I didn’t want to have to be the one to tell you this, but March has almost come to a close. You know what’s next? We’re going to steamroll through April, freak out through May, scream through summer, then Christmas music starts.
It’s scary. Time is an unstoppable beast… unless you’re sleeping (but even then).
I think we should make time work for us this weekend. I think we should try to stretch every hour and every minute to its deepest point of relaxation. A time massage? Is that possible?
Maybe it’s a good weekend to get nice and cozy with a few of your favorite things… unless you’re like, a bridesmaid in your best friend’s wedding… in which case, NO COZY FOR YOU!
Here are some of my favorite weekend cozy essentials. Maybe some of these elements will inspire you to make some hot coffee, pull out the pretty stationary, flip through a new but forgotten cookbook, and just maybe… take a few moments to daydream. Also… there better be brunch. On the real, on the reg.
I’m revisiting The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook. It’s from famed Seattle restaurant dude, Tom Douglas. There’s a recipe for Hot Buttered Rum Apple Pie that has my name aaaallll over it.
I’m so smitten by this stationery from Minted. It feels so special to write notes on personalized stationary. I love this watercolor look. And this sweet monogrammed situation makes me feel fancy.
Also… am I the only dork that’s totally into stamping their handwritten letters with monogrammed wax!? Lettered stamps and sealing wax make letter writing sooo worth it!
Sometimes I receive gifts that I deem ‘too good to use’. Take this pretty turquoise journal. It’s leather-bound and utterly lovely. I’ve got it in my brain that no words I put together are good enough for its pages. That’s ridiculous. I’m taking pen to paper this weekend!
Have you read the book One Hundred Demons? If you’re a thinking and feeling woman in the world, I think you should read it. It’s a cartoon narrative (yea, I said that) about love and growth, awkward times and forgiveness. Lynda Barry lays it all out there.
Have some strawberries this weekend! In California they’re starting to get good.
Speaking of strawberries. I’m testing recipes for the second Joy the Baker Cookbook (it’s happening), and I’m going to nail a recipe for Strawberry Mascarpone Ice Cream if it kills me (which it probably won’t).
Lastly, let there be brunch. This Creme Fraiche Quiche was, and continues to be, THE BUSINESS!
I love you most sincerely. Enjoy your weekend time!
xo joy
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one hundred demons is the BOMB! as is that anthro journal. been waiting for months for it to not be nearly 30 bucks. setting my goals high.
Awww….the stationaries are all so cute! I used to collect them but I never wanted to use them =) I just stare at them or smell them and it makes me happy.
I am late to the party, but get it done Joy! Your stationary is fabulous and I am envious of your journal. I have already made a big batch of strawberry jam. Yum!!
I’m from Seattle and love the Dahlia Bakery, their shop in Belltown is so pretty and one of my favorite breakfast spots. Have you ever tried their maple eclairs? They’re fantastic! Have fun revisiting the book!
This mix is so lovely…
Not Only Sugar
That is such a beautiful journal and cookbooks are always a good read for me. Pretty stationery is always nice to write on and hear what the person you are sending it to thought of it.
Yeah, the time runs faster and faster though we are not on a race. We better enjoy every moment. But some times I hope I could stop the clock ticking and stay in that moment. And I like to try your creme-fraiche-quiche, look very delicious :)
Love, love, love this idea. Wish I had read it before Sunday night…. Thinking I’ll take a relaxing “weekend” one weeknight this week :)
All I needed to read was “strawberry marscapone ice cream”. Can I pre order the book now??
I’m so happy to hear that someone else out there uses wax to seal their letters! When I first used it, years and years ago, I got a few raised eyebrows from the receivers, lol.
I basically had the SAME experience recently with a journal. Tho’ it wasn’t super fancy cool, but it was there, blank, for years. Okay. So, I actually have about 3 blank journals. ish.
Recently read a list of things successful people do vs. not-so-successful, and they said the former regularly write in a journal, and the latter think about it, but don’t do it.
And I realized this journal was for me to write in. Or doodle in. Or blather aimlessly, or make boring-yet-useful-somehow-right-now lists. But it was NOT useful and did NOT contribute to the betterment of my life unless I USED it. =)
Glad you also got past that perfection hiccough.
I’m totally stoked about your next book, and happy you’re talking about it. And, yes, driving home from No. Cal. yesterday I passed a few stands with LUSH red strawberries just so OUT there and gorgeous. Hooray!
what a heartwarming post … love it … thanks … and please please please, never stop!!!!
Cool blog! I like this post! I greet:)
when i was a student, i was lucky enough to have a small apartment. WIth my best friends, we spent entire week end, on my bed, with chocolate and coca cola, reading lovestory books without wanting to get out ! Those will stay wonderful souvenirs.
The amount of excited that I am for your next cookbook is slightly overwhelming. Every single thing I’ve made from your first one is instantly the go-to recipe for that thing, and it’s all too delicioius for words. Also, you’re so sweet and funny that it’s just fun to read :). I may have a wee girl crush on you, hahaha.
So true! Time is flying by and we usually take it easy over the weekend. Spending more time doing things together, having a delicious long brunch and ending the day with a nice movie :)
Have a great weekend, Joy. Cannot wait for your next book!
I love anything and everything from Minted. It all makes me smile :)
Whatttt?!?! Second book?! So excited!!!!! Currently cooking your French Onion Soup Sandwich, couldn’t be more pleased, it’s a favorite fall back recipe for me :)
Also, I’m glad you love stationary as much as I do. It makes me happy. You’re wonderful!
that French Onion Soup Sandwich is a thing of beauty!
I never understand what you’re going on about, but some of the recipes you repost are good. love your friend Jill! She’s adorable.
what a rad comment.
SO happy to hear you’re making a second cookbook! I’m in CA too and have noticed the strawberries are pretty tasty already…what’s with that? Maybe cause we’ve had no winter whatsoever ;) Congrats on the second book!
we don’t have a solid grip on winter in CA. it’s true.
I have a signed copy of The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook, maybe I should thumb through it again..
Enjoy your weekend Joy!
Great stationary choices! I love them. I love stationary and handwritten notes and cannot get my 12 year old to embrace the concept, no matter how many types of cute, personalized stationary sets I offer up.
I love what you chose, and I think I will just make up for her stationary rejection by buying two styles for myself!
Thanks for the cookbook rec too, I will looking for it at the library at our next visit.
On a quest now for carrot cake brownie recipe and a tried and true coconut cream pie recipe (“tried and true” = cooked pudding with extra yolks). I’m checking your recipe index in a matter seconds.
Thanks for everything, Joy!
I think I am cooking and cleaning this weekend, but I think it counts as being a cozy time if I squeeze in a nap. mmmm, nap!
Yes there will be brunch. The best way to get through our not quite Spring weather is brunch.
Good Luck with your next cookbook. I bet it will be fabulous.
I’m so happy it’s the weekend!! And that stationary is beautiful :)
For the first time since October 2012 I can consider a “cosy weekend” and we might even light Brunhilda, our 4 oven wood burning behemoth of gorgeousness that is my constant companion right through our Tasmanian winters. The vernal equinox (my newfound best mate ;) ) just delivered us a healthy dose of rain, a whole day of it, that gave my dying garden back a bit of hope in the future and rendered me kittenish (a terrifying thing when you own 2 American Staffordshire terriers with cat phobias ;) ) and desperate to take up baking running after a WAY too long hiatus. I want to throw things whole into the oven…bugger it, I want to throw ingredients into the oven! I want kitchen smells again, I want soup simmering on the top of the stove while I bake gorgeousness in the form of bread in the oven. I want to master my sourdough starter and tame my kefir and get them harnessed together into some amazing sourdough cakes and most of all I want that feeling of bones being warmed, wet feet being slowly roasted back to happiness and the finality of what has been an overly long, dry “horribilia aestas”. Bring on the weekend I say! I have SO many plans but even if I just cuddle up next to Brunhilda with a good book and take up where I left off last year I figure I am ahead :)
i love what this weekend has in store for you :) I used to feel same way about cute stationary too now everything goes into note section of apple product- damn it. yay for your 2nd cook book :) have a great weekend Joy. You are awesome and now heading to your podcast.
I loved this post. Thanks for starting my Friday off right, Joy!
OMG. Just ordered that book! Thanks for the recommendation. I cannot wait. If you like that journal-y artistic style of writing, you must read anything by Sabrina Ward Harrison! She is amazing and so honest.
i’m a thinking caring woman in the world… thanks for the suggestion, i must read it! anything with pictures and written for adults is my kind of book! happy weekend! xo
I totally get what you mean about the pretty journal being “too pretty.” I used to do that too; but now I just go for it. And now I love that I have lots of pretty journals that are filled with my life’s journeys. Enjoy that thing, girl!
I’m in favor of all things cozy. That stationary is beautiful; great suggestion.
haha, i love that you jump from april to christmas. i do it too. six months of my life are going to disappear!! very excited for your second cookbook…ever since being introduced to the first through a friend, i’ve been excited.
AAAHHHH a mind break and massage, from your mouth to God’s ears!
I signed up for this subscription service for stationery lovers and a lot of what I get I deem too cute to use. Thanks for reminding me that things are made to be used- everything looks immaculate and spotless when it’s new, but it wasn’t made to be ogled and then put away- it’s made to be used.
I love-love-love sealing wax and stamps. You are not alone! :)
My weekend involves a small road trip with my best friend. Brunch… is happening. Probably twice.
After a very crazy February and a somewhat hectic first half of March, I am totally thrilled to have a low-key weekend almost to myself. Even with a couple of social commitments on the calendar, I am looking forward to a weekend of relaxation, rejuvenation and refreshment.
Here we go, weekend!!
This was so fun to read, exactly the sort of thing I like to think about on a Friday. It’s definitely wedding season around here with a shower next week and bridesmade duties the following but there’s gotta be a few moments to squeeze in a little downtime in between! Love this inspiration!
Mascarpone ice cream sounds delectable. Have a great weekend :)
I have that teal journal, and it’s gorgeous, gotta love Anthropologie! And yes I feel the same way, it’s too pretty to use, and I have to find the perfect pen for it’s pages.
I’m also into the whole monogram stamp and wax, even though I don’t have it yet. But if I did… haha. I’ve just gotten back into writing letter to people. So… refreshing in this tech happy world!
xx
Can’t.stop.staring.at.ice.cream.
Heh.
Joy you are just the best and I hope your weekend is wonderful! PS I’m over the moon that you are writing another cookbook! I LOVE your first one!!!
Oh Joy, my brother is getting married this weekend :-) I’m not a bridesmaid, but I am making the grooms cake, so no cozy for me! (Hm. I also have a needy, busy nine-month old, sooo never mind… :-) Fun post!! Love sealing wax!
Oh, man – I used those wax stamps when I was a teenager back in the late ’60s. I didn’t know you could still get them. I don’t get out much! lol
Thanks for bringing them to my attention – I think I’m going to have to place an Amazon order this weekend. :-)
My entire week has been dedicated to relaxing and doing nothing. (i’m on spring break, so it’s ok) Ive been so exhausted with school that I find myself waking up around 7:30 and just laying there starring at the wall for 30 minutes, unwilling to get out of bed. And I’ve been taking a lot of naps… and neglecting all my homework… I now have 5 pages of chemistry class homework, graphs and questions to answer for chem lab, two seconds of math, and 13 questions for physics…. whoops :P
Im excited for the new book to come out! :)
I sure hope my weekend includes brunch!
Congratulations Joy!!!!!!!!!!! I was just wish listing the Dahlia Bakery cookbook because you made it sound so good and then you sneek in there that there will be another JOY THE BAKER COOKBOOK!! Way better!! Can not wait but I will.
I’ll be working hard on my term paper and a school project this weekend, definitely need to massage time to work for me!
Hi there – I loved this post. I’m on travel for work and I’m only coming home for a few days before I leave again. But, this post made me relax and gave me some perspective. Maybe I’ll even cook and bake in the few days I have. Thanks.
Happy happy weekend. I have just baked your amazeballs carrot cake (cupcakes) from a while back. Fab start to my weekend right there!
I always love book recommendations. And I need to get some monogrammed stationary.
Great post! Thanks!!
The stationery is so lovely! Might have to place an order to Minted.
I AM A BRIDESMAID IN MY SISTERS WEDDING!!!! arrrghhhhhhhh. Im just starting to deal with this fact. The wedding is in June which I think means I still have time to have a cosy weekend before all the wedding-y stuff starts? time is definitely moving fast. just need to chill and relax. breathe breathe breathe….maybe making Joy the BAker cake will help :)
I love those wax stamps. Whenever I see them i feel like i’m time travelling to a far and romantic era. With all this dang technology, it’s nice to unplug and do the letter stamping and fancy journal writing. Hope you enjoy your weekend!
I’m away for work, waiting on the weather to know if we’re going out today or waiting another day.. somewhere in there I’ll be taking your advice and taking some time for me, even if it just means doing some yoga in the hotel room!
I used to have sealing wax and a seal like that, I’d love to find it! Does it cost extra to send mail with the wax on it (from the increased weight?)
Enjoy your weekend time!
oh so you have something of a stationary fetish too?! only last weekend i had a clear out, unearthing all manner of beautiful journals and papers that were ‘too pretty’ to write in! right, this weekend, i’m with you. taking pen to paper.
PS, i used to have a similar thing with my cookbooks, which, by definition is crazy. so now, i don’t keep my cookbooks on the shelf for ‘nice keeping’; i kinda like them well used smeared with buttery pancake mix on the edges :)
Time …..hmmm it drives me nuts, time to get the kids to school, me to work….I’m sure somewhere are Christmas decorations waiting for a September display….in love with your collections…..journals are my weakness ….enjoy the weekend relax, have brunch…..i was planning a yogurt granola thing for the kids on Sunday enjoy! ;)
A second cookbook on the horizon!? That has made my weekend!
Have a lovely weekend, and look forward to hearing more of this Hot Buttered Rum Apple Pie!
So glad to see ‘Minted’ mentioned here — love their stationary — and they’ve branched out into wall art now. Check it out everyone!
joy this post fits me to a t right now. After a week of trying to work through a cold I have finally realised i need rest. Some time being cozy is just what I need. Thank you and wishing you a lovely weekend too.
PS about to look up one hundred demons and tomorrow i think i’ll be looking for pretty stationery (we can never have too much surely!).
So happy to hear that you’re doing another cookbook! And – I love stationery – it’s one of my most favorite gifts to give and receive! Happy weekending!
Hurrah for the second cookbook! Have a lovely weekend Joy, I’m heading to your neck of the woods so I’m hoping for some sunshine!
I agree. I cannot believe that March is coming to an end…ALREADY! It seems like just yesterday, we just entered 2013..I was making the yearly resolutions to work out more regularly, to eat healthier, and to quit caffeine. Now look at me. It has been a month since I have gone to the gym, I had a burger twice this week, and I had two expresso drinks today. Time does go by way too fast. And it just goes by faster as we get older. It is the simple little things in life that make us happy.
The Strawberry Mascarpone sounds delicious. Good luck.
You are not the only monogrammed wax-stamping one! I got into it deep in my teenage goth-y days. It’s such an elegant and romantic thing…
I love that teal organizer. That is just so gorgeous!
I’ve had my hands on the Dahlia Bakery cookbook (and in my virtual shopping cart) many times but never bought it. I need to b/c recipes keep popping up that sound sooo good from it!
You call it everytime Joy. Am so going to be joining you brunch-ing it up and getting stuck into some old time-y pursuits.
Have a great weekend… and don’t let the mascarpone drag you down. You will nail that ice cream (and I’ll be looking forward to making it next summer!)
x Elena @ randomly happy
You call it everytime Joy. Am so going to be joining you brunch-ing it up and getting stuck into some old time-y pursuits.
Have a great weekend… and don’t let the mascarpone drag you down. You will nail that ice cream (and I’ll be looking forward to making it next summer!)
x Elena @ randomly happy
i love the molasses cookies in that book.