Thank you so much Kat! Your kindness and words always puts a smile on my face. I hope you are well. 
You're very welcome, Mel! It's a joy to see your work gracing my dA messages again. 
I'm better now I have my PC back online. Two weeks without a computer and three weeks
before that of a unwell machine have made for a very unhappy and highly stressed Kat, but
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that things are finally going to start going my way after what
has been a horrific year. (Picking up where last year left off, unforutnately.) I hope things are
well with you and I hope to see more of your great renders soon! 
I went almost one day without internet, electricity, my computer (my iPhone & ipad were basically battery dead) and I simply went nuts. LOL So I'm happy you are back at it and things are looking up. You are a ray of sunshine (gawd, sounds so corny) but it's true and I hope to continue to see you thrive. You totally rock. 
Yikes, that is some extreme withdrawal you went through! O.o I at least still had power
so while I was K.O'd with a PC that I couldn't switch on, I was at least able to chill out
playing my Xbox. ^^ Slaughtering and dominating Orcs in Shadow of War kept the
madness at bay... for the most part. I was still incredibly p*ssed off that I was without a
computer for so long when it should have been fixed within a couple of days.
lol Awww! If you think it's true, then it isn't corny at all! I was less of a ray of
I was less of a ray of sunshine and more of the stormclouds of doom while I was waiting for technicians to pull
their heads outta their arses but I am now BACK and all is right with my little universe.
For now. Until something else blows up in my face. (It's just been one of those years.)
I'm so happy to see that you're still making new images so I'm going to go pounce of those!
There are more pretty things in need of feedback and praise! 
I think you and me both are ready for a different year. lol 2018 hasn't so far proven to be the best or better of them. Let's do a mid year toast to the latter half being the best of them all?
I second this! 2017 was awful, 2018 was rubbish... I shudder to think what 2019 has planned
for me if it continues on with the current trend of rubbish years. 
Let's do a mid-year toast
Let's do a mid-year toast and make the tentative wish that 2018 will finish better than it started. And whatever you do,
DO NOT ask what else can go wrong or you'll jinx the whole bloody thing! 