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| Part No: | B00005NIOA |
| Manufacturer: | Martha Stewart Living |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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Martha Stewart Living is a monthly publication that focuses on simple home life. With articles covering Cooking, Entertaining, Holiday, Gardening, Crafts, and Home, you are sure to find the most helpful hints to make your house into a home and transform a small gathering into a fabulous party! 12 issues
Even if you will never make a "gourd candle" or a "Fortuny-inspired tablecloth,"
Martha Stewart Living can't be beat for its wealth of ideas concerning what Martha calls "good things." A crafter for craft's sake, and an obsessively organized woman (just look at her personal calendar, included in the first few pages), there is no concept or task that is too mundane for Martha. Like Martha herself, the magazine is impeccably organized--recipes and decorating instructions appear with full-color photos, each filed in their own sections of "cooking," "keeping," "crafts," "home," and "collecting." Learn to slip matched sets of bed linens into one of their pillowcases for easy and convenient shelving, make washcloth mitts, and coordinate mismatched towels with decorative ribbon. A whiz at flower arranging, dinner parties, card and sewing crafts, and decorating, Martha covers and conquers all areas of the home--plus weddings, baby showers, and holidays.
--Daphne Durham
| Martha Stewart ROCKS!! | 2010-03-31 | 5 / 5 |
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I am an unabashed Martha Stewart fan! The biggest reason I love her magazine is the visually stunning photography. And the recipes!!! When my magazine comes I can't wait to start pouring over it to see what delicious concoctions have been presented...and the crafts!!!!!! Super cute crocheted mice, or soft stuffed bunnies made out of a old men's dress shirt... the possibilities are endless.
I completely recommend this mag. :) |
| Great all-round homemaking magazine | 2010-01-24 | 5 / 5 |
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| Inspiring and beautiful magazine that will help you make your house a home. Although some recipes may be too intricate for some, the feature articles are complemented by superb photography and each issue will contain something of interest for all. |
| Martha Stewart is a Pinhead!! | 2009-11-25 | 1 / 5 |
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| This was removed from my list because of Martha's Comments on Rachel Ray and Sarah Palin. I will NOT be purchasing ANY of her products. She should stick to cooking etc and keep her coments to herself!!! |
| One more fabric-covered corkboard and I might cry... | 2009-03-18 | 3 / 5 |
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It seems that in the past six months, Living has gone the way of two other of my once-favorite magazines, Gourmet and Bon Appetit. Whether this is a result of new editors/staff or a sign that Martha (and her "people") are finally running out of new things to do, I cannot be sure. What I can say is that this is not the Living I first fell in love with years ago.
For one, the projects (and some recipes) have become overwrought, in that many of them require materials and/or tools which are either difficult or expensive to acquire. My best example of this is December 2008's issue, which featured Christmas cookies made using vintage Springerle molds. (I believe that in the same issue, an ornament project also featured the use of these molds, not to mention special clay AND paints.) My point is, at one time you could turn to Living for Christmas cookie recipes and find new and inventive ways to make your ordinary kitchen ingredients into veritable visual and gustatory masterpieces. Now the same task requires that you have vintage tools, specialty ingredients, and an aesthetic for all things faux-boix. Could it be that Martha's people are scraping the bottom of the rare, flea-market-find inspiration barrel? I fear so.
I ought to note at this point that, where projects/recipes are NOT overwrought, they seem to be little more than recycled ideas from isssues past, with a few tweaks here and there (insert stand-up table place markers in the shape of _________ here, fabric-covered corkboards and shoeboxes there, the ubiquitous fruit-liquor gelatins and drab, stale-looking cookies of the month everywhere...)
No less disheartening are the pages and pages of glossy ads I find myself ripping from the magazine each month, an act which literally reduces the issue to half its original size. The two most recent issues went from my mailbox to my couch to the recycling bin within two or three hours. March's gardening issue focused less on actual gardening tips and techniques than it did on the landscaping/garden design of a few notable (and no doubt stinking rich) individuals, and the requisite familiar, tiring features on cut flower arrangements and houseplants. April's "Easter/Passover Issue" was not really that at all, save for a few passover recipes and easter crafting projects.
All in all, aside from the occasional gem I might mine from "Good Things" or craft project which does NOT require a Swiss bank account, I am increasingly underwhelmed by each issue of Living that slinks its way into my mailbox each month. It's kind of like the sibling who visits monthly and who can never seem to quite pull his life together: each month you search for a subtle shift, a brightening, any change whatsoever, desperate to find your loved one in some way redeemed, only to be disappointed by the same patterns, the same dismal staleness once again. |
| Mediocre magazine at best | 2008-12-29 | 2 / 5 |
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| I got a subsrciption to this magazine because I thought I would enjoy it and as a newly wed glean some ideas for my home and I couldn't have been more wrong. The recipes are overly complicated and some of the dishes just don't even sound like they would taste good and the same goes for the crafts. Any articles on decorating show drab, boring homes. Overall I was just very disappointed and will not be renewing. |
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