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Fresh, fun, refined and rustic are all included in the unique designs from Fly Free.

08/11/2026

Thunder never lasts
So hold on, don’t you worry
The sun is coming back

I don’t process the world in exact timelines and perfectly rational event progressions.

It’s more like shapes and colors and frequencies.

I’ve mentioned it before, I don’t often enjoy going back into my past. There are formative events that have haunted me throughout the years. Specters crowding my shadow, seemingly regardless of my attempts to distance myself from their shade. This year in particular, some shadows have grown teeth.

Like a horrible current, the darkness again has been rising. Sly insidious hooks that I thought I had warded myself against have been finding purchase lately. I don’t like it. Hooks tearing small holes in my identity like sails torn by storms on a boat that has been sailing in unknown waters for far too long.

Fly Free is still my beacon in the tempest. I don’t know who wrote this, but as always, thank you. Thank you for your friendship. A thousand tiny touches of people consumed by their own chaos. People fighting many wars on many different fronts. Thank you.

The bastards haven’t bested us yet.

See you in the dawning. The sails will hold til then.

08/08/2026

Birds flying high, you know how I feel
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel
Breeze driftin’ on by, you know how I feel

What a funny time. I don’t have any answers about some of the big big things. That understanding has been too far away for now.

I have a couple of answers on the small stuff! I know the boys and I have been practicing our pup pack skills since we are still a *tad bit* codependent. I know that SLAMfest is tomo and Sunday where I am setup in the southwest corner. I know that paige and the people’s band will be closing out tomorrow night. I know the smoke from a world on fire has been reminding me to show up.

Show up and show out the beautiful things that are made in the fires of chaos. Oh boy howdy, the chaos! I don’t know up from down, righty from tighty, zigging from zagging right now.

But I do know the sheen of hard solder right before it flows. I do know that the answers and understanding will come through the work I do with my hands, the stones and their stories. I do know I will get where I am going by following my feet and eight small paws.

If you would like to, come see us on the dance floor. Bogert Park from 10-8 tomo and 10-5 on Sunday. The boys are getting some pretty big britches, they could use some confirmation for their confidence.

If we can sing in the lifeboats we can dance in the fire 🔥

08/02/2026

Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails
Across the sea of years
With no provision but an open face
Along the straits of fear

I got lost in time and space, it happens easily these days. When the world feels like the ‘adventure’ or ‘character building’ k***s could be turned down a couple notches, I retreat into my work. I like getting lost in these sparkling things.

I definitely thought SLAMfest was this weekend, but it’s next! In Bogert Park. The new display is almost done, the stones are glowing and here’s for doing what you can to get to where you need to be going.

The ups and downs persist and so do I.

07/21/2026

Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck gettin’ dirty and gritty
Been down, isn’t it a pity?
Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city
All around, people lookin’ half dead
Walkin’ on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

Oh, to be young again. Like I was on May 30th. Back when I was youthful and naive to the scammy scammers that exist in the real world. I was naive to think that the biggest scammers I would know were my family, alas!

Cosmic humor is very funny. So so so funnnnnnnnnnny.

Yes. I have been feeling spicy about this whole thing. Yes. I am moving the website. Yes. I am heartbroken. Yes. I am continuing to create. Yes. There is a loud part of me that wants to give up because I am tired of being lied to. Yes. It’s too darn hot!

As I look back on the pieces I’ve been making recently, the stones are telling me the same story. Healing the cracks is just as important part of work as creating pieces in the first place ⚒️

07/09/2026

Not takin’ nothin’ from no one,give ‘em hell long as i’m breathin’
Keep kickin a🍑 in the mornin and takin’ names in the evening
Leav’em with a taste of sour as vinegar in their mouth
See they can trigger me but they never figure me out

Hot hot heat! The Shopify thing has been overwhelming and not great. But now that there is direction, I feel relief to be on the move again. More website updates coming soon! So many ends to tie up.

During June I shared some stories from WWll that have helped me gain and maintain some perspective over the years. There will always be battles to fight in this wild life so maintaining a range of tactics and strategies to make it through is something I would absolutely recommend.

Since this whole website debacle has been unfolding a new scammer battle front, I better keep going that direction since I need to maintain my sanity. Revamping strategies help focus! So today’s main takeaway is: you gotta keep moving. Even when you are overwhelmed. Even when you think that you are unprepared for the challenges you are facing, you must continue through. If you stop trying, you have given up and the cause is lost.

Do not tarry. Do not stop. Maybe try listening to some Eminem. Those early albums are a pounding march of fury through the fire, you have to get moving when you hear them 🔥⚡️🪶⚒️

06/22/2026

Give em the what for!

Alea iacta est.

The die has been cast. I’ve been trying to see what needs to be done with the website and I think I have to move it away from shopify. Sigh.

The key to success is visualizing the win. The website is some stress but I’m not forgetting to live. To feel the Montana summer is a beautiful feeling.

I’m gonna figure it out. I always do.

06/16/2026

Some rain some shine. I do like a challenge. Thank you again, as always 🪶⚡️🫶🏽

06/15/2026

The magic words.

Operation Deadstick was an insane commando mission to break the allies out of the beaches at Normandy. The idea was that two commando teams would parachute and glide behind enemy lines under the cover of darkness to start a firefight and sow confusion within the German ranks. They would only have the munitions they could parachute in and handguns ain’t much against panzer tanks. By drawing the enemy’s attention to these small teams, once the code came across to the Allies, then hopefully the Allies tanks would take advantage of the confusion and route the panzer divisions out of that territory. There were a few short phrases that would indicate the operation’s success or failure.

“Ham” meant that the Caen Canal Bridge was captured and remained intact.
“Jam” indicated the same for the Orne River Bridge

Ham and jam, baby! We have the bridges, bring in the reinforcements. If you are ever in a tight spot, don’t forget to link up with your Allies.

Please enjoy these spicy earrings. Shopify is holding my shop hostage. I can’t move the website until the stolen funds are maybe* or maybe not* returned in 90 days. Okay!

I’ve made PayPal a payment option on the website for now. I have to recommend their security and encryption over Shopify Payments. I really hate scammers.

Nothing left to do but get on with living, and get on with making. I love porch season.

06/09/2026

Well, if it rains, I don’t care!
Don’t make no difference to me
Just take that street car that’s going up town
Yeah, I’d like to hear some funky Dixieland
And dance the h***y tonk
And I’ll be buying everybody drinks all round

I do care about my business funds and shopify has done my small business dirty.

Life loves throwing me curveballs which is just mean most of the time, does it look like I play sports with balls?! No, I don’t play any sports with balls.

I’ve been a merchant small business with shopify for 8 years. My small business has very simple spending habits, usually 15-25 per MONTH.

Last week, my shopify balance account was compromised and shopify thought 302 transactions in $2-6 amounts in under 24 hours was totally normal.

When I brought it to their attention, about 100 charges were still ‘pending’. ‘Go ahead and let them all post!’ Shopify said. ‘That way we can dispute them’.

Well, the dispute process takes 90 days. So I may* or may not* get these funds back in 90 days. Once the dispute is decided, there is no appeal.

Compounding this issue, since I don’t know how my balance account was compromised, I switched the deposit destination to my external bank account. For ‘security’ deposits were locked for 6 days. That was even more dirty of these scammers to do this on rent day! C’mon guys, I got bills to pay.

I think I’m gonna have to move my website away from shopify. This has been an awful week of problem after problem, sn*******ng into FUBAR. If it’s raining, it’s pouring. While I figure that all out, please enjoy these funky earrings I’ve been making. Agate and aquamarine. Cobalt calcite. Turquoise. Magnesite. 🪶💸👍🏽

05/29/2026

Renewal

A place in history I have spent a tremendous amount of time is WWll. That sounds a little strange to say after all of these years, but at the beginning of my ordeal after being betrayed by my family, I was a tough spot.

So I asked my curiosity for help.

Hello, curiosity. It’s me again. I don’t love my story at this very moment and I’m terribly afraid that I can’t rely on the stories I know to get me the hell outta this place. Can you find me some better ones? Maybe some stories of courage, because I feel very small. Or some stories of bravery? I don’t want to admit how scared I am. If you could find me some stories to hold on to, then I think we have a shot.

And this is one of the reasons I know so many stories from WWII. This great and terrible conflict that left no continent on our globe untouched. This huge event was an incredible undertaking. An entire generation of free peoples took a look at barbarism and brutality and said no.

Of all of the leaders at the time, I have a great respect for that stalwart English bulldog. I think Mr. Churchill understood that just as important as men and munitions, morale would carry the day, even in the face of fearsome and daunting odds. And an enemy that outmatched and outclassed his island nation on almost every tactical way in the beginning of the war.

The pieces I have been making these last months have many of those rugged stories in them. There have been many trials over the years. Trials that stretched and strained my spirit sails. When I needed them, I borrowed courage from some of these stories. Some of you will recognize some of these sayings from previous collections because some of these stories have been with me for a very long time.

Maybe you too find yourself in need of some courage. Maybe your sails have been sagging in your own trials by fire. The dark has not bested us yet.

We can watch our limits be tested, we will rest to conserve our strength. We may be bowed but we remain unbroken 🪶

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