Two of my favorite things. Two of you. The Giveaway!
What do puppies with giant paws, foggy mornings, warm chocolate chip cookies and my bright, red spatula have in common? That’s easy… they’re just some of my favorite things in the world.
If you hadn’t already figured it out, you guys are totally up there on my list of favorite things… right up there with puppies with giant paws. You and your cute tea cup pictures. You with your kind comments. You with your thoughtful recipe questions. I just think you’re dreamy. I suppose that’s why it has become one of my new favorite things to give things to you… let’s do it again.
Two of you get two of my favorite things: an express shipped box of chocolate chip cookies made by Joy the Baker (for someone here in the US), or a brand-spanking-new, colorful spatula (going international, because Customs doesn’t like when I send fresh cookies).
All you have to do to win some of my favorite things is leave me a comment telling me where you’re from, and some of your favorite things. Seems fitting, right?
You’ve got until this Saturday April 11th at 10:38pm PST to get your comments in. That’s when I turn back into a pumpkin and pick the winners.
Also… I like you!
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I’m from Louisville, KY.
Some of my favorite things:
*an unnaturally large cup of presspot coffee and a good book on a rainy day
*Derby Week…everyone should experience it at some point
*my KitchenAide mixer
*gin and tonic with a lime
I am Elizabeth in California. My favorite things are:
1. Windy days
2. Cooked Onions( ok, I know that that is most likely not on people’s most people’s list)
3. A fresh baked cake
4. ice cream
5. chocolate chip cookies
By the way I really like you blog.
Hi Joy from my little ground-level apartment in San Francisco!
This is a good question.. It’s a nice way to start the morning!
I love loads of things.. Candles filling the house on a cold, foggy night, the smell of pumpkin pie rolling out of my kitchen.. Giggling with my friends on a road trip, Standing next to 20′ waves at a rocky beach in Northern California, Funky, bass-heavy music.. Yay. :)
Location – Central Alabama
1. Freshly cut grass.
2. Cookies baking.
3. Snuggling with hubby.
4. My lovely dogs.
5. The night sky.
I have a lot to be thankful for. Happy Easter and Passover everyone.
Hello!
I’m from the bay area, and my favorite things are:
-Sweet, ripe, melon
-Chocolate!
-Reading cookbooks/food blogs
-Chemistry!
-Food/Nutritional Science
-Fiction novels
-Traveling
I’m out in Westlake, CA, snuggled passed the canyons of Malibu.
My favorite things:
1. ) I love a nice homemade Iced Chai everyday.
2.) After being awakened by my 2 year old babbling gibberish at me until I give her a hug and kiss. Than she casually walks away.
3.) I love heading to the ocean…the smell of salt in the air, sinking my feet in the sand, watching my little one scoop sand from one bucket to the next.
4.) I have the biggest shoe fetish, I love looking for the most unique shoes online or random boutique stores in the LA area.
5.) I love baking….and indulging in other baking websites.
6.) I love photography, even though I can’t get a single good shot on my food website, I’m good at taking photographs at just about everything else for some strange reason.
7.) I love the tight strangling hugs my husband gives me because I get so annoyed and feel loved at the same time.
8.) I love listening to The Trashcan Sinatras “Drunken Chorus” song over and over again.
Hi Joy,
You spoil us, you really do.
I’m here is rainy London, and my favourite things, in so particular order – except the first – include such things as:
1) Watching my boyfriend do the crossword.
2) Listening to cricket on the radio.
3) Knitting with a purring cat on my lap, who chews my needles and plays with my yarn.
4) Baking, and then being able to share my baking with aforementioned boyfriend and cat (yes, cat, he’s a muffin-loving fiend!).
5) Reading and being inspired by amazing blogs (ahem, that means you!)
6) Dozing in bed on a lazy Sunday morning with a pot of coffee, a baked treat and the papers.
7) Strolling in the sunshine (when we actually get some)
8) Pub lunches that involve games of scrabble.
I could go on, and on….
Minneapolis, MN
I like . . .
1) Crisp fall days
2) Sleeping in and snuggling under the covers
3) Reading food blogs/cookbooks and thinking of new recipes
4) Reading trashy romance novels
5) Dim sum
Favorites
1) Lake Tahoe..
2) California highway 395 …
3) Black Lab Sally Ray….
4) Yellow Lab Bonnie Blue….
5) Venice Beach and ALL the crazies that make their way there…
6) Paradise Cove Malibu,Ca.
7) Breakfast
8) My daughter and my husband
I’m 12 and from Utah and my mom said I could do a list too…
In no particular order my favorites are:
+Rubik’s cubes (I can solve them)
+Watching movies (or internet surfing) when its raining outside
+Youtube
+The grunt my dog makes when I scratch her ears
+My homemade pizza
+Swimming
+Christmas morning
Hi! I’m from Atlanta, GA and these are a few of my favorite things…
My daughters
My husband
My dog
Homemade chocolate chip cookies (especially right now since I gave up chocolate for lent!)
1. My kids, Ethan and Kayla and my husband John
2. The smell of fresh bread baking
3. Baking new recipes and having them turn out perfectly delicious the first time.
4. Snuggling up with a great book in bed when the whole house is quiet.
5. The sound of rain on the roof before falling asleep.
6. A warm sunny day when I don’t have to work.
7. The local farmer’s market with all the wonderful fresh produce it holds.
I have a lot of favorite things so I will stop here. LOL
I have many favorite things…
Honestly one of my most favorite things is chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven – I cannot resist them!
Others would include a new book, trying a new recipe and having it be a success, a good hair day, a good laugh, my kids playing together and the conversations I overhear during that time, Christmas morning, coffee with hazelnut creamer, sharing something I love (a book, movie, tv show) with someone else and finding out they love it too. many more…
Oh Joy you know how to get the wheels turning… A list of my faves would include these 5…
1. Licking the spoon once my brownies are in the oven
2. Cuddling in the early AM with my boy <3
3. Christmas time with my fam!
4. Quiet time (everyone should have some everyday)
5. A hot cup of tea
Thanks for the wonderful giveaway :)
hello! i live in charleston, illinois. my favorite things:
- listening to music loud in the car on a sunny day
- the inside of my husband’s elbow
- photobooths
- going to dim sum
- planning out and taking vacations
- ice cream cones
- watching my husband play guitar
In the beautiful world of Berkeley, CA. These are a few of my favorite things (aside from brown paper packages tied up in strings):
1. Fresh baked bread with thickly spread butter
2. The smell and feel of warm laundry
3. Reading with a cup of tea and a bundle of blankets when the weather is grey and icky.
4. Hot showers after working out.
5. Running while listening to “This American Life”
6. Getting Sunday brunch with friends
7. Laying my head on my mother’s lap and just appreciating how lucky I am to have such an amazing family
these are a few of my favorite things…
1. baking with my new apple green kitchenaid
2. baking with my 3 year old daughter, kyri
3. spending time outside on a beautiful, sunny day
4. eating yummy berries in the summer
5. feeling this little baby move around in my belly…can’t wait to meet him!
1. My sons and my husband.
2. My home.
3. My extended family and my dear friends.
4. Food
5. Books
6. Listening to my husband play guitar.
7. Combining all my other favorite things…
Life is very good to me.
oh, goodness, if i have to narrow it down, i will do it to five (maybe six):
1. snuggles in bed with my 2 little girls, especially on a day when i don’t have to go to work.
2. my morning cup of coffee (my mother’s milk)
3. good conversation and laughter with friends.
4. roadtrip!
5. the smell of a newborn baby’s head.
6. and spring days in the garden and fall days taking drives through the vineyard, here in temperate northern california.
thanks for the yummy giveaway, we really our spoiled!
Hi from Tennessee! Here are a few of my favorite things:
1. Perusing cookbooks & blogs
2. Snuggling with my husband and little dog
3. Hugs from my son & his laugh
4. Good reactions from people who eat my culinary creations :)
5. Camping in the mountains in the summer
6. Conversations with good friends that stretch long into the night
From…so many places (moved 19 times in 32 years). Right now I live in Miami.
Favorite things:
-I love chocolate chip cookies too…when I don’t want to clean I preheat the oven and tell myself if I get done whatever it is I want to get done, I can bake some cookies (I keep rolled dough balls in the freezer pretty regularly…my butt can attest to this).
-My cuisinart – best invention ever
-Sleep (I have a 16 month old and sleep has taken on a whole new meaning in my life)
-Reading…I could read from now until the end of time.
-Pizza…I am a New Yorker mainly, and this is my comfort food. I could eat it in every form, every day.
-Reading blogs…LOVE YOURS! Keep going!
Emily — I’m from Montgomery, AL.
Some of my favorite things:
God’s Word -undiluted-
babies
monogramming
pedicures
learning to cook better for my family (my new favorite thing to cook is homemade Mac-N-Cheese with a homemade cheese sauce)
Hi Joy. First let me tell you that your blog is my fav. I check for updates every day. You are great! :) I am from Duncanville TX but currently live in North Carolina!
a few things I love:
Jesus Christ
music
concerts
baking
chocolate
movie theaters
taking pictures
reading
tea
laughing
children’s books
disney world
I’m from Cleveland, OH….a few of my favorite things are:
1. Baking and sharing my treats with friends. i love to test new recipes
2. Spending holidays with family and embracing family traditions
3. Sunshine (I’m from Ohio, we don’t see it 5 months out of the year)
4. Hugs
5. Chocolate
6. A good pedicure
7. A hike in the park
Eli(zabeth) from New Haven, CT
going barefoot
kisses on the forehead
blank journals
scribbling illegibly
fresh air
whispering conspiratorially
sunshine
hammocks
libraries
home-grown veggies
ocean breezes
Also, free Bagu bags from Joy!!! thanks!
I love new things, learning, great food and good writers. I like the way you write and do your blog. Thanks.
love: sleeping in and waking up to sunshine streaming through my window, collecting quirky mugs, chocolate-covered popcorn, wandering through farmer’s markets, spending hours and hours at barnes and nobles, writing in my journal, oversized cups of tea, baking while listening to relaxing music / seeing an empty plate that was just full of my treats (success!), hot showers, walking barefoot, having sunset-picnics at the beach, landing in LAX and seeing palm trees, taking pictures of every-day places and events, lower-case letters, watching indie movies with messages that make you ponder, snuggling, early-morning conversations with my mom over coffee / tea, peanut butter on bagels.
ps: thanks so much, joy, for an amazing blog. i am a huge fan, and look forward to all of your updates. i’m from long beach, now go to college in indiana, and reading your blog makes me feel like i’m home again.
Hi Joy,
My name is Josey and I live in the Greater Boston area but grew up in Nova Scotia.
-my sous chef, Tuckerman
-joythebaker’s blog
-paint chips
-chocolate milk
-the White Mountains of New Hampshire
-my Nana
-boxers
-peace
-christmas caroles
breakfast
my twin boys
my neighborhood
natural smiles
children laughing
the pictures on your blog :)
unexpected free time
good food
winning prizes!
Some of my favourite things are:
- hot chocolate on a rainy day
- your friends enjoying your homemade cupcakes
- finding a shirt that you’ve wanted….50% off
- getting flowers unexpectedly
- snuggling with my boyfriend, watching a movie
- fridays…because I know I can sleep in the next day
Hey there! I’m from South Florida and I love…
the color purple
mail
watermelon
classical music
books
dark chocolate
:D
I’m Lisa – going to school at Oxford, UK
I LOVE:
(1) giggly three year olds
(2) sweaty, wet runs in the rain
(3) undercooked buttermilk banana pancakes
(4) dirty dancing
(5) lakes. and oceans. especially when with siblings, cousins, friends.
(6) INTENSE card games
(7) corn fritters with maple syrup
(8) yosemite national park
Lieve dingetjes:
Lavender and orange tulips
Nebraska corn
The word and the treat “sprinkles”
Soft bedsheets, firm mattress
Songs by Otis Redding
My grandmother’s cast iron skillets
Wine, books, sunny terraces.
Hot pink nail polish
Showering after a jog
Bamkuchspitz (Luxembourgish chocolate cake pieces)
Hello from Keller, TX!
My favorite things are:
1. My orange tabby kitten, Daisy, who’s helping me type right now…
2. The smell of fresh baked bread.
3. My best friend, Amy, who’s a dental assistant in OKC, and who crazily waited til she was 40 to have kids!
4. My granddaughther (actually my hubby’s granddaughter – I’m not old enought to be a granny) Gabriella Grace who lives in Bremerton, WA
5. Shopping thrift stores on the weekends to find treasures!
6. The Oklahoma Sooners! My son just got accepted to OU and I’m so excited for him!
7. My daddy – even if I’m 43 I’ll always be a daddy’s girl….
8. JOY THE BAKER’S CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!
9. Troy Aikman
10. The number 12….
Dropping in from Miami, FL!
Things I love…
1) that there are an INSANE number of people responding to this post. Put a smile on my face
2) Sweet potatoes @ Publix fot 49 cents a pound… I’m gonna turn organe this week.
3) Exercise. Everyday… My day just isn’t right without it
4) Early mornings….. Love being up early.
5) Road Trips!!! Doesn’t matter where if I haven’t been there before..
Hi! I love your blog! :)
I am from Northern N.J.
and here are a few of my favorite things…
*cheesecake
*fuzzy, snuggly blankets
*laughing really really really hard
*hugs and kisses
*mojitos
*burt’s bees lip balm (the pomegranate one)
Hi Joy, I’m from New Jersey. Some of my favorite things are:
-the first cup of coffee in the morning
-having that cup of coffee on my porch in the summertime
-bookstores
-pen and ink drawing
-the internet!
Hi Joy :)
I’m Jenny, and I am from Grand Rapids, MI.
Some of my favorite things are:
The pure feeling of morning sunshine on my face
The sweaty endorphin high after a good, long run
The innocence of puppy kisses
Chocolate *anything*
kashi go lean crunch cereal with plain yogurt and strawberries for breakfast
my friends
a hot cup of tea on a cold winter night while it’s snowing outside but toasty inside
Hugs from loved ones
Cooking for my friends and the “first bite” moment when the food is a hit.
Thanks!
Jenny
I’m from Austin, TX
Here’s what I am currently obsessing over:
my new kitten Zorro
pistachio frozen yogurt with strawberries
playing bocce ball in the park
the smell of fresh lilies
citrus shortbread cookies from central market
vietnamese grilled pork sandwiches
a set of impractical but pretty florist measuring cups from anthropologie
listening to the newest from yeah yeah yeahs, metric, and peaches
reading robyn carr’s series
I live in Wyoming and my favorite things are:
*warm, sunny days (I grew up in FL)
*chocolate chip cookies
*peeps
*a clean house
*a good book
*a bubble bath
:)
~Morgan
Hi, I’m Deah from High Point, NC
Favorite things –
Really good chocolate
Local strawberries
Family dinners
high speed internet
sleeping late Saturday morning
Hi Joy, I’m Elissa from Seattle, WA.
Some of my favorite things…
- Red rubber rain boots
- Walking out of the library with a mile-high stack of cookbooks
- Stretching after a run
- The smell of cinnamon
- The first daffodils of spring
- Wednesdays (school’s short!)
- Riding in an empty bus with my music
- And… Your blog! (:
Hi Joy!
I’m Shani from Brooklyn, NY.
~I love CHOCOLATE! Dark chocolate, cakes, cookies,
~COOKING! Making others feel happy and comforted with my food.
~ The smell of a kitchen when i’m making cake.
~Walking through the farmers market in Union Square.
~Yogo Monster and Red Mango (original tart w/ strawberries and chocolate chips)
~My creativity…
~Puppies (that turn into big dogs. despise little barking dogs)
~A nice hot bubble bath with candles.
~ I love being HAPPY! I love being ME!!!! :o)
Hi
I live in Okinawa, Japan. Some of my favorite things are…
My babies laugh
Chocolate
Christmas
Baking on a rainy day
Running
Gulf Coast Texan…fresh basil, rain, rivers & lakes, kittens, hugs, good friends, these are a few of my favorite things.
My Grandchilren 3 of them!
the first hour of my morning, which is when i drink coffee and read food blogs
the way i feel after i exercise
hugging a baby
listening to my husband laugh while he’s in the other room watching a movie
caramel
Hi there-
Ricki here, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada (your polite, friendly neighbor to the north–and President Obama’s recent visit of choice–whoo hoo!).
Okay, so you’ve already got almost 600 comments (yikes) and I never win anything, but I’ll tell you anyway:
1) My sweetie
2) My two dogs
3) chocolate
4) tax refunds
5) sunny summer days
6) the smell of real pine trees
What a lovely giveaway! :)
I come from Reedley, CA. I live in Berkeley.
Favorite things?
Poppies, dark chocolate, tea with lots of milk, cooking for my friends, making very lemon-y meyer lemon desserts, new journals, used bookstores, mimosas with cheap champagne in the park, hedgehogs…and this blog :)
A few of my favorite things:
Hugs and kisses from my grandchildren
The smell of baking bread
The excitement of my dog whenever he sees me
A nap