We caught up with Kelly English, founder of the company CHEERIUP and the creative dynamo behind these amazing dwellings that she hand-weaves from recycled native willow. We are so intrigued by your magical play nests, how did you come up with the idea for them? Thanks so much! CHEERIUP was born from a perfect [...]

In our April issue of Martha Stewart Living, we featured this lovely area on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It’s long been a weekend destination for Baltimore and D.C. natives, but it’s only four hours from New York!  The main little towns we focused on are Easton, St. Michaels, and Oxford, all within a short [...]

When I was working on “The Writer’s Garden” for the April issue of Martha Stewart Living, I received a box in the mail from Susan Haltom, the garden designer and preservationist who spearheaded the rehabilitation of the Eudora Welty garden in Jackson, Mississippi. She had overnighted a bunch of Camellia japonica ‘Lady Clare’ to me. [...]