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I agree with Julie and Pryor208. While my small apartment looks NOTHING like the rooms in Martha's magazine, I love to go through and find a few little touches that appeal to me, and copy them. I love the look.:p She obviously is not inspiring to most of you, but she is to me--regularly!
__________________ Margaret
"Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion" Leo Buscaglia
...What gets me is the "200 special friends"....umm....I don't know that I have 200 friends, much less "special" friends. :rolleyes: Isn't she just so SPECIAL to have so many SPECIAL friends...:mrgreen:
Yea, the paper plate cracked me up. If you've got enough money to buy a custom stamp then invest in a powder tray or use a larger rubbermaid bin to make your life easier. No wonder she had embossing powder all over -- a paper plate would make a real mess.
OMG I actually snarfed my coffee.. Hysterical. Not to mention most likely a true statement.. roflmbo.... What about that special paper froma fallen tree from the Redwood forest, hand milled and pressed by some virgins from Greece... :twisted: teehee teehee
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PS--don't send her your homemade cards, ladies... you know she'd just steal the idea, only make it four times as expensive by ordering stamps mounted on silver blocks "because it's really the only quality that's acceptable" and using ink made from rare endangered exotic flowers "because the image is so much crisper, don't you think?" and trim it with ribbon hand-made in a convent in France "because it's the perfect finishing touch."
I don't mind Martha. I don't want to go hang out with her or anything but she doesn't bother me. I like how organized she is and I think she has a lot of great ideas. Some of what she does is too foofy for me though. lol She's taken an idea and her talent for it and has built...well, an empire. I'm not a fan of her show though. The interaction between her and her guests seems awkward to me for some reason.
I was newly married about the time Martha's magazine hit the stands (I still have a few of the first issues) and I ate them up like a starving woman as back then nobody seemed to be making too much by hand and I loved her organizational tips- I also loved her clean elegant style as well.
While she is not always well received and often ridiculed I have always admired her strength, business smarts and her creativity.
I'll tell ya what's even funnier -- I went up to the Yahoo! toolbar and typed in "Martha Stewart embossed cards" so I could find this column, and #8 in the search results was none other than a link to this thread! :p
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Well, I've had my laughs for the evening - what a great thread! Although I love her ideas, most of them are too rich for my budget, plus I don't have the time to do all she does. I do love her bows - I can't tie a straight bow to save my soul - no matter what I do. While I do love her ideas, I do agree that she is a wuss - she would have been better off to just show the card and shut up. 200 special friends indeed. OMG - I don't even know 200 people that I would call "special friends". Maybe 5 or 10. Well, enough from here. I look forward to more remarks.
I just click on the 'embossed holiday card' link at the bottom of the page and have been laughing so hard my belly hurts. It was several statements that really got me. She said to wipe the stamp with a paper towel then clean with a stamp cleaning pad..........If she did this for each card, no wonder it took her so long. How many of you clean you stamp EVERY time to do repeat stampings. THEN, the next thing that slayed me was "wave the card 3 or 4 times in the air to set the design." I wonder it she had her pinkie up when she did this. Sheesh, Martha. Just lay it to the side and go on to the next one. Maybe we should all hire ourselves out to teach these people the fast way! The paper plate was also quite funny!
Your so right. It wouldnt take so long if she didnt do all those things. And that heat gun. Or lordy and that heat gun. Those kind take forever to heat up.
You're planning to spend the evening stamping and embossing your holiday cards. Which clothes will you probably wear for this event? :
A. - Jeans and a T-shirt
B. - Sweats
B. - Your pajamas
C. - a cashmere sweater set
Ha ha ha. Cashmere sweater set, of course.
I actually like Martha too, and I think she (and her staff) have some fabulous ideas, but that doesn't mean I can't laugh at her too.
__________________ ~ Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers ~ (attributed to Socrates 470-399 BC)
You know I liked her before Cupcake-JAIL, and never again will I look at her the same way. You know celebs are treated differently and pampered. So I say she could not make it in the real world...
about spending the day making cards-would be sweats and t-shirt!!
I love the fact that she thought she's have time to do 200 cards with guests coming over for Thanksgiving weekend!!!(bahaaaahaaahaa) Now if she were a "real stamper" she would have engaged her guests in making their own, personalized handcrafted with love, card. Doesn't she know she could have gotten recruits or future hostesses out of that "stamp class" that she was doing. Obviously not or else she would be a demonstrator.
Well, I don't know Martha personally, but I gotta hand it to her:
She is an incredibly intelligent business person!
I love her clean, simple, yet elegant sense of style, and find it to be a great source of inspiration for me. While I can't afford it at the level she does, I just find ways within my own budget to emulate it.
I like a lot of her ideas too. I went over to read the article, and it seemed like more of a tongue in cheek message, that it really was a huge undertaking and she was almost making fun of herself. She's been a lot more humble since her incarceration.
