Contemplating mischief.

Photo copyright Aji, 2024; all rights reserved.

The weather here whipped up a sudden fall storm for us. We only got a few scattered drops out of it, but we got multiple wild dust devils and a little thunder, and even a brief light rainbow. The wind is still hanging around, contemplating mischief.

Meanwhile, both my lupus and my RA didn't bother wasting time contemplating mischief; they just exploded the other day into full relentless flare. Like I said yesterday, the pain is . . . well, there aren't words for it. It woke me up repeatedly last night, and every time, my first thought was "How is it possible for something to hurt so much?" And nothing helps. The pain meds aren't even taking the edge off, and of course, I had to get groceries yesterday, which meant walking all over a giant store on tile over concrete, and then wiping it all down, and putting it all away, and every bone in my body already felt like it's about to break. Today, it was making room in the pantry by clearing out old things, some expired, some still perfectly good and well within their sell dates that are duplicates or things I simply can't eat; those are going to the little free pantries around town. There are six, and for a town this size, that should tell you something about how bad things are here for ordinary local people. But the result to me is a fairly drastic uptick in pain now, never mind the fatigue.

Also, half my Patreon is already gone on bills and groceries, so there's 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.

Before that, though? Go donate here. A woman from the Pueblo has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and needs surgery, and she will have to be off work a very long time, and nobody can afford to be without income [I think they'll need to raise the goal substantially, too]. But go. Give. Match us if you can, some part of it if you can't, more [A LOT MORE] if you have the means, because this is urgent.

 

Also, buy: I posted four new pairs of earrings last night, here, here, here [I believe these are spoken for; I'm waiting to hear back from the person who contacted me now], and here. Last 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. 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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