This is Laurel and Amy, we’re the summer interns in the craft department. Laurel is a Sociology/Anthropology major at Middlebury College in Vermont. Amy graduated from RISD this past spring with a degree in Industrial Design. We’ve been working on a variety of projects over the past few weeks, many of which include lots of …

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. It may be a little silly to “introduce” our readers to William Morris, whom I’m sure many of you are familiar with, but I came across this quote the other day and was struck by how perfectly …

This will be the first of many “Meet…” posts by the Crafts Dept. It will be our way of sharing inspiring people and work that we have enjoyed for years, or recently discovered. We all have different aesthetics and backgrounds, which should make for a very exciting collection! Saul Steinberg’s (1914-1999) body of work includes …

Below are a few images from the new website of our friend Anna Beckman, a former editor for Martha Stewart Kids and crafts department member. A few years ago she began studying calligraphy here in New York and its been amazing to see how skilled she’s become. She’s developed some unusual styles that are derived …

Hi all, I’ve been a crafter for as long as I can remember… As a child, I used to play hooky from school and turn my bookcases into high-rise apartment buildings for my stuffed animals or construct playhouses out of refrigerator boxes. With this sort of background you can imagine how working at Martha has …

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 …

A lot of the projects I work on outside of the office involve some form of printmaking… I have a longstanding fascination with the range of processes that fall under this category and the look of printed imagery in all of its many forms. I also like to collaborate with my friends – as when …

You’ve already seen the Crafter Profiles in April’s Living. This week we’re introducing some of our other crafty contributors… My first freelance job at Martha Stewart involved making about a billion crepe paper daffodils. After that, I was hooked. Dennison, a crepe paper manufacturer, popularized crepe flower making as a cheap and fun way to …