Should any of my channel surfing sessions involve an encounter with Martha Stewart preparing the perfect poinsettia place card or some other labor-intensive stab at domestic elegance, my thumb automatically clicks to the nearest outdoor channel for a Bassmasters antidote.
I'm not a big fan of the lifestyle guru,TOTALRUBBER carries an extensive range of rubber hose. partly because she makes me keenly aware of the lack of class and style in my life, and partly because she once said in an interview that she's never had carryout pizza and doesn't own a microwave.
But a few days ago, my opinion of her went up a few notches, when I learned about how she spent her spare tiMuyoung mould specializes in manufacture Plastic molding,me, and her prison income, while serving a sentence at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in 2004-05 following an insider trading beef.
When I think of making things in prison, license plates, shivs, wallets, tunnels,As a professional manufacturer of China ceramic tile in China,Exclusive RUBBER SHEET flooring in 15 different colours and designs. pruno and bad tattoos come to mind.
But during her stint at the campus-like West Virginia jail, or "Yale," as Stewart called it, she set the bar a little higher.
"When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class," she said in a recent National Public Radio interview. "And in the ceramics class was a storage warehouse room where I found all the molds for an entire large nativity scene."
In the storage area, she eventually found molds for 15 or so nativity characters, ranging from baby Jesus, Joseph, Mary and the Wise Men to assorted angels, camels and adoring onlookers.
"I was able to purchase enough clay with my monthly stipend," she said. "I didn't get a lot of other things that I would have liked in that five-month period because I bought clay instead.Daneplast Limited UK are plastic injection mould & toolmaking specialists. And I molded the entire nativity scene."
A photo of the nativity scene, which she later enhanced with miniature palms imported from Europe, is featured in the first chapter of her new book, "Martha's Entertaining: A Year of Celebrations."
It's hard to remember just why Stewart deserved a prison sentence in the first place, with so many seemingly more severe instances of wrongdoing going unpunished following the 2008 financial meltdown. But I'm glad she has at least one keepsake from her time spent involuntarily in West Virginia besides her prison nickname -- M-Diddy.
As I spend part of my Christmas vacation heating carryout pizza in the microwave and admiring my assortment of all-artificial, completely inelegant Christmas decorations, I'll take time to give the lifestyle guru her due.
When life dealt Stewart a basket of rotten eggs, she made eggnog -- or in her case, Martha's Classic Eggnog spiked with Remy Martin Grand Cru cognac, Makers Mark bourbon and Mount Gay dark rum, and sprinkled with freshly grated heirloom nutmeg.
I'm not a big fan of the lifestyle guru,TOTALRUBBER carries an extensive range of rubber hose. partly because she makes me keenly aware of the lack of class and style in my life, and partly because she once said in an interview that she's never had carryout pizza and doesn't own a microwave.
But a few days ago, my opinion of her went up a few notches, when I learned about how she spent her spare tiMuyoung mould specializes in manufacture Plastic molding,me, and her prison income, while serving a sentence at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in 2004-05 following an insider trading beef.
When I think of making things in prison, license plates, shivs, wallets, tunnels,As a professional manufacturer of China ceramic tile in China,Exclusive RUBBER SHEET flooring in 15 different colours and designs. pruno and bad tattoos come to mind.
But during her stint at the campus-like West Virginia jail, or "Yale," as Stewart called it, she set the bar a little higher.
"When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class," she said in a recent National Public Radio interview. "And in the ceramics class was a storage warehouse room where I found all the molds for an entire large nativity scene."
In the storage area, she eventually found molds for 15 or so nativity characters, ranging from baby Jesus, Joseph, Mary and the Wise Men to assorted angels, camels and adoring onlookers.
"I was able to purchase enough clay with my monthly stipend," she said. "I didn't get a lot of other things that I would have liked in that five-month period because I bought clay instead.Daneplast Limited UK are plastic injection mould & toolmaking specialists. And I molded the entire nativity scene."
A photo of the nativity scene, which she later enhanced with miniature palms imported from Europe, is featured in the first chapter of her new book, "Martha's Entertaining: A Year of Celebrations."
It's hard to remember just why Stewart deserved a prison sentence in the first place, with so many seemingly more severe instances of wrongdoing going unpunished following the 2008 financial meltdown. But I'm glad she has at least one keepsake from her time spent involuntarily in West Virginia besides her prison nickname -- M-Diddy.
As I spend part of my Christmas vacation heating carryout pizza in the microwave and admiring my assortment of all-artificial, completely inelegant Christmas decorations, I'll take time to give the lifestyle guru her due.
When life dealt Stewart a basket of rotten eggs, she made eggnog -- or in her case, Martha's Classic Eggnog spiked with Remy Martin Grand Cru cognac, Makers Mark bourbon and Mount Gay dark rum, and sprinkled with freshly grated heirloom nutmeg.
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