As anybody should know by now, there is no way to keep Martha Stewart down; the tireless lifestyle entrepreneur is now even selling Nativity figures that she designed in federal prison.
Yes, you read that right. Stewart, the ever-elegant omnimedia president, who has remade her life over and over after her ordinary American childhood as the daughter of a Polish bar owner, is now selling her own lovely, graceful ivory-colored statues showing figures from Christ’s nativity.
And she came up with the idea, as she says it, “When I was away at camp.” She is selling her Nativity set via online retailer QVC and even via TikTok videos, which surely are bringing her message to a new generation of consumers.
Martha Stewart offers Nativity set “With a little street cred”
On one of her TikTok videos she appeals to consumers by saying “asking them if they’d like to buy something this Christmas that has “a little street cred” they might consider purchasing her Nativity set.
We all remember the iconic scene of Martha getting off the airplane after being released from the federal prison for women in 2004, nonchalantly flinging a corner of an elegant cape across her shoulder.
Making such garments was just one of the ways in which she passed the time — amounting to five months — after being convicted of conspiracy and lying to federal prosecutors in an insider-trading deal with her longtime beau.
True to form, the creative and promotional genius really went to work during her unfortunate incarceration, when she teamed up with fellow inmates to learn new knitting and crocheting skills. Naturally, at the same time, the multimillionaire entrepreneur became a mentor to many women in the facility and she made what she says are lifelong friendships there with some of them.
And now, seventeen years later, at the age of 80, she is making hay out of her experience, so to speak, by selling Nativity sets that are copies of the originals she made during her five months at the federal penitentiary in Alderson, West Virginia.
Her fourteen-piece ivory porcelain set, which represents Jesus, Mary, Joseph and all the other figures in a typical creche scene, can be yours for only $119.20, discounted from their original price of $140.00.
And of course, no detail gets past Martha Stewart, as her federal inmate number is engraved on the bottom of each piece — just as it was when she made the originals in the prison’s pottery shop.
She explains the origins of the set to the QVC host who is selling it on television, saying that the originals were in drab natural colors; now the set is available in gleaming ivory. “We always had a beautiful Nativity scene,” she recalled, remembering her childhood…Look at this gorgeous camel! Look at the detailing. These were hard to make. I made the originals to each and every one of these.”
Ultimately, you can’t keep a good person down… a great reminder on this second very unusual and difficult Christmas all over the world.
If you were going to get me anything this year – let it be the Martha Stewart Prison Replica Nativity Set pic.twitter.com/QI8ZrSEcoT
— Loukas Charalambous (@LoukasChar_char) December 17, 2021
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