It wasn’t an easy decision, but we finally have a winner for our Inspired Easter Contest: Congratulations, Cristine Roy! In case you missed the emails, tweets, and Instagram and Facebook posts, editor Kevin Sharkey invited the Living community to share their Easter DIY projects with us by snapping a photo and uploading the image to [...]

Today’s guest post comes from designer Jenny Gordy of Wiksten. A former Brooklynite, Jenny lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she’s found a likeminded community of knitters and crafters. Helen Dealtry, the head designer for textile company Woking Girl Designs, recently invited me to visit her workspace in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The studio windows look out [...]

You know when you feel like you’ve reached the very end of the Internet? Ready to fall down a fresh set of rabbit holes, we’ll be taking regular peeks at our editors’ desktops. Here, deputy editor Jenny Comita shares her bookmarks: The Chalkboard Rip + Tan A Bloomsbury Life Orangette Pamela Salzman Alexis Stewart’s blog [...]

Wrapping presents in paper this luxe is sure to make the giftee feel extra special, and it increases the anticipation. But these wrapped boxes are almost too pretty to rip apart! Pick a patterned paper to make your presents shine. A pile of them under the tree is the best kind of Christmas decor. Clockwise [...]

This year we asked a few bloggers to get creative with our holiday collection from Martha Stewart Living at Home Depot. Here to share a simple washi tape decorating idea is guest blogger Katie Jasiewicz of Sew Woodsy. When the new Martha Stewart Christmas at Home Depot collections were introduced earlier this month, I went ga-ga [...]

In Martha’s new Countdown to Christmas video series, we step into her Bedford, New York kitchen and make sweet graham cracker cottages with her and editor Jodi Levine. These mini cottages, made from store-bought crackers, can be put together in a snap and decorated with wafer roof tiles, ice cream cone trees, and candy cane [...]

Andrea Towey, featured in our January issue, is the founder of Junior Art and Music (JAM) in Norwalk, Connecticut, where she teaches kids’ art and music classes, hosts birthday parties and family concerts, and unleashes heaps of pint-sized creativity. We asked her to create a playlist of her favorite kids’ songs that moms and dads [...]

Although we can check crafting, cooking, gardening, and more off our lists as part of our day-to-day jobs, we still need a little boost of motivation sometimes to help us accomplish our goals. And since research shows that pre-committing to a singular, thoughtful goal is more effective than the regular resolution variety, we asked our [...]

This year we asked a few bloggers to get creative with our holiday collection from Martha Stewart Living at Home Depot. Here to share a how-to for an arctic table is guest blogger Alicia DiRago of Dismount Creative. A few weeks ago I got an email asking if I’d like to do a project with [...]

This year we asked bloggers to get creative with our holiday collection from Martha Stewart Living at Home Depot. Here to share a few of her brilliant tips for adding a little Martha sparkle is guest blogger Ashley Rose of Sugar & Cloth. Lucky for me, I happen to have a husband that would gladly [...]