Martha Stewart generally is not one to be upstaged.
But there she was just hanging out in the audience Monday night snapping photos of Hillary Clinton as the secretary of state spoke at a holiday reception at the State Department.
Clinton was toasting the families of government employees who are serving “unaccompanied tours,” meaning they live in places too dangerous for their families to join, and made no mention of Stewart’s presence.
But that didn’t matter.
“I told her she was doing a wonderful job,” Stewart told Yeas & Nays after Clinton’s remarks.
It turns out the two power blondes are “sort of” neighbors and go back a long time. And Stewart was on hand in the Benjamin Franklin Room because the families being honored were some of the first to see 17 Washington-area rooms decorated for the holidays by staffers from six home-and-garden magazines, among them, Martha Stewart Living.
Stewart’s folks were tasked with decorating three rooms in the Blair House, the president’s guest house, including the entryway, the dining room and the Lee Drawing Room.
For the drawing room, Stewart said she pulled inspiration from the 250-year-old bird-covered wallpaper.
“So we actually created birds and beautiful things and decorated the room with that and did a lot of glittering,” Stewart gushed. Glitter is apparently big this holiday season.
In the dining room, they used a lot of pink.
“We actually made a pink fairyland of candy and feather trees,” she said. “And that’s really pretty too.”
The families were given tours of the rooms earlier Monday, with Stewart on hand, and left with gift bags stuffed with Martha Stewart magazines, holiday candies, and, yes, glitter.
