Our Employee Holiday Photos
Last Thanksgiving, I asked Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia employees to share photos from their holiday celebration. I posted them on my blog and it was so popular with all of you that I extended the invitation again. It's so much fun to see how others spend the holidays. Enjoy!
1 Anthony Luscia, from Weddings - Photos from my Christmas in Colorado
2 Anthony Luscia - These pictures are from our hike every morning through the Black Forest
3 Anthony Luscia
4 Anthony Luscia
5 Anthony Luscia - Removing the snow in the driveway
6 Anthony Luscia - Our little spruce glowing in the snow
7 Anthony Luscia - Christmas dinner place setting
8 Anthony Luscia - Our traditional Louisiana seafood gumbo for Christmas Eve dinner
9 Anthony Luscia - Serve ware for the gumbo
10 Anthony Luscia - An Italian beef rib roast from Montana for Christmas day dinner
11 Anthony Luscia - Vanilla ice cream and biscotti for dessert
12 Anthony Luscia - My mothers famous Russian teacake cookies
13 Anthony Luscia - The day after Christmas we always make raviolis
14 Anthony Luscia - Rolling the pasta dough
15 Anthony Luscia - FIlling the Ravioli
16 Anthony Luscia - Shaping the ravioli
17 Anthony Luscia - Finished Ravioli
18 Anthony Luscia
19 Ashley Little, web editor, with niece Kinsley and nephew Carson
20 Erica Rybinski, Facilities Administrator, and her family on Christmas
21 Amelia Crook, Senior Product Manager in Digital Team - I hosted a dinner for 8 Aussie expats and travelers in my Brooklyn apartment.
22 Amelia Crook
23 Amelia Crook
24 Amelia Crook
25 Amelia Crook
26 Amelia Crook
27 Amelia Crook
28 Amelia Crook
29 Amelia Crook
30 Amelia Crook
31 Michelle Toglia, Associate Web Editor, and her father, Mario, set up several wine and cheese stations. Here she's holding a 2001 Barolo wine and her father, a cheese plate with Bella Lodi, Fontina, and Taleggio cheeses.
32 Michelle Toglia - Markers, labels, and maps let our guests know the country or region from where the wine and cheese comes from. It's always a big hit!
33 Christina Deyo, TV producer
34 Christina Deyo
35 Christina Deyo
36 Christina Deyo - Baby Michael's first Christmas
37 Christina Deyo
38 Christina Deyo
39 Abby Breene's, East Coast Sales Manager for Martha Stewart Weddings, calamari
40 Abby Breene - Making the Calamari
41 Abby Breene
42 Abby Breene's dinner table setting
43 Abby Breene
44 Abby Breene
45 Abby Breene
46 Arlene Schustoff, Midwest Integrated Sales Director - Chicago office Holiday Toy Drive
47 Monita Buchwald's Chanakuh
48 Naomi De Manana, Style Editor from The weddings Magazine, and friend Cat Chow, DJ-ing at her holiday party at Lit Lounge
49 Jamie Pasculli - Dough and fillings for fretellas.
50 Jamie Pasculli - Ready for the fryer
51 Jamie Pasculli - The fillings are made of ricotta, mozzarella, ham, pepperoni, salami, and Italian tuna mixtures.
52 Jamie Pasculli - Once the dough is rolled out and filled, we use a small dough press to close them.
53 Jamie Pasculli - My Mom rolling out the dough
54 Jamie Pasculli - My Aunt Carolyn frying the fretella
55 Jamie Pasculli - Close up of the frying process
56 Jamie Pasculli - Once they have been removed from the frying pan we place them on labeled paper towels.
57 Jamie Pasculli - Ready to go!
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Martha,
Photos of the snow from CO and the food to die for! Very nice to see how folks spent Christmas! Thanks for sharing these photos.
Posted by: KLBrown | December 30th, 2011 at 1:41 am
Martha,
I forgot to wish you and everyone a Happy New Year 2012!
Posted by: KLBrown | December 30th, 2011 at 1:56 am
Thanks EVERYONE, for sharing your photos with us. It is very interesting to see how others celebrate.
Now, Martha, it is your turn to show us how you celebrated.
If this is the last Blog of the year, I want to wish one and all a Happy New year!!
Gloria G!!
Posted by: Gloria | December 30th, 2011 at 2:47 am
Thanks for these great pictures. Our family has loved to document our celebrations with camera. Technology now enables even me to capture these times and send around thr world on the net. I absolutely loved the picture of Jude posted by KS. Happy new year in Bahamas, send photos.
Posted by: ann | December 30th, 2011 at 5:17 am
Lovely photos from your employees. Wish you all a blessed and successful 2012.
Best Wishes
Posted by: Rowaida Flayhan | December 30th, 2011 at 7:14 am
Thank you to all for sharing your Christmas with us. What a joy it was to see your families and decorations and food preparations! Wonderful!
Posted by: Appreciative Viewer | December 30th, 2011 at 8:37 am
OMG Anthony! Talk about the ideal surroundings for Christmas. Love all the snow! By the way, Seafood gumbo is our tradition for Christmas. Being from New Orleans, gumbo is my comfort food!
Amelia, your appetizers looked devine! Please tell us what are the rolled apps on picture 23?
Christina, the last picture with all the kids around a sleeping Michael is priceless!
Abby, I love your Christmas table. It looks likes 12 days of christmas plates? I am going to look for them for next year! I am quessing you are a Giants fan?!? Good luck on Sunday!
Jamie, your mom and aunt are adorable! I have to confess I have never heard of fretellas. I must try them as they look absolutely delicious!
Thanks for sharing this blog Martha!
Happy New Year to everyone!
Posted by: Cindy F | December 30th, 2011 at 9:11 am
Hi Martha, First of all, thank you for sharing that beautiful latest tweet about your great vacation in the Bahamas yesterday! I'll bet you are having a great vacation! Next, thank you for all of your wonderful blogs you shared with us this year-you make my day, everyday! Seeing your farm, your beautiful animals, your terrific tours all over the world, etc. has been FANTASTIC! Now seeing these wonderful photos and comments from some of your employees is fabulous! It's easy to tell how much fun they all had enjoying Christmas with their families! Thank you Laura for all you do, also! I'll bet you had a delightful Christmas, too! Happy New Year to all of you and your animals! Jan
Posted by: Jan Erickson | December 30th, 2011 at 9:27 am
Thanks for sharing all the photo's. Looks like everyone had a good Christmas, was delightful to see.
Posted by: Debbie Norton | December 30th, 2011 at 9:59 am
Hi Martha,
Many thanks to your employees for sharing their beautiful Christmas and Chanukah pictures! I really liked seeing the snow in Colorado as in ‘see’ but ‘don’t touch’ and it was great to see all of Christina Deyo’s children. Wow, five girls and one little baby boy for them to spoil! He’s a little cutie and already looks quite content surrounded by his sisters! As with Thanksgiving pictures, these food pictures are also exquisite as one might expect from an employee from MSLO. Everything looked delicious and I’m surprised that Amelia Crook is on the Digital Team instead of in the test kitchen. I’m also quite intrigued with Jami Pasculli’s fretellas which remind me of perogi or empanadas except for the filling.
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Happy New Year everyone and I look forward to another great year as a regular viewer of Martha’s ‘best blog on the web’. Thanks Martha! Trish
Posted by: Trish | December 30th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Loved all these photos and luscious foods! Hope everyone had a great Christmas/Hanukkah and enjoyed being with those you love...especially appetizing to me was the prosciutto wrapped appetizer....what was inside? Sure would like to know!
Posted by: Jan Loehr | December 30th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Cindy, I thought they reminded me of spode christmas plate collection (that I treasure) but were not. Happy new year
Posted by: ann | December 30th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Martha's blog demonstrates why she is so very well respected and adored in the industry. And, why David Letterman loves Martha Stewart. There is a link near the end of my blog -- on How to Marry the Rich -- to a very funny video.http://wp.me/pDQWN-CR
Posted by: www.twitter.com/Geotravel | December 30th, 2011 at 2:39 pm
http://wp.me/pDQWN-CR This is a link to a very funny video on why David Letterman LOVES Martha Stewart. It's near the end of my blog post. Thank-you.
Posted by: may delory | December 30th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Great Pix.
The Colorado photos make me homesick and nostalgic for family Christmas's in the Rockies when my kids were still young.
The food photos just make me hungry.
Thank you for sharing these images.
Posted by: Elizabeth V. | December 30th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Martha and Everyone,
Thank you for sharing your wonderful holiday celebrations with us. It IS a lot of fun to see how others celebrate.
Posted by: Bobbie | December 30th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Great apron! What brand is it or is there a pattern I may find to sew it for myself?
Posted by: Cathy | December 31st, 2011 at 10:34 am
I am referring to Amelia Crook's apron in the previous comment! Cathy
Posted by: cathy | December 31st, 2011 at 10:36 am
Just watched the video of the tools that your friends have. I was fasinated by the X-Yron. So simple, but so useful.The cutter for making strips, is great, the scor-board super the scissors labeling is a wonderful idea. Love watching all videos.
Be Well
Carol Roper
Posted by: Carol Roper | December 31st, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Wow -those snow photos are so beautiful! I wish we had snow here for Christmas, glad to see somebody did!
Posted by: Amber @ Utah Photographers | January 1st, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Dear Martha and associates,
Thank you for allowing me to post on your blog. I subscribed to the Living magazine for a year, saved your website on my favorites, tried making the crafts, and watched the apprentice show. I enjoyed the beautiful pictures of the Christmas in Colorado and all the gourmet foods which look delicious. You are an inspiration to me and am happy that I can learn so much from you. I wish you and your associates a very good 2012 year.
Sincerely,
Mike Kim
Posted by: Mike Kim | January 4th, 2012 at 12:16 am
Dear Martha and associates,
Thank you all for sharing such diverse and wonderful family celebrations of the Holiday Seasons. I was prompted to wish to get all the recipes for everything you served. The Plum Pudding was a reminder of Seasons past when my own mother was in the kitchen creating her magic with food [it's a recipe I no longer have]. I felt a really lost when you moved to the Hallmark Channel, not every Cable System carries that channel within an affordable tier. I do get to catch you, Martha, on PBS 'Every Day' program on Saturday. I get my Newsletter's and can track recipes I know about [ie: Martha's Mom's recipes and the videos that bring the loving memory of her in the kitchen with Martha], I simply do not know what you have currently upon 'The Martha Stewart Show'. It is really not the same as when we had you daily on ABC. I miss your pets, attending the 'Dog Show' every year. Best wishes for 2012 to you, Martha, and all of your multi-talented Team!
Sincerely,
Jean
Posted by: Jean Campbell | January 5th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Cindy, we wrapped dates stuffed with goat's cheese in the prosciutto.
Cathy, I got the apron from Muji, a japanese store in Manhattan, several years ago. It's so practical!
Posted by: Amelia Crook | January 8th, 2012 at 2:45 pm