Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Aug 30
Book Review: Columbine
Columbine by Dave Cullen I got this as an audiobook, and had to ask myself “what is a person who hates serial killers doing reading a book about a famous massacre?” But this is much more than just a gruesome true-crime story. It has so many different angles to it that there’s something for…well, maybe …
Aug 24
Keyhole Tumbler 3
My sister asked me what I wanted for my birthday, and I told her I wanted rubber stamps that had blocks of text in a foreign language. I couldn’t find any myself, but she’s an expert shopper and found several nice pieces. They were unmounted, which made them perfect for these projects. To get the …
Aug 17
Keyhole Tumbler 2
The clay I used this session was a mixture of leftover clay and some new bags that I bought from an artstore that is (sadly) going out of business. This Amador is lovely unglazed, but it turns this iron-speckled grey when it has clear on it. The clear also obscures some of the detail from …
Aug 10
Keyhole Tumbler 1
I haven’t done a lot of artwork in the past three months except work on my book covers and create postcards. Just finished a pottery class though, and I got some of my pieces from the kiln. I made a mold of some of Tim Holz’s keyholes (and a few antique ones) and used them …
Aug 10
Book Review: Power, Why Some People Have it and Others Don’t.
Power: Why Some People Have it and Others Don’t by Jeffrey Pfeffer I had hopes that this book would be more about socioeconomic and political struggles from an anthropological bent, but instead, it could be titled “how to get ahead in the workplace”. He touches briefly on governmental-type politics, but for the most part, this …