Ten Pictures in TwoThousandEleven
So much happens in a year.
Full of days. Full of hours. Full of moments and opportunities. Full of choices. Full of beauty and grace. Sunshine and fog. Cookies and pie.
Here are some images of this past year… and here’s a big hiphiphooray for the days, hours, moments, and opportunities in front of us.
Heart United States. Heart your state. Heart this cottage by the beach.
Waiting for fried fish lunch in Malibu.
A super special lunch date with Tracy at Zuni Cafe, San Francisco.
One fine meal: Caramelized Mushrooms with Chive Biscuits.
Making Buche de Noels. A reason to be happy.
I love walking the streets of Brooklyn. It feels like romance every time.
Days in St. Louis glowed shiny grey. This is Rachel’s house. I wish I could climb up that porch and knock on the door everyday.
First football game. I was wearing a jersey. It got real real.
I ended the year with giant gems. A treat for myself… because I like to feel pretty.
I started this brand new year with a bunch of friends, a bunch of waffles, a couch out in the sun, and disposable plates.
Let’s ease on in to 2012. Let’s commit to making it great. Let’s be extraordinary… and have the pictures to prove it.
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I’ll cheers to that!
looks like you had a wonderful year. here’s to enjoying 2012 and living like there’s no…next year! hey, those mayans could be right i guess.
p.s. – i’m taking my first trip to san fran next week. eatery suggestions / must sees?
Happy New Year Joy! Great look back at 2011 can’t wait to see what you come up with in 2012!
Yayyy! It’s been quite a year, my dear. Thanks so much for sharing your awesome life with us, in all its cat-centric, sugar-sprinkled, adorably neurotic glory :)
xoxo
Christine
You did have a great year! These aren’t food related, but I love that Timex watch, and that Kate Spade (I think?) necklace looks fabulous!
Hope you ease into an incredible 2012!
What a year it has been! I am so glad I discovered your blog this summer; it has been truly inspirational! Thanks for all of the great recipes and for sharing your life with us, Joy!
I love your giant gems and that you and Tracy are such good friends. To have a friend like that is such a huge gift. To feel like you have that one special girlfriend who totally “gets you” and is always there for you is awesome and I hope everyone has that one friend.
Btw I was reading Saveur.com yesterday and saw that you were Best Baking blog 2011. Somehow I missed that and it was announced in like..July? So just a wee bit late, but congrats :)
It was a great year for your blog! Thank you so much for sharing your delicious recipes with us and for constantly being hilarious :) Cheers to 2012!!
Cheers to 2012!
I am fiending for your neck piece… Gawjus Joy! Happy new year!
I love your New Years bling! :) Here’s to a wonderful 2012!
I’m so excited you included a pic of my hometown in this post! I just visited St. Louis for the holidays and blogged about all the great things in it-but I forgot to mention the beautiful winter light there, it really is gorgeous.
Thanks for including StL!
…Amen that. :o)
…Love the bling – pretty! And I love the house in St. Lou’, so classic and beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
…Happy New Year! My hope is it will be a new year filled with love, happiness, prosperity, good health and COOKIES!
…Thank you for doing what you do and for being YOU! :o)
…Love to you & blessings too.
Thank you for this post and for this blog! I’m so very grateful I discovered your blog last February. I’ve tried lots of your recipes, and they are fabulous. But as a girl in her early twenties, half the fun comes from learning through the life that you share here how to live my own to the fullest. Happy 2012!
I hope you have a wonderful and exciting year Joy and give us lots to read and laugh about!
Happy New year l love it :)
Happy New Year Joy! I hope you will have fantastic and delicious year.
Happy New Year Joy! I want to tell you how freaking much I admire everything you have achieved this year! I love you for your baking, and your sweet voice, but I love you almost more for your business brain and creativity. I hope next year is as full of as many awesome things as this year was!
Jess
xoxoxox
What a wonderful year you have had!
Here’s to a crazy wonderful 2012 full of adventures and surprises!
A :D
Sweet :-)
Thanks for all you gave us in 2011, Joy the Baker. Looking forward to lots more recipes, style, and wisdom in the new year.
Cheers to a Great year ahead !
Hello Joy!
Happy New Year! Beautiful Kim Henneke-Singer from “Bluebirds and Butterflies” introduced me to your site! I looked around and I’m in love! Absolutely love the podcasts too! I’m a 50 something still working person who thinks she never has enough to time to cook or bake! Wow! “who knows” maybe you will inspire me to get in the kitchen again! After all, I made it prettier hoping that would entice me……
You are fun, witty and beautiful! You are a natual baker who makes it joyful!!!! Glad I found your site, next I need to get your book!
~Sandy
Happy New Year, Joy!!! Thanks for serving it up real REAL everyday with your generous SPIRIT and genuine GOODNESS! Your contribution to my virtual daily bread nourishes my HEART & SOUL. Thank YOU.
Happy New Year Joy!
Love the bling! Yes to photo proof of where I’ve been and where I’m going. And I’m going to blog like it’s my job. Mostly because I have this feeling that something big is going to happen this year, and I don’t want it to go unrecorded. I, too, started off my year with waffles – granted, they were from my favorite local diner, but man oh man, they hit the spot everytime.
HAPPY NEW YEAR JOY!!!!
Happy New Year Joy! “…and have the pictures to prove it.” That’s where I’m at this year with a renewed sense of wonder and curiosity and joy in an old love – photography.
Is the red table in Malibu at Malibu Seafood?? Love that place… Happiest of new years to you, Joy!
Wish ya great year ahead :)
This post has made me add another resolution to my list this year- take more pictures of “life”. I love how you creatively capture your little moments. I need to do the same :)
It’s amazing how much happens in a year when you really stop to think about it, isn’t it? Here’s to a fabulous 2012!
Happy New Year, Joy!! I look forward to what you have in store for 2012 – so very glad I found you!!
Thanks Joy!!! Happy 2012. Love the jewels.
Happy New Year! I don’t know what could be better than publishing your own cookbook but here is wishing you the best possibilites 2012 can bring you!
Those are really cool pictures. I love using Instagram too! I look forward to seeing more fun pictures from you in 2012. You are a talented lady and I’m sure you have much more up your sleeve!
I love your year in pictures. I too am looking forward to a great 2012!
I love this idea! I’m definitely going to try to take more pictures this year with this in mind. Happy 2012, and here’s to more friends, pie, and travelling!
Gem necklace from kate spade? I work there – looks like one we have :)
Lovely pictures. Makes me nostalgic for San Francisco. I grew up in Sausalito at the other end of the GG bridge but SF was my playground. Sunshine and Fog. Yes. :) Thank you for sharing these.
Joy thank you for delivering your special type of magic through your gorgeous blog….I look forward to more reading in 2012!
Happy New Year! Its gonna be great!
happy new year doll!
Happy New Year Joy!!!
Looking forward for new recipes and new stories!!! :) You always make me laugh!!!
Oh that’s Beauchamping’s print, States United! http://www.etsy.com/shop/beauchamping?ref=pr_shop_more
Might even be his house, too!
oh my goodness!!
Awesome pictures, my fav probably waiting for fried fish in Malibu. Anywhere you would recommend?
Take care..
Happy New Year! Thanks for a 2011 full of great recipes and stories!
Happy New Year! Your year looks like it is off to a great start and last year looks like it ended well. Congrats!
Happy New Year, Joy!
the more you yell at a football game… the more fun it is/the more respect you get from the hardcore male fans around you. you’re doing it right if you have no voice the next day :)
Yes, we should all try. To be extraordinary. We should all be. Extraordinary. Sorry: we all ARE. Extraordinary.