Monday Photo Meditation: When Waterfall Becomes Firelight

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved. 

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for the storms of what should be early winter, via an image of a time when such patterns still held. It's a photo that dates back a decade almost to the very day, when Wings captured that post-storm moment when waterfall becomes firelight.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

The Storm Always Births the Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for stormy days and longer nights, a reminder that an emergent sun is always just around the corner. It's a pair of unusual earrings, on posts and wrought of red brass in a distinctly Art Deco design around sodalite's deep blues, the whole reminding us that the storm always births the light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

The Season When the Spirits Walk

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for these last autumn days before winter comes, for the haunting beauty of our world now, and for the power it portends. Its a pair of earrings built around the also-eerie beauty of porcelain jasper, a work perfect for this day and those to follow, at the beginning of the season when the spirits walk.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Friday Feature: From Ancient Fires Are Fall's Spirits Made Strong

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a masterwork formed in part of very old, prized pieces from Wings's personal collection. It's a necklace in figurative form, evoking flames, dancing — a reminder that from ancient fires are fall's spirits made strong . . . and our own are, as well.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

#ThrowbackThursday: A Spirit of Power and Protection

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

It's #TBT at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #ThrowbackThursday work that dates back more than fourteen years, to July of 2014 and a very special commission. It's a belt buckle, ordered by one spouse for the other and meant to memorialize the recipient's affinity for his favorite wild animal — a spirit of power and protection that we know as Wolf.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. 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 still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

The Spirits and Spaces of the Sacred

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

 
Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the subtler aspects of this season, and for the work of searching for the sacred now. It's a necklace wrought in an old tile design, set and strung with beautifully apt stones that remind us to honor the spirits and spaces of the sacred.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Red Willow Spirit: The Paths and Places Where Spirits Meet

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for the beings that inhabit and shape autumn here, and for the shape of other worlds their presence foretells. It's three images suited to this Halloween week, linked by two beautifully matched and otherworldly works of wearable art, symbolizing the paths and places where spirits meet.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Monday Photo Meditation: A Small Transformational Spirit

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for October's end, and for the aptly-dressed beings that  undergo their own metamorphosis now. It's an image from two years ago, of a small transformational spirit that takes flight about this time of year — absent now, but still a model for us to emulate.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Avatars of Ancient Spirits

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work perfect for this point in the year, time's whirlwind manifesting once more in this season when the spirits walk. It's a coil bracelet strung with a collection of extraordinary materials, the avatars of ancient spirits emergent once more to remind us of the wisdom, and the gifts, they left behind for us.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

After a Rare Autumn Rain

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work perfect for this day, built around a strikingly unusual focal stone that embodies the post-storm evergreen sunset common to the summer rainy season. And while this is very far from summer, it reminds us to be grateful for our unusual weather new, for after a rare autumn rain, we may find our world renewed in time to create our first real winter in years.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Friday Feature: The Frost-Clad Shimmer of an Autumn Sunrise

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a pair of works that capture the haunting beauty and power of the new day's first moments now. It's a necklace and a coil bracelet from Wings's signature series of gemstone-bead works, created specifically to belong together, and to embody the frost-clad shimmer of an autumn sunrise.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

#TBT: As Rare Fall Lightning Rends a Green Twilight Sky

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

It's #ThrowbackThursday at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #TBT featured work that dates back more than sixteen years, to the spring of 2010, and one of a very informal and intermittent series of layered works. It's a necklace built around an unusually geometric setting, and a focal stone that evokes this season's strange sunset beauty, as rare fall lightning rends a green twilight sky.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. 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 still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

A Time of Cold Cosmic Fire and Earthen Flame

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a masterwork perfect for this season, an expression of a love ancient and eternal that the spirits of earth and sky hold for us. It's a necklace featuring an extraordinary sixteen stones, the focal cabochon a rare material, all hanging from a strand of hand-selected beads that together capture the power of this season, a time of cold cosmic fire and earthen flame.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Red Willow Spirit: Fog's Shadows and Fall's Fire

 

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for the week in October that is, generally speaking, the most starkly beautiful period of fall here. It's three related photographic images linked by two works of wearable art from the same category, one of them new, all of them capturing the beauty and power inherent in fog's shadows and fall's fire in this place.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Monday Photo Meditation: Flurries, Flakes, and Fire

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for the second half of October, and a remembrance of what conditions now should be here. It's an image that Wings shot on film some 20 years ago, one of a series of [the other three of which will appear in tomorrow's post] that show clearly that this point in the season is meant to be one of flurries, flakes, and fire.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

At least it *looked* like October.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

That's what brought our tiny bit of rain today. You could barely call bit "rain"; it was more like mist, except the drops were actually defined. Tiny, but defined.

Far too warm today, but at least it looked like October, however briefly. 

Just been a shitty day on every front. I think this is day four of my hands being completely mangled by RA and lupus, and I'm so over it already. And it's not just my hands; it's both feet, my neck, it's endless. And nothing works.

Meanwhile, I'm still so far behind that it's ridiculous. The rest of the month, hell, year is going to be very hard, anyway. I've still got to get caught up on all the rest of my work, entirely apart from the now-several days I've lost here. And I've still got to bring in a lot more sales through the end of the year. This year has been hellishly expensive already, and we've also got some other big-ticket things to take care of between now and then, and that only happens if we make some sales now. And we can still use help with shares, testimonials, wishlist stuff, etc. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [I've added a few new items, things we could really use but that I can't justify spending money on right now, towels and bath mats];
• 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 get this year onto a better footing than the last two, a year that, so far, has been very grim.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

The Season of the First Snow

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the conditions that used to normal here in October, including the season's first appearance of the snow line, both above and below us. It's a pair of earrings, the last work in Wings's signature series within a series, The Winter Elementals:  Earth, capturing all the haunting beauty and power of the season of the first snow.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

The Sharp Edges and Angles of the Fall Light

 

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for these mid-autumn days with not a cloud visible in any direction, the sky raining sun upon a cooling earth. It's a pair of earrings in a beautifully geometric design, capturing the sharp edges and angles of the fall light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Friday Feature: The Harvest Fire of the Autumn Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a pair of works created far apart in time and wholly independently of each other, yet seeming undeniably to belong together now. It's a serpent cuff and a pair of figurative earrings, all in the shapes and shades and spirits of abundance and joy and the harvest fire of the autumn light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

#ThrowbackThursday: In Autumn, Dormancy Is Also Jeweled Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

 

It’s #TBT at The NDN Silver Blog with a #ThrowbackThursday featured work from one of Wings’s longest-running signature series, the Warrior Woman, this one dating back just shy of ten years exactly. It's one from a group created in mid-December, 2016, either a commission or purchased before it could even be posted, this one a reminder that in autumn, dormancy is also jeweled light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. 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 still have to ensure that we break even on the year, and that begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.