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~ live ♥ love ♥ learn ♥ share ♥ engage ♥ nurture ~

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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.

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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.

Population Sedona Area Cities – Towns

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Cottonwood, AZ population between 2000 and 2023 Over the last 20 plus years, between 2000 and 2023, population of Cottonwood increased by 3,471.…

Sedona NCS Survey 2022

Are Sedona Residents being Manipulated?

Donna Joy

When I moved here over 30 years ago Sedona had a good small government until they didn’t. We could always attend Sedona City…

Tourism First Agenda

A view of Sedona area communities 2023 Census

Donna Joy

Do Census Numbers Illuminate the Sedona Area Communities? Communities are always evolving, and understanding these changes can provide valuable insights. By examining census…

City of Sedona Population Growth

Donna Joy

The misuse of incorrect City of Sedona population has been used to push the city community plan and projects through using incorrect numbers,…

05-23-1967 ERZ-2-103 Sedona Cultural

Sedona Cultural Park Western Gateway to Sedona

Donna Joy

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.

TRAFFIC JAMS NO FAULT OF RESIDENTS

Joan Shannon, Sedona

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.

vegan pumpkin muffins half Ultimate Vegan Pumpkin Muffins Recipe Best ever

Ultimate Vegan Pumpkin Muffins Recipe Best ever

When autumn and winter arrive, I find myself yearning for pumpkin. Being a huge fan…

Donna Joy's Award-Winning Carrot Cake Recipe with Cream Cheese Frosting

Donna Joy’s Award-Winning Carrot Cake Recipe.

Donna Joy retired in 2021 and as a hobby sharing her award-winning carrot cake recipe. Carrot…

Lentil Loaf

Delicious Hearty Healthy Vegetable Lentil Loaf

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.

Oat Bran Blueberry Muffins

Rich High Fiber Oat Bran Blueberry Muffins Vegan, Dairy Free Recipe

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 Bread Recipe

Best Gluten Free Bread Scratch Sandwich Panini

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.

gluten free Oat Bran muffins recipe

Bake Delicious Oat Bran Muffins Gluten Free

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.

A beautiful Sugar Bow adorns this retro original design by Donna Joy. Each loop of the bow is made separate and is dried before the bow is formed. We love watching bows being created. Time consuming but super cool as the whole bow can be taken off the cake and saved. If kept dry it will last forever. If you drop it, bye-bye bow. It breaks like bone-china. 

Donna Joy’s Sugar Bows Unique Sugar Arts

Sedona Wedding Cakes by Pastry Chef Donna Joy. three tier wedding cake is adorned with hand sculpted sugar flowers custom colored

Fantastic Fondant Cakes Gallery

Donna Joy's geode wedding cake crystals

Donna Joy’s Custom cakes simple to over the top

Donna Joy's Cactus Cake in Bloom.

Art of Sugar Creative Succulents Cactus Cakes

Hunting Deer Mountain Themed cake

Sedona Cakes ~ Pastry Chef Prepared

Edible lego cake by Donna Joy

Sugar Gallery of Edible Sugar Art be inspired

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.

  • Arizona's Complex Tourism Policy Benchmark City Tourism Programs Chart by Donna Joy
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  • Did you know?
    ARIZONA DMOs rules of engagement
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    City Launches New Tourism Program
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    The Slow Death of Sedona 2013
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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.

Population Sedona Area Cities – Towns

Sedona NCS Survey 2022

Are Sedona Residents being Manipulated?

Tourism First Agenda

A view of Sedona area communities 2023 Census

City of Sedona Population Growth

City of Glendale, Arizona

Performance Management City of Glendale, Arizona

Map Arizona What Works Cities

Arizona Cities that use “What Works Cities”


Donna Joy hand sculpted sugar flowers
Sedona Wedding Cake by Donna Joy hand sculpted sugar flowers

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

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Donna Joy ~ A retired Entrepeneur, Creator, Business owner, Culinary Artist, Chef & Chief Operating Disruptor. 
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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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It’s not about who likes you or who you like.
Vote with logic and common sense.
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Donna Joy's Red Sugar Lily Sedona Wedding Cake
Donna Joy's Red Sugar Lily Sedona Wedding Cake is a unique one-of-a-kind custom design. Adorned with a cascade of handcrafted Red Sugar Lilies. Edible Art.

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  • DMO the right Model for City or Municipality
  • Targeted Marketing direct with customers
  • Sedona City Bed Tax No requirement to market
  • Sedona Chamber NEVER Stopped Marketing Sedona
  • Sedona Chamber is a Private Group
  • Aspiring Inspiring Masculine Energy
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Donna Joy’s Cake Galleries

Sugar Flowers, Donna Joy Sedona Sweet Arts
Three tier Wedding Cake, Offset squares, with fondant frosting champagne colored buttercream swirls, Adorned with Donna Joy’s hand sculpted Pastillage assorted sugar Red Roses, Calla Lilies Champagne color sugar berries and greens.
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