The famous cuff.

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The famous cuff that last week was going to be finished by Saturday. Trouble is, as with so very many pieces, it keeps undergoing design shifts as he works on it, and so it might be done this weekend, if we're lucky. To be clear, that's a good thing: He has always said that his work is best when he lets Spirit guide his hands, rather than trying to force an initial idea one something that clearly wants to go somewhere else.

Also, he didn't get as much studio time today as needed. We did finally get labs done. His were just the standard annual stuff that he always has done as a baseline; mine were . . . something a little more, shall we say. And I now have a very sore bruise in the crook of my left elbow, which is absolutely absurd, because my veins will pop out perfectly beneath a harsh glare, never mind a tourniquet. But this one hurt, and it took longer than it should have, and here we are.

Anyway. I don't have any strong feelings about the results, other than that if there's a way for them to explain these months of abject misery in a way that can be fixed, I want them to do that. I mean, it's not like we can afford for me to have enforced downtime. I've got to get this fixed, because this year has already gone drastically sideways and I have GOT to bring in a lot more than what we've been doing, and I can't do that if I can't even function enough to get things uploaded and live in a timely manner.

Because we don't have anything like the sales we need this year, never mind 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've made two this weekend, which at this point are an indescribably blessing, but we're so far in the hole from this ear so far plus the last two years of utter crap that it's only the barest floor. 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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