I didn’t want to have to be the one to tell you this, but March has almost come to a close. You know what’s next? We’re going to steamroll through April, freak out through May, scream through summer, then Christmas music starts.
It’s scary. Time is an unstoppable beast… unless you’re sleeping (but even then).
I think we should make time work for us this weekend. I think we should try to stretch every hour and every minute to its deepest point of relaxation. A time massage? Is that possible?
Maybe it’s a good weekend to get nice and cozy with a few of your favorite things… unless you’re like, a bridesmaid in your best friend’s wedding… in which case, NO COZY FOR YOU!
Here are some of my favorite weekend cozy essentials. Maybe some of these elements will inspire you to make some hot coffee, pull out the pretty stationary, flip through a new but forgotten cookbook, and just maybe… take a few moments to daydream. Also… there better be brunch. On the real, on the reg.
I’m revisiting The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook. It’s from famed Seattle restaurant dude, Tom Douglas. There’s a recipe for Hot Buttered Rum Apple Pie that has my name aaaallll over it.
I’m so smitten by this stationery from Minted. It feels so special to write notes on personalized stationary. I love this watercolor look. And this sweet monogrammed situation makes me feel fancy.
Also… am I the only dork that’s totally into stamping their handwritten letters with monogrammed wax!? Lettered stamps and sealing wax make letter writing sooo worth it!
Sometimes I receive gifts that I deem ‘too good to use’. Take this pretty turquoise journal. It’s leather-bound and utterly lovely. I’ve got it in my brain that no words I put together are good enough for its pages. That’s ridiculous. I’m taking pen to paper this weekend!
Have you read the book One Hundred Demons? If you’re a thinking and feeling woman in the world, I think you should read it. It’s a cartoon narrative (yea, I said that) about love and growth, awkward times and forgiveness. Lynda Barry lays it all out there.
Have some strawberries this weekend! In California they’re starting to get good.
Speaking of strawberries. I’m testing recipes for the second Joy the Baker Cookbook (it’s happening), and I’m going to nail a recipe for Strawberry Mascarpone Ice Cream if it kills me (which it probably won’t).
Lastly, let there be brunch. This Creme Fraiche Quiche was, and continues to be, THE BUSINESS!
I love you most sincerely. Enjoy your weekend time!
xo joy
bakerkat
Yes there will be brunch. The best way to get through our not quite Spring weather is brunch.
Good Luck with your next cookbook. I bet it will be fabulous.
Allison @ thebakingyear
I’m so happy it’s the weekend!! And that stationary is beautiful :)
narf77
For the first time since October 2012 I can consider a “cosy weekend” and we might even light Brunhilda, our 4 oven wood burning behemoth of gorgeousness that is my constant companion right through our Tasmanian winters. The vernal equinox (my newfound best mate ;) ) just delivered us a healthy dose of rain, a whole day of it, that gave my dying garden back a bit of hope in the future and rendered me kittenish (a terrifying thing when you own 2 American Staffordshire terriers with cat phobias ;) ) and desperate to take up baking running after a WAY too long hiatus. I want to throw things whole into the oven…bugger it, I want to throw ingredients into the oven! I want kitchen smells again, I want soup simmering on the top of the stove while I bake gorgeousness in the form of bread in the oven. I want to master my sourdough starter and tame my kefir and get them harnessed together into some amazing sourdough cakes and most of all I want that feeling of bones being warmed, wet feet being slowly roasted back to happiness and the finality of what has been an overly long, dry “horribilia aestas”. Bring on the weekend I say! I have SO many plans but even if I just cuddle up next to Brunhilda with a good book and take up where I left off last year I figure I am ahead :)
dixya@food, pleasure, and health
i love what this weekend has in store for you :) I used to feel same way about cute stationary too now everything goes into note section of apple product- damn it. yay for your 2nd cook book :) have a great weekend Joy. You are awesome and now heading to your podcast.
Jessica (marcelleblog.com)
I loved this post. Thanks for starting my Friday off right, Joy!
Stefanie @ Sarcastic Cooking
OMG. Just ordered that book! Thanks for the recommendation. I cannot wait. If you like that journal-y artistic style of writing, you must read anything by Sabrina Ward Harrison! She is amazing and so honest.
robyn @ the freckled pie
i’m a thinking caring woman in the world… thanks for the suggestion, i must read it! anything with pictures and written for adults is my kind of book! happy weekend! xo
rachel
I totally get what you mean about the pretty journal being “too pretty.” I used to do that too; but now I just go for it. And now I love that I have lots of pretty journals that are filled with my life’s journeys. Enjoy that thing, girl!
Kate @ Kate from Scratch
I’m in favor of all things cozy. That stationary is beautiful; great suggestion.
erin @hooleywithaz
haha, i love that you jump from april to christmas. i do it too. six months of my life are going to disappear!! very excited for your second cookbook…ever since being introduced to the first through a friend, i’ve been excited.
Kendall
AAAHHHH a mind break and massage, from your mouth to God’s ears!
elizabeth t
I signed up for this subscription service for stationery lovers and a lot of what I get I deem too cute to use. Thanks for reminding me that things are made to be used- everything looks immaculate and spotless when it’s new, but it wasn’t made to be ogled and then put away- it’s made to be used.
Katie L.
I love-love-love sealing wax and stamps. You are not alone! :)
Libby
My weekend involves a small road trip with my best friend. Brunch… is happening. Probably twice.