Martha, Oprah and Yulia??

Anyone remember my post about the book Papercraft and illustrator Yulia Brodskaya? Cliffnotes version: cool book about artists using paper as a medium, one of them being Yulia who uses a hokey old paper quilling technique to take her flat ink on paper typographic illustrations and pops it right into the 3-D world. Like-a-dis...

Anyone ever heard of some snooty old broad named Martha Stewart?  Anyone happen to read her April issue?

Anyone happen to notice these feature headings?

This one too:

And then there's that other slacker who's slide to number TWO of the Forbes list of The Most Influential Women in Media, Oprah.  Anyone else put their back out carrying this tank of a magazine home from the grocery store?

And although she may have 22 OTHER fairly interesting women write SINGLE articles for the issue, it was Yulia who was highlighted throughout...

and finally:

It's like a chick mag, craft junkie, paper snob, design lovers mecca!

Table Decor, Martha style

Check out these 2 fabulous and simple projects from http://www.marthstewart.com/ ! What an easy way to personalize any event.

Fire and Water

photo credit marthastewart.com

Simply take a small candle holder (pillar or votive) and place it inside a larger one. Fill the space between the 2 holders with water (tinted with food coloring) and you can create a centerpiece to match any decor.

For complete instructions, click here: http://tinyurl.com/6aavet

Festive Drink Umbrella

photo credit marthastewart.com

And what is a summer party or ocean side wedding without a cocktail umbrella? Thursdays "Craft of the Day" on http://www.marthastewart.com/ shows you how to make your own Festive Drink Umbrella out of origami paper. Think about all the possibilities...what about printing the bride and grooms name for a wedding or, better yet, using them as place cards? What about printing little fortunes on each for an Asian dinner party? What about printing titles of One Hit Wonders from the 80's that your guests will have to sing, after a few cocktails of course!

For complete instructions click here: http://tinyurl.com/6legkn

Sign up for Martha's craft of the day here:

http://tinyurl.com/652ust

How will you use your creativity to make these projects your own?