Catherine Cheek

Catherine "Kater" Cheek is a writer and artist.

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E-Book Week!

I’ve got some promotions over at  Smashwords, if you want to get some of my books for free or cheap, this week only. Get copies for your kindle, nook, kobo, sony, ipad or any other e-reader, including PDF. Seeing Things — Free until 3/8! Use Coupon Code REW75 Treemaker — 50% off until 3/8! Use Coupon …

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Twice Green Cup

Just started a new glass blowing class. I couldn’t get into the shorter weeknight one I usually take, and am in a longer one on the weekends. The other women in class far surpassed me in skill. This is good, in that they will likely inspire me to strethc myself, but bad, in that it’s …

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Book Review – Second Glance

Second Glance by Jodi Picoult I’d never head of Jodi Picoult, and only got this book because a secondhand copy was selling at the library for too cheap to pass up, so it surprised me that two separate people told me how much they loved her as an author when they spied the book cover. …

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Book Review – The Story of Doctor Doolittle

The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting I got this as a free audiobook, and it was prefaced by a foreword from someone letting me know that what I was about to read was the pinnacle of children’s literature, much better than most of the trash out there, and was, in fact, a work …

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Blue and Orange Book

With digital images, you can layer almost anything over anything, and you can adjust the translucency by minuscule percentages and back again. With physical layers, it’s much harder. One way you can add texture is by using printing. This diamond/spiral pattern is from some plastic texture plates designed for this purpose. I also used these …

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