A Martha Stewart Christmas

Dear Friend,

This perfectly delightful Christmas note is being written on paper I made myself to tell you what I have been up to. Since it snowed last night, I got up early and made a sled with old barn wood and a glue gun. I hand-painted it in gold leaf, got out my loom, and made a blanket in peach and mauve. Then, to make the sled complete, I made a white horse to pull it from leftover DNA that I just had sitting around on a shelf in my craft room.

By then, it was time to start making place mats and napkins for

my 20 breakfast guests. I'm serving the old standard Stewart

twelve-course breakfast, but I'll let you in on a little secret: I

didn't have time to make the table and chairs this morning,

so I used the ones I had on hand.

Before I moved the table into the dining room, I decided to

add just a touch of the holidays. So, I repainted the room

in pinks and stenciled gold stars on the ceiling. Then, while

the homemade bread was rising, I took antique candle molds

and made the dishes (exactly the same shade of pink) to use

for breakfast. These were made from Hungarian clay, which

you can get in almost any neighborhood Hungarian craft store.

Well, I must run. I need to finish the buttonholes on the dress

I'm wearing for breakfast. I'll get out the sled and drive this

note to the post office as soon as the glue dries on the envelope

I'll be making. Hope my breakfast guests don't stay too long. I

have 40,000 cranberries to string with bay leaves before my

speaking engagement at noon. It's a good thing.

Your Friend,

Martha Stewart

P.S. When I made the ribbon for this typewriter, I used

1/8-inch gold gauze. I soaked the gauze in a mixture of

white grapes and blackberries which I grew, picked and crushed

last week just for fun.