Author archive for Ellen Heck

While all of you Austinites were having an early spring snow day, in Berkeley, we were saturated and spilling...

Number 32!  Congratulations to Lisa R, we hope that your sister and her new baby boy will enjoy their...

May your day be filled with lots of LOVE!

I found this purple aquatint test strip in an old hard-to-open drawer under a film of copper filings and...

On 4th street, not far from some excellent and eclectic shopping, past a few pothole-ridden intersections and a warehouse...

I’ve been wanting to take the Jelly Belly factory tour ever since we passed it the first time on...

Now that it’s not a secret anymore, here’s how Jules’s flower pot turned out after glazing.  (This is Mom...

In her early years, my sister Jules had an incredible gift for finding those tiny little hidden objects in...

As usual, we will all be piled in watching our favorite Christmas movie, It’s A Wonderful Life.  We hope...

We used to make Mini Pecan Pies when we lived in New York, so that our friends could have...