Did it.

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Did it. All of it. Got the tree decorated; got gifts wrapped; got everything ready for tomorrow, all essentially in one day. At right center is one of my own hand-made ornaments, beadwork from a half-dozen years ago. Beadwork takes me a lot longer these days, thanks to the damage to my hands from the RA.

But tonight, we're [mostly] taking it easy, and plan to do the same tomorrow. It's been a very, very hard year, by any and every measure, and this particular holiday season, business-wise, has been especially difficult. We'll still be working every day, but it's a relief to have the pressure of this pace off us now.

Even if we didn't have anywhere near the sales season that we needed.

But there's still all the sales stress. We were blessed with a really good sale last week, so the pressure to cover immediate things would have been off in a few days when the payment cleared, were it not for the thieves that shoved our account into negatives. But even aside from that bullshit, there's still all the rest, all the stuff we couldn't cover all year because of one catastrophe after another, the taxes that still need to be prepaid, all the January bills that will be here before we know it [which include truck insurance and a whole bunch of business-related expenses that come due once a year, but total well into four figures]. So we still need to make the equivalent of a sale a day now, on average. And he has so much new work!  I'm hoping to pull another late night to get five of them up yet. yeah, I know, I shouldn't, but it has to be done, because the last two years have all but killed us financially, and we're almost out of year. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [somebody got the vacuum! which makes priorities now the thermos and the rugs];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly [daily now, really] sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need this to be a better month than what we've had so far this year.

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