Competition: Marshmallow's Scavenger Hunt

Before I delve deeper into the details behind the title, just a quick little update on how I'm doing with the whole Weight Loss Thing recently.

Example 1:

When I went to see my grandmother last night after strategically avoiding her in the 6 weeks that my parents have been in India.

Grandmother	Oh hi!
Grandmother	It's been a long time since I've seen you
Marshmallow	Yeah I've been real busy recently
Marshmallow	And even tonight I went out to meet a couple of friends for dinner
Grandmother	You were much slimmer at Christmas
Marshmallow	:-/

Ouch.

Example 2:

I was filling in my daily weight graph at work, Worker Bee saw it.

Worker Bee	That graph...
Worker Bee	It's not supposed to go 'up' like that at the end, is it?
Marshmallow	*whimpers* No...

The focus has very much been on fitness recently, which means weight loss has fallen by the wayside, hence I've gained quite a bit of weight. I'm proud of the fitness changes - I used to hit a maximum runtime of 18 minutes nonstop. I've nearly doubled that, and can run 35 minutes on the treadmill without stopping now. It's a slower pace, so I'm running about 4km, which has been the goal for the triathlon which is... gulp... next weekend.

But now! I have a competition for you all!

I have three copies of Shauna's book 'The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl' to give away, and I thought, since the scavenger hunt that Shauna ran before was such a hit, why not have a repeat performance?

And since I am super lazy, I'm literally doing a copy-paste-modify job of her competition. (I hope you don't mind, Shauny dearest!)

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This contest is open to all DYAHXLIT readers from all countries! Prizes will be posted to each and every corner of the globe :-D

HOW TO ENTER

1. Hunt down and either take a photograph or find an existing photo of each item on the list below
   
   
2. Post your photographs into a new entry on your blog. Here's the link for the contest page. If you don't have a blog, you could always post your photos to a free photo service like Flickr, or Photobucket.
   
   
3. Pimp your entry! Post a comment below with a link to your contest entry, so I can find it and everyone else can have a good lewkie.

THE LIST

1. Something Brown - as per the template of this blog
   
2. Something Orange - as per the template of AYGTET
   
3. Something Purple - as per the template of C&E
   
4. A Marshmallow
   
5. A Cat
   
6. Someone sleeping
   
7. The Letter M
   
8. The Letter W
   

The more creative, silly and obscure you are, the better! You don't need to own a camera to participate, and captioning your images in lolcats style is encouraged.

PRIZE INFO

• There are 3 copies of the book to give away, and along with the book, each winner will receive a selection of goodies as picked by yours truly.
  
  
• There will also be 'runners up' prizes - 3 goody packs absent of book to be given away
  
  
• There is 1 grand prize, which contains more goodalicious goodies than them all!
  
  
• To save my sanity, ALL winners will be picked at random.
  

Grand Prize Pack (1 winner):

• a copy of the book
• a packet each of Mallowpuffs, Squiggles and Macaroons
  
• a block of Whittakers Chocolate (you choose the flavour)
  
• a bottle of super indulgent shower creme from Linden Leaves
  
• a couple of workout CDs jam packed with heart pumping exercise tunes

Winners Pack (2 winners):

• a copy of the book
• a packet of each Mallowpuffs and Squiggles
• a couple of workout CDs

Runners Up Pack: (3 winners):

• a packet each of Mallowpuffs and Squiggles
• a block of Whittakers Chocolate
• a couple of workout CDs

If you do not like the sound of any of the Griffins biscuits that I have listed here, you may specify a different biscuit - any listed on either the Griffins.co.nz or Arnotts.com.au sites are in the pool for selection (bear in mind that Tim Tam Crush is not available in New Zealand yet). Same goes for the Whittakers chocolate, anything listed on Whittakers.co.nz is up for grabs. My recommendations are the Milk with Cashew Nut or White with Macadamia Nut blocks. Nummy!

CLOSING DATE

The contest closes at 6pm GMT on Friday 29th February (That's 1PM in New York, and 5AM Saturday 1st March in Sydney, 7AM Saturday 1st March in Auckland). Winners will be drawn out the following day, and announced the day after.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

There has to be at least 6 entries for this competition to be valid. Otherwise, I get all of the biscuits and chocolates for myself. And I can never have too many Mallowpuffs. Mwahahaha.

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What are you waiting for? Hop to it!

[Edit]: Deadline has been extended from the 16th of February to the 29th; so you have even more time to get your entries in!