sell them all. Please share, and buy if you can.

Links are here, and there's new work up, with more to come this week:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the other ladder and the Bissell vac);
• 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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