Holiday Bash!

Happy Holidays from Martha's. Here is some ambiance from our Open House and concert. We had the Orange Mighty Trio playing their music, and the shop was open for browsing, wreath-buying, refreshments and socializing.





above: Assorted wares. Amazing and cute ribbons available for purchase.



above: Nick Gaudette and Martha discuss wreathes.





above: Our front window looking magical. This picture looks fake, but it is not.





The cheese stands alone, it seems. We also had very good cupcakes from a new bakery in town.

Holiday Concert and Holiday Hours

The Orange Mighty Trio concert in our studio is Dec 5th! Our holiday hours are also below. Click to enlarge.

The Orange Mighty Trio plays virtuosic fiddle-influenced chamber music, which they sometimes call "bluegrassical." The City Pages recently reviewed their new album, which is titled Infrastructure, writing, "If you give it the attention it merits, it will reward you richly." Martha hosted the OMT for a holiday bash last year, and a good time it was.

Recent Work

A beautiful recent creation of Martha's.

Beautiful, artistic things we thought you'd like

1. Van Gogh has been online a lot recently. See sketches and corresponding letters on BibliOdyssey blog. http://tinyurl.com/gosketch

2. Cheer up with Mutt's Comics' Patrick McDonnell reading his adorable, heartwarming book Hug Time. http://tinyurl.com/hugtime (via Drawn!)

3. They gathered some nice Farmer's Market arrangements on Design Sponge, including a carrot as vase. http://tinyurl.com/farm-arr

4. Dwell Magazine has created a user-nominated map of small organic-type farms in the US. This fit with our green leanings. http://tinyurl.com/farmsmap

5. Abandoned newspaper boxes on the street. Planted with flowers by street artist. http://tinyurl.com/plantbox (jumps to Urban Prankster post)

Cajun-Themed Wedding

Cajun barbeque wedding! Red tablecloths, pepper lights, red paper lanterns for accent. The couple married on a mountaintop, and are celebrating in St Paul.

We're working on another Fall wedding with plums, persimmons, figs and so forth. Lots of rich textures in every piece.

Music and Flowers and Artaria Quartet

Thanks to the Artaria String Quartet and attendees of our flower shop concert! The next music event is the Orange Mighty Trio at our Holiday Open House on December 5th.

Martha at Work: Shop News

Latest news...

Did a beautiful wedding in Minneapolis with 34 rose arrangements of Freedom, Black Magic and Black Bacarra roses...large spheres of floral on clear glass, wild plums floating, amber light filtering through. Black Magic is one of our favorite roses!

Another great wedding in St. Paul had a Fall motive, with bittersweet galore. Romance with capitol R. Large English Garden roses and the Black Magic roses, again. Very cool couple and her dress was one of the most beautiful ever. Must check out the designer! More Oct weddings approach! We're building a beautiful Chuppa for one of them.

BTW, Thursday's concert by Artaria Quartet in our shop went really well. Fabulous music! Artaria Quartet played Mendelssohn etc and seemed to really enjoy doing it, too.

Love,

Martha and the Web Team