Newest iteration.

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The dragonfly cuff, newest iteration. What you can't see in the photo are the two wholly separate dragonfly overlays on either side. This one is big, and it's going to be costly [and phenomenal]:  all freehand stampwork, hammerwork, cutwork, overlays, bezel, etc. Might be done on Saturday; might be Sunday.

I woke up this morning a little before six, to find that it had rained. Not in the forecast, although you could smell it on the air at midnight when I was out putting the heated frisbees in the feral dog's house. Trouble was, you could also see stars everywhere, so I didn't think we'd actually get anything. But on the southeast slopes, there was a faint new dusting of snow this morning.

Labs are in, and everything falls within normal ranges [story of my life; sero-negative for lupus and RA for literal decades, while all the joint and tissue damage proceeded apace, but no one would treat it because . . . sero-negative, so now I have a half-century of unnecessary damage and constant pain], except . . . wait for it: BG. Which was 100.  Which is absolutely fine.  Yes, it's high for me, because my norm is 70s-80s, but I am not remotely prediabetic. What I AM is on week #3 of a steroid burst for my autoimmune progression, and steroids raise BG in everybody. So yeah, I'm more than a little annoyed at the label when it has nothing to do with reality. Next week, I think, will be the last week of upping the steroid dose like this, at least for now, so it'll drop precipitously and very, very rapidly.

I'm annoyed by everything right now, because other than the steroids, nothing makes me feel even the slightest bit better, and yet I have to maintain this pace. I'm already under unspeakable pressure this year, never mind the need to make up for the last two terrible ones. Our floor for sales and breaking even is making a minimum of one sale per week for the year, and we're still two weeks in the hole now. I don't have enough hours in the day as it is, and I can't afford what's been happening to me. Regardless of side effects or disease progression, I've got to do something to bring in sales. We need to bring in a lot more, because it's grim. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priorities are the LaminaSaver, because apparently Miika's out of it again; and the rugs, to replace those destroyed 2 years ago by the leachfield collapse and ensuing septic disaster];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to begin this year on a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been impossibly grim.

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