Meet Martha and Friends
Cookbooks, magazines, a TV show and now an animated web series.
Craft and recipe guru Martha Stewart has launched a web series on AOLKids starring a 10-year-old animated version of herself. While grown-up Martha projects can get pretty intricate, the crafts and such on Martha and Friends look pretty ideal for your DIY-inclined kids: lemonade, paper lanterns, strawberry sauce and flower flip-flops, to name a few.
Check it out:
Via Perez Hilton
Image via Martha and Friends
Will you read The Boy With the Pink Hair?
In September, celebrity blogger Perez Hilton will join the likes of Madonna, Bill Cosby, John Travolta, Sarah the Duchess of York and many more as a children’s book author. In regards to celebrity-penned children’s books, we mostly agree with the Guardian’s Ed Pilkington, who figured celebrity reasoning would go thusly: “I’ve been making up bedtime stories for my children and suddenly I’ve had a brainwave. These stories are good! These stories are brilliant! I would be failing in my moral duty to my adoring public if I did not put them down on paper.”
But we’re kinda thinking we’re siding with the folks who think Perez’ book could be pretty good. Gossip or not, he actually writes everyday, plus he’s snarky and fun. He’s a little bit one of them, but also a little bit one of us. And if the celeb-bedtime story needs to have a big moral, a writer could do worse than embracing one’s individuality.
What we’re reading today:
So, Will Smith’s son Jaden, star of the Karate Kid re-make, recently attended a Disney star friend’s birthday party… with a bodyguard in tow. We agree with Perez Hilton here: we kinda think Jaden would have been safe at a fellow celebrity kid’s birthday party without a bodyguard.
To combat all those my-favourite-album-of-2010-is-better-than-your-favourite-album-of-2010 arguments, Flavorwire has stereotyped you by your pick for the year’s best. We really don’t drink that much!
Looking to share a little Christmas joy with a Harry Potter fan in need? If you’re in Calgary, you’re (or really, said fan is) out of luck. The Calgary Herald reports that the Salvation Army is not accepting Harry Potter or Twilight-themed gift donations. A spokesperson for the organization told the Herald that the “Christian aid organization doesn’t support witchcraft, witchery and black magic.
