UPDATE! We have a winner!! Katherine of Miceli Fitness! You won the Back to School Giveaway. Thanks for being lovely!
It’s time for a treat!
I’m moving towards September kicking and screaming. I’ve been moving towards September kicking and screaming ever since I realized that the first day of school is completely bunk. On the first day of school, my mind was always a mishmash of… Which pair of overalls am I going to wear? Where is my dang locker? I’m really not fit for this AP Biology class! Someone tell me why all my girlfriends are making out with boys this year! I can’t go out tonight,I’m watching X-Files alone in the dark. Seriously, it’s cool.
I was a late bloomer. I got cooler in my early thirties (um… this year). By cooler I mean that I’ll wear slippers at the grocery store if I dang-well want to.
Thank goodness my school days are over. There’s still something about September that gives me the jitters. The tides are changing to Fall. Let’s work with the change. Let’s treat ourselves.
I want to send you a box of some of my favorite things.
I wrote a cookbook and I totally want you to have it! The Joy the Baker Cookbook is in the gift box!
We’re going to need some actual school supplies: fancy pencils, clever and colorful Washi Tape, a planner for your plans, hello hello bookmark tabs, and a capsule letter.
Oh! And Mentos. Yea…
We also need to be clever cute.
I’m obsessed with red and pink nail polish fingers. They know how to work, be playful, and chic. Ps. I know nothing about being chic. I’m BS-ing you.
Straws too! We’re still on this paper straw bandwagon, and I want you to have some.
I want one of you to have this fun-times Back to School Gift Box! Giveaway is open to readers domestically and internationally. In return, I’m asking you to share the love (and cookies). Share a delicious cookie recipe with your friends on Facebook. Throw some life tips to your friends on Twitter. Email your mama a cake recipe you’d like her to make. Anything! And don’t forget to leave a comment on this post between now and Friday. Giveaway ends August 24th 2012 at midnight PST. A winner will be randomly selected using random.org.
Overalls on. Head up.
Get it? Got it? Good!
xo.joy
Natália Valente
Shut up!! This is so cute! Plus, everybody loves mentos ;D
Kristi
Awesome giveaway Joy!! You are the best. :)
Mia
This giveaway looks great! I so want your book, and the school supplies look fabulous- especially washi tape, which is a bit hard to come by down under :)
Sam
Yes please! Starting grad school and could use a nice change from all my boring binders and book.
Elise Trumpeneers
OH NO! It’s already closed! :'( I hope you still read this though.. I live all the way in Europe, Belgium. It’s a tiny country above France :) This giveaway was so perfect, because i’m starting my senior year in highschool and I still need to buy all my school supplies! lol! I would’ve been way more excited about your cookbook of course, because I can’t get my hands on it here in Belgium..the only way is through amazon, but the delivery costs are waaaay too much. It’s a shame :( Well, I can only hope for another giveaway I guess.. Love YOU Joy! Hugs and kisses from BE! xxx – Elise
Jennifer
Just gave my little sis some advice on boys, probably useless because I don’t know what boys her age are like now but we’ll see.
Susannah
What a great giveaway. I love you Joy!
Laura
What a great giveaway!! Although I’ve graduated, I always love the “back to school” atmosphere!
Shar
You’re so inspiring Joy! I know this is chosen by random.org but I would really like this stuff as I am entering college. Totes love!
Donna
All very classy things a girl needs for her first day of school (college, for me)!
Ping
I know I’m past the date for the giveaway… :( Would have so much loved to get my hands on this giftbox! Looks lovely!!! Am an over-aged student… Have to find a day to go cook for a friend who got injured in an accident a month or so ago.
Rachel
Aww, this looks so nice! I just got through a catastrophic first week of college… and now I will make Biscuit Cinnamon Rolls for my new roommates. Mmmm, cinnamon. Thank you for always having lovely posts to distract from evil things… like speeches.
Sarah
This is my first time ever not having to buy school supplies for an upcoming year! I miss it!
Alisa
Haha! I love that the Mentos were included. :) Those paper straws are also super cute!
Tina Johnson
I love love love school supplies!
Kristin
My favorite part about school starting was always getting and organizing new supplies! And the smell of a new backpack. With all of my new things in it.. Yeah.
Kerianne
Thanks for the giveaway!
Rachel
Hi, I made your nectarine cobbler the other day amazing! Currently dreading the start of term, I’m an embroidery student heading for my final year but all I really wanna do is bake!!!!!! Xxx
Selena
I always loved getting school supplies too!! I did buy some crayons to donate recently and I just sat and smelled them for awhile…mmm, crayons…
Emily S
I miss back to school shopping so much! It was almost better than Xmas : D
Deb in Indiana
This is my daughter’s last year of school — I would be thrilled to be able to pass this on to her (perhaps, minus the cookbook…).
Lindsay
Such a great giveaway!!
Martha
a treat and a half!!! this would definitely calm my totally-not-cool-with-going-to-uni state of mind this september!
mollysusie
The *only* good thing about going back to school were the new supplies! Now back to school means, to me, being able to go on vacation without all these damn kids all over the place! Thanks for the giveaway … it’s pretty fabulous!
Marina
my boy is starting kindergarten this year so i had to buy school supplies for him – such a weird feeling!
Theresa Queen
Cookies are sweet,
Bakers are wise,
I hope I’m the one,
To take home the prize!
Sini
Um… Look at all those comments o_O 1,820. Well, that’s a few. I would say celebrity status, Joy ;)
Jenn
Oh no! Am I too late? I’ve been on vacation and am just getting caught up now! :(.
Steph
Overalls, got it. :)
Mallory
You always have the best giveaways. I’m a teacher this year, not a student, but I still have the back to school blues.
Lauren
I love how handpicked this giveaway is! It’s all the best parts of back to school!
Melissa
Wow! I’m excited about this giveaway (and always about your blog!). I hope I’ll be the lucky winner – especially of your special cookbook! Will definitely be baking up a storm this next season and onwards!
Kim me aster
Bouquets of freshly sharpened pencils!
Melissa
Spreading the love – always! I really hope that I can be the lucky winner!
Melissa
Back to school – back to reality! This give-away items will make reality so much sweeter! Thank you, Joy!
Melissa
I live in the Southern Hemisphere and we are also getting ready for an exciting season – Spring!! I can definitely see myself indulging in these items during this new season!
Melissa
Thanks for the cool, inspiring giveaway I hope I’m the lucky winner!
Melissa
This is such an exciting giveaway, buy a blogger who never fails to get me excited about food and life in general! Thx!!
Melissa
Thanks, Joy, for making me excited about baking, and even in this case back to school! You’re indeed an example of somebody who spreads love everywhere!
Melissa
Yay – such a cool giveaway! I love stationery and being organised, although things still sometimes slip through which I forget about. I do think these goodies will help me in that department. :-)
Alanna
I started my second year of law school and I am still obsessed with buying school supplies! I just bought a penguin flash drive!
Renee Martinson
Joyous! I love everything about this post! Inspired to paint some flashy nails and share some cookies with my office mates! Working on a yummy oatmeal cranberry recipe and will share with my fellow baker at the office. Cheers to September: filled with little books to write in and fabulous scarves!
Giovanna
I only like September because of the exciting potential of new school supplies, even after x-number of years out of school! Your posts always cheer me up – so thanks. – and now I’m off to share recipes and watch ‘The Court Jester’!
Archer
Hi JTB,
I would love to win. I shared some life advice on twitter this week. My twitter handle is archerfriendly.
anne
back to school already?! yikes, i am soooo behind! i did make cookies today, though. filled with trail mix, so they’re healthy-ish.
rachel
Back to school means pumpkin cookies. So good!
Nicki
I need more cookies in my life. And also washi tape…I’m on a mission to find out what the heck that stuff is.
cara
Hi Joy, i love you blog and am making the cinammon bread this weekend for the kids. yum!
Helle Hang
I love fall and all the back to school excitement! That’s probably because I’m a huge geek :). I’m sending recipes to my boyfriend almost on daily basis while I’m in US and he’s home all alone, just to feel connected cause we love to cook together!
Kathleen
I actually just sent my mother a bunch of recipes for a Spanish themed dinner party. She emailed me back a picture of the prettiest grilled paella and it really made me long for home again. This giveaway would definitely help though!
Grazie,
-Kathleen
Madison
I’m in college and I still feel like a first grader when September rolls around. But I’m thinking the new fun school supplies might help with the jitters. :)
Lakshmi
On my way back to school (college) on Sunday. Haven’t even begun to prepare for this next semester.
Ashley
Would love to share this with a friend!
Lauren
Not quite back to school here in the southern hemisphere, but adorable stationery supplies are appropriate any time of year, right?
Julia Eckart
Planners always help. . especially with AP US History every other day :) And those straws would be handy for sipping chocolate milk while studying for finals. . You really know how to prepare!
Darlene
aww I miss getting school supplies… not really missing school though :)
veronica
have the book already but these are so sweet! i have someone in mind to share with…thanks for the fab giveaway!
Joy
Dear Joy!
I have always loved that we share the same name – a name my mom always told me to make sure I live up to. I must say, you definitely live up to your name. You bring great joy to so many people, in so many ways! Thank you for brightening my life with your blog – not only your amazing and delectable recipes, but also your lovely, witty, warm, reach-out-and-touch-you style of writing. I look forward to checking your blog – always eager to read what you wrote that day. You always make me smile. So thank you – for the recipes, for sharing your beautiful self with us, and for living up to your name. :)
Karen White
Fall always makes me feel like I’m going back to school. And actually – I always seem to be. That’s okay though. It’s cool.
Ruth
I would love to win your cookbook! :)
Nina R
I love these back to school treats! I just started back to school (teaching!) and these would be a great 1st week pick me up!
MJ
Awww this is the best! I want it :)
Deepshikha Das
Back to school supplies are fun :) Going back to highschool soon :)
Deepshikha Das
Back to school supplies are fun :) Going back to highschool soon :)
Madison
back to school shopping isn’t quite the same in university but fun nonetheless! and colourful supplies is always more fun!
Krista
Great idea! I am going to send a little package like this to my sister!
Ariel
I’m picnicking with my friends tomorrow and sharing chocolate chip cookies with them. Would love to win your back to school giveaway! Back to school in a couple weeks for my Masters degree.
Pamela Howell
This is a great gift bundle!!!! Even if it is inspired by the first day of school……blah :(
Kenzie
Joy I made a recipe from your cookbook today: Oatmeal Raspberry Ginger Scones. The box-grater tip was GENIUS and I can’t believe I’ve never used that before :)
KarenPerry
Actually kind of sad I’m not going back to school anymore! Well, college anyways! I loved college…
Jenn from HealthiFood.blogspot.com
I love not being in school anymore!
Amy S.
Why am I so in love with those stripey pencils???
<3 <3 <3
summer light
this is so awesome!! seriously such a great giveaway!!!
Erin
Oh joy, you’re so dang cute!! Love your blog.
Steffi
ooh this is such a lovely idea of you, and i do love the idea of sharing favorite recipes with my friends. shall do! maybe i just need to de-lurke in general, as sort of inspired by your awesome excuses and coming clean with them ;) thanks, Joy!
Helene Mahnken
I told facebook about my favorite cake :) Love this giveaway! So much awesome.
Mitzi
I start teaching classes again next Tuesday and alcoholic class recovery drinks would taste awesome with the straws. The rest of those goodies look wonderful! Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!
Kate
Love love love.
Those bookmarks are tots adorable.
Ashley A
I’m going to be waiting for my new french door refrigerator and new washer and dryer to be delivered to the house my fiance and I just bought! (Whoo first time home owning; boo everything that needs to be purchased.) Oh yeah, and unpacking, but that’s less fun.
Jaylee
Super cute stuff!
This post inspired me to send my boyfriend’s mother the recipes for my favorite cake and frosting. We’re doing a recipe exchange! It’s exciting and surprisingly nerve-wracking.
Amanda Todd
How much fun! I stumbled upon your site today, figuring out how to make my own brown sugar. AND I am just in time to try and win this give away! Fun! Fun! Fun!
Sonia
If September means adorable stationery and chocolate cookies, count me in!
Amber
ooooh! so much pretty! Thank you! Your book is on my wishlist!!!
spicegal
I love stationery! I love planners and pencils! They make very very happy.
I like baking cookies and cakes….I highly encourage others to bake for me too :-) Is sending 2 cookie recipes a day considered spamming?
Shelly
so fun!
Pat
Love your giveaway! And back to school – because of all the awesome supplies that are in abundance at this time of year.
My favorite way to share recipes is Pintrest. In fact, my recipes board is huge compared to all my other boards. Combined!
Anna Pearson
I discovered an insanely good Maple Cranberry Sauce that I’ve bestowed upon my mother. I don’t think she’s roasted a turkey in her life! (She’s a kiwi – we like to roast other things like Lamb….lots and lots of Lamb) But she can always start!
Varty
What a great collection!
Asha
I’ve been seriously lusting after your cookbook for forever! This is the first year I’m not going back to school, and to be honest I’m kinda sad that the next back to school supplies I’ll be buying will be for my own kids! Yikes!
Melissa
Such an exciting give-away! Been wanting to buy your cook book, but I hope Christmas comes early this year :-)
rachelle
I LOVE this time of year!! My baby girl started kindergarten this year and it’s been SO hard. So, we’ve started a Tuesday Tea Time and every Tuesday after school, we bake and drink tea and giggle until our hearts content. It’s magical. :)
Ashlee
Wow! So fun! Back to school aisles at Target intrigue me just enought to look…. especially when I have my little 8 year old brother with me! At 23, I’m SO GLAD school is over forever for me! :) Anyway, just made some delicious oatmeal, chocolate chip cookies the other day. Let me say this: self control is walking by the cookie jar and eating one… or two… of those cookies instead of 24. :)
thanks for your posts and you witty sense of humor. You make me giggle outloud every so often and it keeps my husband wondering. :)
Alicia B
Love your blog! I don’t have your cookbook yet, and would love to win this so I can add it to my collection! :)
Melissa
One of my secret favorite smells is office supply stores! Fresh paper – fresh pencils- fresh posibilities each fall!
Kasey
it’s all such cute stuff! especially the cookbook… :)
Jess
You are so lovely. Thanks for hosting a great giveaway. I’ve shared your dark chocolate and sesame seed cookies with more people than I can count. There can never be enough.
Susan J
What a cute giveaway. I could totally use these.
Rachael
Going to try pizza dough again for the family! My last attempt was a dud, and I have been using TJ’s dough ever since…
Amanda W.
I just graduated from college this year, so this will be the first fall since I was 3 feet tall and wearing a plastic Little Mermaid backpack on my way to kindergarten that I won’t be going back to school. It’s definitely a weird feeling, but I’m looking forward to the change, too. And I’ll have some more time for baking now! Thanks as always for your witty, inspirational posts and delicious recipes, Joy :)
Veronika
ohhh I’m crazy on all of this school staff & want to win very much once a life)))
Rabya
Love all your recipes, especially the Old Fashioned brownies- all time favorite! So excited about this giveaway and hope you do more!
Meagan J.
seriously cute. I love it all! and you can never have too many mechanical pencils. or notebooks, for that matter. lists are a beautiful thing.
emily weller
Joy. Thanks for keeping it real. love this!!
Michelle Gallinger
what a great giveaway! so fun!
Andrea Manz
I would LOOOVE your cookbook! I made your oatmeal pecan chocolate cookies to share and gave the recipe out as well! Love that recipe.
Christi D
What a fun giveaway! Cute, too!
RLR at Mom's Magic
I have heard of Washi tape, but have none. Love baking and school supplies, so this is the perfect giveaway for a girl like me. Thanks!
Tsigeyusv
Paper straws! I love ‘ em. So much better than plastic, too. I like school supplies.
Christina Main
What a neat blog post! And such cute things!!! You’re the best Joy!
Emily Pullen
Would love to win this giveaway!!! I low new office supplies. And your cookbook, of course! :)
Lilly
This is perfection, super cute idea! And I will be making cookies to bring with me on my first day at a new school and will hopefully make some new friends :) cookies are magical, they can create friends out of strangers!
Ariel
OOOH i would love your cookbook!
Kristie
I would love to win your cookbook … and the paper straws!
Elizabeth
I baked gluten-free coconut chocolate chip cookie bars for the summer interns’ last day at work. I can’t believe the summer is almost over!
Karen
Love your blog and the giveaway! This would be great for heading back to school next week!
Shannon
I’m a broke college student. I’m also a Division-1 varsity athlete. That means when I’m not studying or practicing, I’m probably eating. It also means that the sweat-to-cuteness ratio in my life is unacceptably high. Therefore, I feel like winning this giveaway would pretty much solve all of my problems. JTB knows what’s good.
Elizabeth
I made cookies and took them to our car guys. Dpes that count?? Thanks for the fun giveaway :)
Emily
Ooh! I love back to school stuff! Thanks for sharing so many wonderful recipes on your blog!
Ali Lera
I would love to be the proud owner of all of these items. Especially your cookbook. I have had my eye on it since it came out! I made your peach scones not too long ago and they were a big hit at my office. I need to make them again.
Lisa
Fabulous give away.
I finally made the oatmeal sandwich cookies with peanut butter filling and they were like a classy bite of the flavours of childhood.
Nathalie
Too cute. Shared the love on twitter. As always, love your blog.
Virginia
What an awesome package! I made cake batter blondies for my coworkers this week — they were delicious (and gone in a few hours)!
Beverly
This is the cutest and most useful back-to-school style item collection I’ve ever seen. Conducive to those who are always learning! Thanks for sharing all your recipes and stories with us!
stephanie
I was always excited about the first day of school. I was over it by the second.
Betsy
I love school supplies!! And I just emailed my mom a selection of recipes for our post half marathon indulgence. I convinced her to get walking and do it with me, so I think she only deserves something sweet of her choice afterwards (several of the suggestions were from your cookbook!)
Steena
Thank God for nail polish. There are days, weeks, where I just know I’m not living up to my potential. If I tried a little harder, got a little more sleep, added that one scarf to that outfit, I could rule the world but, damnit, I’m just too lazy. That’s when my nail polish saves me. Suddenly, my fingers are typing 100+ a minute and my lipstick looks perfect (dazzling smile, eye twinkle). Nail polish knows what it’s doing, even when I don’t.
Katherine
Oh, Joy. You always do the cutest things.
Emily
I LOVE back to school supplies!!! Great giveaway :) I’ll be baking some cookies to share with friends at a picnic tomrw :)
Kimberly
Office supplies!!
Michaela Rae
Wow! I would love to win this. Your cookbook looks amazing.
Kendra
I’ve been wanting to pursue a Washi tape craft situation for a while – maybe something with Mason jars… and a gift basket? Totes maj love this gift set selection/your perfect summer bloggin’/your podcast!
Beth
I really miss buying school supplies! I love having new notebooks, pencils, pens, binders, etc. I wish I had a reason to buy them again!
Thanks for this awesome giveaway that will remind me of those first days of school!
kayleigh
I would love to win this! I actually haven’t been able to find your cookbook anywhere, its starting to drive me mad crazy. mad. crazy.
Kelsey
This week I found myself wishing I was going back to school, just so I could go supply shopping! I’ve always loved it. I was the one who would bug my mom non-stop about it, afraid we were going to miss all the good stuff. (Though I never did get any of the cute stuff, but whatever was most affordable…)
Also this week, I shared my love of baking with my dad. He was in a baking contest at his office, so he made some of your red velvet cupcakes. I helped (and taste-tested…) Everyone raved about how amazing they were.
Janelle
Posted on Facebook & Twitter :) This would be an amazing giveaway to win! :)
-Janelle
Miyu
When I was in highschool, every time I went school shopping I would dump a handful of pencils and stationery into our shopping cart. My dad was always like, “You’re kidding. You’ve got so much at home.” And I would give him a look which would shut him up immediately.
Erica Renee
Sharing the love through chocolate zucchini muffins this week!!! Mmmmm
jen
what a fun giveaway! recently made the chocolate chip cookies with melted butter and bread flour, became everyone’s best friend. thanks!
Cynthia
You inspired me to make my own cookbook! I am collecting favorite family recipes, making the food, taking photos and printing them up in a book for my whole family. This week I made the Banana Chocolate Chip Cake and shared it with some friends who stayed over.
Maegyn
I love your blog so much and I just checked out your book from the library because I’m a librarian and have to use the services I push (also, because I have no money but whatevs). The recipes look amazing and I can’t wait to try some!
Emily
I just started my senior year of college, and I had to buy awesome school supplies (crayons, colored pencils) for one of my classes. Life of an ed. major. :)
Amy D.
What a cute package of supplies. I would also love to have a copy of your cookbook!
Christine
My little sister has her very last back to school week next week… she’d LOVE to receive this little package of goodies in the mail!
Melissa
Thanks for the giveaway, Joy! I’m a big fan of yours!
Leah
Super cute giveaway!
I made the vegan chocolate avocado cake for my friend’s birthday. Fantastic hit! Love that the frosting looks just like nickelodeon green slim.
Dina
What an awesome giveaway!! I made chocolate chip cookies for my kids because thats how I let them know that I love them.
Stephanie T
I do need to share a recipe on my blog… I haven’t done that in awhile.
And I am so glad that school starting doesn’t matter to me. That means summer can last as long as the weather is warm :)
Maggie
So it’s not cookies, but I shared a really yummy zucchini spice bread recipe yesterday on Facebook. I made it last weekend and ate the last slice yesterday and it was so good! Here it is if you’ve got some zucchini to get rid of
http://www.marthastewart.com/318960/zucchini-spice-bread
Love your blog Joy!
Sarah G
When I left for school, i accidentally left my joythebaker cookbook at home in the kitchen! with this giveaway, there’s a chance i don’t have to disappoint my mother by taking it away from her! and i would die to have the rest of those cuties too.
johanna
this gift box would spice up every single day of school! (as well as cookies do… ;))
Abigail
Glad I’m not going back to school, but would love your cookbook and the other goodies!
Christine
i would LOVE to have your cookbook in china with me!
Natasa
Hi Joy,
Great bundle, love it all! I am usually a silent reader/listener, but now I jump at a chance to get my hands on your book finally. :)
Greetings from Austria!
Giovanna Burro e Alici
LOVE THIS GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!
I’m sure your book will be happy to live in Rome ;)
Glenys
Cookies! I’ll love to make lots!
Melissa
This is such a cool giveaway – adore your blog and the sweet person you are!
hanna
Ah I’m starting college on Monday! As a freshmen! I’m excited/nervous and I totally want those mentos. And everything else.
Emily
Back to school has a whole new meaning this year because I’m starting medical school! Yikes! But my stress reliever has always been baking, so I will be sure to make time to read your blog (and listen to your totes maj podcast too) ! You’re awesome and inspiring!
Jess Paliotto
This post made me think of the line in You’ve Got Mail, “I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms. “
christina
love the goodies you are giving away!
Rebecca
I’m super sad about summer ending but I could love fall a bit more if I won this awesome stuff. Nail polish and a Joy the Baker cook book? Oh yes.
Nicole Atilano
School starts on Monday at the elementary school where I work. But winning these lovely supplies would ease the blow of having to be back. If I don’t win, I guess I’ll make some Salted Chocolote Chip Pistachio Cookies to soothe me!
Jenna
I’m looking to give a cookbook to my mother–this would be the perfect gift!
Alyson
I go to school in a different country than my husband lives and I was just thinking I need some fun back-to-school stuff to cheer me up. This would be perfect!
Also, I love cookies.
BerniG
I’m going to bake some scones and take them to work! I love the fall and I love schools supplies. I’ve gone back to school myself. I’m working fulltime and taking college course online at night. I need all the cool supplies I can get! And cookies, lots and lots of cookies to keep me going!
bdaiss
Squeee! I love me some back to school supplies. Even if I stopped going to school *mumble* years ago. Thanks for the chance! (I’ve lost track of how many of your posts I’ve pinned, posted, and forwarded. I do know I’m planning to make lemon poppy seed muffins next week! YUM.)
Claire Rothe
oh man back to school is the best time of year (besides maybe thanksgiving because even new school supplies can’t compete with turkey)
stylefriendly
Thanks for the giveaway!
Cynthia
The good new is I’m about to move into a house with counterspace that just won’t quit, and TWO kitchenaid mixers. The bad news is, I have to MOVE out of my beloved apartment that I’ve been in for 5 years. You better believe there will be cookies!!
Lauren
How could it possibly be almost fall already?! Where did the summer go? I should have known by the changing contents of my CSA basket each week, but somehow fall snuck up on me…
Katy
My all time favorite recipe of yours is the pumpkin pancakes–I can’t wait to make those this Fall and I will be sharing them with everyone I love!
Laurie Adams
You are my go to when I’m looking for something new to try, especially when I’m stuck in a breakfast rut! Thanks for all the amazing photos (and food!) to get me inspired.
Shila
Gotta love the washi tape. And lazy summer nights with ice cream and friends!
Jodie Coher
Ooooh, I cannot believe you are giving this away! What a treat!!!
And, by the way, I share recipes with my mom at least once a week :)
amy marantino
i sent my Mom a recipe for bread pudding that i think she might like. perhaps we will make it together
Emily O
Joy, I am about to start my final fall of grad school and I’ve got some serious jitters. Gosh, this back to school prize kit would make the whole experience so much more fun. Thanks for being such a dream–per usual! xx
Charles
Back to school seems so weird now that I’m not actually going back to school. I always grumbled at the end of summer, but now I really miss it and miss the changes.
Erin L
Hey Joy, I’ve gotten more than my fair share of recipes from you. Guess it’s time I say “thanks!”
Ash
Love it! I always loved the first day back to school. Yeah. I was that cool.
emily | nomnivorous
you mean i can fake being totally chic and put together? oh yes, i need this gift set from you. <3
kylie
Yay for Fall being just around the corner! Such lovely things… thank you for the opportunity!
Katie
I also get the jitters in September… but my life has always, aways revolved around the school year in one way or another! I love those straws!
Amy R
So fun! I am getting ready to start my first year of student teaching and I’ve never been so nervous buying school supplies! I have more excited jitters than the kiddos!
Nina
i always loved/dreaded the first day of school. excited to see everyone again, but nervous at the same time. too bad “real” jobs don’t give you summer vacation …
Christina
This is such an adorable bundle of goodies!
becky
Here’s to the Dirty Thirties and not caring what other people think. Isn’t it awesome to just like what you like and not have to pretend to like that band/movie/thingy? Sigh of relief.
Roselynt
Love the fall! Warm-ish days and nights cool enough to wear a comfy pair of jeans, a light sweater and no socks.
Oooohhhh, could go for a pumpkin latte and your polenta&guyere waffles…mmmm. (and I’m almost 40 and still pick up the odd “school supply”…for myself).
Aubrey
Unfortunately being a teacher means back-to-school will be happening on a yearly basis for the rest of the foreseeable future….but if that means fun quirky school supplies I’m totes down with it! Love your site Joy, my baking horizons have expanded greatly since stumbling (quite literally) on your blog!
pumpkin~power
oooh what a fab giveaway,! thank you joy, just what I needed to see, have had the worst :-( day ever ‘tears’ – need cake, need cookies, need a hug, need more cookies and lots of love. shared my organic vegan oatmeal and raisin cookies with my dear family, thank goodness for family….
Raquel
Love your website, I’ve tried so many recipes already!
Ayat
What a treat! Great combination of fun and useful supplies!
dnander
love this! and cookies, especially made with browned bitter and chocolate…
Sarah Mans
my oh my, all of these things are must haves! i share your posts all the time and lovelovelove every single one of them! i look forward to school this year(you could say i’m a nerd) and i know my friends look forward to the things i’ll bake them this year(using your recipes!) Love!
Jordan
Oooh, yes please.
Catherine
This looks awesome! I came looking for what I should bake today and this just makes my day even sweeter :)
Brooke
My oldest son just started the all day school business…1st grade. I, and his two younger brothers, have missed him dearly. We welcomed him home with his favorite cookie–snickerdoodles!
Jo
Such a lovely give away for my favourite time of year! Made your salted sesame cookies a few weeks ago and shared them at work and you now have a few more obsessed followers! Also made your berry b’day cake and it’s my new favourite cake recipe ever! thanks!
anne
I started my senior year of high school this week! Crazy busy, but then again, why worry about college when I can be baking for cute boys? :)
Lori P.
It wasn’t for cookies, but I just send my dad a recipe for quinoa in the Crockpot. So tasty and easy easy easy! Plus, nothing’s better to come in from a long day at work and dinner’s waiting on you. Love it!
Jessica Anderson
Making a cheesecake with an oreo crust for my hubbys 30th b-day this weekend! This giveaway is awesome! Would LOVE your cookbook!
Brooke Lampe
I went back to school this week and I still can’t believe it!! Where did summer even go?? I love this giveaway, you’re so creative and inspiring!
Melanie
My daughter is leaving next week for college. She would love this!
Christine
Oh — school supplies! Use professors like ’em too!! I am making red velvet cupcakes to share with my students on the first day of school!
Devon C
I could go out tonight too…but I’ll probably eat hummus and watch Zenon…like there was ever any doubt about that!
Devon C
I could go out tonight to…but I’ll probably eat hummus and watch Zenon…like there was ever any doubt about that!
Alex
Fall is the best season!
Barbie S.
So many cookie recipes so little time! :-)
corey ann
Just so you know, I’m obsessed with making pies because of you & your blog. Who knew that baking a pie could be so fulfilling?
Love your recipes!! :)
-corey ann
Kirsty
Adorable items in the giveaway!
I just baked your salted choc chip pistachio cookies, which I will share at work tomorrow (maybe). That counts right?
I only managed to get 18 out of the mix though, I think my portion control could do with some work!
x
Will
Some of my favorite things are baseball, cars, exercising, and…cooking and baking. This website is awesome though! I always get trapped looking at recipes and I start to feel a little overwhelmed because there are so many things I want to make. A peach berry crumble is going to be had in the very near future, however. I know that much.
I’m heading down to UCLA as a freshman next month so I’m definitely thinking about school, and I’m definitely looking forward to it!
Melisa
I am SO ready for fall! It has been entirely too hot this summer. This is such a fun giveaway!
karalyn
those bookmarks are adorable! this giveaway finally gave me the push to send my sister this hazelnutty, chocolatey, carmel-y, oat-y cookie recipe that i’ve been meaning to forever!
Lois
Got the dark chocolate chunks to make your Dark Chocolate, Pistachio, and Smoked Sea Salt cookies. I’m sure my family and I will love it – can’t wait!
Kathy in Michigan
There is something about reading blogs (for me it’s cooking blogs) that gives you a connection to people and ideas that you would never cross paths with otherwise. So special.
Mel
Your intro had me hysterical b/c that was so totally me at the beginning of this school year (and every year)! I caught myself worrying whether my sons’ haircuts were “cool enough” and then I thought, what the heck am I doing…LOL.
Maddie
First day of school….hmmm. No better time to be awkward! Seriously.
Jessica
I’ve recently been going to our local farmers market and getting fresh (and unusual!) herbs. So far I’ve made lemon verbena cookies and lime basil macaroons! Cookies for everyone!
Katy
Great giveaway! I love sharing recipes with my mom and sister. It’s also fun to get some of Granny’s recipes and see if I can “lighten” them up a bit.
Stephanie
School supplies always made me so happy as a kid. I still wander down the aisle sometimes wishing I had a good reason to buy them!
Darnetta
I plan on making that cookie cake in the cast iron skillet. My baby boy is turning one soon. What a better way to celebrate..cookie cake anyone?!
Shari Barnes
My senior year in college, would be happy to win it! :-)
Rebekah
I’m making dinner this weekend for a friend who just had her first baby – and I made dinner yesterday for a friend who had her 7th. Whew!
Love all your inspirational recipes!
Gail Fredericks
September is the best month of the year!!!!!
Katie
Cookies are always a welcome treat to give and receive, but for fall and back to school, I LOVE the movie line in the infamous “You’ve got Mail” when Meg says she’d send a bouquet of sharpened pencils!”
Kise Rosen
I always love to direct people here for suggestions on things they can make or for inspiration! There are so many ones I love that I can hardly suggest just one!
cathy
i’m a late bloomer, too! didn’t start to feel comfortable with my body until after college. that doesnt mean that i dont still suck in my tummy when i’m wearing something form fitting. :)
love your blog, joy. you inspire me.
Annabel
I love school supplies! I just got my teaching license and have been having the worst time trying to find a teaching job in Boston. In the meantime I’m working in a restaurant and trying to maximize this lull in my career path by doing all the cooking/bicycle-riding/reading/exploring that I possibly can. Last week I discovered this awesome bakery called Flour that makes incredible fancy grilled cheese sandwiches. I’m coming off a serious sugar overdose from a birthday cupcake overload last weekend that I heartily enjoyed, so this week I’m going to try some savory baking. The boy I’m crushing on doesn’t think he likes bleu cheese (gasp) so I’m going to make the tomato cobbler with the bleu cheese biscuits in an attempt to convert him to the stinky cheese team! Happy almost-fall Joy!
Erin s.
What a fun giveaway! I love the planner and tape, and well, everything that has to do with getting ready to go back to school. (weird, i know!) Plus, you can never have enough pink and red nail polish. Very chic! ;)
gina
Man, these are the sort of school supplies I need. I’m returning to school (graduate) full time after a few years off while continuing my full time job… I need all the baking love I can get :)
Sarah
can’t wait to begin college! gotta say, back to school feels way different now, but one thing that won’t change will be my weekend baking episodes!
jen
i’d love to win joy, thanks for all that you share!
Nikki
Oh Joy! As a teacher of young learners… this back to school post makes me all giddy… I love the first day of school. And the breakfast club at work LOVES your Toasted Coconut and Almond Chocolate Chip Scones… Here’s to a new school year full of learning adventures and freshly baked scones!
Caley
oh man. I teach school and this sounds like just what I need. nail polish to impress the 6 year olds, a journal to write their funny sayings (or to vent), and of course a cookbook for stress relief.
Sabra
This is such a cute bundle of goodies! :)
Julie Alexandra
I just have to say, Joy you are a great inspiration to me!
I have made so many of your recipes (my favourite is the Rasberry rolls! They are a little peace of heaven on earth! That I can eat! Could it get any better?!)
I would love to get your cookbook and all the other lovely things! But I live in Norway, if it matters?! Anyways, keep doing what you’re doing. You rock!
Alexis
When I was a little girl, it was almost dangerous for my mom to take me to any sort of office supply store. Because, once I found the notebook and pen aisles, I was instantly a kid in the proverbial candy store.
I need that capsule letter.
;)
Jessica
I’m making raspberry lemon bars for a cookout tomorrow night and cinnamon roll casserole for my husband’s birthday Saturday morning – definitely sharing the (baked) love this weekend!
Kelly Taylor
This weekend we are celebrating my MIL birthday, so I will be making her dinner and a cake from your cookbook. My husband loves your Ovatine frosting!
Jamie
Thanks for the giveaway Joy! As a 6th grade teacher, I really appreciate your back to school spirit!! :)
Amanda-Jean Fochs
Such a great idea and collection of wonderful things!
Michelle
I am dying for your cookbook… and, to be honest, those adorable straws…
Molly
This is my first year in a while that I’m not either going back to school or getting busy at work because school is starting. It feels strange!
brooke
i always like to watch the movie Grease around this back to school time of year. it’s a back to school kind of movie :)
Suzy
I’m baking my sweet husband a birthday cake and can’t wait to share it with him. He gets this cake once, exactly once, a year, so its a special occassion! Yeah for him being born <3
Toni
I love your site! I also love your comments box!
Dana
I love sending my mama links to your recipes. The best thing is when we bake them together though. Thanks for all the fun!
Lori
I will share stuff as soon as I get over this wicked whatever that has given me a temp of 102 (seriously, what adult gets a fever like that? I feel like I’m 8). Oh, and I love school supplies. Waaaaaaay more than my 3 kids.
Jessica
I make your Mango Banana Bread all of the time, it’s my new comfort food. And of course I share it with friends, weather they need some comfort, or just a snack.
sarahsaysrun
I’m so ready for fall! I always start to think about You’ve Got Mail. “Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms. “
Melissa
Spread the cookies? Thank goodness I just found Alice Medrich’s cookie book at TK Maxx. That lady knows her stuff and I’m poor from baking all the time! Love your blog, Joy, keep being you!!! xo
Jessie
You are the sweetest, Joy… Cookies for everyone soon as I pick up some butter…
Danene
Thanks to a link on The Pioneer Woman’s blog I Just found your blog today…LOVE IT! I’m also obsessed with school supplies too! Nothing like this time of year to make you feel like new opportunities await! Can’t wait to try your recipes! Cheers!
Lindsay
fall is bittersweet, summer’s over but lots of beautiful produce where I’m lucky to live. I’ll be baking cartelized pear upside down cake.
Sam H
Cookies it is this weekend! Instead of sharing a recipe I’m just going to share the cookies! Have a great weekend!
Susanna
I love your blog and I have your book checked out from my local . Last night I made the oatmeal cookie pancakes for my family for dinner, and they loved them. Even is they weren’t cookies, I stilled shared baking love.
Jo
Such a cute “back to school” box, Joy! It’s lovely.
Tonight I’m making your (totally amazing and awesome) brown butter chocolate chip cookies for my boyfriend, who thinks of me as God-like because I make him these cookies.
Seriously, if I counted up all teh times I’ve made your recipes for boys… oh man, it would be obscene. Lots of browines, apples crisps, bacon cookies, browned butter, flour, and elbow grease later, I finally hooked a good one. Thanks for everything Joy :)
Carol
Back to school reminds me that the best beach weather used to be in September! (But school started in the middle of the month.) Oh my, I started Kindergarten in 1962, I like being 56, but that seems like a lot of years ago!
Melanie Moore
I’m a teacher who woke up with a bad case of the “back to school blues” this morning. A cute supply kit like this would make the going back just a little bit easier. ;)
Jenny
I love your blog — really really love it! Thanks for making me laugh at work! Can’t wait to share homemade cookies with friends at a BBQ this weekend — thinking of trying my hand at homemade ice cream sandwich cookies using my new ice cream maker!
Carly
this is my last year going back to school in the fall . . .
next year will be real life.
On a less depressing note, my housemates and I are looking forward to a full kitchen, and I know that your lemon souffle pie will make a few appearances on out table.
Erin Z
whenever my family asks for a great pancake recipe I ALWAYS send them to your blog! I love your site, keep being awesome :D
christina
long time follower of yours. tab choices are adorable!
Kelly M.
I’m going to share the love this weekend by making a puffy corn pancake with blackberry sauce and a side of bacon with the amazing people in my life.
Laura
I start school next week so this would be perfect for me! Great give away and you look gorgeous on the cover of your new cookbook! = )
Cameron
Obsessed with Joy the Baker.
Amaze-balls blog and giveaway.
You are the best… For real.
Amy
I’ll be sharing your pizza recipe and tracy’s pizza recipe with my mom this weekend. We shall make both together and eat them all! :)
Lauren
everything is so adorable! going back to school will be tough, but it would be a lot sweeter with some of your apple crisp and the back to school giveaway by my side…
Sara
OhmygoshIwantitall ……. and I will try your pistachio chocolate chip smoked sea salt (!) cookies ASAP and share even ASAP-er.
Thu
The washi tape and the straws! Oh! Too perfect.
nicole @ kimchiburgers
School… erk. This bag o’ gifts will definitely make any back-to-schooler excited. I’ve exchanged a toooon of recipes with my email friend. She’s a fellow blogger too! So far, I’ve shared a coconut cream cheese filled brownie recipe. (P.S. it’s on my blog.) Thanks, Joy, for having such a cute giveaway! -nicole
Shellie
Back to school came way too quickly. I’m not ready for classes yet. Maybe that’s why I’m reading your blog in class instead of taking notes? Oops.
Karin
Love your blog!!! I’ve been adapting a lot of your recipees. I’ve made the summer tomato cobler, without the crackers the other day… I will be passing the recipe to my mother in law cause she loved it!!1
Christy
Back to school jitters are the worst! Hopefully this’ll be my last one-masters degree here I come!
Alyssa
love this giveaway!! especially for a chance to win your cookbook!!!! i guess if i dont win i’ll just have to go buy it…..
Rachel
I love this giveaway! Does it count if I’m always just proselytizing about the NYTimes chocolate chip cookies? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/dining/091crex.html They really are absurd, and worth the time to use the different flours, fancy chocolate and rest the dough. Yummmmmmmm.
Polly @ baking & alchemy
My stationery obsession (and desire for your gorgeous looking book) absolutely love you right now, Joy Wilson…
Cheryl P
Making my kids cookies for their first full week back at school. Love cookies!
colleen
bigtime denial here about as back to school rapidly approaches anyway. haven’t bought one single pencil yet. instead spending as much time at the beach with my 3 boys before the school madness happens. Love that planner and those straws. Making granola bars to take to the beach today and telling my friends. Thanks for the chance to win, Joy!
Helen
I totally watched the X Files in the dark on my own. I’m now a teacher so still badly suffer with September issues. Loving your work.
KatieK
Even as an adult, fall will always make me reminisce about mulling for hours over the perfect “first day of school outfit”! :-)
Claire
You are so much fun! I just sent my mom my go-to waffle recipe because she just invested in a waffle iron!
Casey Keller
Yes please! Count me in for the giveaway. Thanks Joy!
laura beth
I’m so ready for back to school. Get this humidity out of my life and get me in jeans again. Also get me this giveaway!
Sigal
Love love love your little stories and open honesty. Where recipes are concerned, I mostly like the one’s with biscuits. I know it’s stupid, but the whole round presentation just does it for me.. simple yet beautiful – like in the tomato cobbler with blue cheese biscuits – pure genius!
My friends add a big thank you too =)
Rachel
I’m still in school (until tomorrow thankfully), and about to enjoy my summer vacation before doing it all again next month. Love all the cute supplies. And I will be celebrating this weekend by baking up some cookies for sure!
Jessica
the end of August still makes my stomach turn into knots just out of habit. To ease the pain of the end of summer i shared your chocolate peanut butter cupcake recipe with my mom. She makes dynamite cupcakes and I know she’ll love this recipe. These cupcakes should help with the coping process! xo
Tyler Rogero
What a great giveaway! Thanks, Joy! This is my new favorite recipe and I’ve been sharing it everywhere:)
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Greek-Salad-with-Orzo-and-Black-Eyed-Peas-243207
Louisa S.
I just sent my mom a recipe for fast and yummy baked falafel. Yay, chickpeas! I’m excited about fall- it’s my favorite season for weather and food!
Adi
I love love your pancake recipes. Can’t get enough!
Candace
Hey Joy! Fall definitely means a joyful return to the kitchen.. can’t wait to get my oven going! I’m in the North East, so fall is apple/spices/pumpkin/maple syrup city! Until the humidity drops, though, I’m sticking with quick-baked goodies. Just shared my recipe for whole-wheat cheddar goldfish with my friend’s mom!they bake in a snap, and are so much better than the store-bought ones!
Lynn G.
I made birthday donuts for my nephew and it’s a recipe he begged me to share with his mama. :) Thanks for a fun giveaway. These days are passing too quickly!
Meg
Love your blog Joy-it’s my daily dose of inspiration!
Tina
It would be simply delightful if I did win this prize. My school days are fast-approaching and I need some assistance.
Kristen
Hi Joy – what beautiful ideas. I received the best recipe for mac and cheese pie from an ex boyfriend’s mom. I share it with everyone. Cheers!
Lisa
my first child started kindergarten this year and whew…it’s been a rollercoaster for me! she loves it, most days.
made no bake cookies with her yesterday after school for combo snack and activity. i’ve found it’s the best way to help that transition from school to home and alone to little brother!
maggie
I too am kicking and screaming about the return to school. It’s just as bad, if not worse, for us teachers! I am simply choosing to ignore the inevitable return to school next week and have been baking cookies and going out for ice cream cones.
Kathryn
I’ve been sharing the chocolate fudge zucchini cookies recipe I recently found online. Tastes like a brownie! Fall means back to work as I am a teacher. I am looking forward to it!
Rahel
Although my girls are not yet in school they love very much to be creative and I am absolutely sure they would love the give-away. Of course the cookbook would equally be appreciated ;o)
Nori
Hi Joy! It’s back to school for me too! Except I’m on the teaching end. It’s the bittersweet time to tuck away the flip flops and crazy friendship bracelets and whip out the school supplies. But I can’t say that I don’t love the feeling of ripping open a new package of mechanical pencils and organizing my notebooks. Also obsessed with rando nail colors, not gonna lie. xx
Anna
Oh, I’m going back to school, and it is so scary, though it is university and I should be confident and grown up.
Joselyn
I am not going back to school, but have loads of nieces in school with whom I would be glad to share the school supplies. But ladies keep your hands off the cookbook, it is mine….but I promise to make tasty after school snacks.
Jules
I love your recipes and I’m always telling my mom :)
I just sent her one for delicious cheesy cookies!
Flora
Hello Joy. I think you’re ace. And so is your giveaway.
Holly
I shared the Dark Chocolate, Pistachio and Smoked Sea Salt Cookies on Facebook, I’m sure my friends will love them!
Denise McCaig
Working in a University we’re getting ready for all the students to come back next week, so a back to school kit would be awesome for me to feel part of it too!
Jessie
Fun! I would totally share those straws ith my boys, they’d love them!
Alex
School supplies are cute, AND a cookbook? Giveaway heaven :D
Ethel Louise
I just sent my Momma a recipe for canned pirate peaches in exchange for her recipe for peach cobbler! Win!
Katie
I’ll totally bake treats from your cookbook and take them to school to convince my new classmates to be friends with me. Sure fire way to make new friends, right?
Elise
Ah, back to school… takes on a totally different meaning now that I’m studying to become a teacher! Great time for fresh starts.
Melissa
Enjoying your blog always – thanks for all the treats. Keeping fingers crossed I get picked.
Julia
Wow, I just looked through your cookie archive and I’m drooling… Think I’ll make some toasted coconut cookies to share with friends this weekend! Love this back to school collection too :)
Kara
Going back to school is such a bittersweet time, but your post reminded me that nothing cures bittersweet than with cookies! thank you for the giveaway xx
Elaine
hi joy! i start my first year of graduate school and student teaching in a few days so i am doubly anxious to start the semester. currently procrastinating to avoid sleep and packing to head back to school. your blog is a nice distraction from all the anxiety. take care! c:
Ashley J.
I must look into this Washi tape. I heard about it for the first time yesterday, and then at least five times today. But I have been drooling over your cookbook for some time now and would be thrilled to add it to my collection.
Jill (the) Baker
Made the Blackberry Peach Toasted Pecan Bread Pudding with my mama, and it was of course divine. I’m sending the recipe to my roommates to get them so so so excited for the start of senior year next week!
courtney
oh, that planner is insane – I love it! your cookbook is gorgeous too, by the way… and i would have been your friend watching x-files in the dark. i was that cool too.
Mae
Cute, Joy! I had a really great birthday celebration on Tuesday this year! Thanks to my now fiance! :) Always enjoy reading your posts
Nia
Love back to school, and in September, I get to celebrate another year!
Ann C.
As a current teacher, I have to say that your school supplies are WAY cooler than the ones I’m having my students bring! But, your supplies are completely necessary and appropriate for a teacher. :-)
Alanna
This might just make the first day of school bearable =)
The Teen Princess of Buttermilk Springs
You’d think a princess was cool right, well tiaras are apparently in style this year……Love the post, and the cookbook seems awesome.
-The Princess
Savannah Eaves
The perfect back to school treat!
Sheila
awesome giveaway, you are soo awesome as well!
Karen M.M
I LOVE fall ! I can look cute again without all the nasty sweat and melty make-up…plus i get to bake, bake, bake goodies ! :)
Sarah H.P.
I’m gonna share the love by baking my mom some cupcakes this weekend!
jordan
i get the back-to-school jitters too- and i’m in my 30’s! aahhh. :)
sweetmaddy
cute! i want your booooook fo freeeeee :)
Noli
the only way I can handle going back to school is that I simultaneously get to enjoy the gorgeous fall weather and the chunky nit sweaters, scarves, and boots that then follow. This will help so much too! Actually, going back to school shopping is just about my favorite thing ever. I’m going into my sophmore year of highschool and I totally feel you on the making out, locker and AP smush. It’s major. I’m actually searching the thrift stores for a cute pair of overalls to rock ;).
lcwhitty
I’m lukewarm on BTS time…happy to be back on a schedule, but will miss not having my little guy around to play with. Last year of elementary this year. Boo hoo.
Thuy
Such a cute combination of items, I really like the planner and the little hello hello post its.
Katie
Amazing blog, amazing give-away. I hardly believe you weren’t cool in high school. Doesn’t seem possible.
Tracy
Beautiful photos and tasty recipes! Your blog always brings a smile to my face and JOY to my life!
Terri
Yes, best combo of stuff for back to school! I’m super excited about fall with being able to Rick my scarves, make soups and stews, drink lots of warm beverages, and not feel bad about sitting indoors because it’s too chilly (granted I’m in the Bay Area where the summer period feels more like fall). I miss back to school shopping and having the satisfaction of having fresh notebooks and binders and pens! This package would bust my no back to school shopping blues and get a copy of your book to make delicious things!
Great giveaway and I love listening to the podcast!
Xoxo
T
Amanda C
In Alabama, we already started school August 16 (sigh) but this giveaway would be an awesome 1 week into school pick-me-up! Is it sad that I already need one? Anyways, I love everything you write Joy! and of course bake!
Carolyne
Oh Joy. I just love reading what you have to say. And those chocolate popovers and pretzel dogs…seriously awesome. Love LOVE your blog!
Ingrid S
Your blog is amazing! It gives me so much inspiration. Your photos are beautiful and the posts are always soothing to read!!
Julie
I love school supply shopping! When I’m buying my kids’ stuff, I always throw in a few extras for me! But your stack of back to school supplies are much more exciting than my composition notebook and glue sticks!!!
Allison
Love it. I’ll bring snacks to my students.
Jessica W
Love you and your blog Joy!
Melissa
Speaking about cool – this is a cool giveaway by an ever-so-cool lady!
Heather
Oh Fall. I lovei it – the flavors, the colors, everything. Not to mention it’s when I got married. Sigh, happy times.
I’m always sharing recipes with folks. I started my own Baker’s Corner on my blog (heatherjoy.us). Thanks for all the inspiration!
Stephanie
Just started reading this summer, and I constantly share with my greatest teacher…my mom! Thanks for all the great things you share with us!
Melissa
Such cool goodies you’ve picked!! I’d love to win your book!!
Laura L
I can definitely relate! My mom told me that I peed the bed every night for 2 weeks before starting kindergarten. I’m starting grad school this September and I’m glad to report that even though I’m nervous, my childhood problems haven’t resurfaced!
Angie H.
I loved school shopping! Now I love fall food, tall boots and sweater weather!
Anna @ hiddenponies
While I’m glad my highschool days are over, I will never not be tempted by the shiny new school supplies in the store at this time of year! Love this giveaway pack!
Savannah S
Hey Joy! I’m an avid podcast listener who just made some sweet treats for my roommates. It’s the start of senior year of college…how crazy is that?! i could use some school supplies; realtalk, some of these supplies will def be used to organize my recipes, which are a mess! thanks girl.
Citti
This season always made me itchy, it was a bittersweet experience, but at the end of the day I was so happy, or not but by the begining of fall I was planing sleep overs and going to Día de Muertos Parties, is always a good thing to remember! Now is one of my favorites seasons of year, almost time for pumpkin pie, and a bit of cold wheather to have a good excuse to eat my favorite cookies, besos de novia, are little cookies in a ball shape, with some tiny bits of pecans and walnuts, covered in powder sugar with a glass of milk! MHMHMH HUNGRY NOW! I WILL BE SHARING THAT RECIPE.
Shannon Y.
ohmygol. I’m actually going back to school! A 27-year-old with yet another first day of school looming ahead. I need some help keeping my edge and staying cool with the young kids these days. Last night I went to deliver freshly-baked cookies to my upstairs neighbors who I had heard playing ping-pong earlier in the evening. Found out it was beer pong.
Jeremy
I *always* love shopping for school supplies… even when I’m not excited about classes starting.
Karen
Love those old school pencils! Also, am looking forward to the weather cooling down in September (hopefully)!
Rachel
I’ve been so tempted to try the quick jam you posted recently, and since the berry season is almost over, I need to get on that!
Janine Ingram
What a nifty prize box! Cheery supplies sure help take the drudgery out of school. Cookies help a lot too.
Laura
So excited for this year. After leaving college for 9 years to do the work and then mom thing, I’m going back to get my degree. Scaryexciting.
Reading your blog is encouraging and one of the high points of my day. I constantly share your recipes with my friends and sisters! Hoping to make the chocolate-seasalt-pecan cookies this week!
Maura
Grad students need gift boxes too!
Diane
Would love the cookbook. Just shared a cookie recipe with a teacher who actually asked me for the recipe last year and I forgot and have felt guilty every time I have seen her since. Finally got it off to her!
Courtney K
this would make my 19th (and probably last) year of going back to school even more amazing! and back to school is no fun if I’m not baking for everyone I know!
Jessica CY
JOY! Your podcasts and recipes have helped me survive college. Every thursday I listen to you and Tracey while attempting a recipe. Its my final year this fall and I’m looking forward to more JTB downtime to help curb the college stress and drama – keep the love coming!
E Choi
I love Sept because of so many birthdays. And I love school supplies too.
stephanie
you are so fun to read :) thanks for offering this super cute give away. every piece you’re including is a gem, specifically the cookbook. sending good vibes from memphis, tn.
Emily
I’m starting my junior year of college this semester and I’m actually not dreading it! Not really looking forward to it….but not dreading it either. But I do love the feeling, smells, and food of fall no matter what :D
Britt Harwell
I’m so excited to go back to school next Monday, this time as a teacher! Consequently I love all things back to school.
Shannon
I always loved setting out all my new back to school stuff out on my bed and figuring out what I should wear the first day!
Rachel
trying to figure out grad school. lame. but this is totally not lame, and the best collection of school supplies i’ve seen! fun!
emily
i love the fall! cool, crisp mornings. enjoying the early morning with a cup of coffee outside. bonfires. sweatshirts. love this giveaway!
stacy
I had weird back-to-school dreams for weeks leading up to the big day. Sadly, I am now having dreams about my kids returning to school.
Love the giveaway. We always celebrate with first day of school cookies.
Marissa
I love autumn. It’s my favorite season. Crisp air, colorful trees, the crunch of fallen leaves under your feet, and getting back into baking mode. What’s not to love?
elizabeth
Ooohhhh…washi tape is my new obsession. Thanks for being an enabler!
Lindsey Dugue
Oh man, these goodies would make good gifts for my fellow pastry chef friends (and some for my personal stasssssh, too)! Thanks for sharing your goodies with this giveaway!
Katie Truelove
I love this giveaway! You’re the best, Joy! I had a cookie smorgasbord for my birthday and we made your brown sugar cookies:)
meredith
I actually am going back to school next week! I could sure use some fun treats…
Rachel
Love it. I hope I win!
(p.s. 99¢ greeting cards at Trader Joes = great way to share and be thrifty.)
(p.p.s. I totally had to Google “how to make a cent sign on a mac” to make that ¢.)
(p.p.s. Clearly I was/am/probablywillalwaysbe a late bloomer too. So, high fives for that.)
Teri
Love love Autumn!!! Best season ever!!! Especially in New York. I now live in Hawaii which is beautiful but not quite the Autumns in New York!!! Wish me luck, I hope I win!!! :)
Erika
Oh, school supplies. I love them year-round. Paper products especially! My desk is overflowing because I cannot contain myself. For real. I’m excited about this giveaway!
Camille Cody
Is it considered ‘cool’ to not only wear slippers to the grocery store, but a face mask as well? (Yeah, that was my kind of cool in high school.)
Stephanie @ Food and Fitness 4 Real
Fall is my favorite time of year for baking, making pies and drinking fancy coffee drinks. (The colder weather is my excuse). As for back to school, this is my daughter’s first time starting school. She goes to kindergarten in one week!
toni marcellus
yesssss fall! i’ll make your sweet potato soup and goat cheese biscuits waaaay too much….
Allie
Love those paper straws! I might order some for the next time I have people over for dinner (during which I will of course serve a recipe from your site). Btw, your posts recently have been extra great. The glimpses into your daily joys and challenges always give me inspiration for how to lead a better life.
Robin (noteverstill)
At her request, I taught my four-year-old daughter how to make carrot soup. (She loved the immersion blending part the best.) It was the messiest love I have ever shown.
Emalee
I have made some of the best oatmeal cookies ever. Triple cranberry oatmeal cookies. I think you’d like them.
Steph
Ooh back to school! It’s almost time!
Janette Gallardo
This is probably the first time I’m excited about back to school because it will be the end of my undergraduate studies and I will finally be getting my Bachelor’s degree but if I were to win the giveaway that would totally put it over the top!
Connie R
I love fall, and no school supplies for me because I just finished my masters. YEA!
spicegal
I want all the above.
I also shared the cast iron cookie cake recipe and made it too!
Yum yum!
wendy
oh man, i would so so so LOVE to have everything in this giveaway!
Meredith Ellison
My favorite thing about “Back to School” was the fact that I was finally aloud to start my Christmas countdown. Also, I LOVED shopping for my new school shoes. Hated the clothes part….it was (and is still) all about the shoes ;-)
peachkins
Oh I would love that Joy the Baker Cookbook and everything else in that gift box!!!!
Megan
I am spreading the love by making my classroom warm and inviting for my students :)
Mary
The only good thing about September is the transition into sweater-weather! And it’s totally acceptable to start eating pumpkin flavored everything, which people seem to frown upon in June and July for some odd reason! :)
Jordan
new nail polish on my toes would make first day of classes so much more bearable!
Sarah Rachel
This is such a lovely assortment of things!
Melissa Calvin
Wow. What would it be like to have a first day of school again? How frightening in memory as it must be in “real life” now. Times have-a-changed since I’ve been in school, but I’m sure, most of the fundamentals are the same. Thanks for the giveaway.
Bree
Fall is my most favorite time of year!
Jackie
Ooooh man! This looks amazingly awesome in all sorts of ways!
I share all sorts of your recipes all the time, but for this occasion I’ll share your single lady pancake recipe with my facebook since it’s possibly the best thing evar.
Amanda
This is awesome! thanks
Amanda Teo
I am so excited for this giveaway! Thank you. I love your recipes and the inspiration you give to others who read your blog
JJ
I actually already own your book and I LOVE it. This package is too cute. I’m really liking the planner:)
gina
i love(d) back to school because i LOVE the school supplies! all these things make my heart go pitter patter…
yes, yes, i’m a nerd!
Bonnie
I just discovered your beautiful, amazing cookbook. I’m in love with every single recipe. Thank you Joy!
Kim
This would definitely make back-to-school more bearable!
patti iverson
Sept in 1950s always meant 5 new dresses for school, new pair of ugly, orthopedic type shoes, 5 new socks, underpants, new lunchbox, and many stern lectures. I could HARDLY wait to see who the teacher would be. Never rode a bus nor bought supplies–but ohhh, back to school was special for my twin Peggy and I! Summer vacation was great–but it was time for it to be over!
Elizabeth A.
Awesome possum – thank you for sharing the love, Joy! To pay it forward, I will share the recipe for my grandmother’s famous Mandelbread (their like little almond and cinnamon sugar biscotti) with the guests at my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary party this weekend. Thank you!
Louisa
What an incredibly cute giveaway! I’m always recommending your recipes… but I’m not ready to lend my book out just yet in case someone accidentally loses it!
Deanna
Ah! Back to school – what do I wear?!?! I don’t miss those days at all…
Angela
I can still recall the fresh smell of newly purchased pencils, trapper keepers, folders and notebooks. Organizing my backpack was always a fun “day before the first day of school” tradition. I suppose I failed at recognizing my own OCD behavior even as a youngster. Anyway! I love this giveaway, I love your amazing recipes especially when it comes to the joys of fall baking! Good luck everyone :)
Laura
Fun giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win!
Leila
Oh gosh what a great looking box…
I’ll second Theresa with the excitement of getting these gifts and going into Junior Year. It’s seriously frightening. Worse than right before jumping into a cold pool of water.
Katherine M
Dreading the first day of school was more my style. The end of my summer which was full of swimming pool time, outside playing from dawn to dusk, eating out on the porch, beach escapades, care free time ending was more than I could take.
Melissa
My son’s going into the 2nd grade! Time flies… You’ll see for yourself someday, Joy :-) lol I know, I know–motherhood talk scares you a bit. Anywho, I’m kinda ready for the Fall. I’m tired of shaving. Bring on the tights!!
Melanie
I love fall! What a cute giveaway!
Helena
I luuurve school supplies and also, cookbooks. Not to mention chocolate chip and macadamia cookies!
Amelia
This giveaway looks amaaazing! LOVE the straws!!
Seriously Sassy Mama
This is the most fun giveaway. This is what giveaways should be about!
Maggie
Is it weird that looking at these inedibles make my mouth water just like the sight of a plate of cookies would? The package you put together is JUST TOO ADORABLE! (and super useful of course)
Sophie @ happyspinach
I made my parents your brown butter chocolate chip cookies last weekend and they fell over. They absolutely love them!
This giveaway looks awesome! Those teddy bears are absolutey adorable!
pamfletcher
Have always loved school supplies!
(fingers crossed)
jesse blesch
fall is the best! fall would be even more fun with new supplies and a cookbook
Rukmani
I’m making cookies for the graduate class I’m instructing this semester. A class of 138. One giant chocolate chip cookie each. (This weekend is going to be fun!)
Mariee
Great giveaway! I love fall!
Dani
Dear Joythebaker,
I have been furiously shopping for a planner because my head is going to explode from the insanity of my new fall schedule. Everything I found was ugly. This is not ugly. This is adorable. I need it. It’s so adorable that it makes me want to clean my desk and leave out only the adorable things.
Thank you.
Magatha May
what a sweet giveaway… fingers and toes crossed
kanke
It has been 14 years since I last attended school but I would love a back to school kit like the one you made. I have been a huge admirer of those straws since I first saw them on your site.
Ashley - Baker by Nature
This is an adorable giveaway, lady! I still get the heebie-jeebies thinking about the first day of school! Boys… clothes… grades… EEk!
Pam
What a cute giveaway!!!! Fall is a time for baking for me.
I am sharing my favorite pumpkin bar recipe with my sister!!
Suze
Great giveaway! I love September and back-to-school, it’s means Fall is just around the corner. Hello sweaters, scarves and snuggling!
Lauren
Wishing I was back in school…
The Infamous
This is a cute and thoughtful idea. BTW, I’m a HUMONGOUS fan of your site.
Chessa
I love reading you’re blog! I use your recipes all the time!!!
I hope I win!
katrina
awesome back-to-school package. i just discovered your blog and it’s fantastic.
Laura
School has already started for me. I just finished my 3rd day teaching (first year). I have 9 students- 8 boys and 1 girl. It is going to be an interesting, but good year.
Oh, and I just wanted you to know, Joy, that your posts always make me smile. I think your name truly fits you, as you bring such little moments of joy into our lives.
Thanks!
Emma
Amazing! Always loved new school supplies and I am LUSTING after that planner!
Krista
Yay for back to school! As someone who works in elementary schools, it’s a love/hate feeling at the beginning of the year. :o) Cute giveaway!
Mandy
As I just started grad school today, this would be the perfect giveaway for me to win! Fingers crossed!
Emma F. C.
Fun stuff! Thanks!
Breana
I just love back to school and back to school shopping! I just couldn’t wait to start up my classes this semester! And I’ve totally been sharing the love in a new baking blog I made about a week ago after lots of encouragement from friends!
Btw, I’ve so been eyeing your cookbook for quite some time now! I flipped through the amazon preview pages, and love it so far!
gwen
what a great giveaway!
chelsea rendlen
I love all the gluten free you have been doing lately! its great
chelsea rendlen
I love all the gluten free you have been doing lately!
Jessica
You are my favorite. And my husband’s. You know because he thinks I’m awesome when I make your recipes.
Nicole Taylor
I think of Mentos, and I think of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLdJQFTnZfA&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
Sophia
Oh my, LOOK at all those lovely things. As a highschool student taking college classes this year (scary, trust me!) I could really use the sunshine right now. (I do have the cookbook already, though. I’m a cheater. It made my little brother’s birthday SO MUCH FUN.)
P.S. – Totally hearing you on the red nailpolish. I never leave home without wearing some sort of red.
Kendra
Love fall, hated back to school. I definitely had overalls which I adored and would wear everyday if allowed. Also, loving this giveaway!
Jamie Y
I’m not going back to school, but I am entering busy season at work, so fun school supplies do about the same thing with me! Plus, I would love the cookbook (to use once I actually have the time)!
Mariah
I’m going back to school this Monday, my senior year of college! It feels really weird that this will be my last first day of school (at least for a while). I have been going to school consecutively for 19 years including this upcoming year. What will I do with myself come next fall??Anywho, I’m going to share my new favorite brownie recipe with facebook, they’ll thank me later. Pleasant thoughts and wishes to you Joy, and to everyone else!
Cellabella
I’m adore back-to-school supplies, they’re the best thing about school! ;) Thank you for the giveaway!
Diane, A Broad
My ex (who is kind of one of my best friends now… it’s cool) has gotten into baking lately and keeps asking me for “[my] favorite _____ recipe.” Fill in the blank with: red velvet, bread pudding, etc. I keep sending him to your site. You’d think he’d have learned by now, eh?
Amy
After six years out, I’m going back to school to become a speech language pathologist (speech therapist) and every good speech therapist needs a copy of your new book! Thanks for the give away :)
Allison
I’m going back to school this fall myself: Masters in Education Policy. First day of classes is September 24, so if I win the giveaway, it will be just in time! But if I don’t, I’ll make myself a batch of my favorite snickerdoodles, which is a recipe shared with me by the cafeteria at my high school, and has just the right amount of cinnamon and clovey spices to make fall fragrant and not so back-to-school-scary.
Jennifer H
what a fun giveaway!!! i love back to school time…always fun to purchase new and exciting school supplies.
Andi
I love school supplies! And I actually do share your recipes with my mom!
Bekah Marie
This is so cute!!! I would love it for my junior year at college!!
Mary Margaret
Yay for give aways! I started my senior year of college on Monday. Life is rough. Nail polish makes things better.
Amanda
love this giveaway! and school supplies!
Theresa Kokkeler
I would love to take all these things and go on into my Junior year of High School!!!!!
Pam
Given the hot (and fire-y) summer I am looking forward to fall :)
Cool stuff
Aleese
I LOVED the first day of school…I was a sit-in-the-first-row, perfect-attendance, want-to-be-a-professional-student type of girl. WORK SUCKS!! :-)
Noelle
I share recipes with my family and friends all the time, gosh I wish they enjoyed cooking as much as I do!
annieD
I had forgotten until just now how much I hated the first day of school but how much I LOVED back-to-school shopping! It would take me a full 3 hours to pick out a single shirt. Still does.
Jana
your giveaway is so cool! it would be perfect for my first day back to school – there’s nothing better than pink nail polish, black and white bookmark tabs and a book full of recipes for lunch break!
Sara S
those hellohello bookmark stickies are so cute!
Jessicaisbaking
Ugh School. I went back on Monday. It is more than I can handle. This would be so fabulous. In the meantime, cookies will be made, eaten and shared with my loves.
Caroline
omgosh how adorable!
-smelly_troll@yahoo.com
Betsy Robinson
I would definitely choose these school essentials over regular college ruled paper and pencils!
kristina
this goodie box/bag would make fall so much happier!!! :)
Mariana Castro
What a fun little give away! I head back to school on Monday and would gladly use all of these cute supplies!
Jen
I’m super in love with that pack and would love it for my very own. Today is not a good baking day; I wanted to make pound cake, but I’m low on butter. I thought chocolate chip cookies, but damn it, no brown sugar. It’s fine, but argh.
coffeeaddict
darn, a whole lot of people want this bag of goodies. me too!
keeping my fingers crossed ;-)
love the font in the comment box!
Krista Lusby
I love school supplies! I think I have an unhealthy obsession with pens!
Melissa
I’m not in any position to give my friends life advice on Twitter (I could use plenty though!) so instead I’ll have to share a cookie recipe- maybe my favorite Hazelnut Chocalate cookie recipe from Giada!
Rachel
this would definitely start off my freshman year in college to a good start!
Erin
I remember always being excited for back to school, secretly hoping that people thought I’d become more attractive over the summer. Now I still look forward to back to school although it means the end of summer.
Lizzie P
Best give-away ever. You picked out some really great things!
AlisonBCD
I teach middle school…so I don’t know about the rest of the country, but around here the dread starts mounting in August…we’ve been at it for 3 weeks already, and I get more fall-phobic than any of my students ever thought about getting. Nothing makes you feel as simultaneously young and old as teaching 14 year-olds who think 33 is knocking on death’s door :)
Carolyn
Great giveaway! As a teacher, I am always looking for great supplies!
Kendall
Such an awesome giveaway! Reminds me of in You’ve Got Mail when Tom Hanks says he would send a bouquet of sharpened pencils to Meg Ryan if he knew her address. I love your blog!
Melanie
How fun! I love the newness of supplies and the potential of back-to-school, but sure hate to let summer and my kids go!
Savannagal
What a cute giveaway. It would be great for one of my nieces.
Bonnie
I miss the excitement of starting school. Screw being old =/
Robin
I love school supplies! And fall! There’s so much potential!
Jordan
My favorite part of going back to school has always been the supplies, and these are adorable [and so necessary]. Lovely giveaway!
Carolina
Meeeeee! Pick me!! :)
Carrie
I was never a fan of the first day of school either (shy shy shy) but I had… okay, HAVE a mad love for school supplies. :) Thanks for the awesome giveaway! And I’m sharing some coconut-chocolate cookies today! :)
Grubarazzi (@Grubarazzi)
what a cute giveaway! I remember the absolute dread I felt preparing for the first day of school, but also how excited I was to show of my new clothes from the gap. LOL. Oh, those were the days.
Joey
My six year old son had his first day of first grade today. I was jealous of his back to school supplies! I think I need some of my own. :) And his first no school day will be a cupcake baking day, so I would LOVE to have your cookbook to guide us!! My friend brought in some of your cupcakes, and it totally made my day when she saved the last one just for me!!! Fantastic!
YarnBabe
Pick me! Pick me!
I am needing school stuffs for my normal life : )
Thanks a many! Now, it’s the time to make some great cooks ? Yum!
Abigail
I am so so ready for fall! I’ve been working in Houston for the summer and I’ve been dreaming of chunky sweaters and football and pumpkin pie for weeks now! Thanks for the lovely giveaway!
Dana
The first thing I’ve found that will actually make me glad it’s getting toward the end of summer. I’m just not in the soup, extra layers, and dark before 9 o’clock mindset yet!
sarah
I really need to get on buying your cookbook.. if I don’t win, that is!
Sarah @ pão e queijo
Sharing the waffle love with my flatmate! Cute giveaway ;)
ashliec
so adorable. fall is by far my favorite season and even though i haven’t had to “back-to-school” shop for a while now, i still buy a student planner every year as my calendar. weird, i know…
Corinne
I’m heading to London this Fall to go back to school. 28, why not? Baking is my destresser and friend-maker, so I’m going to have lots of fun sharing your recipes – especially that cobbler from earlier this summer! I made it with cherries and it was delicious! Also, I’ve been making your smoothies all summer to get fit. Gotta look cute for Camden.
Wish me luck! MFA Creative Producing. Hope to help theatre-makers make art and get paid. Love your work, love your recipes. Happy Fall!
Sarah L
What a great giveaway! I’d love to get my hands on all of it but especially your cookbook!
Elle
This is amazing!! I still have two more weeks of summer left ^.^
Christine Witmore
I would love to get your cook book! I love your blog, though I’ve never commented before. One of my favorite recipes of yours is the Grapefruit Scones- so delicious!
Courtney
Do we think that being more excited for school to start than summer to start is a good thing or bad thing? I mean hello boots and scarves. So ready for you to be back in my life.
Avery Harrison
So excited for fall despite that fact that it means far less lazy mornings with my kids. I hope I’ll get to create some fabulous goodies from your cookbook during lazy weekends with my kids!
Tanja @ Playful and Hungry
Aw, what a cute give away! Plus I’d love to have that book…
Growing up in Europe, back to school wasn’t such a big deal as it is in the US. They have shorter breaks but more… so there’s always another short brake!
Kerstin M
I have three going back to school — elementary, middle, and high school. I love buying the crayola crayons, Elmer’s glue, and supplies that remind me of elementary school. The 3-inch binders, highlighters and calculators that I buy for my older kids, however, bring back much different memories. It’s always sad to see summer end, but I do love the anticipation of a new school year and the sight of yellow busses and fresh faces on the first day.
Jenny
Great giveaway. I’m mostly interested in your book, but the other stuff looks nice as well, especially the mentos.
I shared a zucchini pancake recipe with my mom, then made them for her, and they turned out great. Then I shared a lemon zucchini cake recipe with her, and that turned out not-so-great, but the pancakes were definitely a win.
Lucy
One of my favorite back to school memories is picking out my Charlie’s Angels tin lunchbox. You know, the old fashioned kind that latched on the top with the plastic handle, like a little briefcase? I was about 10 when I got it and I was so excited I can still remember it like it was yesterday!
Heidi L
Autumn is my favorite season – sleeping with the windows open again, good apples for pie, and have temps low enough to wear flannel shirts, drink tea, and snuggle in blankets!
Leslie Janikowsky
School Supplies are one of my favorite things ever! Love this give away idea!!
Sarah
polished nails is the right way for back to school
Gwyn M
School starting makes me think about baking…and cookies are one of my favorite memories about returning home from school – my mom would sometimes have a treat for us that included warm chocolate chip cookies and milk.
Caitln Hitch
Can’t wait for fall! And so glad I’m over school days!
Naomi
I really wish I was still back-to-schooling. I am such a nerd.
Nichole
Those are some fun supplies, I always loved school except that it usually started on my birthday which was no fun!
Eliza Smithson
Mmmm cookies :) In the spirit of back to school, though I’m sharing your Lemon Blueberry Poppyseed muffins because A) who doesn’t love muffins? and B) What parent wouldn’t feel good about sending their kids off with some beautiful healthy-ish muffins covered in fabulous topping? I’m not a parent, but if I was, I’d be all over that.
Virginia
Ohhhhh I really really hope I win! I’m going to need your lovely book to help me survive the dreadful Swedish winter! How nice it would be to turn the pages with my beautiful orange and red nails and mark in my brand new planner the recipes that will spice up my life!
Lauren V.
What a fun giveaway! School supply shopping was always one of my favorite parts of the summer! Going to school to actually use said supplies…not so much.
Kristan C.
I have been slowly making my way through your recipes on your blog and LOVE them! Would love to have the cookbook to try even more recipes!!
Alice C.
Adorable!
Erika Cap
I hated going back to school (seriously late bloomer here — I was still growing my freshman year of college!) BUT I love new supplies — a new planner can make a girl feel invincible!
Janae
I’ve been feeling the back to school vibes, as well!
Also I love the lines “Let’s work with the change. Let’s treat ourselves.” Thanks for this!
Nic
Im in what feels like my 10th year of college studying criminal justice and the idea of using bear-shaped erasers in a class full of future cops and criminal lawyers amuses me to no end. : )
Jenna
I love your site, and the way you write, you are truly inspiring, thank you for sharing so much and being you!!
Olivia
This is such an awesome giveaway! And I reallllllly want your cookbook! the school supplies are awesome too :P
Christie
I soooooo want your cookbook!!! Come on random drawing…pick me!!!
nicole
woops. trying again. commented on a different post by accident.
i had some serious overalls in grade 9. the question is: one strap or two? love this little giveaway.
Lisa P.
What a great giveaway! Fall is my favorite time of year. I look forward to the cooler temperatures, the change in colors, the baking, purchasing pumpkins at the local farmers market and snuggling in on a chilly evening to watch a movie or read a good boy!
Angie
Yea, my kids could use the supplies and I looove mentos!
Anne
This is so cute of you! Ahh….back to school, don’t miss it one bit!
Alison
this is so cute! Joy, I used to share your dread of September but now that it means leaving home to go back to college, I couldnt be more excited!
Karen Moynier
I remember being placed in the same classroom with my twin sister, every year of grade school.. The worst part was, we were always given one set of books to share. Each time there was an open book test, one of us was always in trouble for whispering, even though we were only asking to use the book. When I see the wonderful give-a-way, it reminds me of the joys of school, including wonderful friendships.
Anna
To quote “You’ve Got Mail:” “I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils, if I knew your name and address.”
I love fall. Now that I am no longer a student, things seem way less anticlimactic.
Michele P.
here in Maine, even though it’s still summer the nights are getting cooler and it won’t be long before back to school is upon us. fun school supplies are always in demand here-I also love the cooler weather for baking… I can almost smell the fresh baked apple pie in the oven lol. Thanks for the chance and enjoy the rest of your week
Jane Highstreet
I guess this is my second year of life not going back to school….but it still feels like life since being done has just been one prolonged summer. Hope the feeling lasts….
Anyhow, since I am selfish I did the opposite of sharing a recipe. I emailed the friend who made my wedding (carrot) cake and asked for the recipe….because I know I will not be able to wait until my first anniversary to have another bite :)
Meredith
Haven’t had to worry about that first day of school for several years now. I do, however, get the urge to shop for school supplies every year about this time…once the temperature drops enough for me to get a whiff of Fall, I crave colorful new notebooks and freshly sharpened pencils. It always comes right before the “Everything I bake must have pumpkin in it!” craving kicks in.
Allyson
Since we haven’t really had summer yet in S.F., I’m excited for fall and some warmer temps. Also super excited for this cool giveaway. Thanks for helping make life fun.
Natalie
Back to school has always been one of my favorite times of years. It’s always a good time to start something new! I’ve got a birthday this Friday and will be using my brand new bunt cake and your best ever chocolate bunt cake recipe!
sarahannerw
I always hated the first day, because I always had to pronounce my last name! I envied the smiths and millers! but the best was the new school supplies!
Angela
After four months of applying for “real jobs,” grad school is starting to look oh-so-sweet. These objects would be perfect!
Katherine Lee
Our college just gave my friend and I eight hundred dollars so we can make cookies and cupcakes and stuff for everyone in our dorm’s birthday. Needless to say, even more time will be spent on your website this term!
GingerMae
I always dreaded the part where the teacher calls role call the first day of classes. Not only did I not like my name those days, I was petrified they would pronounce it wrong. Correct: Ginny (like Gin n Juice) Incorrect: Pronounced with a hard G (Guinea). Yes it happened. All the time! Kids laughed, I cringed and they even wrote Pig after my name when I got my name written on the board. (Guinea Pig) Ahhh, school memories!
Alex
Love this box, and your sentiments in general! No matter how old I get, fall always seems to be a time of change, both good and bad. I’d love to enter the season cooking with your cookbook :-)
Laura
Aww this is a lovely gift. I have only recently discovered your blog and every time I visit this page it puts me in a great mood. as well as feeling extremely hungry!… Have already tried a few recipes, genius!
Laura.
Nary
I want mentos.
Kara
What a fun giveaway! The changing seasons are fun… back to school is… not.
Kara
I love fall! Back to school, school supplies, the weather in the midwest is beautiful, college football….My favorite time of year by far!
Daniela
Joy you make me laugh! I’m digging the paper straws! <3
Alison
Can’t wait to check out your cookbook!
Michelle
Ooh, thanks! I would love to win these things.
Val
No more school for me but I still love the supplies and I adore pretty stationery. Joy–your blog always makes me smile. Thank you for your sharing your life!
Claudia L
I had Sally Jesse Raphel glasses all through middle school in addition to the ill-fitted clothes I wore….yet I was always mystified at being called a dork! Now I’m watch my little guy get all ready for his first day of second grade and all I think is, “Whew. There but for the grace of God….” Luckily, he is waaaaayy cooler then I ever was!
Jessie M
When I was a kid, I loved going back to school (especially due to the plethora of new school supplies). Here’s hoping my kids are that excited!
Rebecca
I love this giveaway, and I love your blog! The planner looks fantastic. Also, September makes me feel nervous too, although I love it because that means fall is coming soon… :)
Rachel
Down in the deep South September = Beach. Beach > School. Woo Hoo!
Sarah
I have the exact same feelings as you for before school starts… I start next week :( I love this giveaway and your blog though!! I love making chocolate chip cookies and so I will definitely send that recipe out.
Jen
I have my last first-day-of-school (well, law school) coming up, and as a student, I’m always on the lookout for fun school supplies (as well as recipes to bake while procrastinating!). Thanks Joy!
Victoria
Hi Joy,
I love the back to school season, buying a new planner and stationary. Here in Blighty there’s a great store called Paperchase that caters to all my stationary and crafting needs. Next time you’re in London you should check out their flagship store on Tottenham Court Road, I just know you’ll love it.
Oone of my work colleagues has a glut of blackberries so I will be sharing your Berry Cobbler Pie Bar recipe with them!
Jenny K
Ah…the first day of school. I love the promise of unsharpened pencils and empty comp books. And that smell, the almost crispness of fall with the slight hint of summer scent still lingering in the air.
But indeed I was awkward, all through my school years. And maybe still am a little but I have embraced the uniqueness and wouldn’t change a thing.
You made me crack up about the overalls…that was so me!! That and the spiral perm and curled bangs, one layer up…one layer down. My little sister was the one rocking the Blossom hat!
This week I’m sharing Tracy Shutterbean’s ‘Carnival Cookies’ with my family. My son is dairy allergic and completely addicted to popcorn and this is the perfect treat for him.
LOVE your blog and your podcast is on the list of my weekly highlights! Thank you for sharing your world with us :)
allyson
i always loved back to school time – it means fall and football and hooded sweatshirts and hot chocolate are on their way!
emily
i’m not in school but i still totally need this.
Chelsea
absolutely love this giveaway! actually…most excited about the cookbook! =) thanks for the chance to win!
Michelle
What a great selection! I love it all :)
Nicole Tidman
Back to school is a very exciting time, especially when you’re a teacher! Along with being a teacher comes an automatic obsession with supplies, and your goodies are no exception. :) Love all your recipes, and wonderful advice as well! Your blog is always full of inspiration, and it’s hard not to pass that along. So thank you! Oh, and thanks for doing a giveaway, too! :)
Amanda
Love this giveaway! I love feeling the shift in weather as fall approaches, and I love fall! Apples, pumpkins, and lots of baking :) I miss the first day of school and the anticipation of seeing who is in your classes and who your teachers are. Loved back to school shopping!
laura
I love september and the start of baking everything pumpkin!
Eliz
I love the fall so much! I’m planning to make an apple pie this weekend – my apple tree produced a bunch of apples this year!
Lauren
since my boss just quit, i’m thinking i can go on a little school supply binge to make all the new work i’ll have to do just sliiiiiiiiiiightly better. thanks for always making my day a little brighter!
Amy Feltner
What a great idea! Back to school time is the best. There’s something about fun, new supplies that help you start off on the right foot for a new school year!
Janelle
My stomach hurt and my palms were SWEATING this morning getting ready to start my fourth year of college. Why why why?! Thanks for letting me know I’m not alone in the anxiousness.
Miranda
Back to school is my favorite time of year! Cute supplies make it even better.
Sanu
School supplies were the BEST and only good part of back-to-school in my opinion…nothing beats brand new notebooks and pens! Joy the Baker, your posts always make my day:-)
Heather Lopez
Your blog makes me smile. Plain and simple. THANK YOU!
Becca
What a great way to start a new season! I love all the lovelies that you added to this ‘kit’! Fingers crossed!
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Karen
I’m kinda bummed that I won’t be able to browse all the back to school-things when I actually go back to school in January. Ah well, I’ll do some ‘prep’ early I guess.
lauren k
so cute! leaving for college in a week, back to school jitters are definitely present as i start my new adventure!
Vernetta M. West
Everything is soo expensive these days. I have three children to purchase school suppies for. A little help is al
Kelly
what a good idea! thanks for doing this!
tracie
my favorite time of year! it’s all about new beginnings.
grace
Dear Joy, I would love love love love love love to have your cookbook in my kitchen! I actually don’t have any cookbooks as I do it old school style jotting down your recipes by hand (no printer). This would be an awesome win (so would a printer, but your cookbook would take care of that!)
LPT
BEST GIVEAWAY! I love this iea, and I would veeeery much like to dig through your cookbook. I’ve been baking zucchini bread, as my CSA has it out the wazoo and we can’t eat it fast enough.
Katy F
Ohhh, this is going to be my last back-to-school for a while, and possibly forever. Yikes. (I actually graduate with my bachelor’s degree in mid-November! Bonkers!) As for sharing the love, I just did a recipe swap with my mom’s best friend! She gave me her deeelicious poppyseed quickbread recipe, and I traded my favorite brownie recipe. :)
David
Love the site! Keep doing what you are doing! Hope I win this for my wife. She loves your site!
Jenni
Shopping for school supplies was my favorite part of going back to school — the rest was just SO awkward!
Monica
already commented on the fb accidentally…
Oh well. I picked out my outfit for my first day of med school this week just like the nervous middle schooler I always was. Despite all the work it was usually a flop (cargo pants, anyone?). HOWEVER, I’ve always had a guilty passion for school supplies.
Thanks for the pistachio chocolate chip cookies recipe the other day. Shared those with some new classmates/coworkers. Baked good are always my best bet as a shy one to make new friends.
Annie Lee
I’m going to make my parents your gooey chocolate cakes just for the heck of it! Thanks for the idea. I’m definitely nervous for my first day of college!
Imogen
Wow- what an amazing and original giveaway! I wold share a cookie recipe, but my younger sister is the one who does all the cookie baking and as she already has tons of recipes, I won’t burden her with another… except maybe these reallly good dark chocolate and sea salt ones I found on I Talk To Food!!
Mej
Aww, this is so cute and seasonally appropriate. Which also describes Joy :)
Kristen M.
What a cute giveaway! I am loving the paper straw kick everyone is on but sadly I haven’t bought myself any. I am afraid I would hoard them and never let anyone us them. HA!
Carrie @ Bakeaholic Mama
Do you think I can still get away with the gap overalls at 28? I totally owned SEVERAL pairs. That paired with my BF’s oversized hoodie and I was stylin! x-files…. OH man that took me back.
Carmen C
Oh, how I love new school supplies. Even when going go college I couldn’t wait to get that new, fancy mechanical pencil and new notebooks. The first day of school, however, I just wanted to crawl in a dark hole until it was over.
Beth Button
I love school supplies. Actually, I love school. Which is why I’m a teacher!
Kelly Ann
That planner looks adorable! Being a teacher, Sept. is stressful, but exciting too–just like fancy pencils.
Nat
Slippers at the grocery store? AMEN!
BTS y’all! <3
Thanks for spreading the awesomeness JOY!
Marissa
I love September. I’m no longer in school, but I still feel the tug of the school supplies aisle, and usually have to indulge in some new pens, notebooks, and a fun office supply (adorable pushpins made it into the basket this year). Now I’m dating a teacher, so I have that as an excuse to stock up on supplies to donate to his class. I think I’m going to go bake cookies for the teachers lounge now.
allegra
I will make chocolate cake with dreamy chocolate frosting.
Andrea
Somehow I decided that going back to school was a good idea. The one upside is shopping for school supplies!
allegra
I would LOVE your book! Great writing and recipes.
YUM
cynthai
Thanks for sharing this lovely book and supplies. I can’t wait to look at your fabulous recipes and read more and
make something yummy!
Barb D
Always loved back to school and the fall.
This year marks my first non-back to school. My son graduated last year from high school and is now getting ready to go into the army. So no back to school shopping for me.
I already own your GREAT cookbook so if I should win, I will give the cookbook to my sister who I am always sharing recipes/food with.
Jean
I love back-to-school time, but then again, I was a late bloomer too and a big nerd. I’m in my mid-thirties now but still get excited when I see the back-to-school supplies at stores. I always walk through the aisles! Plus, September is my birthday month!
Sandra Rodriguez
Awesome giveaway!!! September can be tiresome but I look forward to Autumn because that’s when I get back into the kitchen and start baking, also start gaining the pounds back. Oh well I can always take a walk outside while eating warm out of the over cookies!
Jessica
Hi Joy! I love the idea of this giveaway-its so fun! I have always been pretty excited about back-to-school for some reason…I’m just weird like that. But I didn’t like getting a boatload of homework! I’ve been looking at your cookbook for a while and it would be amazing to have it; I can only imagine the amazing recipes you must have created for it! Thanks for this awesome giveaway!!
Kelsey
Wow, this looks soooo neat! I love reading your blog, AND your cookbook! My library has it and I’ve had it checked it out for a shamefully long time……( more than once actually!) I would love to have it available at my fingertips 24/7.
P.S. Made the spicy curry ketchup recently, and my whole family loved it!
Rachelle M
These are adorable! I only liked the first day of school, because we actually didn’t do any school work and it was great to catch up with friends! After that I couldn’t wait for the last day.
Liisa
I saw the first maple that had turned color this year… I need biscotti and roast vegetables. Lots of both.
Lexsea
As an elementary school teacher, I get to relive those first day of school jitters every year! Am obsessing over washi tape and plan on getting some for the classroom. Thanks for offering up another amazing giveaway!
Mollie V.
Great giveaway, JOY! I loved all the new things about the first day of school. New clothes, new school supplies, new shoes… I still miss the school supplies and often find myself in that aisle at Target, when I have neither a class to take nor children to buy it for!
dawnb
Great giveaway! I used to love school so much, I was such a geek :) Now I just have a desk in a spare room but it absolutely needs supplies and a Joy The Baker Cookbook! My nails are also in need of love, the are pretty long and healthy looking, but boy are the naked, it seems such a waste! :) Thanks Joy :)
Ashley C.
Fun giveaway! I love this blog. I pinned your PB blondies to Pinterest.
krystal
I made chocolate chunk walnut cookies last week for a friend’s birthday. He got 24 cookies – 23 for his age and an extra for good luck, or just because everyone needs more cookies.
I’m not in school anymore but I do work at a college. I think getting everything ready for 65 different lab classes is still less intimidating than the first day back!!
Love your blog. I’ve made your brown sugar waffles twice this month!! They are the only amazing waffle recipe I have found that doesn’t require me to break my arm whipping egg whites.
erica
i’ve never been so excited for back-to-school as i am right now :) fun giveaway, joy!
mei
i am about to start college in a week (yes, i’ve been reading your blog as a high school student…) and i’m both nervous and excited! your awesome recipes have let me share my love for my friends many, many times… the cappuccino cookies are my favorite btw :)
sarah
This is such an exciting giveaway! :)
Elena Tsentas
Love your recipes and I love school! …also X Files
SMum
Dang September!
Sam
Here’s to my 22nd, my last, first day of school. Nail polish and cupcakes. Just what I need to ease the pain of an era’s end. Thanks for a consistently lovely read, Joy!
Sanaa
Is it terrible that I kind of miss school? Let me be more specific – I miss college. That was fun, classes were fun, and there was way less drama than middle & high school. The downside to fall is that all the great produce that we’ve been enjoying stops. The upside is fall baking! And Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes. I think that’s a fair trade.
Marissa
back to school was always my favourite time of the year. maybe that’s because i had (and still have) a raving stationary addiction.
Sam
Here’s to my 22nd, my last, first day of school. Nail polish. And cupcakes. Just what I need to soften the pain of an era’s end! Thanks as always for a consistently lovely read, Joy!
Tess
All totally essential things for a college girl like me. Pick me, random.org, pick me!…Please?
Lana
I love this site! I love all the stories that go along with the recipes!
Delia R
I’d love to win this!! thanks so much for the giveaway!!!:)
Mona Chamhidray
“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.” -Kathleen Kelly, You’ve Got Mail
Joy K
I love school supplies! Even now that I’ve been out of school for awhile, I still love it.
Winning this kit would be awesome, a gift to Joy from Joy :)
Shelbie
What a JOY it would be to have your cookbook right before the semester starts. After all, I am a broke college kid!! (: Love you Joy, look forward to your posts everyday. And thanks for the sharing your favorite photo editing apps. they’re awesome!!!
Courtney @ Bake. Eat. Repeat.
I love, love, love this time of year! (And not because I avoided awkward first days of school. I think my curly bangs and colored waist high jeans were just so awful I’ve been forced to repress the memory). I think it’s because I like sweaters and boots and bonfires (and also because I hate humidity and mosquitos which seems to be the definition of summer in Ohio).
Fall would be even more awesome if it contained presents. Just sayin.
AliciaC
Love this! I remember how important it was to select the ‘right’ supplies. Bring on fall!
victoria williams
i love the back to school season. fall is my favorite time of year and i just love that you are doing such a cool giveaway.
margie s
I think I’ll make brownies . . .
Leah N
Summer is truly my favourite seasons but once mid-August hits I get reeeeally excited for fall! I can’t wait for apple cider and falling leaves. Boots and scarves. So pumped!
Margaret
Do you still have nightmares about the END of the school year- you know, the one where you realize you’ve never been to the class in question and don’t even know how to find the room where you’re supposed to be taking the final exam?? I hate that dream! Almost as much as first day of school jitters- YUCK! So prefer chocolate chip cookies. So going to make some for myself tonight!
Laurie
such a fun giveaway! i agree that the back-to-school season always makes me jittery too, but i am excited for fall to come…time for pumpkins galore and tons of fun fall recipes!
Ludwien
What an awesome give-away! I love love love school supplies, for me the best part of school is buying new supplies! Already in the first weeks of the holidays i’m thinking about how i would order my binders and looking on so many sites and into so many magazines to find the nicest way. I just love it, it’s what makes school fun! I’m completely in love with the planner, it’s just awesome! I’m someone who wants to write everything down, I’ve like 3 agendas with totally the same information :’) And ow, i’m so curious about the cooking book! Looks great! xx
lauren
i just finished grad school, and i already miss it. . .
Kelly
Love this Joy! Definitely a way to defy first day jitters even when I don’t have to face them anymore!!
Claire
My “back to school” days are limited so I am trying to enjoy them while I can. This giveaway is killer :)
T
As a recent grad of post-secondary school, I am jonesing so hard for a thick stack of lined hilroy paper. Who will I discuss Cold War antics with?? Likely my professors who I have befriended on the side.
I am sending my momma a granola recipe that is laced with big shags of coconut flesh, maple syrup, raw cacao, goji berries all of that kind of business. We usually take long glorious hikes in the hinterland. Snacks are key!
I am starting a new job so the day planner would be killer. As a former project manager, that sort of thing really gets me jazzed.
Brooke
You are a constant source of inspiration!
Kristy
This is an amazing giveaway. You’re amazing!
Hillary
fun idea!
Teresa
I’m not in school but my favorite part of school was always the school supplies so I’d love to get my favorite part back!
kelly
I would cherish your cookbook as much as a cherish cookies.
Karen H.
So cute! I was also a late bloomer… didn’t really find my stride until my senior year of college–when I decided that I’m weird and if you don’t like me, it’s not my problem.
I was always excited about the beginning of the school year; I think I had some hidden hope that this year would be different, this year I would do everything I always wanted to do socially, have a boyfriend, lose the weight. By Homecoming, dreams were smashed. Sigh.
Here’s to not ever going back to high school again!
Mrs. Yancey
Love this! I’m still in school so the first day of school is a mix of excitement and dread, ha!
Priya Sreeram
back to school- wowee; love this giveaway and this September I am actually going back to college. A mother of 2 kids and I just can’t wait for the session to begin. Much love joy !
Erin
I always loved back to school season! Now I get so excited shopping for my girls. This fun package would add to the giddy-ness!
Lisa
Love this time of year-back to school and all! Ready to make some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and have a Carmel apple dipping night, go for a hayride, pick apples at the orchards, eat an embarrassing amount of candy corn
and cozy up for a bonfire. So over this heat. Come on fall-let’s do this!
Natalie Cartwright
Absolutely love the Back to School Season and was afraid I would miss out on the excitement since I am abroad for study but this just proves that it can be celebrated anywhere in the world! Love (: n
Jen
JOY! This is my very very last year of back to school (so help me God!) and I’d love to start it with such awesome free stuff. So fun. Here’s to fall!
Lauren
I think I will need to make something appley and cinnamony once September rolls around. Nothing like that warm smell on a fall day.
Crista
Hi Joy! I shared a ton of recipes with my cousin when I gave her your cookbook for her wedding shower! Thanks for making a special gift so simple :)
My fingers are crossed to win the giveaway, since I gifted the cookbook and do not yet have a copy of my own!
xx
Crista
Kimber-Leigh
i have an amazing recipe for coffee bean cookies. i think i’ll make some this week for a friend!
your giveaway looks fabulous! (and you’re not the only one who felt that way about AP courses!)
liz
I’m starting grad school next week. So the September jitters are still so real for me. I’ll absolutely paint my nails a bold color this weekend to keep myself chic (what? I don’t know what that is either). But no matter how nervous I get, I’m still such a nerd for crisp brand new notebooks and pencils.
Kristen
This is such a great idea! I’ve been eyeing your book, and who can say no to straws and nail polish? Not this girl.
Pam
This is so exciting!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE back to school!
A backpack filled to overflowing with new school supplies!
My favorite outfit and new shoes!
My hair freshly cut!
I wish I could start back to school!
I guess I will settle to buy my grandson his school supplies.
sinnela
I’m a teacher, so the first day of school is still a very real thing for me. :) Also, being on the other side of things, I can say that teachers and students have all the same feelings on the first day of school…
Rachael B
Anyone else remember the mentos commercial where the guy gets paint on his suit from sitting on a wet bench? so he just rolls around on the bench to make these perfect even stripes all the way down? they’re kind of saying “if life gives you lemons, eat a mentos.” weird mentos marketing people – but i get you.
Regina
I always wanted my mom to be the type who would buy me lots of colored pencils for no good reason and then bake cookies for my after-school snack. That would have made my education complete.
Gabby
Monday was MY KIDS (2 1/2 & 4) first day of school! They were so excited and so cute! I’m in HOT Houston so i’m thanking God Sept is coming….. the kids look even cuter in their uniforms with the matching cardigans.
Beth
I have a 9 year old that lives for new school supplies…Starts asking in June to go supply shopping. I could live in summer forever.
This giveaway would make my fall transition smoother….and a little girl very happy. :)
Phoebe
So behind you on the red and purple polish for the start of school.
Katherine
What a fun care package! I am so happy my school days are over, unfortunately “back to school” is engraved in me and I always get anxiety this time of the year. I constantly have to remind myself that I am an adult and that my life/schedule will not change at the end of August, summer will peacefully blend into autumn!
PS I bought your book a few weeks ago but wouldn’t mind an extra copy for my sister!
Eleanor
Ooh! This would definitely soften the blow of going back to school, yet again.
Lisa
awesome giveaway! ugh school was so awkward for me too! I dreaded it and now that I am out (10 years now) I have grown to love who I am and have evolved to! :)
Marla
Ohhh the first day of school. How I hated it. But oh my how I loved the fresh school supplies. I love to hang out in the office supply isle at the store.
Elizabeth
I’m about to begin my very first year teaching, and this would be such a cool thing to start off with :-)
Nichole@DulceDelicious
Such an awesome giveaway! I love that you included mentos. Totally proof that you’ve gotten cooler in your thirties!…not that I knew you in your twenties but, I don’t recall you ever doing a give away that included mentos in your twenties so, by default, you must be cooler! :p
Helen
Yay!! I love fall and all of the cool air, crackling leaves and garden harvest! It’s not cool enough to start making soups yet but I have started making cookies each week for the kids! Penut butter cookies, orange cookies (my favorite) and ginger snaps. Yum.
SoMD Baker
Most awkward first day of school: freshman year in high school. All the guys I knew from middle school got a foot taller (finally I wasn’t Gigantor anymore!) which made them even more intimidating, and I went for slacker chic (read: sweatshirt and cutoff shorts) which happened to be encapsulated in a year book picture. My ONE yearbook appearance outside of the extremely awkward canned photos.
Upside to Fall: Apple picking! Love it, can’t get enough of it! I suggest you take a weekend trip to visit your sister and go apple picking up yonder in the hippie north.
amy beth
i have your cookbook BUT i would love another to give to my brother and his almost wife (30 days!) and paper straws rock my world.
Leslie-Anne
What a fun gift pack. I actually like back to school – always have! September holds so much promise, it’s like the real new year for me.
Maya
Aw man, am I glad school’s over. However, I’m still tied to the education system in my 3rd year of college now, so I could sure use some of those pencils! Something to make quantum physics a bit cheerier this semester – and maybe sharing cookies will help also! :)
Mary Lynn
Sending my best zucchini bread recipe to my far-away-bestie! Thanks for all the love, Joy!
-mary lynn
Anne-Marie
Sweet giveaway! I’m in! Now to decide which recipe to share…
Ruby
September is when my real life starts, so maybe its less of ‘back to school’ and more of a moving forward, as far away from school as possible. Either one works for me…
Jenn Mac
I just ordered that planner. Don’t love the color, but the design is terrific. Great selections!
Carine
We made cookies for two sets of new neighbors who just moved in. Does that count?
Thanks for the giveaway, very fun!
Mandy`
LOVE!!! I love fall and back-to-school supplies! I don’t get to buy myself any these days but I get to buy them for my kiddos, which is nearly as fun (these teachers have become VERY specific about supplies). I REALLY would LOVE to win this box of goodies!! And I LOVE you Joy and think you have always been cool- you were just too cool to know it!
Zita
When you posted this giveaway photo on Instagram I knew I want to win these amazing stuff so badly! :) Fingers crossed!
Erika
I’ve been passing out your chocolate bundt cake with the sour cream chocolate ganache to everyone this week. It is so delicious and so easy. We are currently on the road, driving to CA from the East coast with two little girls and our cat. This back to school box would be a great welcome to CA gift :). Thanks for your blog! I love what you write and how you write it–
Colleen
making these this weekend! thanks joy :)
Evie
Autumn is my favourite season. Crisp clear days. Russet colours. Woodsmoke. Knitting and embroidering by the fire. Hot tea and stem ginger cookies. I share this recipe all the time…it’s amazing. My eldest starts school in two weeks, so we are starting a new generation of “back to schools”. What fun!
Kayla
love back to school season, even better now that i just graduated college in may! into the real world now, but i still get those “fresh start!” feelings :)
Melissa
SOooooo cute! I love this….it makes me so sad I’m no longer “in school” – i used to love picking out new supplies at staples as a kid…..so if I bring this to work (I’m a pediatric resident) maybe I can pretend im back in school :)
Kate @eatrecyclerepeat
Always happy to share the JtB love! I always loved going back to school shopping for supplies, but I never liked the act of going back to school itself either.
Dunja
Getting the new school supplies is about the only thing good about going back to school.:)
Zoe Paterson
Oh, it is too painfully adorable! I am going to share my favourite Maple and Walnut cookies with my dear friend all the way across the country (which is a serious distance for an Australian!) :)
Katamelie
I have always been incredibly excited in the last few days of August, and my favourite activity was to buy new supplies for school :)
Thank you for the giveaway :)
xo,
Kata
Karen Moynier
I’ve been baking for hours today, and the kitchen smells heavenly. Despite looking as if a flour bomb exploded in there. I’ll be delivering these cookies to all my neighbors, hoping it will be a great way of introducing myself.
Elena @ Randomly Happy
I never could say no to back to school supplies. Visualising drinking milk from those straws. Doodling with those pencils. And covering things in washi tape. Sounds like a solid September. *crossing fingers*
x Elena @ Randomly Happy
Meghan Erkel
I can’t wait to get my hands on your cookbook! Okay lie, I’m in it for the mentos!
Lauren
Thank you for including the international readers!
Nicola
I love cookbooks & ‘back to school supplies’. What could be more suited? Please & Thank you :)
Fern
Aww there is nothing better than a fresh set of stationery to signal to my brain that it is time to WORK! I love recycled cardboard folders matched with fine japanese pens. I’m in the middle of the uni semester here in Australia so I feel like I would desperately benefit from some love. But, in lieu of a provider, I’ve been looking up all your delicious salad and soup recipes in the hope of delivering some love myself! Thanks Joy xxx
Alexa
Oh man! I haven’t bought mentos since I tried to blow up a bottle of pepsi back in elementary school. This is such an awesome collection of things.
yoonjeong
school coming up soon and i still am yet to become.cool! Maybe this giveaway will help;)
Kimberly A
Aww…this giveaway makes me happy. I’m many, many years post-school, but I still have to fight the itch to stock up on awesome school supplies every year around this time.
Indiana Felix-Delacruz
All of this looks … like a lovely, much needed, squeal-inducing treat. And so, I shared a sweet little treat with my fb friends :D
Billie
I LOVE fall!! Time to actually put the oven back to work!!
Felice
I love and hate this time of year. I love shopping for the supplies (except the textbooks – expensive and heavy) but I miss my girls when they go back to school. I had daughter #2 head off to university and that was hard because she is such a long way away from me. She sent me a text tonight telling me how much she misses my cooking, so I am going to email her a recipe for her favorite risotto so she can make it. I think I will also send her your recipe for your Oatmeal Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies so she can have something sweet afterwards.
Betsy @JavaCupcake
You’re the best, Joy!! <3
Jane
I’ve finished school .. and so it’s your cookbook that is making me drool. Your words and recipes are an aptly named joy. Thank you.
Becky
i want to read your book! and eat those mentos!
Nicole
Mmm, that fabulous cookbook would Be an excellent distraction from studying, and a fabulous source of comfort food for upcoming study snacks!
Amanda
I love Fall! Nerd alert = I also always loved returning to school. My love of the new school year was usually short-lived, but I always was really excited about new beginnings, and the prospect of all new school supplies. There’s something about fresh notebooks and a full pencil case that always made me swoon, haha!
Dayanna
I honestly don’t know how you weren’t the coolest kid in school. Or rocked the quirky art studio class scene (I’m guilty) .. being cool and making out with boys is overrated. I’ll take x-files and a wicked cookie recipe any day! (:
Kathryn M
Hi Joy,
You always tap right into the source of awesomeness with your writing. Love it so hard!
I’m one of the two crazy girls you met at Brooklyn Kitchen on that rainy day…we were wearing neon pants, drank your juice and made a scene. Standard operating procedure.
I’m since moved to South Sudan for work and can’t bake…while I love my job so much, I miss my culinary therapy…
Thanks for being a consistent source of awesome in all of our lives…
Danielle
What a lovely little package you’ve put together! :-) I’d especially love to get my hands on that cookbook of yours!
Thank you for allowing international readers to participate in the competition! The one thing I’ve been sharing recently is your delicious vegan mushroom soup recipe! It’s winter here in Australia and that comforting soup is the perfect thing to share with family and friends to help shake the winter blues. :-)
Meg
This is my first year NOT returning to school – a sweet treat like this would make the transition much easier. :)
Lisa
I loveeee paper straws!! I was just introduced to them earlier this year, and buy them all up whenever I can find them!
Meg
Love it!
Abby
I personally can’t wait for September because I don’t have air conditioning!
Mary Ann
I always liked the excitement of going back to school; new school supplies, new people at school. But the best part about it is that it’s my favorite time of year, fall!
Isabel
I love new school supplies! They allow for new opportunities, new knowledge, and new friends! And mentos keep me awake in class!
Amber
I love this!
Tia Chocolate
ohhh…school days…I remember reading ALL my required reading books during the summer, and spending the year being BOOOOOOOOORED and impatient with everyone else who didn’t (I bet even the teacher didn’t prep!)
But what a treat to start the “school” year with your cookbook?! I hinted to everyone that I wanted this. If I don’t win, I’ll still hint super hard so maybe I’ll get it for my birthday (Halloween!) ;)
Carrin
I would love to have a copy of your book, Joy! I’m just starting out as an amateur in the kitchen, in search of inspiration and your blog is IT. I would gladly buy it, but shipping charges are so ridiculous to a newly-working girl. *puss in boots big pleading eyes*
Jennifer L.
I’m so happy to share one of your wonderful recipes! :)
And… I love this time of year, when the end of summer is in sight (can’t take any more 100F+ degree days! :).
Rebecca A E
Im starting 7 years of Uni. on September 5th…this sure would shed some nervousness and make me feel uber.cool.
Lauren
this box looks fantastic! it would give me just the push i need to finish my third and final year of law school. thanks for putting this together!
Lara
I love back to school time and fall! This is my last year to go back to school shopping for myself (senior in college!) and I love the gift set :) Having fun supplies always make engineering school a little more bearable. Thanks, Joy!
Jenny
I love all these things! New nail polish and your cookbook would definitely make the end of summer a less painful experience :)
arturo
I really want and need your book. Would you sign it if I win? Thank you in advance :)
samantha
ah this all looks so cute! i’m just starting my freshman year at college this week and i’ve def got those same jitters. i think im most worried about not having a kitchen though….haha anyway, love the blog! :)
Ellie
I sort of cringe every time September comes around. The best thing about it though is that pumpkin coffees come out of the woodwork. And it’s totally ok to make pumpkin cookies and squash recipes. Can’t wait! Love the giveaway.
Myra
The only thing I miss about going back to school is the back to school shopping. That was always the best part. BTW, I’m dying to get a copy of your cookbook!
samantha
ah this all looks so cute! im starting my first year in college this week and i’ve def got those same jitters. love the blog! :)
Elendae
This is my last year of undergrad… it’s terrifying and exhilarating. Awesome school supplies would make it even more awesome. :)
viktoria
oooooo! This stuff looks so awesome! Yay fall!
Grace W.
Going into my senior year of college! There is nothing more nostalgic than back to school shopping :)
Rachel
Hi. I love fall too and school supplies. I homeschool and would enjoy somenof the grown-up supplies. But, really I would love to have your cookbook.
erianne
I love the gift set! I also love fall though (more of the Thanksgiving break part vs first day of school part). I hope your fall is lovely!
Olga
I’m a sucker for stationary! I already have your book- but will definitely give it away to worthy friends!!
LaurenAR
This is a great box! you’re an excellent curator. As much as I dislike the back to school frenzy, I love school supplies and the promise of cooler weather!
Marianne Griffith
Waiting for the cooler weather in southwestern U.S., so we can enjoy being outside! Great time for fall picnics!
jessicac
Might be the perfect giveaway!! Love tawashi, and would most of all love getting your book!
joy
Starting my senior year of college in a week. the scariest and most exciting thing ever. I’ve got all sorts of September-jitters right now.
Mary Carl
I am sending 2 grandsons off to kindergarden, a college age daughter and daughter-in-law off to school this fall. Would love to share the goodies with my students. (The cookbook is for me!)….Thanks for the goodies.
Pam
What a fun give-away, Joy! My 4 children are going to 4 different schools this year so a treat would be fun in anticipation of the craziness. ;)
corrie
not looking forward to my last semester of school but these school supplies would definitely make it better! also thanks for so many recipes to tempt me away from studying and into the kitchen exactly when i (don’t) need it the most.
Kelster
This is really sweet of you! Love those polishes.
Victoria
I’d LOVE to win these adorable gifts for Antonia- our German exchange student :) She will be a sophomore at Boise High and is a vegan and a foodie and an all-around amazing girl!!! Thanks for the smiles!
Ana
This is awesome!…I LOVE your blog! and would love to have your book! your recipes are just AMAZING! :D and I have to admit I’m a big fan of new school supplies haha hope to win :D
Caz
so excited for fall! Sitting in classes while it’s still summer isn’t my idea of fun…
Gretchen
Although I have just graduated high school and am taking a gap year to volunteer abroad, school supplies are always welcome, and will be shared with kids I’m teaching in Cambodia! Plus they want to learn how to cook, so I can’t think of a better way than with the Joy the Baker cookbook!
Dayna @kaleidoscopebrain
Oh Joy! I am so nervous/jittery/excited about my LAST back-to-school for a while… It also doesn’t hurt that I have an exam right before school starts… ughhhh… (..brain freeze from too many iced cappuccinos because that is my study/panic gateway drug…) I know it’ll all work out if I hunker down and study, but making banana bread while watching So You Think You Can Dance sounds so much more fun. Anyway, I’d love a chance to own your cookbook! You are the best.
christyb
okay, since my birthday’s 24 August, and I’m making myself your best ever chocolate cake (the one with the coffee) to bring to the picnic we’re going to have at the winery, would it not be the neatest thing ever if I also happened to win a give-a-way that day?! (thanks for the chance, anyway!) —
Kay
Just in case fb comments don’t count as comments – I need me a back to school kit as dreamy as yours!
Kadie
Oh man… back to school makes me super excited! You can’t be suckered into the sadness when you’re a teacher! You will have to work double hard to get the kids into what you’re saying (because it would be written on your face). YAY!!! School! Learning! Routine!
Kathryn
I love back-to-school time! I also love your blog and seriously can’t wait to get my hands on your book!
Lydia
I’m currently taking a break from school, but I still feel those September jitters. Baking is a good remedy for everything!
Kaylin Rayanna
Lately my favorite life tips have come from you and tracey. Especially from last weeks episode when you talked about not be a self destroyer. It was some much needed girl talk <3
Kaylin
Dani
oh joy! so splendid! i am going to send my grandmother’s starlight mint surprise cookie recipe to a penpal in russia. my favorite comfort cookie!
XO!
Rose
I’ve always loved this time of year. In a few years my daughter will get to experience back to school :)
Barathi Sivasailam
All of those would make school starting so much sweeter!!
Kirsten smith
Loooove this. Hope I win!! I always feel like baking the entire kitchen during the fall :)
Roberta
love all your entries Joy, the other day I made your fab pistachio & dark chocolate cookies, loved, didn’t last more than a day! Thanks for everything :)
Dana
today I started my second year of law school with 8 hours of class every Tuesday. so intense! this giveaway looks amazing!
Aimee
I’m not in school,but I’d love a chance to be cool. The first question I’d ask myself the day before the first day of school was what color knee high socks am i gonna wear?! Truely very important! Thank you !
Blessings, Aimee
Carol Sloan
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Elisa
I love school supplies — I still buy them tho I’m not in school (and it’s been a long time). Your gift box is lovely!
Leslie
I can relate to the school supply jones! I love new marble notebooks, new box of crayons, pencils with unused pink eraser tops ……. Happy Fall (soon to be)!!
Toyia Hatten
I am dragging my toes through each & every luscious remaining day of summer…. while happily looking forward to all of the cool weather treats ahead!
Jessica C.
What a nice giveaway! I am just about to enter my final year of college and I`m trying to prepare for the early-September jitters.
P.S. I made those pistachio chocolate chip cookies with sea salt last week and they were amazing. And gone in about 3 days thanks to my boyfriend and roommate!
Patrice Dowrey
Fall is a welcome relief from the oppressive summer heat. and a welcome invitation to heat up the oven. I recently broke down and made your peach and blueberry pie, to the delight of my husband and family. I can’t wait to add baking back into my routine.
Shrutika Sachdev
About to start my Senior Year at college – Time flies!
Wendy
Joy! I would LOVE a copy of your cookbook!
but.. the second that I finished school, I started loving fall… Good temperature to bake without making my house unbearably hot… And since I live in Canada… You need to suck every bit of life out of fall that you can before the impending doom of excruciatingly long winter comes… Also… all the kids are back at school!
Becca
Such a delightful mix of treats! Thanks for sharing!
Jackie
JOYYY! this is awesome. i totally understand what you mean about the first day. for me, as this is my last year of high school, i’ll miss getting to walk through the halls, sitting in a noisy cafeteria with the awful school lunch, and all the crazy hard AP classes (eventhough they made my life horrible during may). thank you for always being so inspiring! (:
Jess
I still love going to the store at back to school time and looking at all the supplies. I used to love getting my new backpack and trapper keeper!
Melissa Maloney
Back to school has never looked so delicious! Those are lovely supplies. I hope I can get my paws on them :)
Thanks!
Carrie
OMG, I cannot believe how many comments you have here. Dang, girl!
Jasmine
As much as I love summer, I kind of love fall too… Maybe it’s the memory of buying school supplies, which was always my favorite part of going back to school! As a fellow baker, I will definitely be sharing some cookies in the near future!!!
Kate
Being a teacher, the first day of school still holds crazy significance for me. Not that it’s gotten any easier as I’ve gotten older, but I’ve learned that the little things (like fun nail polish and fancy straws) help to take the stress off of me as I get closer to the date…
Amy Tong
What a cute and wonderful giveaway. So thoughtful of you. :) I shared some French Macarons with my girlfriends today. They love those little treats so much.
Emily
I am really looking forward to cooler weather and a vacation in the mountains, which of course means delicious fresh goodies from Whitmans Bakery :)
Christina
Wow, that looks like the perfect package to get back into school mode! I’m heading back this fall for year four, and an impending thesis. Yikes!
Alisa G.
Totes in this for mentos!
Makenzie M
I’ve shared to yummy food love!
Sara
I love the whole ambiance of “back to school” and this giveaway is perfect! Does anyone remember the Staples commercial where a dad is so happy to be rid of his kids when school starts, he’s skipping down the aisles singing “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” ?? Hilarious, but it really is the most wonderful time as far as I’m concerned!!
Kimberly Honn
This looks so fun! I would love to have your cookbook! I just started my second year of graduate school and could use a fun back-to-school treat.
Jen M O
I always liked the first day of school just to be able to finally wear my new clothes. I always hated waiting. After the first day of school, then I wanted it to be summer again.
anya
This is so exciting. Fall is my favorite season – and what better way to celebrate than with a great cookbook!
Allison
August has been a tough month for me and this gift would make it significantly brighter. Thanks!
Rebecca
I love everything about this giveaway! And I love everything about your blog. September is great because that means fall is coming, but it makes me nervous too.
Breanna Keeler
I have always loved going back to school! Then again, I am a total nerd. My mom and I trade recipes all the time. All the time. Even now that we live across the country from each other. Also I call her with random questions like “I feel like this recipe is missing something. It’s super dry.” To which she responds, “Yeah. It needs milk.” Sometimes I’m not so smart.
Esther
I like this. I like you. I like cookies.
Sandra
HI Joy….I know this is all about Fall, but I’m still hanging on to Summer. I’m going to make your Peach Cobbler Muffins tonight with the peaches that I got at the Farmer’s Market this weekend. My daughter and I loved meeting you when you were here in Portland and SHE would love the school supplies. As always, YOU ROCK!!!
Danielle
I can’t wait for fall to make your pretzel dogs and cream cheese and chive biscuit pot pie!
Whitney H.
Thanks so much for such a lovely giveaway! What a delicious combination of goodies. They’re perfect for back-to-school time. I am a senior in college so this is my last back-to-school =( But it would be so much better with some of your treats! Thanks for your inspiration and yumminess!
Melissa D
So excited!
I am a mom of 4 school-age children. My oldest will be a Junior this year (Eek! Driving lessons! SAT! Confirmation! Prom! Pre-calculus!) and so I think the cookbook will be an especially good back-to-school treat…for me!
Nicole
It’s my first comment, I am so excited! I have been the shy one in the corner enjoying your blog. Thanks for all of it, and…the back to school giveaway looks AWESOME! ~Nicole
Jessica
Such a cute giveaway Joy! Well, it’s back to uni for me, which is still “school”, right?
Bethany
I have a love-hate relationship with September. It’s complicated.
Madeline M.
Thank you for your inspiration, Joy, in the kitchen and in life!
Denise McDowell
Can’t wait for Fall….but better yet I want this dangn heatwave to over!! I need to bake and it is too hot!!
Katie Rose
HAH! I just shared a gluten free protein packed healthy “cookie” recipe with my sister earlier today. Win!
Natalie
This is awesome! I want mail from JtB!
Kristin
Those are my most favorite pencils ever. And I have those straws in my kitchen right now!
Ali
I <3 your chewy oatmeal raisin cookies!!
DJ@bakingperfection.com
Back to school yaaaaaayyy! Hope I get lucky and win :)
Elizabeth Morales
I love your blog, your recipes and your writing! :)
Pam
Fall is my favorite time of the year. My favorite is fall baking. Pies, cakes, pumpkin everything!!! What a great giveaway!!
Going to email my mama the best pumpkin bar recipe!!!
Sharing the love!
Kristin M
Awesome! I’m making Heidi’s Carnival Cookies for my sis (a teacher) this week … Thanks to Shutterbean for the reminder of those fun cookies :) would love to share these treats with my sister. Yay!
AnnaRobyn
Love the paper straws . . . finally a cute alternative to plastic and recyclable. Thanks for the link . . . can’t wait to order the pink polka dots.
Vanessa
I came looking for the tip on how to make your own brown sugar, so I will share that with ALL my FB friends! Thanks for everything, Joy! You make me smile.
Natalie
What a fun collection of school supplies! Love the nail colors. You found things that make you happy — they would make me happy too! Thanks for sharing.
Sarah
I do love Fall and it’s on the way so bring on the school year. Thanks for a lovely giveaway!
Jacqueline G
I would really just love to win a copy of your book (and the washi tape), though the rest of the stuff looks cute and fun. Btw, I have plans tomorrow to make the tomato zucchini soup you posted recently. Yep it is still hot out, but it’s definitely been a soup kind of week.
Katherine
I just started my second year of grad school to get my MSW. These are super awesome school supplies!
LaneM
Totes cute! I’d give your awesome cookbook to my friend Ashley so I could have my copy back. : ) haha I like the smiley face in this font.
dana828
Yay school! Kids went back today. I’m looking forward to some peace & quiet…eventually. I love new school supplies, and can’t help picking up a few things for myself each year!
Laurie
What a lovely little giveaway! I’d love to have all these back to school goodies.
Laura
Back to school….. full of new possibilities.
Lisa
school started in feb ><. it's exam time now boo T-T
Melissa Savoie
Love your recipes and love your choices in back to school give-away! I love the fall… it’s colourful and crisp!
jenny
This would be awesome to win since I’m STILL going back to school at 27! Ph.D. FTW.
Nathalie
Oh my.
How impossibly cute could you be?I mean really.
Lovely giveaway-Thank you! <3
Yuri
We’re already back to school in Missouri– crazy early! I’m working at a middle school, and always am on the lookout for functionally adorbs school necessities! Also, I’ve already promised teacher-friends freshly-baked cookies next week :) Spreading the cookie love.
Carol
Fresh new school supplies are just part of September. I usually buy a few new things for myself even tho I have not needed supplies for school in decades! It’s just part of fall. Today I looked at pens and markers!
Kim Whitbeck
Such a creative and unique giveaway! Would love to tryout alll the delicious recipes found in your cookbook :)
Sarah
I want all of those thing!
girlsmama
It’s always a little sad to say goodbye to summer, but I always loved school too! Now I enjoy prepping and sending my girls off to school. I can’t resist back to school supplies!
Anika
I love those yellow mechanical pencils. My all time faves. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
Kim
Awesome giveaway! I love school supplies even though I’m way too old to need them anymore. Sharing the cookie love!
Cece
Love fall fashion, fall food, fall colors, fall running, and getting new school supplies :)
Joy in the O.V.
Today we had a Back to School Potluck. I took a coffee cake and had three requests for the recipe. I am one of those gals who shares her recipes with all. What’s up with people who won’t share a recipe? My Mom taught me to share….Cheerio!
taylor
i really want to win a copy of your cookbook! then my mom and i could make all of your recipes together. thanks for the giveaway, joy!
Hannah Chloe
Joy, I just can’t get enough of your blog. Beyond your fabulous recipes, you’ve been an inspiration to young women everywhere with your creativity, optimism, and constant living example of enjoying and getting the most out of life.
Your “Turning TwentyOne” post is among my favorites (it ranks up there with your cinnamon sugar pull-apart bread and super-soft pumpkin chocolate-chip cookies) and I will never forget getting a direct response from you when I told you about my struggles (and success) in maintaining an anti-partying, anti-hooking-up lifestyle during my college years/early twenties. Thanks for all the warmth and beauty that you evoke and inspire!
PS – Fall is my favorite season!
erin
love these supplies joy!
Stephanie
Yay for school supplies! Shopping for school supplies is the best thing about this time of year. Luckily I’m still get to indulge in this pass time. Shopping for college stuff isn’t as fun as shopping for elementary school supplies. Oh the days of cute puppy notepads and crayola.
Andrea H
Joy–I love back to school. I’m a teacher, plus I’m taking some classes this fall myself. You’re gift pack looks fun–as all school supplies should be.
By the way, your podcast makes long drive bareable! Thank You!!!!
LB
I wasn’t sure where to reply! :) I still get nostalgic for back to school every fall. At least I am married to a teacher, so I still get to buy some school supplies for his classroom :)
Brie
If you were to ask the school-aged version of myself which pair of overalls you should wear, my answer would have been “any.” I’m not sure…maybe I just found them to be figure flattering or super convenient (all those pockets!), but I was a huge fan.
Connie
I’m many years out of school (how’d I’d suddenly end up in my mid-thirties?!), but I still love fall. And school supplies. But I am so glad to not have to worry about school anymore.
Veronica Calvage
The agenda! THOSE NAIL POLISH COLORS. Beautiful.
I realized this year how much I miss buying back to school supplies. Then I realized I could still partake in the fun of a new bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils regardless of my school status. Sorry to get all Ephron on you. Wait, no I’m not!
Happy almost fall!
Michelle G
This is a great gift package!! So cute and love the planner. Can’t wait for fall!
mollyp
It’s been back to school for me for years it seems. Never thought I would go back to school after getting a bachelors, but I am now in my last semester of graduate school. Yipee! Oh, and I’m getting my masters in education so I can teach… here’s to hoping I have this back to school excitement for the rest of my life!
Mercedes@Satisfy My Sweet Tooth
I still wish I needed to buy back to school supplies every year! What a fun giveaway! BTW, I love listening to your podcasts! They have been my workout entertainment lately! Please do more!
dervla @ The Curator
Wonderful giveaway, i love the smell of a new pencil case in the autumn but i’m definitely glad that I don’t have to find my locker anymore. I still have nightmares about that.
Kitchen Mommy
Awesome gift package! I DID love back-to-school time, but mostly because we got to buy new school supplies, and those blank notebooks seemed to hold special promise for good times ahead. I still buy them every year!
Allie
JOY!
Ellie made your tart! It was delicious! We love you, Joy!
tamara h.
I still get that feeling in my stomach (intense nausea) this time of year, even though my oldest of 4 daughters turned 31 this month and my youngest finished high school last year. I now pass by the high school on the way to work and read all the signs and just smile…done! But all that being said I still love school supplies, baking and reading your blogs. Thanks for taking the time to inspire us all!
Kokie Larson
2 1/2 years of college and then I’m the teacher! Continuing to love September, mainly because my mother and roommates stop whining about me heating up the house to make cookies and start shoving said cookings into their respective faces.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Katie
One of the few things I miss about school is shopping for school supplies! I’m celebrating the cooler weather around here by baking some PB brownies for my coworkers :)
Anne A
Those are the type of school supplies I want. What a perfect collection!
amy
i’m having my second foot surgery within a three month period very soon. does sharing copious amounts of sugar with myself count? ?
Gigi
I think I’m going to drown my panic and anxiety over my daughter starting her freshman year of high school over a batch of pumpkin and chocolate chip cookies with the family. Happy Schooling to us all.
Rita D
I do NOT love sending my kiddo back to school, but I always love, love, love checking out all the back to school supplies. Who doesn’t need a few more sharpie markers in different colors and a cute new spiral notebook for all those random lists, right??
Amanda Q.
i just shared your dark chocolate pistachio & smoked sea salt cookies with all of my FB friends. Amazing!
melanie
our oldest goes to preschool year 2 in a few weeks. ack!
megan
I LOVE your blueberry applesauce muffins. delicious!
Nicole
This back-to-school box makes me think about how I’m starting grad school in a week and really nervous about it… wish me luck!
Vera
Got back to school on monday! Need supplies! :)
Savannah
The only thing that softens the inevitable horror of school is cute pencils, washi tape, and a planner. Well done Joy :)
Allison F.
Baking some blueberry banana bread in mini muffin tins to bring to work tomorrow as we speak! Hopefully that counts, because that is one fun-times kit that I want to win. Especially the cook book :)
Chainey
I love that idea! Why not share cookies to loved ones? x3 I’m just annoyed I didn’t think of it sooner! Cookies are coming for you, family >:) Be prepared!
Nicole Aber
Love this giveaway! As a recent graduate and soon-to-be teacher, this fall is an especially exciting one. Thank you for all of your wonderful recipes and equally wonderful musings on life.
Pvfrompv
My DIL’s LOVE your cookbook. I’ll share the school supplies with a local school should I win.
Katie
I just shared a S’mores Ice Cream Cake recipe with my stepdad the chef! Ha!
Kathleen
Even though I no longer get a summer, I still get excited when the start of school rolls around. Another season means another chance to reinvent yourself!
gina k
what an awesome giveaway! emailed the salty sesame&dark chocolate chip cookies to my sister :) can’t wait to make it with her!
Shannon
I go back to school in 5 days… 3 more shifts of the best summer job ever and then 2 days to get my life in order before free time goes out the window and textbooks and stress take over my life for the next 8 months! One good thing about this year is that I’m in a program with 28 other students, just the perfect amount to share baking with, yay!
irene Jaw
Oooh, me! Life tips and baking ideas (straight from your website, of course) are out in the social media world!
Caroline Leigh
girl i know all about those back to school days — i’m a teacher! i would die over this giveaway….not really, but almost. xoxo
becky@thecleverfig
I’m with you Joy! I am NOT ready for fall, period, end of story. But I do adore groovy school supplies and painted toes always cheer me up.
Pamela
I always share my mom’s cookie recipe with friends… it is delicious because it is full of sugar. Trying to bake gluten and dairy free because of my daughter’s health which is challenging for me… but I would LOVE your cookbook! And I LOVE your podcast! Think I’m going to go listen now while I clean up the house…
Courtney
So cute! All of it! I just made one version of your red velvet cupcakes for my co-workers, BIG hit!!
Monica
School….I remember those days! I was always wanting to wear my new fall clothes even thought it was still summer and the school was super hot with no a/c! Nothing like a freshly sharpened pencil!
Kristen
The real question is whether you wore your overalls with one trap snapped or two?
My super cool friends and I used to call each other to run through our outfits for the next school day. Real life. Real cool.
Liz
I’m an 11 and 12th grade teacher.
I think the anticipation as a teacher is worse than when I was a student. Standing in front of 35 – 17/18 year olds knowing that there are 75 minutes between you and the next bell is like being on top of a roller coaster about to drop. It will be a thrill, but the view from the top is terrifying.
Cool supplies makes it better.
Thanks for the reminder to keep it cool by keeping cool.
Callie
This is perfect timing, for my first day of the new school year is tomorrow morning! Thanks for the wonderful blog, recipes, podcast, and humor. You always make me smile. Thanks :)
cheryl s.
I have just shared my fab cookie recipe with a close friend who recently bought her first house. I brought her some this weekend. I will be turning 40 soon but teach and would ADORE making my students drool over your giftbox if I won! New to your blog and think your podcasts are hilarious!
Favorite cookies: Oreo chocolate chunck
Hugs, Cheryl
Mindy Debes
I’d love to win this box for my dear, dear friend. We’re both teachers and start back to work tomorrow. We were supposed to see you at the book signing outside of Chicago on March 21, 2012, but she went into labor that day!!! Tomorrow is her first day back since then. We both love you!
Janet
Oh how my stomach aches a little when I see the first school bus in August – and I’m 48!
morgan
Buying back to school supplies was my faaaaaaaaavorite thing to do… love the blog and podcast!
Kilahbee
if i won this, i’d be very happy. so happy. I’m going back to school in london. by school i mean law school, barristers’ training, and i’d love to take this with me!!!!
Ellen
Ah, that dreaded time of year when I must go and learn advanced algebra….
Katie T
I shared a basil-lime cookie recipe…yum!
Elizabeth Christian
Back to school time is such a strange season. Good and bad at once! It’s even stranger now that I’m a teacher. I covered my bulletin boards in pretty green paper today in preparation :)
Nicole
I love this idea! I would totally be into your cookbook too:)
Karla @ Foodologie
I made my pregnant sister a pie, not exactly sharing a recipe but close enough :)
caroleena
“I’d send you a bouquet of newly-sharpened pencils…” That quote just sprang to mind. I LOVE autumn. I never minded going to school till high school & everyone seemed so preoccupied with themselves & being cool & just being vapid. But that was a long time ago. Thanks, Joy for thinking of others – hope you have a lovely September!
Lindsay W
I always loved the back to school season, even if not the school part. Boots, sweaters, flannel (!), pumpkin in everything… I just can’t get enough.
Lacey
I have been in school all summer, but the coming of fall still feels like back to school. Thanks for such a fun giveaway!
Suzanne
I shared a raspberry coffee cake recipe with my cousin!
Rachel
YES PLEASE!
Emily Dowling
love this :)
hannah
This is the first September I’m not getting ready for school – and I am a big fan of this new life without homework getting in the way of my cooking time!
Paola Ramirez
It would totally make my day if I won your cookbook. Worth buying, but if it’s free with all those goodies, even better!!!
Sarah
This is awesome. I share your goodness all the time, all over the place. My friends are probably sick of me talking about the podcast. They’re probably not sick of me cooking and baking for them, though. Please send prezzies. :)
Betsy H
I love your cookbook!
Akaleistar
What a wonderful giveaway! I’m kind of looking forward to September :)
Katherine South
I’ve baked cookies and put them in the freezer for my parents to find while I’m at college. Spreading a little love with butter and sugar. Thank you for your beautiful and inspiring blog.
Tamar
Very exciting because after many years of being a student, then a few of being a teacher, I am going back to Grad School this year!
Elizabeth
This is my first time, in 21 years, NOT going back to school in the fall. I may have to go buy a box of crayons just for old times sake.
Laurel
Next year will definitely be more interesting when my daughter starts kindergarten!
Jessie P
Oooh, I love school supplies!
Megan
Nail polish? Pencils? Cookbooks?! What better way to start a school year! Would be totes thrilled if I got this!
SD
Shared my favorite savory sausage bread pudding recipe. ^_^
Yay, for the Fall!
Kathleen
I love this time of year! Fall just seems like the perfect time for new beginnings.
Kali
This is fantastic! I love everything you’re giving away. I just shared a banana bread recipe with a friend as well, so perfect timing to read this. :)
Ariele
-squee- This would be perfect for going back to college! And I can’t wait to use paper straws for some homemade raspberry lemonade.
Sam
All of these things are wonderful! I’m a high school teacher and I would love to start the school year with all of these goodies.
Nancy
I’d love to win – my favorite cookie recipe is for oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
Julie
Very cute gift idea…especially your book!
BTW made and LOVED the Tomato Cobbler 2 times and a 3rd will be this weekend. LOVE!
Will try your choc chip cookies next…when it’s alittle cooler.
Take care
Julie
Sarah Elana
I have a school supply addiction. It’s one of the things I like about back to school time, and I swear that there’s a school-supply-shopping high. Ooooh, I’ve been eyeing your cookbook for a long time and would love it!!
Katya
This is such a cute package! I love fall, so I am looking forward to it. Although I definitely wish this summer wouldn’t end.
Isabella
I wasn’t cool either in high school and university first days just meant that a whole lot of work was coming my way. I graduated years ago, but the feeling that September is the beginning of something is still very much a part of me. New Year’s Eve always feels a bit too forced, but something about the start of the school year/fall really represents a new year to me. It’s like a fresh start with a whole new wardrobe!
Katie
Fall is my favorite time of year: apples, pumpkin pie, cozy sweaters, mugs of cider, boots, college football, crunchy colorful leaves, and sharp new pencils!
Rachel Dallaire
I love back to school season! Thanks for the chance to win!
Melanie C
Love the giveaway! I’ll be sharing the love of cake this Saturday with my family….Strawberry cake…yum!
Amanda
oh gah. I know how the back to school feeling is. I was so full of dread this year, I just decided not to go back. AHHH. Life decisions suck!
Sarah
I love fall, the crisp weather, the changing leaves, the smell of apple pie baking, and everything pumpkin.
Just thinking about the start of school (even though I’m no longer in school) I get the feeling of excitement and dread in the pit of stomach.
Megan
I’m getting ready for my first day of school as a sophomore (in high school) tomorrow. not so happy right now, but I know I’ll miss going to school some day (way, waaay in the future) so I’m trying to get pumped about it! Those bookmark tabs are super cute. Gotta go finish my summer homework now…
Jillian
Made a home cooked dinner 3 nights in a row, and just shared all the recipes (it’s a record!)! Thanks for inspiring all of us :)
Kimberly
I love pumpkin season. I will eat and make anything and everything pumpkin from the start of school till well past Christmas. :)
Christy
Hi Joy,
I just started reading your blog about a month ago. I so wish that I knew about you sooner. I found out about you through The Pioneer Woman. I read her blog regularly and she happened to mention you and your website. I decided to check it out and I’m so glad I did. Oh yeah, by the way, I’m asking for your cookbook for Christmas. Maybe Santa will bring me one :)
Sandra R.
This could be the thing that gets me to seriously consider graduate school…… unh huh. Yea. This could be it.
Thanks for the inspiration!
MegO
Never loved back-to-school, but always loved new school supplies (and new school shoes)!
Maribel
what an awesome giveaway. love your blog and your podcast!
Liz
Very thoughtful and fun! Thanks for all you do.
Ainsley
This is probably the best giveaway I’ve ever entered! So much fun-ness. :)
April
Fall is the best season. Period. I love the beautiful weather and the fall leaves that so gracefully float to the ground. Loving your new energy towards fall!
Emily Baffaro
I love summer, but really, fall is by far my favorite season. I look forward to fall foods, fall festivities and most importantly, fall fashion. Leopard shoes anyone?
sherri lynn
shared a cookie recipe on facebook! cookies do indeed make the world a happier place!
Cheryl L.
What a cute little collection of fun items!!
Meghan
though I’m not back in school, nor do I have kiddos, I’ll fully admit to being a late 20s lady who has a few brand new notebooks just because I couldn’t pass them up. YOLO’ing and loving that new notebook scent.
Noel N.
OMG, i wore overalls practically everyday in high school, and i was in the “nerdy crew” too. Wow the memories.
Emily
I made the pistachio/dark chocolate/sea salt cookies when my grandparents came over, and they couldn’t get enough of them! I will definitely be making them quite a few more times :)
Hope Leyenhorst
I agree that September is yucky. Back to regular life. My son goes back to college and the house gets quiet. I did share the grapefruit soufle recipe with my friends. They loved it.
Molly Russo
I believe this is missing a Lisa Frank trapper keeper. Just sayin…
Stella P
Fall , the start of school, new clothes, organized backpack and the smell of pumpkin :)
Ammie
I was never fond of school but I adore school supplies!! Perhaps I missed my calling as a pre-K teacher. :)
birrrd
i just wish i had someone to share cake or pie or a nice sweet loaf or cinnamon buns with.. baking is more fun if you don’t have to eat it all alone. well, sometimes eating it all is the best thing. but right now, i’d like to share my cake. … thanks for sharing thoughts and giveaways!
Crystal F.
I’m sharing some dinosaur shaped sugar cookies with my friends tomorrow!
Erica @ Not Quite Gourmet
I love fall!!! I shall email my Mom to bake me an apple cake with maybe some frosting with a touch of maple syrup? I can get on that! Beautiful giveaway, thank you!!
libby
what a great idea, school supplies are the best!
Elizabeth
What an awesome giveaway! Just started my second year of law school and school supplies like those would make it so much more enjoyable. And I was a total late bloomer too :)
Dani Meyer
This is lovely. I hope I win! And if I don’t I hope that your publishers decides I’m cool enough to send me the review copy I requested today…..because I would love to have more excuses to brag about you :)
Cheers!
Cindy
Joy, you are one of a cool cat. I love this whole “back-to-school” giveaway ordeal–makes me pumped up for school!
Altair D.
I used to be a teacher in an international school, and the start of school here in the states always makes me nostalgic. I miss my amazing kiddos! I still substitute teach, but sometimes kids are not too nice to subs.
Thanks for your fun blog, Joy! I have a lot of fun reading it. :)
Molly Cohen
This giveaway looks awesome. And my first day of school is Monday (I’m a teacher!). Pick me!
Erin
Oh this little giveaway looks amazing, and I am sure I would be able to put it to good use (I am a sucker for a new planner no matter the time of year), even though our school year starts in January… ah the southern hemisphere.
One of my work colleagues had her 7 year work birthday this week so I brought in some mini banana-vanilla cupcakes to mark the occasion. It makes me stupid happy to share the love in baked goods form!
MmeP
I’m looking forward to autumn! Have already shared recipes for biscuits, scones, and gingerbread … can you tell I want to resume baking?
Marilyn
This JTB gift would be awesome :)))
Stephanie
What a fund giveaway…I’ve been wanting to get one of your cookbooks, so winning this would be great. But, if I don’t, i’ll probably get it anyway. I am seriously in the mood for some cake baking. I’ve been thinking of buttercream frosting and chocolate cake all day.
Leslie
I will be sharing a cookie recipe at my book club tomorrow night where we’re discussing The Perks of Being a Wallflower…which is extremely fitting for this “back to school” season! I would love to have your cookbook (so much)!!
Jillian
I’m torn right now between wanting to hold onto the last bits of summer and wanting to dive right into making soups! School already started for me (I’m a math teacher) but I would still love those supplies :)
Becca
I always loved school shopping with my Mom and planning my first day outfit with her. I graduated high school 21 years ago (wow!) and still miss school shopping. So this year I made my sweet mom a kit just for her – cool post-its and pens, butterscotch and chocolate chip cookies (with smoked sea salt thanks to your recent recipe!) and an orange/grapefruit household scrub I make that she loves. The scrub is great on sinks and tubs.
Christine
Great idea! Will share the love!
Jessica L
Love your blog and can’t wait to get your book!
beebag
I’m not looking forward to going back to school. I’ve spent my whole summer drawing and selling comic books, illustrations and the work I WANT to do and filling all the time in between with baking delicious muchies. I now have to return to reality in which I’m only allowed to do the idiotic projects set by my tutor, and I will be forced to confront the several brand new pounds of me that have occurred as a result of said delicious munchies. You can ignore them when it’s the summer in the spirit of “holidays”. But alas. September is, once more, around the corner. Phoo.
Jenn@eatcakefordinner
I made a cake for my boyfriend yesterday and I shared an amazing cookie recipe with one of my co-workers today!! BTW – I browsed through your cookbook at Barnes & Noble the other day and I Love it! I added it to my Christmas list!
StephanieM in Corralitos
Instead of sharing the cookie recipe, I brought cookies to my co-workers today. Yay! Oatmeal, Cranberry, Pecan. They were yummy.
I love September because it’s my birthday month and the start of fall. I love when the days get hot and the nights are foggy and cool. (I’m on the Central Coast)
laura k
I always loved September and back-to-school time. I was a huge dork. The sight of fresh new school supplies in Target made me giddy with joy. I even had a little surge of that feeling this year, despite the fact that I may never go back to school again.
A sweet present from Joy the Baker might make up for that sadness, though.
Rachel K
Wow! What an awesome gift! I would love to get a chance to check out your cookbook. :)
laura
I love cute office supplies!
Melody
Well, I baked brownies this weekend for my friends…and they were not made from a mix…hope that counts! :)
Krissa
Such a fun giveaway! I’m going to share the love by making Sweet Corn Hash for dinner tonight! I know…it’s breakfast…but it’s going to be dinner tonight. :)
Sarah
Joy, you are all kinds of awesome and it’s so wonderful you’re doing this. I want to make more positive waves, everywhere, all the time. I feel like you are really great at this, so thank you for inspiring the kindness within everyone. And if that fails, I’m going to bake my dude/myself/my friends an enormous chocolate cake this week.
Gretchen
Excellent! I’ve been back to school for a week now, so I’m getting into the swing of things. And I can’t wait for Fall!!!
Melissa Falleroni
I am a poor graduate student who continually requests and checks out your cookbook from the library. I’ve become a little obsessive! Hope to win and actually own my own copy! Thanks for making me smile day after day.
Kate
This is fabulous! As an avid cook, and a passionate teacher, my life is a constant balance of me de-stressing by cooking and baking it all away! I find that cooking is one of the best techniques to unwind. I am obsessed with your blog and your humor. Thanks for adding a little light to my days! Keep begin amazing!
Rhianna
The saddest part of it back to school is my kids’ go back to school tomorrow and I haven’t even shopped for their supplies yet. However, I am o.k with this since they go to a charter school and we don’t have to be on site until next week and my crazy schedule of classes and cooking lunches (for fundraising for the athletic program) will start yet again. Anyway, I like the giveaway…I need new ideas of things to cook at the school.
Adelle
Cookies and cookbooks! Yay!
Angelina
Joy! You’re my soul sister in baking and in life queries. And in finding delight in cute bookmark tabs. Argh! I want them!!!
Thanks for all the inspiration!
Meagan
I’m starting to get ready for my last first day of school. What better way to make new friends than by baking them treats, right?
Cari Tan
I have already had to start back at school since the district I work had the first day for employees this week. I have to say that I was a little nervous and anxious about it. I am excited about that fig and apricot mascarpone tart, though. It’s my birthday on Friday and I am planning on making it.