Giveaway! Lucky Girl Hair Tie Holiday Set- Closed

No matter what skills you have or don't have in the kitchen, there is one thing that will ruin any meal... yep, that's right, hair in your food.

Kind of a gross concept so let's not dwell on it.

Let's just move on to the solution.  Sure any plain old rubber band will work but I like to take any opportunity to jazz things up.  Enter Lucky Girl Hair Ties.  The ties are showing up all over the place, but you can't beat the selection and price of this Etsy shop.

UPDATE- WINNERS
Congrats to Brittni and Shelley!

Taste Florence Winner!

And we have a winner...

Congratulations to Stephanie! You were #33 on the comments... Congrats!
If you didn't win, you definitely should still put Taste Florence on your itinerary when in Italy!

Little Kitchen Giveaway- NOW CLOSED

It's Monday... let's spice it up a little, shall we?  I have a really great giveaway from Taste Florence.

Taste Florence brings travelers to the city’s tastiest foods, educating them as they experience the best Italy has to offer.  Read all about the tour here. This is my kinda tour.  I don't mind learning about history as long as there is food involved.  And you are in one of the most amazing historical cities in the world so you can feel like you got your dose of history as well.

One lucky reader will receive two free tickets to "The Original Taste the Best Tour."  This is a 158 euro value (which in case you are not in the know about the dollar right now,  that comes out to over $200 U.S.).

Maybe winning these tickets will be just the nudge you need to finally book that trip to Italy! You have two years to use the tickets and if all else fails and you can't get there, this would be a great gift for a friend or family member traveling to Italy.

How to enter:
Simply leave a comment below that you want to be entered.  You can either leave contact info in your comment or check back to see if you won.  Entries who do not leave contact info, have one week to check back and see if they won.  If they do not respond, another winner will be chosen.

Extra entries:  

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*Post about this giveaway on Facebook or your blog*

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Good Luck!

{The Details}

One reader will win two tickets to "The Original Taste the Best Tour" in Florence, Italy. 

You have two years to use the tickets. 

Value: 158 euro

This is an international giveaway so you don't have to be in the U.S. to win!

Contest open until Friday, July 29.  Winner will be picked through random.org and announced on Monday, August 1.

And the Winner is...

So we have a winner for the Berndes Crepe Pan Giveaway! drumroll..... MEGAN MICHELSON! Congrats Megan and your Berndes Pan will be shipped to you shortly.  I don't know about you, but I have a hard time believing anyone truly picks a random name for a blog contest (especially when you have friends enter!) so if you need reassurance that this random drawing really took place, I have posted the actual drawing below.  Literally as I was cooking dinner last night right when I got home, I pulled out a bowl and put together this drawing.  So it's nothing fancy, just proof!

Thank you all for entering and I hope to have more drawings in the future.  Megan's crepe comment was one that included pumpkin and cinnamon.  My true plan was to make the crepe that the winner had suggested for this post.  But two things got in my way... First, it is still too gosh darn hot here in Houston to think about making anything as "fallish" and cozy as a pumpkin and cinnamon crepe.  Secondly, I couldn't have you kind folks waiting any longer to know who won the pan and I just didn't have time crank out a new crepe tonight.  So I will be back with a version of a pumpkin crepe and maybe our crepe pan winner could share her first crepe with us from her kitchen!

Disclaimer: I'm slightly appalled at where this youtube video decided to pause on here.  I mean really?  Do I need this up close and personal bewildered look on my face captured?  Oh well, I'm not tech savvy enough to know how to change it so please disregard!

Crepe Pan Giveaway! + My Favorite Crepe

So I have some very exciting news... The Little Kitchen is officially having a giveaway! The very kind people at Berndes cookware have given me a crepe pan to give away to one of my readers.  If you are new to the Little Kitchen, I have a minor obsession with my Berndes crepe pan.  It has brought me so much joy and now I have one to give away to one of you!  Everyone who enters, will be put into a drawing and I will randomly draw a winner.  Read below to see how to enter!

With all of the posts I have done about crepes, I have somehow skipped my favorite and probably easiest one to make... Nutella and bananas.  The creamy chocolate and slices of bananas wrapped in a warm, slightly crispy crepe is just magical.  There is really no recipe to post here because all you need is nutella and bananas.  The amount of each is totally up to your taste.  I like mine with quite a bit of chocolate so I cover the entire crepe, but you can add just a couple of dollops for a lighter chocolate taste.

To enter the giveaway:
1.  Leave a comment on this post and include two things...

• Your idea of the perfect crepe (any combination you can think of or it can be as simple asbananas and chocolate)  The winner will not be picked based on the fanciest crepe so simply pick any crepe you would like and you will be entered.
• Make sure you leave a way for me to contact you if you don't plan on checking back... I would hate for you to miss out.
• If you would like to be entered twice, mention this giveaway on your own blog (sorry if you do not have one, I still want you to enter!)  and your name will go in the pot twice... just make sure and let me know you did this!

2.  Check back in on Wednesday, October 7 and I will announce the winner.  If you are the winner, email me your address and your pan will be sent immediately.  The winner will be chosen from a random drawing (and don't worry, I will be posting the proof of how one random number was chosen).

*The giveaway will be opened until Saturday October 3rd.  Until then, I will be posting a few of my new favorite crepes!
*Open to U.S. residents only

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