Despite the freezing cold weather we’re experiencing here in VA the weekend is off to a great start!
As I mentioned on facebook, Isaac and I toured a wedding/reception venue this morning that we absolutely fell in love with. We’ve toured three other places and while they all had some great aspects, none of them seemed “perfect”. Today’s venue was not only beautiful, the lady who worked with us was so welcoming and friendly and by the time we were leaving both Isaac and I had the same feeling – we REALLY liked the place. We didn’t sign the contract today because we have at least one more place to check out, but I have a gut feeling this will be the place we get married. So exciting! I’ll be sure to share more details about it soon.
We also checked out the SlowFoodRVA TEDxManhattan – Change the Way We Eat viewing party at Gallery5 today. I love TED talks and this whole event was focused on something I’m truly passionate about so I was excited to check it out. My favorite part was the TED talk from Jamie Oliver about the obesity epidemic affecting our nation and what we can do about it. He emphasized that teaching our kids about where food comes from and how to cook nutritious meals is essential and needs to be done in schools. It was very inspiring and makes me want to get out and do something to help make a change. I’ve already got some ideas floating around in my head!
Changing topics to something a little lighter, do you like sparkly things? If so, you must check out Sparkly Soul headbands.

As part of the FitFluential Ambassador program I was sent two of the Sparkly Soul non-slip headbands to review. I hate having my bangs in my face while I’m working out but I typically don’t wear headbands because they never stay in place for me. I won’t lie, I was actually skeptical that these ones from Sparkly Soul wouldn’t stay in place but they’ve proved me wrong! Check out the video below for my review:
The best part… Sparkly Soul has offered to give away two headbands, one thin and one thick (in the color of your choice) to one lucky EBF reader! To enter the giveaway check out the Sparkly Soul website and tell me in the comment section which headband color you like best. For an extra entry you can do do the following and leave a comment telling me you’ve done so:
- Follow Sparkly Soul on Twitter @SPARKLYSOULINC and tweet about the giveaway. Your tweet could be something like this: “I want to win a @SPARKLYSOULINC non-slip headband from @eatingbirdfood! Enter to win here: http://wp.me/pDCSr-2Na”
You’ll have until January 31st to enter and I’ll announce the winner on February 1st.
PS – I’ve only ever done one other video post before (over a year ago!) so I thought it would be fun to try my hand at it again. Hopefully you guys like it.
This giveaway has ended and Laurel C. is the winner. Congrats Laurel!! Please send me an email with your info and which color headband you would like!
Brittany Mullins, HHC








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And I just tweeted about it!
I feel sorta dull, but I like the black one!
I like the bright colors… pink especially.
I do follow them on Twitter and I tweeted the giveaway as you wrote it.
I think your video is great! Good for you.
I tweeted! plus my favorite one is the pink sparkly
Love the icy pink!!!!!!!!
Love the icy pink!!
I love the chocolate brown!
The Silver!
tweeted! I love green or red… what a tossup!
I love the orange!
I always default to green because I’m a redhead and green goes well with red hair. BUT – I also like the purple (not sure if it’s light purple or dark purple as only one is shown)!
I would love a black band!
I tweeted!
I tweeted!
I like the black, and the orange. Can’t decide!
Like the silver one!
i would like any color!
i just tweeted about it on twitter!!! great giveaway, these are super cute
I LOVE the sparkly gold especially in the thicker version! Plus February 1 is my birthday and that would be the BEST birthday gift
I love the blue headband!
light purple! so cute!
Silver! It will match everything
I like the silver but they are all fun! Headbands always slip on me as well (I think I have a small head) so I’m hoping these would work better for me, too!
Love the silver and icy pink!
I love the thick purple!
all so pretty! i love the gold the most!
Love the chocolate brown!
I like the blue!
Chocolate brown. It would go with so much of my stuff!
the purple one is really pretty!
I love the purple (lavender) one. I have dark hair too and I think this one would stand out really well!
i love this giveaway! i like the red or the gold one! And I tweeted about it too
Black.. boring.. but will go with everything!
I love silver anything
Love the dark pink and the black! Great way to perk up your workout wardrobe.
Love the blue one!!!!
I love love LOVE these! Violet and silver are tied for me . . . Maybe having a little disco ball on my head will give me more gym motivation.
Love the green and pink… but the black and silver are definitely most practical.
black is def the most practical for me
i love the gold!
I love the pink one!
I love the Ice Pink and Hot Pink bands!
Tweeted as @bchan5720 https://twitter.com/#!/BChan5720/status/162386608153300992
I love the silver and orange!!!
I follow them on the twitter and tweeted the giveaway! Winning!
I love the orange one to match my team colors!
A tough call but I would say purple!! Which is also a great colour for weddings, by the way
Black and pink!! Super cute, I love sparkly stay-put headbands while working out. Gives a nice touch of bling to my otherwise hot-mess workout hair.
I just tweeted!
I love the Dark Blue and Dark Purple!!
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