Final Gifts, and First Ones, Too

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a masterwork for this threshold season, a time that reminds us that opposites conspire as often as they conflict, and that being is neither binary nor linear. It's a work for the migratory beings and other spirits who contend for space here now, for their Indian summer dreams made real, for final gifts, and first ones, too, before the snow flies.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We URGENTLY need to make consistent sales to cover upcoming new medical costs and other expenses and make it through the rest of this terrible second pandemic-ridden year (one that has already been bitter indeed for our communities), so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2021; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.  

Looming close now.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

He's working on new stamps, along with everything else. So much to get done, and winter and all of its added pressures are looming close now.

And I have to figure out how to bring in enough to cover it all.

It's all started back up again, the endless chasing of sales to make everything meet where it needs to. For folks who are planning on Christmas shopping with us, you will need to order early this year, because thanks to DeJoy's damage, we can't guarantee shipping times.

Also, if you're planning on commissioning gifts for the holidays, DO IT NOW. We're also dealing with the same supply-chain issues as everyone else, and at some point soon, Wings is going to have to get silver and stones to produce holiday inventory, and I'm hearing that the price is already spiking on the metals. More to the point of what customers care about, we also can't guarantee shipping times this year, because see above. But I've posted a ton of Wings's new work lately, and there will be more in the days and weeks to come. If I could sell one of the big works, like one of the belts, maybe I could get us on the drill list for the well that is the only thing that's going to keep this land alive. But I've got way too much to do and too few hours and other resources to do it. 

Anyway, I have GOT to make some sales, so links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the ladders, because see above, and coffee coffee coffee, which we're finding it harder and harder to get locally);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to cover all this staggering outlay somehow and get us through what's left of the year. And right now? I have no way to do it.  But there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2021; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                                                   

Friday Feature: A Mid-Autumn Medicine

Photo copyright Wings, 2021; all rights reserved.

It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a work by a master and one of Wings's oldest friends in the local arts world, a bear for the season who comes bearing gifts of his own. It's a medicine bear manifest in the finest orange alabaster we've ever seen, with an offering bundle full of a mid-autumn medicine.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We URGENTLY need to make consistent sales to cover upcoming new medical costs and other expenses and make it through the rest of this terrible second pandemic-ridden year (one that has already been bitter indeed for our communities), so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2021; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.  

Re-energized.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

Wings said a few days that I didn't have enough of his work. Yesterday he changed that a bit.

Those Water Bird earrings are fully 6 inches long. Shoulder dusters. The ring is a spinner, with a bezel-set Hachita turquoise heart accented with coral linking the two spinners across the larger band. The new cuff is covered with the detailed fine stampwork you've been seeing in a lot of his cuffs for sale lately. And the other one is one he'd made for sale, but that he felt I should be wearing instead.

I love every piece. Yes, I wore them all yesterday.

Today feels different, a product mostly, I think, of the kind of gathering clouds that usually herald a change in the weather, even though they probably don't now. It's a beautiful day, I've gotten a lot done already, and I feel re-energized somehow. It's partly the weather, which is a lot better for my joints. Partly relief at having fall and eventual winter here again, and also the absolutely spectacular foliage color everywhere yesterday, a gift we have not had here in four or five years, so even just a little rain managed to do something for us this year. Partly just general happiness with our life here, despite all the obstacles we still face, particularly the financial ones. And partly, it's having the vast majority (although not yet all) of that damn booster out of my system at last.

Still. Today it all starts back up again, the endless chasing of sales to make everything meet where it needs to. For folks who are planning on Christmas shopping with us, you will need to order early this year, because thanks to DeJoy's damage, we can't guarantee shipping times.

Also, if you're planning on commissioning gifts for the holidays, DO IT NOW. We're also dealing with the same supply-chain issues as everyone else, and at some point soon, Wings is going to have to get silver and stones to produce holiday inventory, and I'm hearing that the price is already spiking on the metals. More to the point of what customers care about, we also can't guarantee shipping times this year, because see above. But I've posted a ton of Wings's new work lately, and there will be more in the days and weeks to come. If I could sell one of the big works, like one of the belts, maybe I could get us on the drill list for the well that is the only thing that's going to keep this land alive. But I've got way too much to do and too few hours and other resources to do it. 

Anyway, I have GOT to make some sales, so links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the ladders, because see above, and coffee coffee coffee, which we're finding it harder and harder to get locally);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to cover all this staggering outlay somehow and get us through what's left of the year. And right now? I have no way to do it.  But there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2021; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                                                   

#ThrowbackThursday: Seas of the Spirits, Stormy and Sheltering

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

It's #TBT at The NDN Silver Blog, with a spectacular #ThrowbackThursday featured work that was a special gift for a friend who is family in every way but blood, a marker for a milestone birthday that honored her own ancestral journey. It's a work centered around an extraordinary stone, one that, together with the silverwork created a tribute to seas of the spirits, stormy and sheltering, and the power and protection of their path.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. This work obviously 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 URGENTLY need to make consistent sales to cover all of our expenses to come and make it through the rest of this still-terrible, still-pandemic-ridden year (one that, like last year, has already been bitter indeed for our communities), so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2021; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.     

I made out like a bandit.

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

It's not a great picture, but it's been an amazing day. I made out like a bandit. Apparently Wings has been planning this for some time; and I have never had so many gifts on one birthday, ever. [I also don't expect that there will ever be a repeat; this just . . . happened. But I'm grateful for it all the same.] Four pairs of winter boot socks; one pair of fingerless gloves, fur, to keep my hands warm while I'm shooting his work for the Web site; 2 cuffs; 1 spinner ring; 1 pair of concha/Water Bird earrings, 6" long; and half a dozen coral-colored roses. [They're grocery-store flowers. I was with him at the grocery store today.] Yes, I know the jewelry isn't a practical thing, but he makes it, and I love it. The socks and gloves, OTOH, are very much needed and will be very much used.

And a few minutes ago, another incredible gift: a video of our grandkids singing Happy Birthday to me. [E-mailed from Wings's daughter, her husband, and their four gorgeous children.] Who would ever have thought I would get to have grandkids?! Me? Grandkids who sing to me?! 

I am blessed.

I am also blessed by the presence in my life of all the friends and chosen family who sent well-wishes and more, and I am grateful for every one of you.

For tonight? Nope, no dinner out. It's a pandemic. No take-out, either; I'm cooking. Everything around here is so incredibly expensive, most of them build their menus around beef, which we're allergic to, and frankly? None of it sounded good, and I knew by the time we got done with all our errands and got home and got chores done, we'd be tired, so I'm making chicken and pasta. We have a tiny little square of flourless chocolate cake to split for dessert.

And then tomorrow it all starts back up again, the endless chasing of sales to make everything meet where it needs to. For folks who are planning on Christmas shopping with us, you will need to order early this year, because thanks to DeJoy's damage, we can't guarantee shipping times.

Also, if you're planning on commissioning gifts for the holidays, DO IT NOW. We're also dealing with the same supply-chain issues as everyone else, and at some point soon, Wings is going to have to get silver and stones to produce holiday inventory, and I'm hearing that the price is already spiking on the metals. More to the point of what customers care about, we also can't guarantee shipping times this year, because see above. But I've posted a ton of Wings's new work lately, and there will be more in the days and weeks to come. If I could sell one of the big works, like one of the belts, maybe I could get us on the drill list for the well that is the only thing that's going to keep this land alive. But I've got way too much to do and too few hours and other resources to do it. 

Anyway, I have GOT to make some sales, so links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (priorities are first and foremost, the ladders, because see above, and coffee coffee coffee, which we're finding it harder and harder to get locally);
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And if you've been contemplating a purchase? This would be a very, very good time to do it; I've got to cover all this staggering outlay somehow and get us through what's left of the year. And right now? I have no way to do it.  But there's lots of fabulous new work, so please share all of the links. 

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2021; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.                                                   

Strong Spirits, and a Life Brave and Resilient

Photo copyright Aji, 2021; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's one of Wings's newest works, a personal favorite and one to inspire the same cosmic resilience that animates our world and our spirits. It's a work to remind us to patch up our wounds and go on, grateful for the chance, because we have this one shot at beauty, at medicine: strong spirits, and a life brave and resilient.  

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. We URGENTLY need to make consistent sales to cover upcoming new medical costs and other expenses and make it through the rest of this terrible second pandemic-ridden year (one that has already been bitter indeed for our communities), so shares of the site links are much appreciated.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2021; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.