The Martha Stewart branding train is rolling on with a new food line just in time for Thanksgiving. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.has partnered with The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. to introduce a new Martha Stewart-branded food line that includes poultry from Plainville Farms, baking mixes from Arrowhead Mills and dried pastas from DeBoles. The Martha Stewart-branded products will launch with a line of fresh and frozen vegetarian-fed and antibiotic-free turkeys from Hain Pure Protein's Plainville Farms in time for Thanksgiving 2009. In a press release Stewart said, " I'm delighted to be offering consumers antibiotic-free, vegetarian-fed turkeys that are moist, tender, and absolutely delicious." The Martha Stewart website already has a place where you can order the bird online for $69.99 for a 12-pound bird. You can also download Martha's Turkey 101 guide should you need additional help. Add in some Martha table linens and Martha Stewart-branded wine and it's a very Martha Thanksgiving.

Many top drawer people in the Northeast spend summers in Maine's preppy enclaves. Photographer Sarah C. Butler's new book Portrait of a Maine Island is a love letter to one such locale, Northeast Harbor.

In this never-before-seen collection, Butler showcases her extraordinary art portraits of Northeast Harbor's local inhabitants, architecture and stunning land and seascape, as viewed from properties like this 2006 Estate of the Day.

60 people and places are brought to life through original photographs that "convey and identify what it is that makes Maine culture so distinctive." Martha Stewart, who has an estate on nearby Mount Desert Island, often uses it as inspiration.

Butler doesn't just focus on the well-heeled summer residents however. A post-mistress, mechanic, carpenter, lobsterman, librarian and artists are all included, as well as a visual journey through the area's coves and rocky necks.

This era of email and texting is a tough time for the stationery business but those who seek a more elegant form of communication have a big name on their side, Martha Stewart. The Berkshire Eagle reports that just one week after Crane & Co. announced layoffs in its stationery division, it has forged a partnership with Martha Stewart Omnimedia. The new Martha Stewart Stationery Weddings Collection will be released this spring. The line will be sold through Crane stationers, online and through select retailers. It's a bit of a return to her roots for Stewart who was once featured in a Crane stationery advertising campaign during her modeling career and also perhaps a sign that Stewart is looking to steer her brand back into a more refined direction.

Donald Trump has one, now Martha Stewart is supposedly working on a big glossy luxury magazine. Advertising Age reports that Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia may be working on a oversized luxury title. While the magazine industry in general remains in a state of change, heavy and huge luxury titles with big glossy ads remain attractive because they offer advertisers a way to find the luxury consumer. In these cases the income of each reader is more of a lure than how many readers the magazine attracts. It also gives the advertiser ample space to showcase their products in a magazine that is meant to be more for looking than for reading. Trump's title has a 12-inch-by-10-inch cover and it is rumored that Martha's luxury magazine would be an oversized title like W or Cigar Aficionado.

Honestly I'm surprised it took her this long but Martha Stewart is finally getting into the wine business. Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. has announced a partnership with E.&J. Gallo Winery to create wines known as the "Martha Stewart Vintage." The first launch of 15,000 cases includes three wines: a 2006 Sonoma County Chardonnay, 2005 Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvingon and 2006 Sonoma County Merlot. The wines will be available in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Phoenix and Portland starting in January and will sell for around $15.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Supermodel Gisele is renting out her West Village penthouse loft for $29,000 per month. The home has a hot tub on the private roof deck. Check it out at the listing here.
-- Fairchild Corp. Chairman Jeffrey Steiner has sold his Fifth Avenue co-op apartment for his last asking price of $15 million.
--Martha Stewart is looking to buy a house in Manhattan rather than move into the $35 million worth of apartments she bought at the Richard Meier-designed 165 Charles St. building.

From the Real Estalker:
--Suge Knight's gated estate in Malibu, shown above, is listed at $6.2 million, subject to Bankruptcy Court approval. Check out the listing here, the home is a bit abandoned and in need of someone with deep pockets to restore it to glory.
--Donn and Vicky Gunvalson from The Real Housewives of Orange County have put their Coto de Caza
home on the market for $3.75 million. You may remember this five-bedroom home from the show where the expansive swimming pool and grotto were featured. The listing is here.
--Salma Hayek and and Francois-Henri Pinault have bought the home belonging to Kelsey and Camille Grammer in Bel Air, California.
--A three-fer from Fred Savage. He has sold his home on Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles for $2,249,022, bought a house in Hancock Park for $3,050,030, and has flipped a Hollywood Hills home for $3.5 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Alain Pinon, who co-owns and co-founded the AKS Salons on Fifth and Madison avenues, has paid $1.585 million for his eighth apartment on the Upper West Side. He has already flipped three apartments and four other spreads nearby on Central Park West.
--Men's Health editor-in-chief Dave Zinczenko has paid $3.795 million for a full-floor, three-bedroom unit at the new 744 Greenwich Street condominium.
-- Sharon Percy Rockefeller, the daughter of one Senator and the wife of another has purchased a $2.175 million Manhattan apartment overlooking a very fancy MoMA sculpture garden.
--Peter Peterson, senior chairman and co-founder of the newly public Blackstone Group, who recently bought David Geffen's duplex penthouse at 810 Fifth Avenue for $37.5 million is looking to sell his 11th-floor apartment at River House likely for somewhere between $9 and $10 million. The apartment was used to film a saucy amateur video filmed there, which promoted his daughter Holly's summer novel The Manny.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Former NFL quarterback Cade McNown has paid $2,925,000 to purchase a house in Hancock Park and has sold his house in the Hollywood Hills for $3,499,000.
--Damon Dash has sold his 5,875-square-foot, Spanish villa-style house in Beverly Hills, Calif. for $3,600,000.
--Actor Billy Bob Thornton has bought a four-bedroom house in Malibu that was listed at $2,410,000.

From the Real Estate Journal's Private Properties:
--The family of John J. Donovan Sr., whose feud made headlines last year, is asking $6 million for a three-bedroom home on 3.5 acres on the North Shore of Massachusetts and $5.9 million for a home on 1.8 acres across the street. This will be our double dip estate of the day later today.

From Radar:
Vidal Sassoon has put a Richard Neutra-designed house on Mulholland Drive on the market for $19.5 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Joey McIntyre has sold his house in Venice, California for close to $2.9 million and bought in Hancock Park for nearly $4.7 million.
--Wilmer Valderrama has put his Tarzana compound on the market at $2.25 million. The home has five bedrooms, a pool, pool house and a gym.
--Jenilee Harrison, who played Jamie Ewing on "Dallas" and Cindy Snow on "Three's Company," and her chiropractor husband, Bruce Oppenheim, have sold their Sherman Oaks property for $1.1 million.
--Kevin Williamson, who wrote the screenplays for the "Scream" series of films and the TV series "Dawson's Creek," has purchased a late-'40s, modern-style house in Palm Springs for $1.5 million.
--The Palm Desert home of actor William Boyd, who played Hopalong Cassidy, was purchased at an auction June 2 for $467,500.

If you are rich, and we mean really rich, not only do you get to be one of the first people to be a space tourist, you can get Martha Stewart to cater your space meal. CNet reports that Charles Simonyi, a software pioneer who will be the fifth tourist in space, is a friend of Stewart's and he has convinced her to create a gourmet menu to feed the crew at the International Space Station. The space food is a far cry from Tang and freeze-dried ice cream. The menu includes roasted quail, duck breast confit with capers, shredded chicken parmentier, apple fondant pieces, rice pudding with candied fruit, and semolina cake with dried apricots. Simonyi will take the meal up to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA spacecraft on April 7 and the food will be prepared by Alain Ducasse's consulting and training center, ADF.

Martha Stewart has put her colonial-style farmhouse estate, Turkey Hill Farm, in Westport, Connecticut on the market. The beautiful home is just over 3,100-sq. feet and is situated on 4 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds (would you expect anything less from Martha Stewart?). The property also features a large barn and a greenhouse. The 3-bedroom, 2-bath house was originally built in 1805. It was maintained in excellent condition and features central air, a full walk-out basement and a heated pool. The asking price is $8,995,000.

More pictures after the jump, though there are none from the interior of the house - surprising, given that Martha is an amazing decorator.

Luxury items at Sears? We've seen luxury come to Costco and Wal-Mart and now Sears is trying to tempt buyers with items that skew toward the higher end. Because Kmart and Sears merged, Sears has the right to sell Martha Stewart goods in Sears Roebuck stores but they aren't taking that option since Martha recently announced to that she will be selling her higher-end wares at Macy's. Instead Sears has a new strategy to sell ready-to-assemble furniture, add more Lands' End mini-stores inside Sear's stores and create a private label line of bed and bath products called Everyday Luxe. The Everyday Luxe line is already for sale on the internet and features 400-thread-count duvets and 500-thread-count sheets. Sheet sets start at $99.99 for Queen.

Martha Stewart seems to be gradually repositioning herself toward the masstige market. Sure, she's still got the Kmart deal but now it has been announced that she will be designing upscale merchandise for the Macy's and Bloomingdale's chains. The Martha Stewart Collection will be in stores across the country starting in the fall of 2007 and like her Kmart line it will include home items like bed sheets, dishes, cookware, holiday decorations and garden furniture. The new line isn't a direct competitor for the Kmart line because it will be more expensive and aimed at a more affluent audience. Perfect for outfitting her new line of homes.

The latest enterprise from Martha Stewart, Martha-branded homes, are finally being unveiled in North Carolina. The community, known as KB Home Twin Lakes: Homes Created with Martha Stewart (catchy) will open to the public this Sunday. Twin Lakes is the first of several communities that the two companies will create across the United States. The homes were designed to bear a resemblance to homes lived in by Martha Stewart in New York and Maine (only much smaller of course).   There are currently eight model homes and the community will eventually be home to 650 homes ranging from 1,500 to 4,100 square feet.  They are priced low $200s to the mid $400s.