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Clockwise from uppper left: BluDot, Thomas Paul, Orla Kiely & Alexander Girard

During the Room for Color Contest (see all our entries here), many readers learn that one of the best ways to experiment and add color without painting or spending a lot money is to add throw pillows. Good throw pillows are hard to find, however, and it's nice to find ones that offer unique patterning, rich colors and something that you just won't see in any one else's home.

• What: AT's New York Design Meetup
• Guest: The American Design Club
• Members: 1,245
• RSVP's: 115 Yes / 13 Maybe (rsvp here)
• When: 6:30-9pm, Thursday, November 19
• Where: Knoll Showroom, 76 9th Avenue, Floor 11, NYC

Welcome to the next wave of design. Get ready to meet the American Design Club tomorrow, a loose association of young, talented designers that is based in New York City. In the house will be most of the founding members: Henry Julier, Kiel Mead and the trio from Rich, Brilliant & Willing — Theo Richardson, Charles Bril and Alexander Williams.

Clockwise from upper left: Pancake & Franks, Albertine Press, Mr. Boddington's Studio, Fugu Fugu

This is my biggest haul of great sources yet! As we struggle at the office to find really nice holiday cards that we'd be PROUD to send to friends, colleagues and business contacts, I'm on the lookout for great new letterpress designs.

• Cure Clock: 3 weeks to go
• Assignment: Read Week 6: Light Therapy
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I can't believe that we're already heading down the final stretch! Now's the time to work very hard and make sure you are doing all you can. This is a good time of year to WANT to fix up your home, but with the holidays coming, there's a lot to do. I say work hard and rest after. This is your moment to do this work and it will pass. Go for it.

Here's a tip I got yesterday from Tina, who is an expert when it comes to finding and buying really nice photos and prints: Print Society. Print Society just launched, and is like an Etsy JUST for prints — photographic prints, screen prints and letterpress. It aggregates all artists and galleries that want to display their work. It calls itself "the first completely open and transparent marketplace for printed artwork." I would say that it's a really pretty place to go if you want to look at prints, and functions as one stop shopping for the print minded.

>> Enter 2009 Slideshow (it's the whole journey in about 35 pics)

We did it again, and this time with the biggest group ever and the longest route ever, but we still caught the sunset over the Statue of Liberty. Last Sunday just over 35 of us gathered out at Nathan's hot dog stand on Surf Avenue at Coney Island at 9am and set out to walk all the way through Brooklyn, ending up over the Brooklyn Bridge and finishing at the Battery. At 5pm, 27 of us finished and 25 got into the final picture.

Every Friday! Here are all the home and garden sales across the country - painstakingly collected by our editorial team of over 70 bloggers. This is only place on the web where you can find them all in one place. Pass it on and send us your sale.

Need good wine glasses? Here are my recommendations, updated for 2009. I can't drink wine out of a jelly jar anymore and enjoy it (unless I'm at a picnic or camping!). I've come to prefer the thin glass lip of real wine glass, along with the rounded bowl that allows you to smell the wine before you drink it (which is ½ the experience).

I snapped the picture above in Thomas O'Brien's Soho shop last week. While O'Brien is amazingly talented and prolific, it is hard to find his style all in once location. His designs spread out among vendors as varied as Target, Waterworks, Safavieh and Reed & Barton, but in his Soho shop, you can see the whole vision in one fell swoop. I recommend a visit.

Pics by fellow walker, Tim Goodvin: This is the start at Coney Island

• Cure Clock: 4 weeks to go
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Yesterday, Sara, Ursula and I took a bit of a day off our Cure to join nearly thirty Apartment Therapy readers as we walked from Coney Island to Battery Park. It was sort of a day off, but it was also a cure of a different sort.

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This Sunday, November 8th, we're hosting our sixth annual walk of the island. Unlike the previous five years, our walk this year is going to walk that bit of Long Island known as Brooklyn, as we'll start at Coney Island and walk all the way to our regular finishing point, Battery Park (ah, the Brooklyn Bridge is going to be marvelous)...

Every Friday! Here are all the home and garden sales across the country - painstakingly collected by our editorial team of over 70 bloggers. This is only place on the web where you can find them all in one place. Pass it on and send us your sale...

This is one of those great little finds that I like more for knowing less. Ancient Industries is an online store, founded by unknown individuals, which sells "traditional household goods and clothing," meaning those things that have been in production for "decades, centuries and millenia..."

I want to share with you my interview with Sir Terence Conran which took place last week and was tremendously inspiring — Sir Terence was in New York for the launch of his new book, The Eco House Book, which focuses on his biggest concern: good design for the planet.