The latest.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

This is the latest work in progress. It's going to be a bolo, and he's enlarged it to be quite a bit bigger than even the marcasite pendant. He says that he's got more silverwork to do, deepening the lines [this is all freehand work, and the chasing takes a lot of time and labor]. And that stone? It's one of I think only two remaining in a lot that he bought about fifteen years ago, all ultra-high-grade Kingman material that cost a ridiculous amount of money then; it'd be much higher now. This is the larger of the two, and it's bird's-eye Kingman with water-webbing in a giant specimen.

And I really need to sell it when it's complete, but that'll be several days yet. In the meantime, I need to sell something [or several somethings] between now and the end of the weekend. We got hit with a $700 expense today that I didn't know was coming, so I really need to make that up. 

But before I get to anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised all but the last ~$2K of it already. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to help them close it out before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.

Being so far behind on seemingly every front is bedeviling me now. And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and I can't deal with any more medical stuff right now, so it's just a questioning of managing the stupid pain as much as humanly possible [which isn't saying much; it's just sucking it up, gritting my teeth, and grinding through it s best I can, and that's not saying much, either]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

#TBT: Stars Like Small Silver Blossoms

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

It's #ThrowbackThursday at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #TBT work that dates back almost eleven years, one that was a very special commission from a friend of ours as a gift for a friend of hers. It's one in Wings's signature series of many decades' standing, the Spirit Horse, this one adorned with stars like small silver blossoms and a lock of hair belonging to the friend's late horse.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. As always, this work will never be duplicated, but if the style speaks to your spirit, simply inquire via the site's Contact form; Wings can create a version uniquely your own. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.         

So far behind on seemingly every front.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Beautiful morning fog again. Rain most of the overnight hours, steady and soaking. Wild weather forecast for later this afternoon into this evening. The land is absorbing it all, fortunately.

I just wish I could get caught up even a little bit, but no. 

But before I get to anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised almost half of it in two days. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to get them up to four grand, even five, before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.

Being so far behind on seemingly every front is bedeviling me now. And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and I can't deal with any more medical stuff right now, so it's just a questioning of managing the stupid pain as much as humanly possible [which isn't saying much; it's just sucking it up, gritting my teeth, and grinding through it s best I can, and that's not saying much, either]. I did finally get the glass-opal earrings up, here, and that new necklace [and that necklace is ::cue flames and fireworks::],here. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

By the Gifts of Winter Does Summer Medicine Bloom

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a masterwork for the end of winter, which seems as late arriving as the other markers of summer this year. It has always been true here that by the gifts of winter does summer medicine bloom, and if it requires a few days or weeks of unseasonal cold for a year of growth and abundance, we'll welcome it and be grateful for it.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.  

Just the early ones.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Gorgeous morning fog. At 6 AM, it was still on the ground, moving up the lower slopes. This was maybe around ten, after the early chores were out of the way.

Just the early ones. Everything else has eaten into my own work time so badly that, once again, I'm stuck doing it all now. With two injured hands, so that's just lovely.

Before I get to anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised almost half of it in two days. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to get them up to four grand, even five, before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.

All the rest is bedeviling me now. And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and I can't deal with any more medical stuff right now, so it's just a questioning of managing the stupid pain as much as humanly possible [which isn't saying much; it's just sucking it up, gritting my teeth, and grinding through it s best I can, and that's not saying much, either]. I did finally get the glass-opal earrings up, here, and that new necklace [and that necklace is ::cue flames and fireworks::], here. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

 

Red Willow Spirit: The Backcountry Blooms of a New Summer

Photo copyright Wings, 2025;
all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for a land whose seasonal spirits are delayed in their arrival now. It's two images linked by a single newer work of wearable art, all of them honoring the backcountry blooms of a new summer in this place, and the tiny pollinators they welcome home.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.  

A little more extreme.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

Finally, real green. Last week's brief weather helped; today's will, too. We had a lovely hours'-long rain this afternoon, the kind of soft, steady, soaking rain that is gentle on the earth, but effective.

The radar map suggests that what's coming this way for tonight might be a little more extreme.

We can use that, too, but it runs the risk of things like flash-flooding and wind damage and outages and so forth. We'll see. We might also get nothing at all.

Before I get t anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised almost half of it in two days. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to get them up to four grand, even five, before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.

It's going to be a busy week ahead, mostly playing catch-up on everything we couldn't get done in May. Labs are in, and my prediction was right: They tell us absolutely nothing, and that none of that means that something isn't wrong; it just means that it doesn't show up in that particular space. Well, the one thing they seem to tell us [but don't] is that my BG is two points high [two lousy points]; and it doesn't actually mean anything at all. Why?  Because that's a fasting measure, and I was told not to bother fasting because that was simply an automatic part of the panel, not what they were actually looking for, and I told the guy that I had coffee just beforehand [sweetened, of course], and instead he apparently wrote "fasting" on it because he doesn't understand the basic terminology of his job? ::Sigh:: 

Anyway. The one bit of good news that I'm taking from it is that a year and a half of low-dose chemo has not done a damn thing to my liver [and apparently liver damage is a relatively common protocol-halting side effect]. The problematic part is that my RBC and WBC counts are right smack in the middle of normal, so why are my lymph nodes running riot badly enough to sublux my joints? I really, really don't want to have to go for a bunch of scans and biopsies again, in the first place because we can't afford any of it and in the second because that kind of repeated travel, on top of the tests, does me a lot of physical damage, and I'm already having more than enough of a problem with all of that.

And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and wasting multiple days traveling elsewhere to be stuck in imaging tubes and have needles extracting samples doesn't help me do any of that. I did finally get the glass-opal earrings up, here, and that new necklace [and that necklace is ::cue flames and fireworks::], here. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

 

Monday Photo Meditation: Life's Flowering Gifts

Photo copyright Wings, 2025;
all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for the beginning of summer, and for memory and loss and life itself. It's a reflection on irrecoverable loss amid changed circumstances, and on the obligation still to honor and be grateful for life's flowering gifts.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.        

Some things don't change.

Photo copyright Aji, 2025; all rights reserved.

More work in progress. This is not actually an entirely new piece; it's an adaptation of a client's purchase into something different that works better for them than the original. But I always love being able to catch the torch flame.

New month, new season, by one benchmark, anyway. May was mostly awful, and I hope June winds up being much, much better. As always, though, I'm still behind; otherwise this would've been up this morning.

Some things don't change, unfortunately.

Before anything else, we've got a new local GFM that needs urgent attention. This is a family from the Pueblo; they were driving on the Interstate in Albuquerque and were hit head-on by a drunk driver. The goal is very modest, only $7K, and they've raised just over 10% already today. Match us? Any part of it? Be nice to get them up to a couple grand before the night's over. Go here to donate, and please share it, whether you're able to give or not.

It's going to be a busy week ahead, mostly playing catch-up on everything we couldn't get done in May. Also awaiting the results of my labs, and fully aware that they may tell us absolutely nothing, and that none of that means that something isn't wrong; it just means that it doesn't show up in that particular space. I really, really don't want to have to go for a bunch of scans and biopsies again, in the first place because we can't afford any of it and in the second because that kind of repeated travel, on top of the tests, does me a lot of physical damage, and I'm already having more than enough of a problem with all of that.

And I don't have time for it! All the work still has to get done, and wasting multiple days traveling elsewhere to be stuck in imaging tubes and have needles extracting samples doesn't help me do any of that. And I'm still trying to get the glass-opal earrings up, and that new necklace [and that necklace is ::cue flames and fireworks::]. And, of course, we still need shares, and we most definitely still need weekly sales, until I can get everything covered that has to get covered [and that will be a good long while]. I don't get any breaks from that, either, and we didn't make any sales last week, which means I need to make that up with at least two this week. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priorities are Amazon gift cards, which we can ALWAY use, and the liquid soaps that we c an't get anywhere around here); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year last year, and this one beginning at least as badly, we urgently need to move 2025 onto a better footing, because taxes to this Nazi administration have already tapped us out and we still owe more anyway, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                

What Flowers In the Summer Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2025;
all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a pair of works from the same category, earrings to honor the seasonal phenomena of solar flares and the rising and setting of smoky suns. It's two pairs of traditional concha earrings, both set with fabulously chatoyant tiger's eye, both of them beautiful examples of what flowers in the summer light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We have huge expenses awaiting us this year, and we need to bring in sales each and every week to cover them. So we need shares, but most of all, we need sales.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2025; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.