 On her Christmas Day 2007 television show , Martha Stewart exhibited the nativity scene she made in pottery classes at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in Alderson , West Virginia while serving a 2005 sentence . She remarked , " Even though every inmate was only allowed to do one a month , and I was only there for five months , I begged because I said I was an expert potter — <unk> actually — and could I please make the entire nativity scene . " She supplemented her nativity figurines on the show with tiny artificial palm trees imported from Germany . 
