A necessity.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

Just look at that light. Seriously, enlarge it so you can see what it does to the trees in the distance. It's about as perfect a day as it gets, in terms of weather in September. A little warmer than it should be maybe, but then again, we always get a return of summer around San G.

Feeling a little better after two nights of halfway-decent sleep, and of course my chemo from Friday. Which means, of course, that I'll overdo it today, but that's the way this works. My task list grows by the day, and my illness means that I fall a little further behind every day anyway, so overdoing it isn't a choice at times like this, it's a necessity.

Luckily, we have the truck back. Between the costly new battery, the labor, and the tow, were out well over $700 cash, and we're tapped out. We still have to get through the second without shit bouncing everywhere, because there are autopays that come out at 12:01 AM on the first of every month, and our income from last week is completely gone and then some. I have GOT to make sales this weekend, at least a couple of them today, because I am at my wits' end trying to cover everything. And people wonder why I don't sleep? Between the relentless pain, the equally relentless other autoimmune dysfunctions, and the constant stress over covering everything, this is why.

And on top of it 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. I also need to find a way to get that solar panel system for our generator that's on the wishlist, but I can't even think about that before everything else is handled. Every winter, we have days of lost power, and we need to be ahead of it this time. But right now, I need to worry about how we get to the post office and the grocery store and the pharmacy, and how much it's going to cost us to be able to do that.

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. Also, all indications are for extreme weather this winter [and potentially this afternoon, too], and our generator needs a solar panel set-up; it's now at the top of the wishlist, because at ~$500, there's no way we can afford it. But there's tons of new work on the site, in addition to all that's coming up shortly, 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 that solar panel set for the generator at the top of the list; part of prepping for a hard winter. Next to that, Amazon cards are 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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