Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.
Catherine Cheek
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Nov 21
Postcard: Chandelier
This was one of the first postcards I made for this series, before I actually researched the USPS guidelines, so I have to use a 44 cent stamp to mail it. I couldn’t cut it smaller, because I’d alrady made the little frame on the inside (you can see the writing behind it). I am …
Nov 17
Book Review: Julie and Julia
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell There’s a certain type of people who believe that a New York address and having done something attention-grabbing and arduous is the only necessary prerequisite for writing a memoir. However, other memoirs have taught me these traits do not automatically instill the necessary writing …
Nov 17
Postcard: Witch Calendar
These images are not creative commons because they don’t belong to me. They’re from one of my favorite artists, Jennifer Hewitson, from one of the Llelwyn press Witches’ calendar. I adore this art so much that I kept the calendar for years after it (2007) was no longer useful. I just couldn’t bear to throw …
Nov 14
Postcard: Three Cups
The first image, you may recognize from the Morgan Tarot, one of my favorite tarot decks. I have more than one deck, and this is not the first time I’ve used the cards as part of my craft projects. I just love the imagery so much. On top of the image, I used pale embossings …
Nov 10
Postcard: Two Calendar Birds
I love the images of the birds from the top photo. It’s from a calendar that my sister-in-law had for 2010. Each month had one of those collage images on this nice heavy cream colored weave paper. They threw it out when they moved, but I fished it out of the trash and have used …