A group of us usually get together in early December for a gift exchange “secret santa”  We each draw a name and make a gift for that person.  This year we didn’t get it together before Christmas and a new tradition was born – from now on we will have Secret Valentine instead of Secret …

Just like I’m sure many of you do, we have a secret santa tradition here in the Crafts Dept. Its pretty nice, because we all give eachother things we’ve made especially for the person assigned to us. So we all get together for dinner, sometimes at a restaurant and sometimes at someone’s house, to open …

For our August issue of Martha Stewart Living, I developed a story how to make simple necklaces. It was a lot of fun to come up with all those ideas and I’ve since been making more. It all started with Laura’s wedding, for which I had nothing appropriate to wear and decided a fancy necklace …