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	<link>http://www.catherinecheek.com</link>
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		<title>Glass Apple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made this in the same pumpkin making workshop I made the glass pumpkin in. I forgot to use the optics mold, so it turned into an apple instead of a pumpkin. Since it was going to be a different kind of fruit, I made a dimple in the bottom, and asked for a green-hued [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catherinecheek.com/2012/01/20/glass-apple/</link>
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		<title>Glass pumpkin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first one-day workshop I took this fall was for making glass pumpkins. It was billed as a beginner workshop, which was a mistake, as these are tricky to make. Some people weren&#8217;t able to make any. I was out of practice, so I made it easier for myself by doing one that was clear. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catherinecheek.com/2012/01/15/glass-pumpkin/</link>
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		<title>Blue and Yellow ornament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I quite like how the colors came out on this one. The yellow frit is opaque, but the cobalt blue is transparent, so wherever the blue overlaps the yellow looks translucent green. Very pretty. I got three colors in one.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catherinecheek.com/2012/01/11/blue-and-yellow-ornament/</link>
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		<title>Red and White Ornament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the more successful ornaments I made at the workshop eariler this month. One of the changes they&#8217;d made at the MAC glass studio since I&#8217;d been there the last time is that the frit is in larger pieces. It makes it harder to pick up, but the colors can be more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catherinecheek.com/2012/01/07/red-and-white-ornament/</link>
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		<title>Ornament workshop, revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took another of the glass blowing one day workshops at the Mesa Art Center in early December. I do so love playing in the hotshop, but it&#8217;s frustrating that the only one day workshops were available as and listed as &#8220;no experience required.&#8221; On one hand, I like that people have a chance to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catherinecheek.com/2012/01/03/ornament-workshop-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Year of the Pig Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The name of this book came from the epoxy sticker on the front. My friend sent it to me from Japan, home of the most wonderful stationary stores I&#8217;ve ever seen. She sent it in the year of the pig, a few years ago, and I couldn&#8217;t bear to part with it, so I put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catherinecheek.com/2011/12/31/year-of-the-pig-book/</link>
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		<title>Grackle Charm Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made some new books, on account of it was a certain person&#8217;s birthday and she didn&#8217;t have any of my little books yet. So I made covers for the last three book blanks I had. This is my favorite of the three. I started with some simple cotton cloth from a placemat. I pasted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catherinecheek.com/2011/12/23/grackle-charm-book/</link>
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		<title>Blue Steampunk Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of the three books I made this time, I was sure this one would be my favorite. I started with some cloth that I like very much, and then I got out some of my expensive interference acrylics and my wings silkscreen and made a pair of shimmery wings across it. I added other Victoriana [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catherinecheek.com/2011/12/20/blue-steampunk-book/</link>
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		<title>Postcard: Death Butterfly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my favorite of the postcards, probably because I did more work on this one than the others. I started with the Morgan Green tarot card, and I used a stamp of the frame for the outside, (stamping it on black paper and using white embossing powder) I had to trim it to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catherinecheek.com/2011/12/19/postcard-death-butterfly/</link>
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		<title>Postcard: Green Icon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d been looking at a cool book that has information on how to make polymer clay tile mosaics, and the artist used a lot of religious icons contained within frames. My friend Jane and I were in awe of how beautiful they were, so I started looking for tiny icon images I could use to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.catherinecheek.com/2011/12/15/postcard-green-icon/</link>
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