Greetings, good people of fatblogland! Do you like free stuff? Here is a chance to win a spankin' new copy of The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl!
I've been busting to hold a contest just for Dietgirl readers and the good folks at Transworld have kindly provided me with ten copies to give away. Nine winners will be randomly drawn, but one special winner shall receive a book plus a bonus GRAND (reasonably) (allegedly) (depending on your level of expectation) PRIZE!
The contest consists of a photo Scavenger Hunt. To enter, all you need to do is find seven items related to the book, from a list provided. Unlike traditional scavenger hunts, you don't need to get your hands dirty – simply take a photo of each item.
ELIGIBILITY
This contest is open to all Dietgirl readers from all lands! I will personally post the prizes anywhere. To enter, you will need some sort of photo-taking device, a blog and some imagination!
HOW TO ENTER
- Hunt down and take a photograph of each item on the list below
- Post your photographs into a new entry on your blog. Here's the link for this here contest page. If you don't have a blog, you could always post your photos to a free photo service like Flickr.
- 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 stickybeak.
THE LIST
- A bicycle
- A bald man
- Elvis
- Greek yogurt
- A wedding dress
- The letter D
- The letter G
Now you don't have to be LITERAL here. Obviously some things are harder to find than others. If you can't find something on the list, go crazy and snap a pic of something that vaguely represents it. Just have fun with it, it's not meant to be serious. Creativity and silliness are encouraged!
PRIZE INFO
There are ten (10) copies of the book to give away. I can sign them if the winners so desire, but if you want to flog it on eBay later, bear in mind you might get more if it's unblemished! Ha ha ha.
Nine (9) winners will be drawn at random from a list of all eligible entries, so don't panic if you think you're rubbish at taking photos.
One (1) special entry – the one that the panel (that's me) deems to be the most creative and entertaining – shall scoop the GRAND PRIZE!
The "Grand" Prize consists of:
- a copy of the book
- a very special "Sympathy for the Dietgirl" Kit.
The Kit, donated by yours truly, contains seven things that I've been obsessed with over the duration of this Lard Busting Adventure. The idea is that consuming these items with wild abandon while reading the book may enhance your understanding of the character. Really get inside her head, in case the words aren't enough! It's like Method Reading. Or Being John Malkovich, without the critical acclaim.
Note: Doubling your body weight is optional for the Dietgirl experience.
- A Moleskine 2008 diary – for obsessive planning and list-making
- A bag of Percy Pigs – for scoffing in an anxious trance
- A resistance band – for resistance training in a pinch
- A tasty selection of Green and Blacks chocolates – for obsessive stuffing into one's face
- A box of posh herbal tea – for your latest half-hearted attempt to cut back on caffeine
- A rockin' mix CD of workout tunes – for your latest half-hearted attempt at AM exercise
- A British Freddo Frog – somewhat inferior to their Australian cousins, but nevertheless were the Chocolate Ration of Choice during the writing of the book
CLOSING DATE
The contest closes at 6PM GMT on Wednesday 12th December (That's 1PM in New York, and 5AM Thursday 12th in Sydney). Winners will be announced the next day and I will post out the prizes as soon as I receive the winners addresses.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
The success of the Amazing Scavenger Hunt depends, of course, on there actually BEING ten entries so there can be ten winners. If there's only two entries then the winners will receive five copies each – more eBay fodder for you, or something to pap off to that crusty Aunty for her Christmas gift. If nobody enters at all, I will crawl under a rock and wallow in humiliation forever. On a cosy bed of Dietgirl books, of course.
omg i think i will spew from fear no one will enter. HEEEEEEE!
Hold that bile… i’ll get me camera!
I think you’ll find you have exactly the opposite problem 😀 Just hunting up my camera now…
Ooohh this sounds like fun. Will see what I can find over the weekend :0)
If yoiu can wait until MOnday after I hand in my thesis I. Am. So. In!
Is Greek yogurt like the sauce you dip gyros in? I could be convinced to go get a gyros in order to take a picture. I mean I would have to, right? haha… but seriously, what is Greek yogurt?
my entry
Am I first? YAY!
You inspired me to get creative with photobooth, it’s been a fun afternoon!
Yes!! I did it… its amazing what you can find in your childrens books!
Oooops!!… come check it out at http://whereistigerlilly.blogspot.com
You’re a hoot! I might even enter, in spite of there being no Nutella in the prize pack…
RG you are a creative genius!
Well done Tigerlilly!
Dawn – greek yogurt is a nice thick yogurt that comes from greece, available in most supermarkets. but you could always stick a pot of normal yogurt next to a map of Greece and i can do the math… hehehe
I have made my entry!! Go to http://achangeoflife.blogspot.com/2007_12_01_archive.html to view.
Cool idea !!
Lynda
Mission Complete!
http://fatassassin.blogspot.com/2007/12/scavenger-hunt.html
http://operation100.com/?p=192
I’m usually very non-competitive but this job-less gal wants to read your book! 😛
WOOHOO! these entries are sooo rockin. well done, guys! i just edited your links to make ’em bold and clickable…
omg, this day is just getting better, I am not going to be as quick as some, but I will definitely get in before the deadline! I’m so excited!
I’ll play! I already took most of the pictures. Just the greek yogurt and Elvis will take some ingenuity.
I wanna win too!! This was fun. I don’t have a blog – spend all my time online reading others! Here’s the link to my photo:
https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2151/2089872702_b866c27ae2_b.jpg
i don’t have a camera. humph.
oh well – good luck everyone else – i’m dying to see your pics!
Hey cedar – don’t worry if you don’t have a camera, just copy some pics of the internet that are appropriate! I’m sure DG will understand.
Cedar, you didn’t leave an email so I could get in touch, but feel free to be creative if you don’t have a camera, as Lynda suggested 🙂
Goodness me, some people are fast.
I think I may have trouble finding Elvis…
If you throw in a tub of fage 2% (which I have been obsessed about btw) I am there!
I was planning to take my time and spread it out over a couple of days and take my own pictures, but once I got started I couldn’t stop, so here it is –
DG’s Scavenger Hunt
This is so fun, looking at new collections, I LOVE Farmer’s Elvis! I have to send my sister that photo, did you photoshop it yourself?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21579854@N07
Rosemary Grace – Nah – it’s the only photo I didn’t take. I found it online here:
link to jubal.westnet.com
here’s a link to my pictures. I would love to win a copy of your book since I have no idea when it will finally be available in the USA. I love your site! I just found it a few months ago and I have been reading archives (while working!) ever since. I’m finally to 2007!! You’re amazing!
https://www.flickr.com/gp/19772695@N02/5D3s7d
Although I never enter competition I definitely want to enter this one!! Can’t wait to read the book.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/miss_narelle/
Argh, there is hardly any time! I will have to scavenger hunt all weekend to find Elvis in Melbourne :\
I already have the Moleskin 2008 diary!
I’ve already pre-ordered the book on Amazon so I’ll give the scavenger hunt a miss – but good luck!
My hubby elvis said he wants a cut of the prize if I win — the food portion of it! hahaha…. Canine elvis would have no problems scoffing down any goodies either. She’s got a sweet tooth, just like her mama AND the real elvis! Let’s hope she passes on his drug addiction though and takes the bright path!
Here’s my entry. I could not resist the chance to win.
by the way, I worked hard on that photowork… and I’ve never had a freddo frog, nor a moleskin journal… Sigh. Ha ha.
I’m not usually one to play games, or enter contests, or comment on blogs, but this scavenger hunt was too tempting to be resisted.
In 1 week + 1 day I’m moving from my funky penthouse apartment of 10 years to a funky little cottage in the country. While I’m really excited to be moving to the country, there are a bunch of city things I’m going to miss. So, I decided to take scavenger hunt photos just in and around my neighbourhood, to remind me of all the wonderful things I used to do (like walking to the corner store – that won’t be happening in our little country cottage).
Here’s the set:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/75715160@N00/sets/72157603392786706/detail/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ejshea/sets/72157603399603971/
I used Flickr. And I’m pimping at my site.
I love you!
How much fun. Ok, you may be on.
OK, mine is here:
http://nowissomeday.blogspot.com/2007/12/scavenge.html
Just for fun, I did another one. I don’t expect my name to be entered twice or anything, I just felt like doing another one, with my own photos this time, over at the mall!
Shopping Centre Scavenging
Okay, we’re playing, too!
Here’s our entry!
We couldn’t agree… go figure!
Okay… last one from me, I promise! It’s incomplete because I just asked my friends to do what they could. But what they COULD do is well worth viewing!
Just For Fun
Here’s hoping I win, LOL!
link to puppylover2005.spaces.live.com I win, LOL.
okay, let me try again, LOL
here’s the link (I have no idea how you make it “light up”):
link to puppylover2005.spaces.live.com
(You can click on my name, and that will take you there.)
I figured out how to attach the link . . . I promise this is my last time sending it through, LOL. Please don’t disqualify me for this, Diet Girl!!! I’m soooooooo sorry. Enjoy . . .
My Entry
heehee this was too much fun!!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/21638525@N04/2093831815/
Hi DG!
here is my entry!
Click Me! Click Me!
enjoy!
I finally got my entry up on my blog. It’s here:
http://keksbflthing.blogspot.com/2007/12/ready-set-go.html
Work some of your fancy html clicky magic, would you Shauna? Thanks, Darls!
🙂
That was heaps of fun, i didn’t have time to take my own pictures as i only read this today but hopefully it’s okay.
http://size22tosize12.blogspot.com/2007/12/scavenger-hunt.html
can’t wait to read the new book, febuary seems so far away 🙁
All right ALL RIGHT, I’ve done my entry already. Jeebus! 😀
Only one of the photos is one that I’ve taken, I’ve done a bit of an injury to my left thumb O_O
Just in under the wire!
my entry
link to melstarrs.com
my attempt
Here goes…
http://anna01.blogspot.com/
Dietgirl – How on earth could you have thought we wouldn’t all be entering and fighting for such a cool prize?!?!?
Oh, alas… so many talented people and I rushed in with my entry. Story of my life… sob, sob…
Seriously though, how amazing are some of these entries? Talk about thinking outside of the square 🙂
Your contest has driven me out of my comfortable lurkerdom. It’s not as scary out here as I thought! https://www.flickr.com/photos/21733181@N02/
Here’s my entry http://lilylosslbs.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-post-is-entry-to-diet-girls.html
E voila!
I managed to do it on time!!!
link to transitivelly.blogspot.com
So, it turns out I really want a copy of your book, so here are my photos for the Scavenger Hunt. In honor of your Vegas wedding, these are all photos taken during my two trips to Vegas. 🙂
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephiecooks/sets/72157603429238100/
Hope I’m not too late. It was FUN! But I think the dog liked the Greek yoghurt the most….
Great idea.
http://thelardarms.typepad.com/the_lard_arms/2007/12/dietgirl-sets-1.html
Sorry, that was such a short comment but I had to rush out AND meet the deadline. Thanks for running a fabulous competition that got us thinking and looking.
xxxxxxx
Okay, here’s my entry – link to noodling.wordpress.com
I guess this means I have to delurk here and at WNP. Well, delurk more than my comments waaaaay back in 2001 at WNP. Long time between drinks.
I can’t do pretty linky links 🙁
I hope this doesn’t count against me 🙁
ack! One or two of the links didn’t work… are you going to be able to put together a page with everyone’s URLs? That’d be groovy.
Phew, made it!!
Here’s my take on things…..
link to flickr.com
Sorry about any broken links folks, have been bolding everyone’s links at night but may have screwed up a few, try copying the text itself and pasting but will try and fix up at home. sorry for sloppiness, am so busy at mo i think my head is going to explode xx
Oh this was so much fun. I included it at the bottom of my update for the day. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to get it in on time, so I ran around my house at 1am taking pictures. I even grabbed a flash light and went out in the freezing back yard to snap a picture of a bike in the far back corner. Luckily I didn’t run into any critters! 😉
http://livingtofeelgood.blogspot.com/2007/12/its-beginning-to-feel-lot-like.html
Ok here’s my entry… has a little twist to it, playing on my net geekette side! 🙂 link to flickr.com If the link doesn’t work so well, click on my name to see it I guess! 🙂
Oh my gosh! I finally finished my entry. Took more than 20 minutes though. Had to open a blog & figure out to post & add 7 photos. I’m so happy. Please pick me. I can’t even get your book in the US. link to swsbelle.blogspot.com
Squeaking by at the last minute!
link to flickr.com
And thanks for the excuse to play around in photoshop – this was fun!
I missed it, I know, because I didn’t remember the 6pm thing and just thought, just now, going to bed, “oh GOOD, I still have time”, and scampered round the house in my nightie taking photos.
I’ve posted it anyway, and don’t worry, I know I’m disqualified, but it was too fun not to!