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Summer Bucket List 2016!

July 1, 2016 by Joy the Baker 37 Comments

2016 Summer Bucket

It’s time!  It’s past time to set our intentions for these long, sunny, sweaty, playful, days.  

How do you want to craft your summer?  How many sunsets do you want to savor and where do you want to do it?  How many ice cream cones do you want to indulge in and who do you want to share them with?  How many peanut butter candies do you want to eat late at night?  Three, like me.  

This was last year’s Summer Bucket List:   a list of things that a person would like to accomplish and experience during the summer months.  If done correctly, should involve water-guns, pool time, and roller-skates.  

I didn’t accomplish exactly all of my Summer Bucket List items from last year.  Truth be told, I still have the kombucha kit sitting in my guest room closet.  The deal with a well-crafted Summer Bucket List is that they’re set with intention, care, and the carefree spirit of a pressure-free Summer that is lived well, with freedom and grace.  In other words,  make the list you want and try your best to accomplish (and more importantly) ENJOY it.  

Here are my Summer intentions for these fine days:  

1  •  Take a road trip and visit a white sandy beach.  Let it be Pensacola and let me eat my way through the Florida panhandle.  BRB.  

2  •  Let there be a hotel pool day with wine.  This involves playing hooky from work, putting on a bathing suit, and visiting a hotel pool like you own the joint, ordering wine, and just liiiiving.  The slow sun life.  It’s Summah! 

3  •  I was recently at the Aspen airport writing scenic mountain postcards in the airport.  It’s sweet to send people mementos of your travels.  A little ray of sunshine folded in with bills and bullshit in the mailbox.  Protip:  carry postage stamps in your wallet.  Very grown adult move.  

4  •  Visit Seattle and go for a hike.  Sister, I’m comin’ for ya.  Let’s make some ice cream together! 

5  •  Make sliders and sangria, because aren’t those two summer treats you want in your fridge.  Pretzel buns… it’s all happening.  

6  •  Find new friends to collaborate on photography with.  It will feel your heart and soul and eyeballs.  

7  •  Polish the new house.  Not literally… but hang pictures, decorate the shelves in the kitchen, set up the bar, pet the cat, mow the lawn… and just generally get + keep it together.  Prepare for classes this Fall!  (That means you.  You’re totally coming over!)

8  •  Last year one of my Summer Bucket List goals was to do a yoga headstand-  something I thought was so so cool since I had just started taking my yoga practice more to heart.  This Summer my goal is to extend my yoga practice with grace and patience.  It’s a practice and progress comes in very exciting inches.  

9  •  Take daily art breaks, with watercolor paints or calligraphy pens because it’s good for the heart and soul, mind and work.

10  •  Learn more Italian.  It takes time, and patience, and persistence.  Workbooks and online lessons help.  It’s a practice.  Sometimes in inches… until you just subconsciously start to remember swear words.  

I hope this inspires you to set your intentions for these warm days.  What’s on your Summer Bucket List?  Please let it involve Summer Water… key and crucial.  Let’s carry on with it. 

xo Joy
Summer Bucket List 2016

This picture taken at Sweet Greens in Santa Monica during their lunch rush when people were rushing me away from my table and I wasn’t having it.  Do you.  I’ll do me. 

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  1. searedandshameless

    July 7, 2016 at 7:22 am

    art breaks are a beautiful idea. I need more of that in my life!

    https://www.searedandshameless.com

    Reply
  2. Cassandra Cyphers

    July 5, 2016 at 12:17 pm

    Your blog makes me really happy. I love everything you post! Thanks for being so awesome.

    Reply
  3. bhvhankes

    July 3, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    Have you read Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel? It’s all about her trying to learn Italian. It’s still on my list to read, but I’ve heard great things.

    Reply
  4. Sandra

    July 3, 2016 at 3:24 am

    Hello Joy ???? Could you recommend some websites with Italian lessons?

    xoxo

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    • joythebaker

      July 5, 2016 at 10:31 am

      Yes, I use Duolingo it’s an app. And I also use Verbling.

      Reply
  5. Karen @ runningfifty

    July 2, 2016 at 8:28 am

    This is a wonderful list! I love to make summer bucket lists, too. Happy Summer!

    Reply
  6. Bec

    July 2, 2016 at 5:29 am

    Ohmygosh Joy! I’m coming over from Australia to the US in fall to eat and drink my way around and I will be in New Orleans in Oct! I will be keeping my finders and toes crossed!

    Reply
  7. Tammie

    July 1, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    Joy instead of Pensacola Beach which is nice you should come to Orange Beach/Gulf Shores!!! Were closer and the beaches in Orange Beach/Gulf Shores are fab! I promise you won’t be disappointed but make sure you have your hotel booked before you get here because in the Summer everything is usually booked to 100%.

    Reply
  8. Rachael

    July 1, 2016 at 6:23 pm

    The kombucha starter has an expiration date and it’s only good for a few months – I bought the same kit and waited a bit too long also! Just an FYI :)

    Reply
  9. Kristin Jewell

    July 1, 2016 at 4:17 pm

    I’m sure your sister has some ideas of hiking in Seattle if she lives there, but if not, I suggest Rattlesnake Ledge! 4 mile roundtrip with killer views. :) Have fun!

    Reply
  10. Chris

    July 1, 2016 at 11:42 am

    Your art is just beautiful!

    Reply
  11. Madeleine Smith

    July 1, 2016 at 9:49 am

    Oh, I hope you’ll update us soon on the classes! I’ll be in NOLA and would LOVE to attend one!

    Reply
  12. chelsea finn

    July 1, 2016 at 9:07 am

    ugh this sounds like such a wonderful summer bucket list! love it!

    xx Chelsea
    http://www.organizedmessblog.com

    Reply
  13. Chrissy

    July 1, 2016 at 9:02 am

    When I lived in NOLA we went to the beach in Mississippi to celebrate my birthday after a night out in the Quarter. In August. Bad idea. The water was too hot to swim in, the sand too hot to lay on, so we spent the whole day running from our towels to the showers! The upside? Raisin’ Canes on the way home. I hope your beach trip involves some of that fried gloriousness.

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    • joythebaker

      July 1, 2016 at 11:36 am

      This makes me chuckle!! Those Mississippi beaches can be brutal! Water that’s too hot to swim in! Good grief!!

      Reply
  14. Nadia

    July 1, 2016 at 8:50 am

    i am glad you stood your ground and hung onto your table. I hated being rushed out. Here, in France, it is the opposite. They love you to stay as long as you want and you sometimes have trouble getting the bill.

    Reply
    • joythebaker

      July 1, 2016 at 11:36 am

      I would relish in this!

      Reply
  15. Molly

    July 1, 2016 at 8:31 am

    What beautiful watercolor and pen doodles! Inspires me to put “daily art break” on my summer bucket list too… It’s sad how easily we stop exercising those art muscles when work/life/etc get busy busy busy.

    Reply
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