Egg of the Day: The Jockey
By Cathy on March 28, 201000Read moreWe thought it would be fun to send our friends and family a Cyber Easter Egg each day this week leading up to Easter. These are from our collection of handmade Pysansky eggs that we have been making ever since the girls were little when we ordered our first Ukranian egg decorating kit from the Chinaberry catalogue. We only make
25 Years & Counting: C.R. Gibson and Cathy Heck Studio
By Ellen Heck on March 26, 2010Read moreWe have been happily working with C.R. Gibson for 25 years this year. Happy Anniversary to all of us! We just returned from a visit in Nashville with our wonderful C.R. Gibson friends, and we couldn’t wait to get back to the drawing board to get started on the next 25 years. Photos: Top left, a welcoming sign when we
O, Beautiful String and Blank Paper!
By Ellen Heck on March 24, 2010Read moreI am about to start making some mock-ups for Surtex, but I couldn’t help but first post a few photo-odes to unused craft supplies. I’ve done this before – what can I say? Is it that blank paper and organized bundles of string are beautiful per se, or is it the unbounded potential of these unused materials that is so
DIY Recipe: EASY Fruit Kebabs (Healthy-Sweet-Fast-Pretty)
By Cathy on March 22, 2010Read moreAre you the snack mom any time soon, like tomorrow? If so, here is a great snack, which is super easy, AND, if it’s already midnight, you might even have the fixins on hand. It was the night before our advisory snack day again, and we had nothing that would be desirable for a room full of hungry 16-year old
The Pier Walk: San Francisco
By Ellen Heck on March 19, 2010Read moreOver Spring Break, my sister, Jules, and I were trying to recreate one particularly fabulous day last year when the two of us roamed the city at 6am, drank hot chocolate by the bay, and sat watching the dynamics of sea lion society for over an hour at Pier 39. This time, we took the waterfront walk from the Embarcadero