Last week I offered you a beautiful Breville mixer as the grand finale to the November giveaway.
I made you work for it though… right?
I asked you to send me a picture of you with your favorite kitchen tool and daaaaang! You really like to show off!
Your beautiful faces absolutely lit up my inbox.
So bright. So shiny. I just had to share.
Some of you are really into your whisks. I get it. I think my whisk is pretty excellent.
Look at these faces. I wanna kiss you all… in a totally normal way.
Coffee! Totally important. I feel ya.
Nice mugs.
That sounds like a boob joke, but it’s not.
Silpats are totally handy.
So are hands. You so clever.
Ps. I’d really like one of those pretzel sticks please.
Um….
….um….
Dudes read this blog!?
Now there’s proof.
Weird.
Hello gentlemen. Um… I feel shy. Sorry about all the pink and kitten pictures?
Ladies and their knives. Fierce.
Now…. Let me interrupt this love fest to say that… well, if you don’t see your picture here, it’s not because I don’t think you’re beautiful and talented… it’s just that there were aaaaaaaa lllllooooootttttt of pictures to process and not nearly enough hours in the day. Stay tuned for more surprise pictures in the future.
You guys really like your fancy pans. Super swell.
Ps… Nice winter hat in the kitchen.
I love my microplane too! Mine usually smells like orange zest or nutmeg.
Whatever.
I wish I could use my microplane as a nail file but that would be weird and gross. Ew. Nevermind.
Pretty Pretty Apron Ladies. I wanna cook with you.
These rolling pin shots made me laugh. You ladies seems serious.
Also… I’d like some chocolate. That has nothing to do with anything.
Look at you and your mixers. You look so happy!
And finally! You boozers are my kind of women. Wine in the kitchen. Highly suggested. Invite me over, pretty please!
Thank you for your smiling faces. You turned the Internet into real life. That was pretty rad of you. I wish I had a thousand mixers to give to all of you.
Jennifer! I have some major news.
You and your turmeric spoon won a Breville mixer.
Major!
Congratulations! It’s a very good day.
C
I think the the that surprises me the most about this post is that I actually recognize a few of these people from, like, real life. Crazy. It’s a small internet after all, I guess!
C
*the thing
Val
I’m surprised so many women are “surprised” by all the men that read this blog! My husband loves reading food blogs. This is his favorite one. He’s a great cook and picks up many delicious ideas from the food blogs he reads. He even sends me links asking what I think. Maybe some of you have a secret chef in your household just waiting to be discovered!
joythebaker
that’s pretty precious!
Karl
Another dude representing!
I’m the guy in the striped sweater (why is it crooked) and I am THRILLED to be on Joy the Baker’s blog!
Now I’m looking forward to making those brownies with pretzels….thanks Joy!
Hettar7
You are so awesome for compiling all those pictures into the montage images. It must have taken forevers! It was really neat to see what other people took their picture with. Thanks for sharing.
sher
LOVE the pictures! And I got quite a chuckle at all the “I’m-not-a-winner-but-I’m-famous-cause-my-pic-is-posted-on-Joy-the-Baker” comments!
I always enjoy the positive vibes I get here…bubbly talk, great food and wonderful interaction by all who come here. Thanks, ladies…and gents, too…mustn’t forget them now that we know they exist! lol…
Ruby N.
WOW! That. Was. Fun. Congrats to Jennifer. Thanks Joy, for making November so much fun!
Noelle
This has got to be the funniest post I have read. I loved the fact you featured many of these photos. I laughed at the fact that you realized that guys read your blog. Amazing!
Then the ones with the rolling pin was more hilarious! They look like they are ready to hurt someone. :D
KT
Devastated I didn’t win the mixer but I am beside myself giddy that my pic made the blog!! I mean, I look to next to me and there I am all excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the coolest EVER!! I can’t imagine what will happen if I actually win something!
marixxa
sniff sniff, didnt get to send a pic coz I was too busy baking mini-cakes for my godson’s party.
love viewing all the pics though, awesome idea :) I am still wishing I was there…**hubby is trying to make me feel good by saying, “there will be next time”**
congrats to the winner, love the spoon :)
Phoebe
Looks like I found your site too late to win that beautiful mixer :( Love your place, it’s homie, I will definitely be back for a visit :)
Teale
Congrats to Jennifer! Ooh, hey- that’s me! One of the serious women, armed and dangerous! When a woman wields a rolling pin, people tend to listen. It’s not just my favorite tool, it’s my exclamation point!!!!
Carol Adams
Joy!
We were all winners!!! Our moments of fame on a blog…
You stinker…I thought only you would see them!
Genius idea, tho!!!
Love it! YOU ARE AWESOME! and I’m a loser!!!
retro sweets
Love the pictures even if I’m too late to join and the contest has expired. Love the ladies with knives! And a microplane as a nail file? You should watch “The world’s Fastest Indian” to see what Anthony Hopkins did to his nails.. :) Most refreshing post today. :)
Deb in Indiana
I’m glad to see that I am not the only woman whose picture with her favorite knife looks more like Kathy Bates in Misery than it looks like any respectable cook. (http://heartymagazine.com/blog/ladies-of-scary).
Maybe I should have worn a pretty apron…?
Lucila
This is exactly why I love your blog. For me this is the best cooking blog ever. You bring your charm to everyone. Look at those pretty faces! Congrats to the winner and kudos to you Joy! Um yeah and the guys collage… yum!
John
Dudes represent! By the time I got to the collage with the guys I was starting to think to myself, “my god, I am the only guy that reads this blog.” Nice to know that I’m not alone. My wife definitely doesn’t mind that I hang out will all these women; she gets cake in return. Who can argue with that?
Amy W
Umm…. helloooooooooo BOYS! My name is Amy, I like cooking. You must like cooking too? I’m totally single…
I mean… no, Joy, I am NOT using your blog as a dating service…
Jacob
As one member of the silent male audience I’d just like to explain that your writing style is great fun to read, your food choices spectacular (and craving inducing) and your outlook charming… Regardless of one’s preferences towards pink and kittens. :)
Carissa
I have news for you. It’s revolutionary. It’ll change your life. Microplane makes foot files. Have you died yet? Just wait till you try it.
PaulaMc
Hooray for kitchen tools! I love those photos. :-)
Lynn Brown
Congrats to Jennifer! and I am excited for my blog debut, not maybe I can get motivated to start on my own blog like I have been wanting to. (I am the silly girl with my ebelskiver pan!) Love, love, love it!
Lynn Brown
I had to share, I finally started my food blog!! woo hoo!
The PCOD Chick
So cute! How I wish I was in the States.
Winnie
Hilarious and oh so much fun! Well done to all, wonderful post Joy!!
Lilianna Grace
What a fun and creative post! I really enjoyed reading it :)
Shannon
This post makes me so happy! I think I know some random ladies in the pictures (like maybe someone from high school?) who I haven’t seen if like forever. Plus you’re rocking a pic of me and another of my cousin. Joy- you rock for uniting all us baking fiends!
Abby
i might have told my entire job, facebook AND twitter that i was on J the B! : ) i didn’t win (which i knew haha) but this made my whole DAY. thanks Joy!!!
p.s. i’m the extra happy one with the microplane over her nose haha
Ashley
Go Team Silpat! So fun to see myself on my favorite blog!
Jennifer P
I didn’t win, but who cares because my pic is on joythebaker. I’m famous!
Shelley
I write about women of our grandmothers’ generation whose most advanced kitchen tool was a wooden spoon, but your collage is the happiest bunch of bakers I’ve seen in a long time.
Jennifer @ Licious Food
Congrats Jennifer! Loved seeing all the Joy Followers – too cute!
Nicole @ The Dirty Oven
After this week…you just made me smile…really smile. Thank you!!!!
Catherine
If I am going out of town to see friends and know I’ll be cooking, I actually take my whisk and a cookie scoop with me! Based on all of the entries with a whisk, I am not the only one who likes my kitchen gadgets! Congrats to Jennifer. Thank you Joy for continuing to do a great job on your blog.
Cristella
Congrats to Jennifer! I’m in the gang of people who were just thrilled that their picture was up on joythebaker! I’m also happy (and not surprised at all) that I look like the most caffeinated person in the coffee people group of pictures.
Jessica @ bake me away!
Congrats, Jennifer!! This is such a fun post. Love how all the pictures are organized by gadget!
p.s. I’m the unhappy looking girl with the mixer…sad because it belongs to my roommates! ;)
Mariya P
Congrats to the winner! Great collage, Joy!
Amy @ Serve At Once
Congrats, Jennifer! Oh, and Joy, you know you’ve hit the big time when you’ve got dudes on your blog.
Just sayin’.
Catherine
Aweome pictures Joy!! :) You have soo many fans and followers!!
Natasha @ Saved by the Egg Timer
Oh I love all the men that sent in! Congrats to Jennifer, so jelous :)
Rachel D
Adorable! Congrats Jennifer enjoy that mixer.
I am excited my picture made it on a collage:) Thanks Joy, keep rockin’.
Lina
Wow- looks like a lot of people entered! Congrats, Jennifer! XP
I’m sort of baffled by how everybody, for the most part, chose the same tools. Whyyyyy?
If I had entered, I would have taken a picture of either my man cookie cutter… Just sayin’. It’s shiny and it is fun to eat human-shaped cookies. Heh. Shiny.
Miss
My picture was on Joy the Baker! How cool is that, even though I didn’t win. Great giveaway congrats to the winner.
Lisa R.
Congratulations to Jennifer, what an awesome giveaway. I love this post too, how cute are all these pics???
PS: That is cool that guys read your blog. Makes sense, it’s the best blog out there.
Simona
I’m with Ali, totally loving the rolling pin behind the head. I think I’ll incorporate that into my yoga routine….
DessertForTwo
What a cute post! I’m sure it took forever to collage those photos together but the end result is so worth it!
Don’t stop the pink and kitten photos just for boys–they’re not worth it! More kitten photos, please :)
Cheryl
Fun post!! I was thinking, though … maybe all the guy pix were just those gals favorite kitchen tools! Their sweet, significant others are their best kitchen helpers! I know mine (my hubby) is! :)
Amber
Amen! Washer, peeler, chopper, bartender… ;p all in one! Plus, upper body strength makes a wicked stiff peak! ^_^
Celia
I didn’t know men read this blog either-wow! Congrats to the winner! Great giveaway and I enjoyed seeing the pictures people sent in-the money thru the grater is funny. I’m glad you were not corrupted by it!
Ali @ Three Baking Sheets
I love that pic of the girl holding the rolling pin behind her head. It’s such a casual I’m-getting-ready-to-roll-some-ill-shit pose.
KT
That is soooo funny. But you’re exactly right!
Georgia @ The comfort of cooking
Ha ha, never seen a bunch of girls looking so happy with their mixers. Congratulations to Jennifer, and thanks, Joy, for sharing this fun post!
Stephanie H.
Yay, congrats to Jennifer. I’m just happy my photo’s somewhere up there. :D
Rebecca W
Congrat Jennifer, I am jealous! Funny pictures, totally funny to see my face!
We love you Joy!
andi
Congrats to lucky Jennifer !! My daughter and I just love..love..love.. your blog….I was getting a little alarmed that there were no “older” ladies beautiful faces…then wahoo…I saw some !!..how great that the men love your site !!
Sasha @ Global Table Adventure
What a fun idea! And.. wow… look at all those dudes! :)
shay
Congrats to Jennifer! Totally jealous BUT also happy to be in the gallery of kitchen lushes lol. Woop woop! Nothing like a glass o to get the baking started! :)
Merry Christmas!
Julia
Congratulations Jennifer! And love to all my fellow knife-crazies!
TSMOM
Totally jealous but congrats to Jennifer and thanks for making my day! The photos are great!
Julie Anne Rhodes
Congratulations to Jennifer! LOVE, the way you put all the pic collages together – what program do you use to do that?
LatondraS
That’s me in the very first pic! Congrats Jennifer! Can I come use your new mixer? Cool, thanks :-)
Alison
Great post, Joy! I would have submitted a photo, but it would have been me and my mixer… so I figured I best sit this contest out.
Congrats to the winner!
Robbie
Haha! That was fun! And funny!
Congratulations to Jennifer and her yellow spoon!
Hey Joy! What’s in store for January?!! =)
Sonia
Meow….
She deserves it. Nicely done.
David
Would love to see what Jennifer said about her yellow friend.
Corrina
Congrats Jennifer!!
Linnea
Awesome Post!
Everyone looks so fun!
Mia Dube'
Congrats to the winner!!!!!! I hope she makes something fun with it! Thanks for sharing the pics too, such fun and put a smile on my face this morning……..thank you!
Courtney
Hey, that was my friend! Kissing MY microplane! I think there is something going on in the kitchen behind my back…
michael
That’s hilarious
Rebecca in STL
These photo collages are awesome, and they must have taken you forever! Humans are just about the weirdest, funniest creatures. How we ended up at the top of the food chain I will never know.
jenni
Some cute dudes read your blog. Nice work, Ms. JTB!
Amy Reynolds
YAY….I love all these pictures! Congrats to the winner!
Natalia - a side of simple
These pictures are awesome :) Congratulations Jennifer!
Vanessa
What a fun post!
Katie
Hahaha…I loved this! Congrats to Jennifer!
I
If you look carefully, you can see the top of my dog’s nose looking up at me with my rolling pin (I’m the one in the upper right of the rolling pin collage). He’s pretty sure it’s for chewing on.
Sushi Girl
Hahaha! Love that Tumeric Spoon won! :D Wish I had submitted my pic in time. Fun pics to look at too!
*love*
Cristina
Loved this! Congrats Jennifer!!
Michelle
Totally jealous, but yea Jennifer!!!! Thanks Joy…..November was so much fun!
Jennifer
Thank you sooo much, Joy! I can’t hardly wait to try out the mixer!! Love these pictures of people posing with their kitchen utensils!
Katie (The Boston Marathoner)
Amazing!! Love the photo collages. And male readers? Equally amazing.
CarolinaGirl
Congratulations Jennifer, enjoy your mixer!
heather
Most excellent photo round-up — gave me a good chuckle this chilly morning! Good to fall into a category with other smiling faces. Congratulations to Jennifer!
Cheers,
*Heather*
Kylie @ A Hungry Spoon
How cute! I love all of the picture collages you made–it must have been a blast to go through all of our goofy shots :)
Congrats to Jennifer, and thanks for hosting the giveaway, Joy! What an awesome holiday treat :)
Emily
That tumeric spoon is hilarious! I’ve had spoons like that before.
Jen
Congratulations to everyone who won during the November Giveaway!
And many thanks to Joy and the contributors! I’m sure we all had a blast regardless of whether we actually won something.
Becky
What a great way to start the morning….happy faces and their beloved kitchen gadgets! What a treat it must have been opening each picture :)
Rebecca A E
This made my morning, congrats miss thang !! SO many special pictures. Love it.
maggie
Haha, I feel famous (and like a lush since I’m one of the corkscrew people). I hope you have more giveaways like this – it was a fun way to enter!
kendra
These photos are all so great! Congratulations winner! Thanks for the awesome giveaway Joy!
Shawna
That was fun! Thanks for sharing! There are some serious cooks out there!! :) And some handsome ones too!!!
Tonya
Congratulations to the winner! I love the all the happy cooks faces! A most fabulous entry!
Cathy B. @ Bright Bakes
wheeee! I love this…so cute to see the “faces behind the comments” :)
love,
CATHY B. @ BRIGHTBAKES
A
I really like grating ginger with my microplane. Why does it work so so much better than a grater?
Sorry I didn’t send a pic. I already have a mixer I love and I didn’t want to deprive some poor mixerless soul of one. Love the pics though!
the salty girl
This was such a fun post to read!!!! Congrats to the winner!!!!
Stes
LOVE love LOVE the compilation of pictures!
Silvia
Beautiful photos, but the turmeric spoon ist just great, funny the way turmeric stains everything in its way, but who doesn’t love turmeric?
Mama Maria
Joy,
You are so dang cute! (Clever too!)
Thanks for the smiles, entertainment, & recipes!
Love ya like a sister. :D
Hannah L. (Hannah Lives)
I am totally famous now!
Thanks for sharing all the fun photos Joy!
Lindsay Snyder
Great giveaway! I do confess I was holding my breath all day, so glad to find out that at least a winner was named, thanks for being on it! And it was super fun to see my face pop up on the top of this page!
Kelly
This is fantastic! Congrats to the winner! :)
Laura
Those photos are hilarious XD Go Jenny!