Device: Vert, an owl argent, on a chief embattled Or two feathers fesswise inverted crossed at the tips gules.

THL Kateryna Ty Isaf

TIME PERIOD: 14th Century Welsh

PERSONA BIO: Kat's grandfather is an installed English nobleman, whose daughter had the audacity to marry a Welshman for love. He bought a modest farm and home called Ty Isaf and set his daughter and her husband up as landowners away from his English castle. They died while Kat was a very young woman and she inherited Ty Isaf. She mothered a son, Brandyr, who sailed off on his own adventures, and who she has lost to the dragons of the deep. Known to occasionally harbor boarders, Kat has seen the world through the eyes of her traveling friends. She has recently met with an English gentle, Gregory, with whom she has a great and abiding affection and who has promised to show her the world that lies beyond her beloved home.

ACTIVITIES/INTERESTS: SCA: Cooking, sewing, heraldry, Service, service, service, Everything, give me more hobbies, more fun stuff to do, who needs sleep anyway?

SCA AWARDS/HONORS: Order of the Zule, AS 33 , AoA AS 33, Companion of the Keystone AS 35 , Order of the Silver Raindrop AS 38, Order of the Zule (2nd time) AS 39, Order of the Flame AS 40 , Order of the Millrind AS 40, Order of the Sycamore AS 41

OFFICES: Current: Guildmistress, Endless Hills Cooks' Guild
Prior: Chatelaine, Barony Endless Hills, Seneschal, Barony Endless Hills (AS too often), Minister of Arts and Sciences, Baronial Bard AS 39

OTHER SCA ACTIVITIES: Member College of Heralds, Æthelmearc, Warranted Minister of Lists (MOL), Protege to Mistress Euriol of Lothian, Member House Lindau

MUNDANE BIO: Karen Macek, wife of Scott, daughter of Harold and JoAnn and "Aunt" to anyone who is at least 10 years younger than me. (Have to draw a line somewhere)

NATAL DAY: Saint Scholastica Day AS IV

FAVORITE QUOTE: "Curiosity killed the Cat, but satisfaction brought it back"
"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy, I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy. " -- Rabindranath Tagore

PERSONA'S MOTTO: Primum viveri deinde philosophari - Live before you philosophize or Leap before you look

CONTACT INFO: thlkateryna at yahoo.com

POSTING PERMISSION: January 15, 2006