There’s nothing like reminiscing about Christmases past… and that’s exactly what Martha Stewart did on her TV show today. The domestic diva shared with viewers a special holiday memory she made back in 2005—during her stint in prison.
I’m not kidding. Stewart took time during her daytime TV show today to share one of her fondest memories of her stay in a West Virginia prison. Apparently the crafty Christmas lover made the most of her time in her prison pottery class. That’s where she molded ornate clay forms of the baby Jesus, Joseph, Mary, three camels, donkeys, angels—an entire nativity scene–at a pottery class at the Federal Prison Camp in Alderson, West Virginia, the place she did time for lying about her sale of ImClone stock.
“Even though every inmate was only allowed to do one a month, and I was only there for five months, I begged because I said I was an expert potter – ceramicist actually – and could I please make the entire nativity scene,” she said.
Stewart bragged to viewers that her handmade creations were sculpted, fired and glazed at the prison. And she added that she even completed her nativity scene with tiny artificial palm trees imported from Germany by a New Jersey distributor.
Only Martha Stewart…
Meanwhile, while Martha was showing off her prison souvenirs, some famous Hollywood moms were taking their tots to meet up with a fat, jolly, old guy dressed up in a red suit and black boots.
Desperate Housewives’ star Marcia Cross and her husband Tom Mahoney took their 10-month-old twins Eden and Savannah to meet Santa and have their photo taken on Saturday. Ditto for actress Tori Spelling and her husband Dean McDermott who took their 9-month-old son Liam Aaron to visit Santa’s Grotto at the Grove Shopping Center in Los Angeles, California on Christmas Eve.
Other stars getting into the Christmas spirit were actress Melissa Joan Hart and her husband, rocker Mark Wilkerson. They joined Jennifer Love Hewitt and her actor fiancé Ross McCall and 400 other volunteers at the Los Angeles Mission in downtown L.A. on Christmas Eve. The celebs served rotisserie chicken, glazed ham, three-cheese macaroni, mixed vegetables, dinner rolls, cranberry relish and chocolate cake to hundreds of homeless people who live on the streets around Hope Street–known as Skid Row.