1 Last Thursday evening, I made an appearance on Late Night, hosted by Seth Meyers. It was his ninth show as host. I brought him a porcelain egg carton filled with my farm fresh eggs.

2 Before the show, MSLO's Anduin Haven, prepped the table for my demo. The craft was about embellishing pet feeding bowls.

3 Anduin printed my instructions using a P-Touch.

4 In action

5 GK's pet bowl is from my Pets line, available at PetSmart.

6 We used Martha Stewart Crafts supplies.

7 A before and after image

8 Lil Jon's dog is quite large and this is his bowl ready for embellishment.

9 When handling gold leaf, many crafters like to wear cotton gloves.

10 Seth Meyer's dog, Frisbee, is a small Italian greyhound and this is the bowl we used for her.

11 The dress rehearsal began.

12 Frisbee loved her new Martha Stewart PetSmart toy.

13 Seth enjoyed watching Frisbee trying out her new Martha Stewart Pets Stuffed Floral Donut Bed from PetSmart.

14 Anduin reviewed what Seth would do during the live taping.

15 A man and his dog

16 Here I am with segment producer Bee Shaffer, who I first met when she was just a little girl.

17 Back Stage again with Seth. Seth has been to my farm and he really appreciated these eggs.

18 During the taping, we showed a video clip of that visit. Here we are sitting in the courtyard of my stable.

19 Seth gave me a lovely gift bag, a card and some delicious baked treats.

20 A nice shot of me and Susan Magrino Dunning, my long-time publicist.

21 And a nice shot with Brent Price, who works with Susan.

22 The dressing rooms are labeled using iPad Airs. This is one dressing room.

23 To my surprise, I was given two dressing rooms!

24 A backstage monitor displayed Seth's ninth show.

25 Here I am all ready to go on set. I'm wearing a fabulous necklace designed by Silvia Tcherassi. The sound person was quite concerned about fitting me for a mic, but he positioned it in just the right place to avoid contact with the necklace.

26 I brought my beloved Chow Chow, Ghenghis Khan.

27 Everyone loved GK and he got more attention than I did.

28 Seth mentioned that he has a photo of me hanging in his dressing room, which he tried to hide from his wife, Alexi.

29 This photo was taken many years ago, when I was a newlywed and was busy with my modeling career.

30 GK was soaking up the limelight.

31 Seth's next guest was rapper Lil Jon.

32 Lil Jon didn't bring his dog, but he loved GK!

33 Lil Jon is famous for his signature "Yeaaah!" call.

34 I mentioned that I enjoy rap music and asked what radio station I should listen to in the New York area.

35 Lil Jon told me to tune into 97.1, also known as HOT97.

36 After a friendly exchange, it was time to craft!

37 While I showed Seth how to go about applying gold leaf to Frisbee's bowl, Lil Jon clowned around.

38 I said that pet dogs deserve to have gilded and bejeweled eating bowls.

39 Adorable Frisbee

40 Lil Jon completed his bowl for his dog, Pacino.

41 Back stage after the show

1 Although my grandchildren, Jude and Truman, were thrilled with the idea of Elmo and chose this lovable monster as the theme for their joint birthday party last year, it took quite a while before either of them actually wanted to be hugged by the giant red, furry character.

2 Jude took her sweet time getting acquainted with the bigger-than-life Elmo. She actually flirted with him shyly for about 20 minutes before she would even touch him.

3 Elmo, sent to the party by Sesame workshops, was patient, wonderful, and kind.

4 Truman was much more adventuresome and started touching and hugging quickly.

5 He was ready to be fully enveloped by Elmo's welcoming arms.

6 Truman conversed and laughed, while Jude remained standoffish!

7 Other children wandered into the "conversation" - some quite boldly and happily, while Jude needed more persuasion.

8 Alexis persuaded Jude to stand on Elmo's big feet.

9 She balanced happily and Elmo walked around a bit.

10 She then allowed Elmo to start the hugging and ultimately was enveloped in his arms. Jude has loved Elmo ever since and her room is evidence of her love. There are Elmos in all sizes sitting around waiting for hugs and conversations.

11 This joint birthday party for Jude and Truman was wonderful. Everything was Elmo themed. Our magazine, Martha Stewart Living, did a feature on the party in the March 2014 issue and it provides templates for the artwork, courtesy of Sesame Street.

12 These place mats were really coloring pages. Crayola crayons, in appropriate Elmo colors, were provided in clip art Elmo boxes.

13 All of this art was great coloring material.

14 A clip-art Elmo was carried away. He was attached to the wall and the balloon strings with double-sided tape. More clip-art faces were taped to ribbon for a garland, and balloons bobbed around the room.

15 A closer look at the garlands

16 There was a make-your-own-Elmo station that had graphic cutouts of the monster's features.

17 The walls of the playroom had Elmos everywhere in all sorts of cute poses.

18 Elmo has extremely expressive features - no wonder he's loved by so many!

19 The giant red helium balloons were from Martha Celebrations and they stay inflated for several weeks! jcpenny.com/marthastewart

20 Other metallic and colorful balloons were inflated and given to the wall-art Elmos.

21 Alexis made healthy and beautiful snacks - tangerine segments, red pepper strips, and cookie cutter cutouts of jicama, carrots, cheese, and radishes.

22 Alexis made gelatins in Elmo's image and served them on Martha Celebration plates. jcpenney.com/marthastewart

23 The gelatins were made from organic apple, cranberry, blueberry, apricot, and coconut juices and firmed in large baking sheets. The morning of the party, she cut out all the shapes and assembled the faces.

24 Fruit nectars were served with striped straws.

25 The red red cake was designed and created by the great cakemaker, Ron Ben Israel. weddingcakes.com

26 The cake was yummy and evocative!

27 A better view of the Elmo Cake - It was not served to the kids - Only adults got to taste.

28 Alexis makes wonderful gifts for all the guests and these Elmo themed goodie bags were filled with books, and games, and lots of Elmo.

29 Dani Fiore made giant Elmo cookies for the kids. These were not eaten at the "sugar-free" party, but were taken home by each guest. sweetdanib.com

30 A balloon artist came and tied balloons in many shapes. http://partymagicparty.com

31 A fantastic rainbow

32 And a beautiful flower

33 The children were busy for the entire two-hour party - coloring, playing, watching balloons, interacting with Elmo, singing, and eating.

34 There were wall games with felt stick-ons.

35 There was even an Elmo magnetized fishing game.

36 Each child got to pose with the red furry monster.

37 Pippa, dressed appropriately in red, really loved Elmo!

38 She readily allowed all the hugs and kisses Elmo would bestow!

39 This little fellow wasn't so sure.

40 This beauty was very happy.

41 Harrison needed the presence of his parents, but he was cool.

42 Caution - don't smile too much!

43 I certainly love Elmo!

44 Even Sharkey and Francesca came to the party!

45 Does Elmo play the bugle?

46 Elmo loves presents!

47 Elmo loves to draw and color.

48 Elmo loves to play, and jump, and laugh!

49 Elmo loves unwrapping presents.

50 Elmo loves taking photos, too.

1 Northern Canada is starkly beautiful in December. While it was cold, only 6-degrees below Fahrenheit, all the locals said it was very pleasant!

2 When I got off the plane, our driver, Paul Somersal, brought me to the Radisson hotel to get lunch. I found this adorable elephant in my room.

3 After lunch, I went to MacDonald Island Park to look at the venue and make sure all of my supplies arrived in good shape. It’s the largest indoor community center in Canada, and is getting bigger!

4 The next morning, Martha arrived. We were dressed warmly!

5 Here is Martha with Paul Spring, the president of Phoenix Heliflight, who was to bring us to Martha’s tour of the Suncor facility.

6 They even had a helicopter ornament on their tree!

7 This is Daisy, Martha’s amazing hair and makeup stylist. We all had to get weighed to determine how much fuel the helicopter needed. Thank goodness the results were kept secret (from us…)

8 Of course Martha loved the dogs in the hangar – and they loved her!

9 Here is one of the pilots at Phoenix. He accepted an invitation to the craft demo that night.

10 Each helicopter is custom-painted with its own phoenix.

11 This is the copter we flew in.

12 Paul gave us a short safety lesson.

13 Martha is so at home in a helicopter - she has flown many times. I was a little more nervous, but Paul was a great pilot.

14 The snow blew up considerably when we took off!

15 Fort McMurray from the sky.

16 It was a gorgeous view!

17 This is MacDonald Island at the intersection of the Athabasca River and the Clearwater River. It is the northern tip of the city.

18 These are the Athabasca oil sands. Suncor is one of many companies that remove the oil from the sands.

19 Once they have removed the oil and replaced the sand, they reforest the area.

20 A view of the refinery

21 Once Martha and Daisy got off the helicopter to take a tour of the refinery, I returned to town with Paul to get ready for the craft.

22 I got to sit in the front seat of the helicopter. The window went from above my head to below my feet! It was exhilarating, not scary at all.

23 Back at MacIsland, I set up the wreaths in the demo hall.

24 We showed all four of the wreaths from Martha’s column in the December 2013 issue of Martha Stewart Living.

25 I set up her demo table, making sure that she had all of the supplies and tools.

26 She demoed two wreaths - the Gold Leaf-Sticker Wreath and the Green Ribbon Wreath.

27 We had great supplies from Martha Stewart Crafts!

28 And beautiful ribbon from Masterstroke

29 The tables were ready for the crafters to arrive. 3 Ring Circles sent plenty of the circle wreath forms – enough for everyone!

30 The crafters were all set to craft!

31 Martha loves her audiences, and took the previous photo. I was making sure she knew where all her tools were.

32 Martha really enjoys events like this one. She told some great stories.

33 The first step was to paint the wreath form gold.

34 Daisy crafted, too!

35 Everyone was really excited to be there.

36 As the audience painted, Martha showed them how to make the ribbon wreath.

37 The crowd was very industrious.

38 I really enjoy listening to Martha in small venues like this one. She has so many great anecdotes to share.

39 The pilot we invited proved to be a very good crafter.

40 After the paint dried, everyone added their gold leaf stickers. It’s an easy craft and very beautiful.

41 After Martha showed everyone how to tie the perfect bow, she glued their bows onto their wreaths. Everyone lined up for that!

42 Having Martha's personal touch on each wreath made everyone really happy.

43 No one minded the wait - they were thrilled to get a moment with Martha!

44 After the craft, the audience was presented with a lovely cocktail party.

45 After cleaning up the craft, I attempted curling – a sport I never knew about and found to be really fun!

46 This is a view of the swimming pools at MacDonald Island Park. The enormous facility holds many activities including ice skating and hockey, curling, an indoor water park, an indoor playground, dance, volleyball, wall climbing, and cultural and artistic events. It’s quite the community center!

47 Martha spoke to a small group of VIPs in one of the rooms in the Fort McMurray Library. It is a beautiful, expansive, and well-cared-for place.

48 And then later, many more people came to hear an interview with Martha.

49 She was interviewed by Carolyn Goolsby, the Library Director.

50 After the event, we all returned to the Radisson for dinner. We had eaten every meal at Prime Social Kitchen, the excellent restaurant there, and the chef asked Martha what she would like for dinner. We dined on lamb chops with silky mashed potatoes and broccoli. It was yummy!

51 With a lovely bottle of wine, it was a perfect meal.

52 Daisy does not eat meat, so she enjoyed a lovely piece of salmon.

53 I was really hungry – it had been a long day!

54 Martha looked lively, even after many events.

55 The chefs who prepared our dinner - The kitchen is run by Executive Chef Mark Hobson, on the right.

56 Dessert was a bubbling apple crisp in a skillet with vanilla ice cream and caramel – comfort food at its best!

57 This is the new automated security at Toronto airport. Our red-eye flight was delayed in Toronto by heavy fog in New York. Martha, Daisy, and I slept on a big red upholstered sofa in the lounge in the airport. After quite a successful and busy time in Northern Canada, we were ready for a nap.