An introduction

Welcome to the Urban Martha blog. I was inspired to create this blog by my girl friends who are incredibly smart, creative professional women whose lives include making a home as well as pursuing their careers at full tilt. This site will be devoted to our most favorite hobby - being at home and enjoying home with family and friends. For most of us, being at home means living in a city, so my posts will have a decidedly "urban" tilt - looking for new ways to create a beautiful home while satisfying our tastes, style, budget and time constraints. A large part of this will include ways to reduce our impact on our environment, whether through growing our own herbs and vegetables in whatever containers and space we can find or reusing old fabrics in new ways or trying to compost on our decks and patios or making the most out of the neighborhood farmers market. I hope to include guest bloggers as well throughout the course of hosting this blog - I have many friends with very unique talents and areas of expertise in urban homemaking. So please enjoy!