Studio Life

It’s with great joy that I’m writing you from a new Cathy Heck Studio West (a.k.a. California Studio) closer to Berkeley and dangerously close to the Gourmet Ghetto.  We moved over the holiday!  There are still mobile heaps of miscellanea in a corner of each room, but those large-scale not-entirely-essential projects are slowly being crossed off the list… and here’s

We’re not so sure that there is such a thing as abundance in moderation … but if there is, we hope you enjoy it this year. And, in the spirit of bacon, we couldn’t think of a better way to start the new year than by trying this recipe from the new cookbook I received for Christmas, Ina Garten’s Barefoot

All of us at Cathy Heck Studio would like to wish you a wonderful holiday season.  Ellen has created this frisky family of reindogs to bring you cheer and happy tidings.  We hope you can spend special time with friends and family.  And, that you can sneak in some time to enjoy a dog’s life: eating, sleeping, and eating some

When grapefruit season rolls around in Texas, it’s time to stock the refrigerator with grapefruit jewels.  These are perfect wedges of sweet Texas grapefruit, with none of the bitter parts.   Here is the secret to our easy jewel-making technique. 1. First cut off the ends of the grapefruit with a serrated knife. 2. Next, cut around the outside of

I love shopping on Etsy for Christmas.  Whether it is imagining some lady in Baltimore filling rows of plastic tubes with hot flavored beeswax, drooling over gourmet marshmallows from Edinburgh, or knowing that a kindred spirit in Orange County is hand rolling my selection of 15 different washi tapes onto little wooden spools, I always feel connected to all those