We just got a look at a very surprising new direction for Martha - a show in which she appears in a polka dot bathing suit and features a peppy theme song about do-do-do-ing it yourself. Sound a little unusual? Well, you have NO idea...take a peek:
Martha has been turned into a cartoon character for a new kids show on the Hallmark Channel. When Carrie, the editor of Ohdeedoh, got the PR email she wasn't sure if it was for real, but not only does it really exist, it's pretty fantastically wacky!
From exclaiming with gusto how it's "so hard to sit on the beach when all I want to do is make invitations" to cracking the whip and keeping her friends on party planning duty when they just want to slack off to scrapbook (!), this kid version of Martha seems to have it's animated tongue firmly in cheek.
There are even cartoon versions of Francesca and Sharkey as part of the cast of characters (along with three kid friends, Kevin, Lily and Hannah) which brought up a very intriguing question over chat between the editors at Apartment Therapy yesterday - Is Martha's real life dog Sharkey actually named for real life friend and editorial director Kevin Sharkey? Inquiring minds want to know!
Carrie took an in-depth look at design at the show's "set" for Ohdeedoh - called "If Martha Stewart Designed Clubhouses" - it's worth a peek and includes a source list of the (real-life) furnishings she found referenced in the cartoon hangout.
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Oh cartoon Frenchies! I love it!
Oh shiiiitt!!
Anything for a buck! Train 'em young, Martha.
hahahah hilarious! too funny!
haha wow. never saw this coming. kinda creepy
Martha continues to show how much of a genius she is. Targeting children! Love it!
In the next episode, she teaches kids how to play the stock market.
and how to knit ponchos while serving time in the Big House
And, yes, Sharkey the dog is named after Sharkey the Editorial Director!
There are always Martha haters. I wonder why; All she does is paint and decoupage. You'd think she was running a terrorist organization... But even the haters can't deny that everything she does, she does well. Everything! Even a stay in the Big House, @whale...
ya ya whatever about the cartoon. what about the pic at the top. martha stewart doesnt age. shes kinda doable!!!
The cartoon is missing the village of other children..the ones that actually come up with all 'her' ideas. Martha Stewart is a dirty word.
I'm not a Martha "hater" -- more of a "whatever"... Martha has lovely taste suitable for the high end of the Country Club set. She has NO sense of practacality for regular people who don't have dish pantries full of various SETS of dinnerware, who don't iron our high-thread-count sheets on specially padded large-scale boards in our oversized laundry rooms, or have large truck gardens full of produce, etc.
I once found a rather cool craft project in her magazine that called for copper paint. Turns out she used copper paint she had had in storage for a decade -- it was no longer on the market (nor anything quite like it) due to toxic properties of the material. So you COULD NOT replicate the project unless you too had stored the paint for years... It kind of emblamizes my problem with Lady Martha.
I love Martha. I try not to but I do. I just bought a beautfiul coverlet from her Macy's collection (it helped that I got it 60% off).
And she most certainly has a healty but dry sense of humor about the world and herself. And one of my favority photos of her and Snoop Dogg:
http://verydemotivational.memebase.com/2011/03/31/demotivational-posters-one-of-these-is-a-convicted-felon/
I'm not sure which picture of Martha is more photoshopped - the headshot, or the cartoon.
Whether you love her or hate her, what we all need is for her to reveal her secret to looking like that at age 70. For real, I don't care if it's bathing in virgin blood or whatever, we need to know!!!
jesse13 Martha's a vampire hence she doesn't age.