Hunting.

Photo copyright Aji, 2022; all rights reserved.

She looks like she was making a break for it, but in actuality, she was hunting: swooped down into the west field and grabbed something up off the ground. That was yesterday; she was back in the same willow this morning, but we were leaving to take care of shipping and other urgent tasks.

The shipping went smoothly, if expensively; we are out ~$500 cash up-front on getting it all on its way. We'll be shelling out $200+ tomorrow at the doctor's office (if we have it; I'm still waiting to find out what the last shipment is costing us and I haven't heard from the shipper). If not, I don't know what we're going to do. On top of that, this week has presented us with a couple of other big new unforeseen costs, and I need to bring in about $900 in sales yet this week to cover just that part of it. The first half needs to be paid out this weekend, and right now? I can't do it. I need to be hunting sales, but today, after virtually no sleep again, a massive migraine, and pain so excruciating I couldn't stand up straight for over an hour, then spending the day on everything else, I'm stuck. And possibly unable to pay for tomorrow's medical appointments.

I'm carrying a lot right now, as always this time of year, but I'm less strong physically than I used to be, and that's spilling over into other areas. There are all the newish concerns now with the lupus itself worsening, and they're adding to my already considerable stress, which by now is off the charts and affecting more than just my sleep. 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. And then there's the brand new one linked above. 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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