A day full of tasks.

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Beautiful play of the light today. Enough clouds to scatter maybe half a dozen drops down on us, too; not enough for rain, but enough to break the heat, at least. Today was San G, and it must have been miserably hot on the plaza.

We had a day full of tasks today, which is why everything's so late. All the things we needed to get done [well, not even all; some have to wait for Wednesday now] seemed small in the abstract, but together they took up the whole day, and now I'll be working late into the night. It's that much harder when I'm feeling as miserable as I have today, full and worsening lupus and RA flare with no respite. It's not helped by the fact that today is the anniversary of the day BearGirl left us [our first shared animal loss, 17 years ago], nor by the fact that I learned yesterday evening that someone a lot of us liked, loved, respected on Twitter is gone, killed by a country that refuses to do the bare minimum of right by those of us with disabling conditions, or the bare minimum of right by public health in a pandemic, either.

So now, I'm turning my attention toward the need to make sales, because there's no choice, but also because immersing myself in work takes my mind off the other losses. After all, October's going to be expensive anyway. The first truck repair last month and all the rest really screwed us for everything else; there won't be any roof replacement, because there's no money for it. The solar panel system for our generator is no longer on the wishlist, thanks to someone very dear to us. But I still need to get everything else handled.

I have got to bring in sales. NOW. Our traffic is down to almost nothing, and I can't conjure the money everyone's demanding from us out of thin air.

 

Earlier this week, I posted the four new pairs of sterling silver tab earrings, all with Deco-infused stampwork and at a lower price point than most of his earrings: here, here, here, and here. That new necklace I've been talking about [it's phenomenal] became Wednesday's feature, and its gallery entry is here. In addition, his new naja pendant is up, here, and his new cuff, here. The former features both an interior pendant and amber cabs at the ends; the latter is extraordinary, two strands of Deco butterflies set with something that's not a stone, but is phenomenal all the same. The first links are the four pairs of sterling silver tab earrings with amazing stampwork that I promised, and he currently has three pairs of the Picasso jasper earrings, plus one very costly pair of ultra-high-grade red-web Kingman turquoise earrings, already in the works. He also has a miniature collector's bowl in the works [less miniature than his past works in this style]. If I could sell them all, I'd feel a lot more confident about the next several weeks.

The rest of the month [hell, the rest of the year] is going to be geared around making sales, because I don't have a choice about that. I'm so tired after all the nonsense of this year to date, but I can't let up, because so far, we're not even breaking even on the year, and I will have to worry about next year's tax bill soon enough. But there's tons of new work on the site, in addition to all that's coming up shortly [including three new pairs of Picasso jasper earrings possibly tonight, but more likely tomorrow], so go look:

• Completed just last weekend, two absolutely phenomenal new cuffs, here and here;
• Completed the previous weekend, an all-new wristband, here;
• One extraordinary new belt buckle set with an incredible Skystone, here;
• Another new vintage-style cuff with a mysterious Skystone, here;
• Three new pairs of earrings in his gemstone-bead series, here, here, and here;
• Three new cuffs from last week, two set with incredible turquoise focals, one solid silver; go here, here, and here.
• Six pairs of new concha floral earrings in the Earrings Gallery here [larger are garnet, golden rutilated quartz, and malachite; smaller are amber, carnelian, and iolite];
• Art Deco Labradorite cuff here;  
• Triangle wire youth bangle here; 
• Art Nouveau vine pattern-wire youth bangle here; 
• Small Art Nouveau pattern-wire bangle pair here; 
• Malachite butterfly/leaf-wing earrings here; 
• A big solid silver classic cuff here; 
• Ten new pairs of the gemstone-bead earrings are also up in the Earrings Gallery;
• And another new cuff is also here. 

There's more on the way very soon. And I need to sell them all, because I still need to make multiple sales daily for us to catch up on the year [and that's just breaking even] and cover all the stuff still in the pipeline that needs covering [roof, more medical, etc.]. So: GO BUY! PLEASE! Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priority is the liquid soaps and Amazon cards, probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one already far worse than the last, we really need to get what's left of 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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