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Remembering 9/11

Catherine J Avery
September 12 2010


One man in the sun alone
Walks between the silence and the stone:
The city rises from his flesh, his bone.
--Archibald Macleish

These were the words quoted this morning by Mayor Bloomberg at the Ceremonies for 9/11. Nine years later, I still miss my friends from Marsh & McLennan, Aon and Cantor Fitzgerald, especially my classmate Calvin. I am still haunted by the vision of the towers falling.

And I will never forget

...being at a...
 
 
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Five Interior Design Tips for Making Your Foyer More Welcoming

Catherine J Avery
July 15 2010


How do you feel when you enter your home? Is it relaxing and inviting? A little bit elegant and understated? Is it dark and dramatic offering a glimpse of Gatsbyesque cocktail parties? Or is it more practical to suit the dog and the kids? Did you do it yourself or have the help of an interior designer?

Entries and foyers are all about first impressions, a chance...
 
 
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Interior Designers help you on Twitter aka #IDzinechat

Catherine J Avery
February 27 2010


Over the last 9 months, I have had the great privilege of getting to know a phenomenal group of women in the interior design world (and great gentleman too). We have shared design successes and frustrations, asked each other questions and gotten to know one another all via Twitter. Now, we read each other’s blogs and comment and sometimes we even blog about each other! We follow each other...
 
 
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Five Things my (nearly) Five Year Old Daughter Taught me About Interior Design

Catherine J Avery
February 15 2010


1. Loosen up. When I was in Fairfield's Interior Design Program, I discovered that I rendered pretty tightly. I envied one of my classmates, Maggie, who had this loose relaxed style of watercoloring. It was beautiful. DD loves to watercolor and I have joined her. It is so much fun! And it has really loosened up my drawing style. I still prefer my pastels...
 
 
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Priorities

Catherine J Avery
January 18 2010


'Don't say that I will depart tomorrow--even today I am still arriving.

Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear...