Visiting The Home Depot in Atlanta, Georgia
I recently traveled to Atlanta, Georgia with my colleague, Kevin Sharkey, to attend a corporate meeting at The Home Depot headquarters. Following the meeting, Kevin and I spoke to an auditorium filled with wonderful Home Depot employees. We presented the three Martha Stewart Living Holiday Collections, available exclusively at The Home Depot and shared holiday decorating ideas, as well as do-it-yourself projects, using Martha Stewart Project paints. We demonstrated how to make a candy cane striped mailbox to put all of Santa’s letters in and also had a question-and-answer session. The next day, we toured the Buckhead store and also gave another holiday demonstration to Home Depot customers. It’s always great to talk to customers - to touch base and inform them about our fabulous products and their great value.
1 On Friday, after the corporate meeting, Kevin and I demonstrated holiday projects, such as how to decorate a wreath and how to create a custom candy cane-inspired mailbox.
2 Home Depot employees joined me on stage to create the candy cane mailboxes. We used painters tape on a white mailbox to make the stripes and and then painted it red. When the paint dries and the tape is removed, you have white and red stripes!
3 Here I am posing with the Home Depot Holiday Merchant Team. Their aprons are decorated to resemble the Martha Stewart Holiday Collection. These aprons were designed by the MSLO holiday crafts team.
4 On Saturday, at the Buckhead store, I interviewed with Eileen Gordon, the Publisher and Editor of Southern Seasons. I will be featured in the December Issue!
5 Here I am touring The Home Depot’s Garden Center with Marty Howard and Eileen Claar before going in to greet customers.
6 After the tour Kevin and I met with store associates and talked about all the Martha Stewart Livng products available at The Home Depot.
7 Kevin Spoke about our Specialty Paint Tool Kit. It includes all the tools you need to create effects with paint, like faux bois, gingham, and linen.
8 I really enjoyed spending time with the very knowledgeable and energetic Home Depot associates!
9 These associates were a crafty bunch! From left to right: Dewayne Kates, Sarah Fishburne, Javonda Grandison, Pam Burke, Richard McGriff, and Carrie Willoughby. Sarah is showing off an apron that Carrie decorated.
10 After meeting with the associates, I entered an adjacent tent and gave another presentation to the store customers.
11 I showed images of my homes and how they inspire products for the Martha Stewart Line at The Home Depot.
12 Kevin and I showed how to create a beautiful holiday arrangement using living greens, glittered picks from the Martha Stewart Living Holiday Collection, and an urn painted with Martha Stewart Living metallic project paint.
13 Kevin and I also demonstrated just how fun and easy the DIY candy cane mailbox is!
14 Simple and beautiful! A nice holiday addition to any home!
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I need to get some of that metallic project paint of yours. The urn looks great in picture #12 and I have an old one that needs painting. I've been a little busy with repairs around the house lately but hopefully I'll get back to crafts soon, especially when my Circle Edge Punch arrives! What I need to do is stay off Pinterest for a day and maybe I'll get more stuff done. Maybe! Just for the record, there are three Home Depots close to me so it would be nice if you came down here for a visit! I just thought I'd throw that out there. The striped red mailbox looks great but we can't do anything like that in our development. We all have the same black mailbox and all we can do is put a garland around it during the holidays. Trish
Posted by: Trish | November 19th, 2012 at 12:48 am
I love all of the Martha Christmas line at Home depot! I bought it all and the quality is awesome!
Posted by: Renee Ryan | November 19th, 2012 at 1:16 am
You look marvelous and how can you keep up your schedule? Thanksgiving week celebrations have begun and 4 year old visiting our grandma who is 92 years young once more makes me truly grateful for traditions that continue
spirit of those pilgrims who invited the people that were already inhabitating our country to the first pot luck.
Posted by: ann | November 19th, 2012 at 1:57 am
Martha, Kevin has got to be the luckiest guy on the planet to be able to travel with you! It look like that was a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: KLBrown | November 19th, 2012 at 4:30 am
Martha, I aways look for your products in Home Depot, Michaels, Staples and of course Macy's! When I was looking for a floor length mirror for my walk-in closet, I went straight to Home Depot to see what they had and of course I choose yours! It's so well made and looks expensive! Thanks for sharing with us your visit to Atlanta and your wonderful demonstrations using the Martha Stewart Living Holiday Collections and your Project Paints. I love the metalic color you painted the urn in pic #12. My favorite picture of you is # 5, you look happy and pretty surrounded by the plants in the garden center of the Buckhead Home Depot!
Posted by: Cindy F | November 19th, 2012 at 8:04 am
Hi Martha, I'm listening to Sirius RadioXM110 while commenting here on your newest, greatest blot this morning! The latest Thanksgiving information from your fantastic employees is wonderful and they are getting lots of calls! This latest blog about your visit to the Home Depot in Atlanta, Georgia is also fantastic! You and Kevin sure did have a great time showing the corporate and the customers lots of great new items for the holidays, etc.! You look marvelous in all of these photos and Kevin looks very handsome! How thoughtful of you to give the workers those beautiful aprons! Sure would love to have one! The websites you shared are fabulous, too and I get emails from Home Depot everyday! Was so much fun to see your latest PBS Cooking Show on Saturday and really loved the mayonnaise, etc. that you made and the delicious looking items they were added to-yummmm! Sure hope you have another great day and hope to see you on The Today Show this week! Off to see The Daily Wag about "The Great Burlap Protect Begins!" Jan
Posted by: Jan Erickson | November 19th, 2012 at 9:31 am
Oh d-a-r-n!! Wishing that I'd happened into Home Depot while you were there.
Posted by: Edna | November 19th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
That looks great, I wish we can have your products in London and the Gulf. You and Kevin are both so inspiring. I admire Kevin's sence of design and love his blog.
Best wishes
Riwaidaa
Posted by: Rowaidaa Flayhan | November 19th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Hi Martha!
I was fortunate enough to attend your Home Depot workshop in Atlanta. I had a great time and learned so much!!! It was totally worth the 3 1/2 hour wait in line!! You and your team create such beautiful products and I absolutely love using them in my home! I hope that you and everyone at MSLO have a great holiday season!
Posted by: Carey Moore | November 19th, 2012 at 7:48 pm
Three hours away, and I didn't even know it. Oh well.
Everyone looks like they're having a great time.
Gloria G!!
Posted by: Gloria | November 20th, 2012 at 12:08 am
I am perplexed my daffodils in Northeastern Pa have started to sprout and now it s going to get really cold. Should I cover the little green sprout or leave them alone.
Posted by: Jackie in Brackney PA | November 20th, 2012 at 10:17 pm
O.m.g! Really bulliriant wish could get same.
Posted by: Kigozi derrick | November 21st, 2012 at 8:56 pm
I want the 7.5 Royal Douglas Fir Christmas Tree with the dual lights which was the special at Home Depot last Friday. Why can you not order it? RDF&75LD3S. I have checked Home Depots in three states! This is really bothering me that I can't find it no where!
Posted by: Jo Jones in KY | November 27th, 2012 at 8:41 pm
The mailbox is fun and it looks inexpensive to create and do. What a lovely way to give energy to the mail carrier this holiday season.
Posted by: Karen | December 9th, 2012 at 1:36 am