Martha Stewart Living | 
| Publisher: Martha Stewart Living
List Price: $59.20
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Rating:  81 reviews
Sales Rank: 125
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00005NIOA
Release Date: November 23, 2001
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Amazon.com Review
Even if you will never make a "gourd candle" or a "Fortuny-inspired tablecloth," Martha Stewart Living can't be beat for its wealth of ideas concerning what Martha calls "good things." A crafter for craft's sake, and an obsessively organized woman (just look at her personal calendar, included in the first few pages), there is no concept or task that is too mundane for Martha. Like Martha herself, the magazine is impeccably organized--recipes and decorating instructions appear with full-color photos, each filed in their own sections of "cooking," "keeping," "crafts," "home," and "collecting." Learn to slip matched sets of bed linens into one of their pillowcases for easy and convenient shelving, make washcloth mitts, and coordinate mismatched towels with decorative ribbon. A whiz at flower arranging, dinner parties, card and sewing crafts, and decorating, Martha covers and conquers all areas of the home--plus weddings, baby showers, and holidays. --Daphne Durham
Product Description
MARTHA STEWART LIVING is edited for discerning, quality-conscious readers. Its goal is to inform and inspire, to teach and demystify a broad range of subjects. Combining great style and useful information, the magazine celebrates the simple things people do in their everyday lives: gardening, entertaining, renovating, cooking, collecting and creating. From how-to information to pure inspiration, we encourage our readers to dream, then show them how to realize their dreams.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 76 more reviews...
 What happened Martha? March 23, 2002
HollyGoLightly (Upstate, NY)
72 out of 88 found this review helpful
I have been subscribing to Martha Stewart for ages. I love her TV show...and while I think she is a mildly obsessed person to take on all her tasks, I have learned many valuable tips from her magazines. I consider myself a pretty crafty person and I owe alot of great ideas to the Great One.
These past two years however, I have noticed a huge change in the quality of her magazine subscription. In the beginning, she devoted many pages to crafting and collecting, a few pages to great recipes and gardening...but now all I see anymore are expensive ads. Literally, her magazine has grown into a very hefty 40% ad content. I give her credit for choosing elegant and high style ads as sponsers, but as I flip through the pages ALL I notice now are designer, perfume, clothing, and bedding ads. I sometimes wonder if amidst all the new crafty and quickly blooming Martha-style versions of her own creation, if she needs more and more money from these sponsers to support the turn-out of her subscriptions. And yes, I have begun to leaf through some of these new "good things" take-offs. Many are great and do not have all the clutter of unwanted ads. I think, for myself, this might be my last year with Martha...it's time to try something new(and a lot less expensive). As a true fan though, I still highly recommend her fabulous TV show and her published books on cooking, gardening, and crafting. You will find no annoying fillers in her beautiful, harcover books.
Great pictures but impractical for "real" people December 2, 2001
Amy Witty (New Hope, MN United States)
46 out of 57 found this review helpful
I subscribed to MSL for about 3 years but finally canceled my subscription. I loved the high-quality printing and beautiful pictures, but everything else just led me to believe that Martha is a snob. The decorating articles frequently feature rooms from one of Martha's many homes (not that that's bad in and of itself, but it would be nice to see a little more variety in styles), and the cooking and craft ideas she gives take way too much time and money to complete. For those of you with career, family, and little time to spare (like me), check out Real Simple instead. It doesn't make you feel inadequate just by reading a magazine.
 style for the masses July 18, 2004
Alejandra Vernon (Long Beach, California)
35 out of 38 found this review helpful
This is a fine magazine with truly scrumptious recipes if you're into the kitchen/food thing, home ideas that one can actually use (or that will inspire one to do something similar), and exquisite photography, usually quite stark and simple, of ways to enhance the aesthetic beauty of one's life.
One can serve a plain meal of soup and bread, and make it look like a feast, if you get into Martha's way of looking at things, and it does not take a spending spree to have a "Martha Look". Her basic table settings tend to be white china (one can use mix and match white plates from the local thrift store), clear glass, and colorful fabric...add some well shaped twigs in a glass vase for a centerpiece, and voila ! you have a table that could be shown in this lovely magazine; a rule for "The Look" seems to be the absence of clutter.Of the regular monthly articles, I like "Ask Martha", which solves problems posed by readers, from health issues to how best to clean your eyeglasses, to "How can I get the coating on my chicken to stay in place when I am frying it ?".
"Clip-Art Craft" is another I appreciate, where in the August '04 edition for example, there are attractive templates for postcards, which one can copy onto card stock, glue a 4 x 6 photo to, and send to your friends. It's another grand idea from Martha !
You'll find articles on antiques, pets, gardening, seasonal fruits and vegetables, and much more, and on the last page, the yummy "Cookie of the Month". Martha Stewart has brought style and good merchandise at affordable prices for those of us who are budget conscious, but like nice things. I have bought her bedding, and her bathroom accessories have graceful shapes and are an excellent value, and this magazine is one of my favorite aspects of the "Martha industry". The Patricians I know are not usually kind to Martha, but Proles & Plebes like me tend to greatly appreciate her.
Martha, we're going to stick by you through thick and thin !
 Martha Stewart Living: Not Worth the Price August 11, 2002
James V. Ruocco (Waterbury, CT United States)
23 out of 51 found this review helpful
Yes, Wesport maven Martha Stewart has a wealth of ideas to share with readers of all ages. Yes, she's a whiz at decorating, designing sheets, patio furniture and cookware. Yes, she can set an elegant dinner party table. She can also put you in the mood for Christmas, the 4th of July and Halloween. And yes, her recipe for lemonade is truly delicious.
But so can a lot of other people: mainly, the staff at Better Homes and Garden and the people responsible for the far superior British design, home and gardening magazines. Next to them, Stewart's magazine idea's seem artifical, dull and hardly worth the bother.
Ms. Stewart also makes the mistake of thinking everyone is a crafts master with a hefty budget to play with. Wrong!
Ok, I know what you're thinking.
But I still love her lemonade.
Back to business.
In its favor, the magazine "Living" has great covers, great ads and is printed on the best stock. But once you check out what the Brits are doing, you'll leave "Martha Stewart's Living" on the magazine shelf to gather dust.
AD MANIA!! November 20, 2001
T. Chekouras (Racine, WI USA)
21 out of 31 found this review helpful
My wife subcribes to Living magazine, and because I'm really 'into' cooking, I always check out the latest issue. I guess you could call me a male counterpart "Martha Wanna-Be".The one thing I can't stand about the magazine is the GLUT of advertising! I've never seen so many ads crammed into one magazine, and it really irritates me! Take away the ads and the magazine would be about 15 pages total!! Geez, Martha, don't you make enough $ already? Her recipes are great, so long as she isn't calling for exotics like quail eggs or items that you would have to fly to Tibet to procure. Yup, I love her perfect world too. (Mine/ours, like most of us, comes up significantly short of hers). But for you ladies it IS all possible! Just dump your hubby and 'move up' to a multi-millionaire, hire a full-time, live-in nanny, assemble an 'on-call' roster of craftspeople (chefs, carpenters, butchers, bakers and candlestick makers) - then you'll be all set to live the Martha lifestyle!! Bottom line? It all comes down to money. In all fairness to Martha, she built her 'empire' through a lot of hard work and smart business, it didn't 'just happen' - hats off to her. Tom Chekouras
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