1 Shopping is always a must on any trip and while in Laguna Beach, we popped into Stephen Frank Garden & Home, which carries distinctive tabletop, unique collectibles, vintage artifacts, European pottery, and decorative accessories.

2 These metal-edged dishes are called Match Pewter and are handmade by artisans in the north of Italy.

3 They have quite a few pieces by metal artist, Michael Aram.

4 Michael Aram's work was transformed during a trip to India, where he discovered that country's rich metalworking traditions and applied it to his art.

5 Interesting artwork - These are called gorgonians, also known as sea whips or sea fans. They are found throughout the oceans of the world, especially in the tropics and subtropics.

6 And fun folk art

7 This is the very beautiful Montage in Laguna Beach.

8 Montage Laguna Beach is located on 30 spectacular, beachfront acres in the heart of Laguna Beach.

9 The grounds and the vistas are simply magnificent!

10 Harris hawks and Saker falcons are on patrol at the Montage.

11 Trained falconers work with these birds of prey to discourage pest birds, like seagulls, starlings, finches, and pigeons from seeking feeding and nesting opportunities at the resort.

12 This safe and natural method of non-lethal bird control has been proven to be very effective and is also used to protect many vineyards.

13 The view from terrace of the restaurant, Studio was gorgeous.

14 The terrace tables had crisp white linens and a lovely centerpiece.

15 The tables in the private dining room were set in a similar fashion.

16 The decor was pleasing to the eye.

17 All of the arrangements were composed of the loveliest white flowers.

18 One beverage offered was a White Nixon, inspired by the MSL March issue cocktail - ruby red grapefruit juice, Bellocq White Nixon tea (bellocq.com), vodka, and Domaine de Canton ginger liquor

19 Joe Petrillo - Integrated Sales Director for MSLO in Los Angeles, Kelly Brent - West Coast Manager for Martha Stewart Weddings, toasted with Lisa and me.

20 Studio chef, Craig Strong, greeted us and explained how the restaurant had been designed using many of his ideas.

21 He proudly told us about the organic Studio Garden just outside the restaurant, which is overflowing with herbs, fruits, and vegetables, much like a garden he experienced as a chef in Spain.

22 Those fruits, vegetables, and herbs are used in Chef Strong's restaurant creations and also in seasonal cocktails, as well as in soothing spa treatments in the hotel's spa.

23 Gael Towey and Mark Brown - SVP-Communications Planning Director The Garage/Team Mazda

24 Mary Beth Hagen - Senior Product Manager Allergan/Botox with Heather Kimoto - Integrated Sales Manager for MSLO in Los Angeles

25 Daisy Schwartzberg - my makeup artist and Tammy Swenarski - Marketing Director Allergan/Botox

26 Kelly Brent sitting with Kevin Lu - President and CEO of Casablanca Bridal and Kim Stuart - VP of Marketing and Casablanca Bridal

27 Chef Strong at work

28 The kitchen is impeccably neat

29 And very attractive.

30 The lemon tart gratins for our dessert were cooling in the kitchen.

31 Chef Strong must have known that I love all things lemon!

32 Fred Sattler - EVP Managing Director Initiative, his wife, Carol Sattler, and Raul Escobar

33 I'm laughing hard in this photo, as I was having a very good time!

34 The first course was a Spanish Salad - mizuna lettuce, serrano ham, manchego cheese, garlic prawns, and sherry vinaigrette.

35 The second course was a choice of either Pacific black cod, with broccolini, potato confit, roasted cauliflower, and romesco sauce

36 Or, grilled beef tenderloin with crispy asparagus, potato mousseline, bone marrow crostini, and sauce bordelaise.

37 Dessert was the lemon tart gratin with pistachio ice cream. Yum!!!

38 Posing with Mark Brown and his wife Zoila

39 James Johnson - Senior Director MS Home Office Marketing Avery Dennison, me, Amy Ladwig - VP of Sales Avery Dennison, Amy's husband Don Ladwig, and James's wife Tina Patterson

40 Mary Beth Hagen and Tammy Swenarski

41 Sitting with Fred Sattler and his wife, Carol

42 And with Dionne Colvin - National Strategic Planning Manager Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.

43 Lisa Gersh and Dionne Colvin

44 Cynthia Jensen, SVP, Media Operations at Innocean Americas and her husband, Raul Escobar

45 With Kevin Lu and Kim Stuart

46 Tina Patterson and James Johnson

47 Posing with Chef Craig Strong after the wonderful meal

1 Before leaving for the D: Dive Into Media conference, I contributed to a rather shocking expose of what goes on at AllThingsD, put together by Funny or Die.

2 In this spoof, I talked about the wild after hour parties and what goes on in the hot tub.

3 My silly scripted lines were printed on cue cards.

4 I explained that I couldn't really say what went on at the conferences, because it was just too shocking!

5 I did say, however, that the Martha Stewart cocktail app got quite a workout! Take a look at the video here: http://allthingsd.com/20120130/funny-or-die-exposes-ds-seedy-underbelly-video/?mod=googlenews

6 The stage for D: Dive Into Media in the Ritz-Carlton Ballroom

7 The audience seating in the ballroom

8 Peter Kafka, Senior Editor for AllThingsD.com, was the host of D: Dive into Media.

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10 Peter Kafka interviewing Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu, who talked about Hulu, media, and television in general.

11 Kara Swisher interviewing Bob Pittman, CEO of Clear Channel Media Holdings

12 Under his guidance, the nation’s largest radio broadcaster is implementing an aggressive digital music strategy in the hopes of stealing the online radio spotlight from Pandora.

13 Mr. Pittman explained how his company plans to stay relevant. Chief among the strategies are partnerships with Facebook and other companies.

14 Peter Kafka with Kevin Tanchaoren, who directed the 'Fame' update for MGM studios and will be doing the 'Mortal Kombat' film later this year

15 Philippe Dauman, CEO of Viacom, said the company he oversees is not a cable network. Instead, it's a media network with an agnostic view about where its content is distributed.

16 Peter Kafka with Kassem Gharaibeh, one of the Dive Into Media Conference's 'New Faces.'

17 He is a comedian who goes by KassemG and has become one of YouTube's biggest stars, with a couple million subscribers and more than 250 million views. www.youtube.com/KassemG

18 He co-founded Maker Studios, the Web video start-up that develops up and coming 'internet talent' much like the old Hollywood studio system.

19 Sitting in the conference alongside Lisa Gersh - our President and COO

20 We were joined by Jeanne Meyer - SVP Corporate Communications, Missy Foristall, SVP Digital Programming and Strategy, and Gael Towey - Chief Creative and Editorial Director.

21 Walt Mossberg and Peter Kafka spoke to the multi-talented Neil Young, who said that 'We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it.' He is working hard to improve music's sound quality.

22 In the green room of D: Dive into Media conference - Here I am with Dawn Griffiths, who was the on-site makeup artist who de-shined everyone who took the stage.

23 When it was time for Lisa Gersh and me to take the stage, we were interviewed by Walt Mossberg, AllThingsD co-founder and Wall Street Journal Technology columnist.

24 I spoke about how our company is transitioning to a digital media company just as fast as we can and how we are relentless in serving our customers where they need us, where they want us.

25 I explained how we were uniquely positioned to make a significant amount of the thousands of hours of our how-to video available to consumers in a way that would enhance and inspire their lives.

26 Lisa Gersh added that the company is trying to find new ways to make its monthly food magazine more relevant.

27 Everyday Food has a daily email newsletter that will be upgraded with video so subscribers can see someone making the recipe.

28 Lisa also talked about how coming to work at MSLO made her the coolest Mom ever in the eyes of her 4 daughters, who range from age 15 to early 20's.

29 Lisa also said that her daughters were reflective of how a span of generations continue to love Martha and its range of magazine titles and online content.

30 Lisa Gersh and I with Walt Mossberg

31 Kara Swisher speaking with David Remnick, Editor for the New Yorker, who said that he loves his iPad but that print is not yet dead

32 David Remnick said that reading on a three-inch screen isn't his favorite way to enjoy a magazine, but notes some people are reading Dickens that way on the subway. They are not just always playing Angry Birds.

33 Katie Boehret, in gray, is a journalist at The Wall Street Journal and works with technology columnist Walter Mossberg.

34 I sat next to Khush founders, Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, who are app makers with Songify Live, which uses Auto-tune to turn speech into song.

35 It was very pleasant eating lunch in the Monarch Bay Courtyard.

36 Peter Kafka with the outgoing Warner Music Group chairman, Edgar Bronfman, Jr., who talked about the fate of EMI, the value of services like Spotify, and what he would change about the recording industry's deal with Apple.

1 This is the lobby of the magnificent Park Avenue Armory, which was build in the late 1800's as both a military facility and a social club for the Silk Stocking Regiment, which included New York’s most prominent Gilded Age Families.

2 Here I am at the opening celebration with my good friend Jill Dienst. Jill is also an antique dealer specializing in Scandinavian art and antiques.

3 This is Keith T. Banks, the Opening Night Party Chair.

4 Jill and Rebecca Robertson, MSLO Editor of Decorating and Home

5 The floor plan for the 75 different dealers

6 This year's special exhibition, 'Celebrating Historic Hudson Valley at 60: Rockefeller Patronage in Sleepy Hollow Country,' contains fabulous pieces from one of the most esteemed collections of American antiques.

7 This booth was designed by Jeff Daly, the former chief designer at the Met, and the facade and sides incorporate architectural elements from Sunnyside, Washington Irving's home.

8 Portrait of Captain Frederick Philipse (1755-1829) by Gilbert Stuart 91755-1828) - Captain Philipse was the only member of a once wealthy and powerful Hudson Valley Loyalist family to remain in America after the Revolution.

9 Cupboard - New York, 1700-1750 - Yellow pine - Inspired by northern European precedents, angels fly over masses of pendant fruit while roses sprout from two-handled silver bowls below.

10 Hyland Granby Antiques from Hyannis Port, MA, specialize in ship models, navigational instruments, marine paintings, scrimshaw, wood carvings, ship clocks, canes, eagles, and cannons, 18th & 19th centuries.

11 Daniel Katz Gallery from England, features European sculpture and works of art from Medieval to the 19th century. This is a pair of marble busts by Pietro Barrata (1668-1729) called Democritus and Heraclitus.

12 Barbara Israel Garden Antiques from Katonah, NY, specializes in American, English, and Continental statues, fountains, urns, benches, sundials, and other period garden ornaments.

13 In the foreground is a monumental marble sarcophagus-form planter depicting the Fall of Phaeton, Italian, circa 1900.

14 This piece is from Hurstmont, a New Jersey estate designed by Stanford White in 1903. It's thought that this piece was commissioned by him while visiting Italy.

15 This massive urn, also from the Hurstmont estate, is a likeness of an antique Italian Medici Vase from the 1st century AD, which resides at the Uffizi Gallery. This piece is priced at $115,000!

16 A pair of composition stone rabbits by Charles Rudy (1904-1986) - Provenance: From a Newport, RI estate

17 The price is hidden because the rabbits were sold.

18 Also sold - a magnificent bronze recumbent greyhound, with head looking straight forward, collar around neck, front paws gently crossed, and with tail sinuously looped around haunches - English, circa 1920

19 Macklowe Gallery, Ltd. NYC, features Tiffany Studio lamps, art glass, and bronzes; French Art Nouveau furniture, art glass, lighting, ceramics, and lithographs; important antique and estate jewelry.

20 This is a Tiffany Studios New York 'Wire Mesh Poppy' glass and bronze table lamp. The shade features variegated leaves in different shades of green together with brilliant red colored poppy blossoms at various stages of bloom. Circa 1900

21 Beautiful pieces of art glass

22 Christopher T. Rebollo Antiques from Buckingham, PA deals in 17th,18th, and 19th-century American furniture and decorative arts including paintings, metalwork, and ceramics. This high chest of drawers was priced at $35,000.

23 This corner cupboard from Hackensack, NJ 1810 - 1825 is made of white pine, glass, and paint is noteworthy for its elaborate carvings and moldings, as well as retaining its original cream colored paint. $75,000.

24 This carved side chair from Philadelphia, PA 1760 - 1780, made from mahogany, yellow pine, and white cedar has a very old surface, probably the original. Possibly made my James Gillingham (1736 - 1781). $42,000.

25 Old Hope Antiques, Inc. from New Hope, PA, specializes in American painted furniture and folk art, naive paintings, weather vanes, hooked rugs, quilts, sculpture, and related accessories.

26 This is a large Shaker peg rail with a collection of 8 carved wood grain shovels. The rail is from a Shaker farm in Tyringham, MA, c. 1840. The shovels, American, some probably Shaker, c. 1840-90. $16,500.

27 Nineteen bird carvings from S.E. PA, c. 1900 - Gottschall family from Lebanon County - Carved and painted pine on a contemporary mount - $18,000.

28 A rare and important Angel Gabriel weathervane made by Mr. Whelden of the Whelden & Fisher tin shop for the Wesleyan Seminary in Springfield, VT, c. 1846. Sheet iron and copper with iron bracing with traces of orig. gold leaf - $675,000.

29 Arader GAlleries, NYC deal in 16th- through 19th-century natural history engravings and watercolors, color-plate books, important maps and atlases, and prints of the American West - specializing in the works of Audubon.

30 'Wild Turkey (male)' by John James Audubon (1785-1851) - Aquatint engraving with original had color - $250,000.

31 Kenneth W. Rendell Gallery from NYC carries historical letters and documents from the Renaissance to the present, in all fields. This is a Louis Armstrong typewritten letter signed Oct. 22, 1937 - $22,500.

32 Part of a larger collection - This is an Ayn Rand autographed manuscript signed from Atlas Shrugged.

33 Signed documents from Marilyn Monroe, Theodore Roosevelt, Marlon Brando, Katherine Hepburn, Ernest H. Shackleton, and Elvis!

34 This signed photo of a very young Frank Sinatra was priced at $8,500.

35 Hirschel & Adler Galleries, Inc. from NYC specialize in American and European paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculpture, 18th century to present; American master prints; American furniture and decorative arts, 1810 to 1910.

36 The Three Odell Children, Newburgh, NY, about 1846-52 - painted by William R. Hamilton (American, 1795-1879) - Oil on mattress ticking - $135,000.

37 Peter Pap Oriental Rugs, Inc. from Dublin, NH specialize in Oriental rugs produced by Nomads, village weavers, and urban and village workshops, dating from the 17th through the early 20th century.

38 The rugs not on display, all have laminated photographs showing the designs.

39 Peter Finer from London, deals in antique arms, armor, and related objects.

40 This form-fitting armor looks quite heavy.

41 The fine detail of a breast plate

42 This is a Greek bronze Corinthian helmet from the first half of the 6th century B.C. from a private collection.

43 $300,000.

44 A German boy's close helmet for use in the Tourney, Dresden - circa 1590 - $60,000.

45 Associated Artists L.L.C. deal in late 19th- to early 20th-century furniture, accessories, and fine art, featuring Aesthetic era. This is a Thomas Jeckyll gilt Crysanthemum Side Chair circa 1878. $25,000.