Martha Stewart shares her top Oscar party tips

>> oscar party .

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>>> how to throw an oscar party on sunday night worthy of hollywood's best, martha stewart from martha 's living.

>> hi. it's fun to eat and drink and celebrate your favorite movies.

>> you'll show us how we can sass up and class up our party.

>> yes. the first thing is the fantastic gold glaze and gold paint that's permanent, dishwasher proof. all available at the craft store. take a glass, your favorite glass, inexpensive glasses and to change them from ordinary to extraordinary, just dip them into just a little bit like that.

>> all right.

>> very nice.

>> and change the whole thing. you modernize, glamorize the glass. it's just adding a little bit of glitz to your glassware.

>> we let it drip for a bit.

>> until it dries. you have it on these little clamps with the hooks.

>> even your clamps are classy.

>> you all have one of these stands at home. you could use a broomstick across two chairs and put newspaper on the floor to catch it.

>> then you bake it.

>> no, no, you don't have to. one of those you might have to bake. read the directions.

>> okay, i will.

>> this is another nice way to make a cylinder. you get flowers every day, don't you, from some admirer?

>> i do. yes.

>> don't throw these away. you just wrap them with gold paper like this. double stick tape. and you make yourself a beautiful holder for a pillar candle . stick the candle in there. light that on your table. make a whole arrangement. isn't that pretty?

>> and no baking.

>> sort of recycling. when you get so many flowers -- you must get a lot, too.

>> oh, my gosh.

>> and for vallen type's day. your room is full. don't throw those away. they're really useful. edible glitter. you can put this op a plate like that. edible.

>> and some sugar or some kind of --

>> dip the glass in a little bit of water and stick it into the edible glitter. you.

>> kind of like a margarita salt.

>> you can do that for any drink but it dresses up the drink and people won't believe that you can eat it, but you can. perfectly safe.

>> isn't that pretty?

>> and don't forget gold stars . you can buy the stars, wrap them around your lapkin.

>> wait, did you just say lapkin?

>> instead of napkin. you can take the glitter and glitter alarminger stars, put them all over your table. this is a big night . you have your favorite movies picked out, your favorite actresses, actors?

>> yes.

>> who do you think will win the best picture ?

>> i think "argo."

>> or "lincoln."

>> are you going to go to an oscar party or are you going to host one?

>> i'm on a plane. i have it tivo'ed or whatever you do nowadays. one of those things. and these are cupcakes that you can glitter.

>> what are with the packages?

>> oh, from right here in lincoln center -- rockefeller center . delicious japanese mochi, edible.

>> very cool. martha , thank you