#ThrowbackThursday: Dust and Clouds and a Dusky, Fiery Light

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It's #TBT at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #ThrowbackThursday featured work that dates back only to April of this year, and a very special multi-part commission from a dear friend. It's a pair of earrings, part of a matching set of three works built around dusty red rhyolite cabochons, manifest in the high-desert summer's dust and clouds and a dusky, fiery light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. This work will never be duplicated, but if the style or stone 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.

From the Gentle Glow of Dawn to the Sunset's Flames

 

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a masterwork by any measure, a necklace manifest in all the shades of the sun. It's an extraordinary combining of three unusual and very varied gems, suspended from. strand of beads hand-selected specifically to match, capturing the whole of the light, from the gentle glow of dawn to the sunset's flames, and everything in between them.

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 Twilight Fire In the Summer Sky

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for the atmospheric magic of the rainy season's heart, even if it's a season we no longer have. It's three related images linked by two spectacularly apt works of wearable art, all of them manifestations of the twilight fire in the summer sky.

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 Full Spectrum of Fire In a Late-Summer Sky

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for what should be this month's post-storm sunset skies, setting the twilit sky aflame. It's an image that dates back eighteen years virtually to the day, and to a truly phenomenal atmospheric effect, a full spectrum of fire in a late-summer sky.

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.

All the Power of Petals and Flames

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an all-new trio of works that Wings's newest signature series, The FireFlower Collection, comprises — necklace, loop earrings, and coil bracelet, all wrought of truly extraordinary materials. These works are offered separately, but clearly belong together, collectively manifest in all the power of petals and flames.

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 Changing Seasons of Summer

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for these hot days that nevertheless look like autumn, too early arrived, and for what remains of the season's gifts now. It's the oldest of the works in Wings's signature series, The Beaded Hoop Collection, still at its original price point, manifest in the shades and textures of the changing seasons of summer.

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: When the Pollinators Return With Fire On Their Wings

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It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a masterwork by any measure, a bracelet set with no fewer than seven extraordinary gems and featuring two spectacular overlays. It's a cuff wrought big and bold, wide and heavy, the very embodiment of this point in the summer when the pollinators return with fire on their wings.

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: The Medicine of a Fiery Sky and a Teal Green Twilight

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It's #ThrowbackThursday at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #TBT featured work that dates nearly a year, to a commission for three related works intended to form a family legacy. It's a bolo, one of a trio wrought in similar yet distinctive fashion, this one edged with a pattern and set with a stone to honor the medicine of a fiery sky and a teal green twilight.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. This work will never be duplicated, but if the style or stone 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 Season of Storm and Evergreen Sunset

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an all-new work, featured here for the first time, to capture the beauty and power of earth and sky at the end of a day marked by clouds and smoke. It's a cuff bracelet built around three slender strands of beautifully apt molded silver wire, set with an extraordinary specimen of chrysocolla that holds the hues of these moments, a season of storm and evergreen sunset.

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: A Time of Comfort and Abundance

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for what should be the very heart of the monsoon season, and for the medicine it used to provide. It's three images from 18 years ago nearly to the day, linked by two beautifully apt works of wearable art, all of them capturing the gift of this season then, when it was a time of comfort and abundance. 

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 World Where Smoke Heals

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for what once was the heart of the rainy season, but now is the heart of the wildfire season. It's an image that dates back eighteen years almost to the very day, to a world where smoke heals even in the dog days of summer.

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 Lush World of Summer

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for what should be the rich green abundance of the hot season here. It's one of Wings's newer pairs of earrings, an classic style built around emerald-green stones with dancing pendants, manifest in the shades and spirits of the lush world of summer.

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 Sunbird's Feathers As Rays of Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

 

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the changeable conditions of the skies, and of the light that illuminates our world. It's a pair of earrings saw-cut freehand, hand-milled, and set with orbs of glowing golden fire, the sunbird's feathers as rays of 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: A Portal of Fire In the Sky

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a work built around a rare material, one for the kind of haunting skies that have closed out recent days here. It's a pendant with a focal of spectrolite, found in only place on Earth, shown from four perspectives and manifest as a portal of fire in the sky.

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: Refracting the Rainbow's Fire

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It's #TBT at The NDN Silver Blog, with a #ThrowbackThursday work that dates back 16 or 17 years, but whose story begins 20 or more years ago, a first and last of its kind for a very specific reason. It's a pair of earrings built around a pair of synthetic, or lab, opals that nonetheless did a superb job of the work of refracting the rainbow's fire.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. This work will never be duplicated exactly, but if the style or stone 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.

 

As the Summer Sun Inscribes Its Lines Upon the Earth

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the words, the music, and the geometry of light that the season provides. It's a cuff wrought freehand in a phenomenal vintage Indigenous Art Deco style of a century past, and wet with an equally spectacular stone, one that captured those teachings and gifts that we are granted as the summer sun inscribes its lines upon the earth.

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: A Firebow Earth and Sky

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's an edition of Red Willow Spirit for the beauty of early August here, for the gifts of the First Medicines of water and light. It's three images, from exactly fourteen years ago to the very day, linked by a single work of wearable art shown from tow perspectives, all of them manifest in the beauty and power of a firebow earth and sky.

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: The Rainy Season's Light

Photo copyright Wings, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for the heart of summer, and its sub-season of storms. It's a contemplation of the gifts of the First Medicines that early August used to bring, both the water from the sky and the rainy season's 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 Role of the Sun, the Work of the Light

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the other First Medicine that balances the rain, the one manifest in the breath of the light. It's a naja-style pendant set with tiny amber orbs, reminding us of the role of the sun, the work of the light, and the value in emulating both.

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.

Between Dark and Light, a Shimmering Fire

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work to remind us how to live a life of no regrets, even as we navigate the darkness that plagues our world now. It's a necklace built around a focal formed of an element, a rejected one — transformed into an object of beauty that reminds us always that between dark and light, a shimmering fire of hope still lends us its 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.