Martha's Craft Night

What a fun week this has been! On Tuesday night, we (Ralph, Maude, Olive and I) went to a craft night at Martha Stewart's offices in Chelsea. I had taken Maude to this event last year, and knew it was great, so made sure I could bring all the big kids this year. And we've really been looking forward to it.

Last year we glittered ornaments. And loved it. This year we decorated cookies and boxed them up in charming packages. And I think we loved it even more.



Finished cookies by Ralph, Maude and Olive.



Adorable boxes (with compartments!) filled with our cookies.

Martha's empire is striking. A delicious dinner was served — made from Martha's new line of food products available at Costco. Ham, turkey soup, chili, raspberry/apple pie, mushroom dip and some really yummy meatballs. (I didn't ask, but I'm betting the food was served in pieces from Martha's line at Macy's.) The cookies we decorated and boxed up were all made from recipes found in Martha's Cookie Cookbook. Everything we used to box up the cookies came from Martha's Craft line. And all of it was wonderful.

It's difficult not to be impressed with the company that Martha Stewart has built.

Everyone had a great evening. I loved seeing all the craft options — the pretty glitter collections, the little boxes for packaging handmade gifts, all the adorable tags and embellishments. I'm feeling all inspired to get my Christmas-making on. The kids couldn't get enough of the cookie decorating. They wanted to try every technique and would have decorated dozens if I'd let them.



But far and away, the craft item hit of the night, was the felt letter stickers. So cute! I can't find them online or I'd link to them, but I find all sorts of satisfaction just staring at them.