Cheeka's back - again!

Here I am again after a long hiatus. It's funny, I've lost pretty much everything. My car, my house, but not my self respect, sense of humor or my faith. I'm living with the Deacon of my church and his wife - in the basement. Some days I feel like a kid living with mom & dad. But as I often say, it's all good. I'm blessed - I have a place to live, food, and thanks to my ex-boss keeping me through the 1st quarter of last year, another unemployment claim to keep me going! Woot!

First, a few things I need to say...to the women with children I see on the bus in the evening, wow. I'm so impressed. I could never do what you do! I can't imagine getting home at 7:00 pm with two or three children and still having to cook dinner, give baths, say prayers, etc. Sheesh!

To the Methuselah's dad who I helped over a snow drift - how do you keep going day after day? I hope when I am that old I do not have to take a stupid bus!

And finally, to the men who are as tired and worn out as I am after a hard day's work who give me their seat just because I am a girl - THANK YOU! I am happy to leave equality behind when I am tired. And I always appreciate a kind gesture. Thank you so much!

At any rate, you ask, have I at least been creating? Of course, although not as much as you'd think...but that is changing! Here's a few of the latest swaps I've done - I dropped out of a few, too depressed some days, too lazy and I did have a lot of moving around of my art space in the last year.

Katilady's Queerious Swap:





There's alcohol inks on transparencies, book scraps, paint, paper, the whole works! Lots of fun!

RobbyGirl's Cheshire Cats - Get Your Grin On swap






































Now that's enough to wet your whistles for now, okay? Rest assured I will be blogging regularly now. I'm through hiding. Great changes are coming - I'll talk about that tomorrow.