Not nearly enough cold. Way too much smoke.

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Lots of color; still lots of green, too. Not nearly enough cold. Way too much smoke.

That last is mostly due to prescribed burns, but the haze is bad in the morning and the evening. I need to be masking most of the time when I'm outside; it was causing me a lot of chest pain last night [pleuritic, not cardiac; common with lupus]. I also need a break from the labor, because the result to me, as always, is a fairly drastic uptick in pain now, never mind the fatigue, but there already aren't enough hours in the day, and I'm always so far behind. Oh, and I said yesterday there were 6 local free pantries?  Apparently it's either 11 or 12, one of which is very near us, and apparently they cannot keep it stocked. At some point this fall, when I have enough spare cash, I need to go buy costly items like tampons and razor blades and so forth and stick them in the pantries. I know what it means to go without, and I know how embarrassing it feels not to have the basics everyone else has.

But that will have to wait a bit, because I don't have that kind of spare change right now.

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 the other night, here, here, here [these are sold 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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