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Ice Cream – Made by You!

j-eating-icecream.jpgCelebrate summer with the kids by making your own home made ice cream — and then serve it up in the sweetest bowls…

In the heat of summer, nothing can beat homemade ice cream — so we are kicking off this July 4th Giveaway by giving away a Krups GVS1 Ice Cream Maker and a 4 piece set of Rosanna Sweet Dreams Bowls courtesy of SplendidLife.com.

If making your own ice cream sounds like too much work to you — no worries. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy the process is. Just whisk up the cream, milk, sugar and other optional ingredients, pour it into the frozen bowl and push the button. Then let the machine do all the work.

review-krups-200.jpgThere is no cranking or stirring and no ice or salt required. This is low maintenance ladies. Even cleaning the machine is simple. (But Jackson still had fun “making” the ice cream by measuring and mixing up the ingredients and pouring it in the machine. For his short attention span, he sure thought he worked hard for his ice cream.)

And if you want to make it more elaborate, the Krups Ice Cream Maker comes with a recipe booklet full of gourmet ice cream and sorbet recipes. You will shock your summer guests with your elaborate creations like Pineapple sorbet with Creme Brulee flavour, Kiwi and fresh mint sorbet, or Sorbet of fresh and dried figs in brandy. You can be as fancy or as simple as you want – and the Krups Ice Cream Maker will do all the heavy work for you. (We made good old fashioned vanilla ice cream for our first run.)

review-rosanna-200.jpgAnd then – to add some style to your dessert SplendidLife is giving the winner a 4 piece set of Rosanna Sweet Dreams Bowls. I love the colors and the writing along the inside rim of these stoneware bowls. They truly are some of the sweetest bowls I have seen. Jackson is “all-boy” so I didn’t think he would give the bowls a second look. (I mean – there is endless amounts of ice cream involved!) But he loves them – and claimed the green one as his own.

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SplendidLife.com, a new site started by Splenda, is a premium one stop shopping solution for women, especially moms. The site offers a carefully selected assortment of products – everything from espresso machines, to picnic accessories, to pedometers – in sections like cooking and baking, entertainment, healthy living and family fun. The site also offers fun ideas for entertaining and tips for healthy living.

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  4. What a perfect summer prize! I can’t think of anything better to help with the hot desert summers than cold, creamy ice cream! And look at those perfect bowls! Please put me in for such a wonderful prize?!?

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  6. Just watched a show where they made chocolate ice cream with honey it looked so good. I want an ice cream maker.

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  10. My mouth’s starting to water just thinking about eating some yummy ice cream on a hot summer day! Count me in!

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  13. I would love to make my own ice cream again….we did it as kids, but I think it was a hand crank bucket.

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  14. Terrific looking bowls. It has been years since I have made ice cream! A great prize for the summers in Ohio.

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  19. Nothing makes me pine more for my childhood than thinking of homemade ice cream. I remember the old hand crank models where the entire family would take turns pouring on the rock salt and turning that handle.

    The ice cream would be delicious but we’d eat it too quickly and get those headaches.

    Good times!

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  25. Just thinking of the joy this would bring my family fills me with such happiness… Thanks for holding your wonderful contest!

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  26. Homemade ice cream is ALWAYS worth the effort! It has a clean and smooth taste you do not get from the carton! Additionally, you have the control over what (and the quality of) ingredients you use.

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  33. What a wonderful prize. We love icecream

    Smiles and Blessings,

    Angel Mama ():)

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  34. I think I entered on the main post not here! janice is such a lifesaver! thank you!!!! I would be so sad I didnt get entered into this one, I would be estatic to win one of these, I am so addicted to icecream! *blush* hehe what an awesome prize! thank you!

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  35. We love making homemade ice cream, for a special treat we make Milky Way ice cream. My post and link are up.

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  36. Jackson looks as if he is in dreamland with that BIG SPOON of delicious vanilla icecream. Gonna’ love me some if ya’ll draw my name. Love the bowls, also.

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  42. Hey I would love the ice cream maker! I think I was wrongly linked but this should fix that. I linked my post.

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  52. Oh yes!! Count me in!! We could use some cold ice cream in Okinawa Japan!!!! Thanks for your helpful email ~ I wouldn’t want to miss this !!

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  54. I have made my own ice cream a few times. The only problem is I tried doing it with an ice cube tray. You know it is time to not try it again when your children “say, no mom!!” I would love to win this, good luck to everyone!

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  58. mmm, memories of my mom making us peppermint ice cream during the summer…..enter me please….now excuse me while i wipe the drool from my keyboard..

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  66. My grandkids would have fun with this all summer, our homegrown berries and homemade ice cream yes

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  76. I was just telling my husband I wanted to get an icecream maker. He looked at me like I was crazy and didn’t respond.

    Please enter me in the contest!

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  84. What an awesome prize. Is there anyone who doesn’t like ice cream? My family, nieces and nephews would be THRILLED if I won this one and so would the children with severe/multiple learning challenges I teach during the year!

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  87. Who wouldn’t want this gem!!! My son is out of commision for the summer because of a bum ankle, so traditional ‘stuff’ is out for us. But making ice cream in this might just make up for it!!

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  96. I wasn’t going to enter this one since I can’t eat ice cream — but the kids can, plus I read it can make sorbet, too. So sign me up! 🙂 Thanks so much for all the contests!

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  106. This looks like it would be great fun for the kids to get involved with. We’re a family of 4 so if we can make our own ice cream that would be super!

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  108. I would love to have an ice cream maker! My parents have one and we LOVE to make homemade huckleberry ice cream! SOOO good! :o) Everything else that goes with it is a great bonus too!

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  111. I don’t think there’s a snowball’s (or even a bowl of ice cream’s) chance, but I’ll put my name in for this wonderful prize. 🙂

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  112. I just love to bake and am looking forward to the day I can make sweets together with my daughter. She’s only 8 months now 😉 How special would it be to make ice cream together?!

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  132. Ahh, ice-cream. That just might make our Texas summer heat bearable; and I LOVE those bowls! 🙂

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  138. Homemade Icecream is the bomb and a great way to cool off The Whole Family. (pun intended!) LOL! Enter me please.

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  139. What a terrific contest. I had some homemade ice cream at a friends house a few weeks ago. It was soooooo good. I asked her how she had made it and she had the Krups Ice Cream Maker. Now I find a contest offering one. This would be wonderful to win

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  144. YUM! I would love to win this! I have an old ice cream maker that you hand crank. This would be so much better!

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  154. I don’t have a blog, but I’ll sure pass this on. Please sign me up – Krups makes wonderful, dependable appliances and I LOVE homemade ice cream!

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  160. This is my first time to enter a blogger contest or swap or anything, so, pick me, o please, please, please, pick me! Thanks!

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  161. Is there any food better than ice cream? This would definitely be a hit with my family. My one year old frequently requests “ice” after dinner. Sign us up please!

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  164. This would be perfect for today! The annual “camp in Nana’s yard” is today. (I live in the country.) Its a big cookout, campfire, yard games and sleeping bags in the big tent day! I want to win this for next year’s event!

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  171. The picture of the boy at the end kind of scares me, but otherwise this looks wonderful!

    Count me in 😀

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  173. That is an awesome set of bowls too, perfect to have ice cream in!

    🙂

    I’ve posted and linked.

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  178. I’ve posted about the contest, added the banner to the sidebar and would LOVE to win this ice cream maker and bowls.

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  180. I would love to try this! My ice cream maker broke last month and we totally need a new one. Florida summers are just too hot to be without one!!!

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  186. Oh!! I sure do hope I win this! I am just about to graduate from culinary school and have been wanting an ice cream maker for SO LONG! I can’t afford one though, and holy cow this would make my summer!!!!

    Going to link to you now!!!!!

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  193. Oh yeah – nothing like homemade ice cream in the summer (or spring, autumn, or winter)! Espcially when it’s quick & easy! 😀

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  195. My ice cream freezer is a hand crank style. Now that my kids are all gone or leaving, it’s hard to find someone to crank! This freezer sounds so user friendly! But I have to admit, it’s the cute bowls that really caught my eye.

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  199. I have *always* wanted to make ice cream for everyone, but never would allow myself to spend the money on the ice cream maker… this would be a dream! 🙂

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  202. Hi, my email isn’t showing on my previous entry, so consider this “the one”. hometeachinatcox.net (replace “at” with @)

    Thanks! Jenn

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  208. Homemade Ice Cream brings back so many childhood memories. I have been wanting to get one…but winning one would be so much more fun.

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  213. No Salt? No ice? No Cranking? Little Mess! This ice cream maker had to of been made for me! I so want this thing!

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  224. OOOO How much fun would it be to teach the kids to make ice cream. We all would be screaming for ice cream!!!

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  225. I love Ice Cream and I love the 4th of July festivities. If I win there will be fireworks.
    Alice

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  234. Oh, I’d love to win this one. I’ve wanted an ice-cream maker for a loooong time, what fun twould be! And the bowls are absolutely lovely!

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  235. Nothing says summer fun like homemade ice cream! Those bowls are adorable, I love the muted colors.

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  237. Ohh… homemade ice cream!! The kids would love this!! I’ll bet my foster children don’t even know that ice cream can be made at home!!

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  238. OH YES, I would love to win this. Reminds me of the old books I read years ago about the Malone family. They always made ice cream, the old fashioned way. This machine looks Oh so easy.

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  249. This sounds great! Please enter me in the drawing. Maybe I could finally make use of the recipe I have for watermelon ice cream.

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  253. My son’s birthday is in August and that is a very good time for homemade ice cream in Mississippi. Instead of buying that ole store bought ice cream, I call all of my uncles who love to make ice cream and get them to bring their favorite kind to his birthday party. That way we all get to enjoy it.

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  255. My daughter has been begging me to make homemade strawberry icecream. My family would love to win! Thank you.

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  261. I’m not a blogger, but please count me in on the contest. This looks so adorable and like so much fun! Thanks!

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  267. My kids and I love ice cream! It would be fun to be able to make it with them! Maybe even a good school project! Thank you!

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  273. We LOVE hommade icecream!! We used our maker so much we burnt out the motor…oh how we would love a new one!!! PLEASE! PLEASE!!
    Blessings-Andie

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  279. this would be such a great transition for my blog — I could go from the ben & Jerry promos to my ice cream creations. Yes, this really should be mine!

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  283. Oh, this looks like FUN. The kids & I have never made homemade ice cream before but would love to, so please enter me, thanks!

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  288. I really like the bowls-they are very pretty! Count me in for the contest please, I added a link to my blog with some info about the contest.

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  296. We love home made ice cream! We have four kids and four new bowls would be perfect! What a sweet prize!

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  298. For someone who loves ice cream as I do, this is a dream! Can’t wait for the drawing….also posting a button 🙂

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  304. This is my first time entering and I don’t have a blog. I hope I’m following the right steps.

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  305. Living here in Arizona this time of year an ice cream maker would be the perfect thing to help us beat the heat!
    Count me in, I love homemade ice cream.

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  308. Yum, homemade ice cream! Please add me to this drawing. I’ll be posting your giveaway button in my sidebar!
    Thanks!

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  311. YUMMY!
    Who doesn’t like homemade ice cream? I have 3 boys who would love for me to have this! LOL!

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  319. Ooh! This looks so fun! I was just wishing the other day that we had money to go buy an ice cream maker, but I think I might even like the bowls more than the ice cream maker! They’re adorable.

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  326. What a fun way to spend the summer and make a delightful dessert for darling friends!
    Thanks for running another contest!

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  339. Count me in! I’d love to win an ice cream maker! It’s going up to 39 celcius with the humidex! Yowzers!

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  340. Ooo, I’d love to win this! I have a child on a gluten-free diet, and making our own ice cream would let me make some yummy desserts for her!!

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  342. I have a Jackson, too~ he’s got a twin brother Travis and boy would they love to have this icecream maker and bowls. It is soooo hot in Georgia!!

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  344. I hope I win! I loved to make homemade icecream as a kid and I am sure my kids would love to as well!

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  355. WOW!! Homemade ice cream brings back great childhood memeories for me! I would love it win! Count me in! Thanks!!

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  367. I would love that ice cream maker, and the bowls. I’ll post a link and button on my blog, too. Thanks for the contest!

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  373. I would love this! One of my children can’t have any artificial colors or presrvatives and he misses out on treats so often, I’d love to be able to make him ice cream!

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  390. OH! This is such a great idea. We usually have about 12-14 kids at our house in the summer time and making ice cream would be just as fun as eating it. OH and the girl scout cookies bought this spring will be yummy added in. :0)

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  395. ah! We just went shopping for ice cream makers this weekend….scared away by the prices and the options…but this would be great to win!! I’ll post on my blog!!

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  396. Ooooooh! I would love one of these! We used to have an icecream maker but it got lots of use from our large family (10 kids). Count me in! I posted about it on my blog (6-25-07)

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  399. ooh, it’s summer in the south. the peaches are ripe and ready to be made into homemade peach ice cream. perfect!! sign me up.

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  406. Yep, this is what I really need, course if I win this I will need that flattering swimsuit even more 🙂

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  408. i made ice cream in the old school kind for father’s day and was just thinking how one of the new ones would be nice.

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  411. An ice cream maker has been on my wish list for 2 years. Oh how terrific if I could cross that off!!! We don’t eat dairy and soy ice cream is expensive! My 2 littles would go crazy if we could make it any time we got the craving!

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  424. Haven’t had homemade ice cream in years. What wonderful memories I have of my parents making the ice cream for us! Count me in too.

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  427. With four teenagers, two kids and a dad who all love ice cream, this would be a very welcome addition to our house. They can munch through a whole tub in one sitting.

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  439. It would help if I pay attention to what I am doing.
    If you could, delete the first one~Thanks!

    I Scream
    You Scream
    We all Scream
    For Ice Cream

    Great Prize 🙂

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  440. And NOW it feels like summer! What a great prize. I’m picking up the button code right now!

    ~TaunaLen

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  441. I love home made ice cream!!! Count me in on this one!! Again, I have posted the picture thingy on my blog.

    God be with you,
    Debby

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  442. Another incredible prize!!! Wooohooo!
    I will definately support you by placing a button/link on my blog!
    Thanks for another chance to win! 🙂

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  445. I linked to the July 4th giveaway post and have the button up on my blog. Please enter me in this contest. Thanks!

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  458. Um, nothing beats the stifling Texas heat like HOMEMADE ice cream. And could those bowls be any cuter??? Please enter me in this contest.

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  460. oh please, oh please, oh please can we win this one! I love having friends over our house, and this would be a great addition to our get-togethers.

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  469. Ice Cream is such a simple way to spend happy time with my kids…and ice cream maker would make even more special!!

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  472. In May we made ice cream by hand. It was a whole lotta work for jsut a baby food jar of ice cream. I think this would be much more fun! Sign me up!

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  474. i have a son that is totally in-love with icecream! we would be thrilled if we won!! it would make my little booger and all of his little friends happy all.summer.long!

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  475. Please enter me. The high has been around 105 here…I would be THRILLED to win an ice cream maker!!!

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  477. Oh how FUN !!!!! Been wanting to get an Ice Cream maker so my boys and I can make healthy HOMEMADE treats at home.

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  478. I have fond memories of Sprite ice cream from family reunions in Alabama when I was a kid… would love to try that now!

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  482. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. The chant on the way to Micky D’s after soccer games in the summer.

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  487. I love your site! Found it while on another site. I’ve included your blog link and your July 4th button on my blog. Thanks.

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  490. How cute! I’ve always thought an ice cream maker would be a great thing to have especially with children. Yummy!

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  491. This looks like such a great ice cream maker~ and those bowls are just adorable!
    We really NEED those in our house!

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  494. I remember when I was growing up we would turn that ice cream handle until our arms felt like falling off. Then we would pull out the smallest silver tin of ice cream and wait by the freezer for hours waiting for it to form. But boy was it worth it!

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  496. Oh I remember my childhood and making ice cream with my family. Only it was in a old crank type ice cream maker with the rock salt and you turned for ever it seemed. I would LOVE this to be able to make ice cream with and for my grandkids. Thank you for having the contest.

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  499. I would LOVE to win this! How fantastic to create those memories of my childhood with my kids! Count me in, button is going up now!!

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  504. I am an ice-cream fantatic! What a gift for God to bestow upon me – can’t resist even the smallest bite, LOL.

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  507. OH how fun! I remember making our own ice cream as kids and would love to pass on this tradition with my kids!

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  510. My grandmother has been sending me home-made ice cream recipes for years…I’ve never HAD an ice cream maker! Time to put those recipes to use…. Count me in.

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  512. I would love to be entered for the prize. We are up to the 115 mark here in Arizona and Lord knows we need some ice cream!

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  515. ooh how much fun!!! and i’m sure you know how much the pregnant ones love ice cream! sign me up too! hahahah

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  517. I’ve always wanted an ice cream maker (but am too cheap to buy one, particularly since I can’t rationalize having ice cream in the house all the time…) so count me in! Hopefully this is open to Canadians…I’m entering in advance just in case!

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  519. what an awesome prize. We used to make ice cream but our maker broke. I also love the bowls. ….here’s to crossing my fingers!

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  522. Love, love, love homemade ice cream! Especially COFFEE TOFFEE ice cream! And those bowls are so cute! Yep, I want to enter this drawing. Thanks!

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  528. We had recieved one as a wedding gift so many years ago, but sold it at a garage sale! I would love to have one again, and this time actually use it!

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  530. We always make ice cream at my grandparents once a month and I haven’t been doing it I’ve been making brownies instead because I don’t have an ice cream maker. If I won, someone else would have to make brownies!

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  533. This would be the perfect addition to my kitchen… Thanks for the opportunity to win such great prizes… Kim

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  534. I love this!!! It is such a great giveaway.. who doesnt love ice cream and the bowls are soooo cute!

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  535. I have always wanted to make homemade icecream. I have just always thought it was too much work and I didn’t have the proper equipment. What a great giveaway.

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  542. This is ideal for summer. And since we eat a lot of ice cream, this will be a real treat! So, count me in. Oh, and the button up on my blog as well. Check it out.

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  546. Count me in!
    I just got a vintage Donvier ice cream maker on my local freecycle list, but you have to remember to go turn the crank every 5 minutes!

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  554. Please count me in … it would save me from deciding between that and a grill for the hubby’s belated Father’s Day gift/August birthday gift.

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  560. I was just thinking the other day how much my daughter would love to make her “own” ice cream. How timely!

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  564. Of course I want in on this one! I’d love to see if I could make Rice Milk Ice Cream! (Me & Gray can’t have dairy!)
    Steph

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  565. I’m gonna keep trying to win 🙂
    Thanks for having another contest!
    Blessings
    EaglesWings

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  566. I don’t think I can be eligible to win … cos it would cost a lot to send the things to Finland but would it be ok for me to enter anyway … and if I win … to donate it to a family in the US who could really do with a treat like this?

    Thank you for your generosity in any case. Blessings for midsummer.

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  572. sign me up. I have a Jackson of my own who LOVES ice cream. Especially chocolate. Happy independence day! No matter what day you celebrate it on.

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  573. The link and button will be on my blog tomorrow so count me in tonight to win! Homemade ice cream, what a treat!!

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  576. Me…Me…pick me 🙂 We are a real ice creamaholic family!!! It would be put to good use!!! 🙂 Thanks for such a great prize!

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  578. My husband would be ECSTATIC if we won this! Not to mention our 20 month old…and me too, of course. 🙂

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  584. So in on this one! I put a button on my blog page! Thanks for the giveaways and Happy Independence Day!

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  585. I am new to this and haven’t a clue how to add a link button – I can put in a plain link…. maybe. What I CAN do is eat ice cream and love bowls. That I came equipped with.

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  593. Wow – both are part of the prize! YAY! Sounds like great fun. I’ll get that post up post-haste!

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  601. My granddaughters (and the ice cream loving Granddaddy) would love it if I was picked!! I’m tossing my hat into the ring!

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  609. We love homemade ice cream! But, our maker died a couple of summers ago. Would love to win this to replace it!

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  615. With a 17 month old, a Husband that still acts like a 17 month old and the extra 20 plus pounds i’m carrying (aka baby #2) that ice cream maker would burn out real fast. I’d be happy to take it off your hands! LOL

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  619. An ice cream maker…now how cool is that?? I’ve never had one before but I sure would like one! lol Those bowls are also adorable!! Please add my name to this draw:-) xox

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  625. This would be awesome! My husband loves ice cream and I’ve been having insane cravings for it! 🙂

    I’ve got the contest posted on my site as well, however I couldn’t get the button to work, so I’ve linked to this page…

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  627. In Phoenix, this would be the perfect thing-it’s so dang hot here! I put the button on my sidebar and told all my friends about it!!

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  628. Ooo, we’ve been thinking about getting an ice cream maker lately — this would be perfect! I’m in!

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  629. Oops! I think I commented in the wrong spot! If so, here goes again:
    “I’ve also been thinking of buying one…winning one would be sooooo much better!”

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  630. Our kids are constanty asking to go to the Ice Cream Shoppe down the street. How nice to be able to make it at home and healthy! I’m in!

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  631. MMmmmm… My mouth is watering now just thinking about homemade strawberry ice cream!
    Please enter me in this one… I added your button on my sidebar.
    Happy First Day of Summer!!!!

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  634. I’ve always wanted an ice cream maker! Please count me in. I am adding the banner to my sidebar. Thanks! 🙂

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