Every week I say that this will be the week.

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The last two of this group. [Rejected silicon on mostly shungite on the left; Rosarita (gold slag) on mostly red-over-white glass trade beads on the right.] He hasn't added the findings yet, but that'll be complete tomorrow. I had intended to get all four of the up on the site tonight, but this day has been chaos from jump, so it's unlikely. It's also why everything's out of order again.

Every week I say that this will be the week that I get to focus on MY work, and every week, it winds up being the absolute last thing I'm able to get done. I wear, with the exception of one thing I can't get out of, all the rest of next week, I'm going on strike. I don't care who wants what, it's not getting done until my own work is done first.

Because I'm tired of having to defer to everyone and everything else.

And part of that is because it's MY work that actually makes sure stuff gets sold so the bills get paid. So the taxes get paid, and I have to drop everything else for that now, too. And because all the usual issues continue apace. So does the work, our own and the vocational stuff that we have no choice but to do. And, of course, the world is still on fire, they're still coming for us all, and we still have to worry about our communities, about our relatives [both of whom are disproportionately affected by this illegal "funding suspension"], . . . and about us. Last year was indescribably bad on pretty much every single front, especially sales. This year, already a month into it, and it's not appreciably better. I have GOT to make some sales, since we've had only two so far in this new year, and we're already in the second month. It takes at least one sale a week [sometimes more] just for us to break even on the year, and last year? We didn't even do half that. We're going to have to replace the well pressure pump, without question. Taxes are coming. Now we have a potential security issue, and I think we're going to have to hire someone to install a camera system here [the distance is too great for the little cheap cameras; this will require something a lot more sophisticated (and a lot more costly, natch)]. My laptop apparently will have to wait yet another year [assuming I can keep this alive that long, which I can't assume for a moment, actually]. So now would still be a good time to buy. TONS of new and fabulous work on the site, and tons more on the way, too. But I've got to sell something, for the love of all that's holy. I can't live with this level of unrelenting stress on top of everything else.

Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Amazon cards are probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one far worse than the last, we urgently need to begin 2025 on a better footing before taxes take every cent, so please share all of the links. 

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