Name: Jodi Levine
Job Title: Kids Editorial Director and Designer for Martha Stewart Crafts
Date started at company: October 1994
First story you worked on: Good Things, a handmade paper clip idea (which I made as bribes for my job interview here!)
Hometown: Queens, NY
School and Degree: Rhode Island School of Design, BFA, Painting
First Job: Teacher’s assistant at a cooking and crafts class for toddlers while I was in high school. I was in charge of potty trips!
Astrological sign: Libra
Personal crafting/artwork: making jewelry, crafting with food, making cards, invites, and little drawings and collages, and crafting and cooking with my kids, my etsy shop: jlevine.etsy.com
First craft memory: Making doll clothes with my mom out of my outgrown clothes (my favorite was a tiny sundress made from my old corduroy pants, using the elastic waistband as the "smocked" bodice and a handmade greeting card business with my brother (our parents were our best/only customers!)
FAVORITE . . .
Color (Pantone #): pink, 1777
Holiday: I like them all...but if I have to choose I guess it would be Valentines Day for the pinks and reds and candy and cards.
Pizza topping: spinach
Kind of Fabric: felt
Dessert: chocolate chip cookies
Things you collect: paper bags, vintage wrapping paper and other paper odds and ends: chop holders, toothpick frills., paper plates, candy (specifically cut rock candy that looks like glass),
Source: Metalliferrous, Tinsel Trading, Kinokuniya for books
Martha Stewart Craft: Cookie Cottages
My sister-in-law invited my family over to decorate Easter eggs this weekend and I was digging around the office for inspiration for some easy ideas for my nieces, nephew and little sons to try. I started playing with the rub-downs and 3-D stickers that are in the Martha Stewart Crafts line. I especially love …
In honor of the upcoming publication of our Encyclopedia of Crafts I thought I would share one of my favorite projects from the book: Marbleizing. The projects were already developed by another craft editor and shot but we planned on shooting some more pictures of the process and I wanted to give it a try …
Hello and thanks for reading our blog. I thought I’d share some of the crafting I do on the side.
I’ve been making jewelry since I was a kid, when my proud mom and her kind friends were my best (well, only) customers. Years later I started making oversized necklaces out of crepe paper flowers as …
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia will be hosting a holiday craft sale in New York City on December 5th.
