Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

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Nov 23

Pumpkin Pie is Special.

By Kater in drawing

Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday. It’s the day that we bring out tasteless old-fashioned recipes to go along with the tasteless old-fashioned gender roles. This year, I am most thankful for my mother, who has offered to host. Thanks Mom!

holiday, pumpkin pie, resentment, Thanksgiving

Nov 22

Number Plaque

By Kater in alternart, Glass, Pottery, Tiles

Here’s the finished number plaque that I made the poppy tiles for (shown in an earlier post). I cut the background green tiles out of stained glass, with the help of my daughters (since ones hand hurts after cutting too many tiles, I needed help.) Cutting the background tiles was rather time-consuming, but it saves …

low fire, mosaic, number plaque, stained glass, tesserae, tile, Tiles
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Nov 20

Practice Beads

By Kater in Glass

Since I’d made all kinds of green and pink and lavender radially symmetrical canes for the floral beads, and I didn’t want to make any more floral beads, I used up the canes and practiced placing dots on these clear glass forms. I really like the way dots can look when they’re accurately placed. One …

dots, floral bead, lampworking, practice, radially symmetrical cane

Nov 18

Lavender Floral Bead

By Kater in Glass

This is what the lampworking workshop I took in August was designed to teach. You can get very pretty beads if you are good at this technique. I’m not so interested in pretty, so I only made this one.

bead, floral bead, lampworking

Nov 16

Black Floral Beads

By Kater in Glass

I took a class in lampworking that was to teach this floral technique. It makes very girly, feminine, frilly beads. I soon figured out that while the techniques were interesting (making a simple radially symmetrical cane and then using it to add details), I didn’t like the way the beads looked. Still, I thought I ought to …

bead, floral, Glass