In the works.

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Two of the new gemstone-bead necklaces, not quite finished. The one on the left has a blue-flash Labradorite briolette as a focal; beads are blue-gray baroque pearl, sapphire, blue rose quartz, royal lapis, Labradorite; fine silver [and maybe sterling as anchors; I can't remember]. The one on the right is smoky quartz, red jasper; fine silver; hematite; red glass that looks like red tiger's eye; Labradorite; and sterling silver [and yes, I know the foxtail is showing, but it won't, I promise; he just hasn't added the findings and clipped the ends yet]. A couple more of those in the works, plus earrings and coils; a multistone overlay pendant; a matched necklace and earrings set; two barrette pairs; and four pairs of silverwork earrings. And more, but those are the things currently on his workbench in various stages of completion.

Tomorrow's Monday and I haven't even recovered from Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. It's not just the regular pain from having had to do a lot of snow shoveling and lifting and carrying and walking and standing in line on hard surfaces; it's also the fact that I woke up this morning with my left hip and knee subluxed [a sublux is a partial dislocation of the joint, and it hurts like hell], with attendant constant muscle spasming around the connective tissue from hip to toe. On top of that, Friday cost us $250 on our scrips, $200 on propane, $500 on supplies, materials he needed for pieces he has in the works. Which means I need to bring in a smooth $1K in sales to cover all of it, because that's money that had to be taken away from everything that has to be covered the rest of the month. And of course, that hasn't happened.

 Meanwhile, we're still down by dozens of sales on the year, and numbers too large to contemplate. And after it being such a god-awful year, we literally need to make a sale a day now, on average, and we're nowhere near that. The problem for him continues to be getting enough studio time to finish them all [and then for me, to get them photographed, uploaded, descriptions written, and put out there for sale]. 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 [priority is the vacuum! mine died two days ago, and we're being suffocated by dog hair];
• 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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