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Opening the doors to live ♥ love ♥ learn opens a positive door. When we keep the conversations open, sharing and engaging these nurtures us, seeds the mind, allows positive happy, joyful relationships, learning, understanding, growing, moving forward, we nurture ♥ future generations, and ♥ love.
If we don’t use love and learning, then we aren’t able to be the best version of ourselves.
The Judds – Love Can Build A Bridge (Official Music Video) filmed in Sedona.
Donna Joy ~ Mom, Retired Pastry Chef, Retired Entrepeneur, Creator, Business owner, Culinary Artist, Pastry Chef, Chief Operating Disruptor is sharing recipes, cake art, research, Sedona history, and sharing neighbor’s voices.
NEW Sedona Community Voices
Sharing voices of Residents
Sharing residents’ opinions, facts, and research helps us learn, nurture and grow in the most positive way.

Sedona Community Voices ~ Resident’s Footprint
A resident’s much needed platform for those in our community to share and speak up and have a voice in community issues. Sharing residents’ opinions, facts, research helps us learn, nurture and grow in the most positive way.
Cottonwood, AZ population between 2000 and 2023 Over the last 20 plus years, between 2000 and 2023, population of Cottonwood increased by 3,471.…
When I moved here over 30 years ago Sedona had a good small government until they didn’t. We could always attend Sedona City…
Do Census Numbers Illuminate the Sedona Area Communities? Communities are always evolving, and understanding these changes can provide valuable insights. By examining census…
The misuse of incorrect City of Sedona population has been used to push the city community plan and projects through using incorrect numbers,…
The City of Sedona is proposing to develop the Sedona Cultural Park to 483 Housing units forgetting the history heritage of this beautiful land and ignoring their own vision statement.
Here we go again, traffic jams are also caused by residents. What nonsense.
“MADNESS has arrived in Sedona “
Donna Joy’s Recipes
Donna Joy retired in 2021 and is sharing her recipes used in the Bakery Cafes. She also retired the package food manufacturing Donna Joy’s® Artisan Handcrafted baking mixes, package foods. The packaged food formulas are being converted to Make at Home for your enjoyment.
When autumn and winter arrive, I find myself yearning for pumpkin. Being a huge fan…
Donna Joy retired in 2021 and as a hobby sharing her award-winning carrot cake recipe. Carrot…
Delicious hearty healthy vegetable lentil loaf is satisfying comfort food. No eggs, no gluten, no dairy. This vegan lentil loaf, made with oats, vegetables, flax seed, and seasoning.
Enjoy Gluten Free Oat Bran Muffins that are delicious, fluffy and easy to make. Bake at home a healthy, gluten free breakfast or snack.
Gluten Free sandwich bread that’s perfect for paninis, grill cheese, french toast. This recipe can also be used for gluten free dinner rolls or sandwich rolls.
Enjoy Gluten Free Oat Bran Muffins that are delicious, fluffy and easy to make. Bake at home a healthy, gluten free breakfast or snack.
Donna Joy’s Culinary Galleries
Donna Joy always curious, loved creating things. When she started in the food industry 30 years ago, we didn’t have the online resources that we have today. Donna is self-taught in the culinary arts. Award winning Sugar Artist and Pastry Chef. Selected by people magazine as AZ Best Wedding Cake.
Learn more about Sedona Tourism through Data-Driven Research
When things don’t make sense Donna becomes curious. Curiosity drives her to learn more. The city of Sedona Public policy on tourism never made sense. The City Council voted to gift city-tax dollars to a private organization in a no-bid contract. Learn more why Donna spent so much time to understand and how the city policy permanently damaged Sedona.
- Understand More Arizona’s Complex Tourism Policy

- ARIZONA DMOs rules of engagement

- City Launches New Tourism Program

- New Tourism Advisory Board for Sedona

- The Slow Death of Sedona 2013

- New Municipal Destination Marketing Program

Donna Joy’s Data-driven Benchmark Research
Donna’s profession in her early years was in Bio-Tech, implantable life saving devices, medical devices startups. This is a highly regulated industry operating with Total Quality Management. Including continuous improvement, tracking performance, getting all levels of organization involved. Donna developed the policy and implemented the programs. Success, improvement and positive growth sparked Donna enjoyment to learn more and share the knowledge by consulting other companies.

Donna Joy ~ A retired Entrepeneur, Creator, Business owner, Culinary Artist, Chef & Chief Operating Disruptor. Donna enjoys sharing information her research, data driven trackers, culinary images, methods and recipes. ~ enjoy~ ♥ Donna Joy

Donna Joy ~ A retired Entrepeneur, Creator, Business owner, Culinary Artist, Chef & Chief Operating Disruptor.
♥ Donna Joy
donna@donnajoys.com

The Resident’s Footprint is how we create clear, open-door discussions, accept each other’s differences, collaborate working together, utilize each different strengths, nurture, and improve.
Unlimited each other to grow, learn and build our community.
Did we welcome the community as a whole to the table?
Or were the only ones at the table the loudest, controlling the narrative and outcome?
Did we restrict another person by restricting where and how they spoke? Did we label another and not listen to their ideas or suggestions?
The Resident’s Footprint is our community legacy, how we leave our community.
How we nurtured, supported, understood, collaborated, respected others, and set aside any conflicts of interest is our footprint. Going through opens doors taking chances that may help to grow our legacy and our footprint.
~ yours, ours, and my Sedona ~
Changes and improvements we make through collaboration and networking leave a balanced footprint for generations to come.
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Learn more, understand the details, connect with data-driven decision making.
It’s not about who likes you or who you like.
Vote with logic and common sense.
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Donna Joy’s Facebook page Sedona Sweet Arts
Recipes | Culinary Art Galleries
tips ~ ideas ~ inspiration
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Donna Joy’s Research Trackers allows you to see critical details and connect directly to the source documents.
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