About

If you’d like to learn more about my design influences, check out the Sunset Cat Designs tab.

On the non-knitting front, I’m a small animal relief veterinarian in Southern California, filling in at veterinary hospitals as needed.

I’m married to Dave, a high school physics teacher. No kids except for the four footed: Rigel, an English Cocker spaniel, and the Tonkinese cat herd: Meggie, Obi and Cali.

Things we do: triathlons, hiking, SCUBA diving, traveling, wine tasting. If we’re lucky we get to do all of that on one trip.

Tattoos: I’ve had people recognize me from Ravelry from my Ravatar pic, which is a photo of the relatively small celtic cat triskelion on my right upper arm. I also have a corvid with a pictish spiral on my left upper arm, and a puma on my right shoulder blade.

We’re also the oddballs of our neighborhood in Hermosa Beach, restoring our 1920s Spanish Eclectic bungalow in a neighborhood where old houses are usually considered teardowns or at best ‘starter homes’.

We’re trying to be as green as possible – we have solar panels, a tankless water heater, recycled cellulose insulation, no lawn (native plants & we’re growing some veggies & fruit trees)….I try to use things like Craigslist or Freecycle to find things for our house & yard if & when we need something as opposed to buying new (and trying to decrease buying in general).