Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

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Jane’s Book

  This is a book-box I made for my friend Jane. I had started with another book, but I made a mistake on that one and glued the back cover to the inside before I was ready. This one I kept it free and didn’t glue on the inside until I was prepared. One of …

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Book Review: Stuff Matters

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik This is a good non-fiction book about materials science, which is a high recommendation in my book, because non-fiction books about chemistry for the layperson are in a narrow category of books I like to read quite a lot. The author …

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Monarch Script Postcard

 I did this sketch during a boring meeting, and took it home to ink in with some of the inks I bought for fountain pens. (Fountain pens have broken my heart time and time again!) You can see a little of the French text coming through. I meant to cut this out and paste it …

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Sisterly Affection

*They say she won’t love me but I know her sister will.

Book Review: The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger I know I’m going to piss a lot of people off with this review, because for many people this is their favoritest book ever. I read this book as a teenager and I despised it. I couldn’t stand Holden, felt he was, to quote himself, a big …

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