Katharine Novak
Bio
Multi-hyphenate Colorado native.
Stories (4/0)
Making a Community
It was April of 2018. Just 8 months before I had graduated from a school that would soon be closed down and I was working at the bottom of my industry. Best of Both Design started with the last of my student loans and my tax return, equaling $4,000, an unofficial business plan and a Colorado native with a bunch of old furniture. I did everything on my own. I paid my dues. I got an LLC, rented a tiny studio space, made some product and signed up for 3 events in 3 months. I had one chance. I didn’t expect much. I told myself it would be nice if I made back the vendor fees, got a few emails and gave out a few business cards.
By Katharine Novak3 years ago in Motivation
Never Happier Than During the Pandemic
Act 1: Family Talent My grandfather wrote funny poems, my grandmother did oil painting and could draw people, famous peoples faces and likenesses, woman posing and fashion. My mother was a cake decorator, as was my aunt, she could make icing do things that only people nowadays can do with fondant. Amateurs! She put eyelashes on every animal like it was a Muppet and drew them in long grass because she never got their feet right. Auntie was wonderful at decorating wedding cakes. She had the patience and steady hand for creating delicate, intricate patterns and lacing. She also was fairly talented on the piano and could hold a tune, as can my brother, while my mother and I could not. This is the last mention of my brother. He was the first to take a piece of me and alter how I saw myself. My mother was also a watercolorist. She did mostly landscapes and would always point out a single tree or rock that she liked, but rarely liked the whole. I couldn’t even use a pair of scissors. Later I realized it was only because I was a lefty using right handed people's tools. I learned to adapt.
By Katharine Novak3 years ago in Families
As Big as Your Head
I can't remember the first time I came here, but it became a staple when I was 16 or 17. I had two friends that were reading Harry Potter the same time as me, we were a little late to the craze, but at least we read them before the movies came out! Anyway, we would go to McCoy's late at night and read out loud to each other. That's how I read the first two books. In a horseshoe booth at a 24 hour diner right off the freeway.
By Katharine Novak3 years ago in Feast
To Speak of One Is to Speak of All of them Before Us
In the summer of 2009, a year before my mothers death, there were four generations of Novak women alive. My grandmother, age 78. My mother, age 54, and my aunt, age 53, myself, age 30, lastly, you, age 8. We are all very different people and yet the branches of our family tree led us to who we are, to who you are, and will be.
By Katharine Novak3 years ago in Families