a scrapbook, just for us

Bakes & Beaches

the funny bunnies archive of salt air & flour-dusted counters

scroll for the good stuff โ†“
the pitch

Two things, one summer: the ocean and the oven.

Sun-warmed skin and salty air on one side, flour-dusted counters and the smell of vanilla on the other. This is the pile of proof โ€” golden hour photos, kitchen chaos, and the songs that were playing through all of it. Made by us, kept for us.

๐ŸŒŠ beach ๐Ÿช baking ๐ŸŽง music โœจ the aesthetic
things we now know

facts we didn't ask for, but kept anyway

a beach fact and a baking fact, back and forth

beach
900 lbs

of sand a single parrotfish can poop out in a year โ€” that dreamy white beach sand is chewed-up coral, ground fine by fish.

baking
1930

the year the chocolate chip cookie happened by accident โ€” Ruth Wakefield ran out of baking chocolate, chopped up a Nestlรฉ bar instead, and the chunks just stayed chunks.

beach
35

beaches on Earth are known to "sing" โ€” walk the dry sand just right and the perfectly round grains squeak and hum.

baking
Austria

is where the croissant actually started โ€” as the Viennese kipferl, before French bakers gave it the buttery, laminated glow-up.

beach
billions

of years old โ€” some of the sand under your towel today has outlasted volcanoes, ice ages, and shifting continents.

baking
bread = $

in ancient Egypt, bread was literally currency โ€” the people who built the Great Pyramids were partly paid in loaves.

the soundtrack

what was playing the whole time

bass in your chest, windows down, instant nostalgia in advance

Cake by the Ocean
Espresso
Riptide
Bakes and Beaches (our song!)
the aesthetic

if our summer had a color story

pink stripes, sun-bleached umbrellas, a straw hat, a good book

Mood board collage
the archivists

about us

Three girls, one scrapbook โ€” made at AI Like A Girl camp.

We love to bake, and we love to travel, mostly to beaches and tropical places. And if there's a cookie anywhere nearby, we're eating it.

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the sign-off

that's the whole pile.

Sun on one side, sugar on the other โ€” and somehow it made sense together. More beaches to find, more recipes to wing, more songs to add. This page just keeps the receipts.

โ€” the funny bunnies ๐Ÿฐ
bakes & beaches ยท a scrapbook for us
โ€” Nidhi, Anshi and Domenica
fun fact