by Eve Michelle Como

WOW! Chaffy received LOADS of amazing Christmas cards from his amazingly talented friends, and he read and loved them all. Thank you SO much to everyone who entered, shown here are the three winning cards (if this is you could you email us your address asap findchaffy@yahoo.com), but it was so incredibly hard to choose. Without exception, every card was brilliant, and we really appreciate the time people spent on them. As a special thank you, everyone who sent Chaffy a card will receive an exclusive christmas message from Chaffy in their email tomorrow!

But for now here are the winners, and remember to click the link at the bottom to see all the other absolutely amazing cards that came in. And HAPPY CHRISTMAS to everyone!

by Eliana Bryan

by Mark Amarok

To see ALL the amazing cards Chaffy received, click the banner here!

Here’s a quick competition! We have three Chaffy toys to give away, and all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning one is draw a christmas card wishing Chaffy a happy christmas! It can be whatever you want, just as long as it shows a Chaffy or Chaffies, and is all christmassy. However good you are, wherever you’re from, however old you are, everyone’s welcome! Send your entries to findchaffy@yahoo.com, to be received no later than THIS FRIDAY (that’s friday 16th December) at 5pm UK time. The winning three will be given pride of place on the Find Chaffy blog and a Chaffy will turn up on their doorstep just in time for Christmas!* All other entries will also be collected together and shown on the blog.

Here’s to a Chaffy Christmas! Good luck!

*Chaffy toys will be posted on the saturday, so while they should arrive in time, we obviously can’t guarantee the post or international delivery.
Winners will be announced here and on the Find Chaffy twitter. Decision is final. A Chaffy is for life, not just for Christmas!

Congratulations to Christopher Wright who not only made this aussie Chaffy, but loads more moving Chaffy friends!

Brilliant work Chris, please email in your address and we’ll get your prizes out to you.
It must be said though we had some really brilliant art come in, so a great big Chaffy THANK YOU to everyone who entered (sorry we couldn’t give out more prizes!). All the new art is now taking pride of place in the Chaffy GALLERY, so click here to have a look at some of the wonderful things people have done.

And thank you again, you’re all very talented! We always welcome new Chaffy art for our gallery ^_^

Here’s the second Find Chaffy competition for this week, to celebrate the launch of Find Chaffy Now, your chance to win this super-rare Find Chaffy Panda-Roll poster! We originally had only a few of these posters printed up for fun, but removed them when we decided to turn these picture searches into a book. Now there are only a couple in existance, and you can win one!
Just follow Find Chaffy on twitter HERE and RT the latest tweet up there. One follower will be chosen at random to win the poster! Closing time is 9PM tonight (UK time), and you can RT as many times as you like! G’luck!

To celebrate the launch of Find Chaffy book two, FIND CHAFFY NOW, we’re giving things away (nearly) every day this week! Today’s competition is all about the Chaffy art! As you may have seen we’ve had some beautiful Chaffy art come in, and we’d love to see some more. Whatever you work in, however good you are, it’s all very very appreciated and we’ll show it all in the gallery as well as pick one entry out to win their own Chaffy toy!

So please send your Chaffy art (whether its a drawing of a Chaffy, a painting, photo, video, anything!) in to findchaffy@yahoo.com. The deadline is this friday (15th july 2011), at noon GMT. So that’s five days to do it! Repeat, every picture will go up in the gallery (as long as its family friendly of course), and one lucky winner gets a Chaffy toy. Whoo!

Decision is final. Please put your name on your art in case we forget to type it underneath!
Good luck everyone!

**remember, check back every day this week for details on how to win other Chaffy goodies****

And if you fancy having a go at one of the searches in the book, here is an exclusive preview of one of them, the great Hot Plop / Cold Plop War!

Worth also noting what it says on the front cover too. If you’re one of the first to buy Find Chaffy Now, you’ll find details inside of how to claim your very own Chaffy soft toy for free! (offer may only apply in UK, worth checking tho! . Not only that but you get a page of free stickers in the book too! HooRAY!

Find Chaffy Now is available in all good bookstores in the UK (and hopefully soon internationally). Or if you’re overseas, just get it from amazon or wherever!

On a personal note, this is now my second children’s book, and I’d like to thank the UHmazing peeps at Scholastic Books for their support in the search for Chaffies. This campaign appeals to people all over the world, and though these books are crazy hard work to produce, it’s always SO rewarding to see people enjoying them. I really hope everyone enjoys this one!

***check back here next week, when we’ll be running a competition (nearly) every day to win toys, books, stickers and whatever else we can find!***

We hope everyone had a great Easter hunting for easter eggs, but here at Find Chaffy Search HQ we never stop our searching! Chaffies love chocolate, but can only eat tiny amounts or else they inflate and float to the ceiling!
Luckily here’s one who has been sensible with his chocolate intake. In fact, it’s a homemade Chaffy, made by the incredibly talented Rabbie Cheetah!

Remember, if you want to join the search for Chaffies but haven’t found one of your own yet, you can always make your own just like this! And if you do, send us in a photo we’d love to see it!

THANK YOU to Cate Trotter for sending these great snaps of a Chaffy spotted in Egypt! CLICK HERE to see the rest of the photos!

Also, be sure to keep checking our ENDLESS CHAFFY COMIC, we’ve just uploaded a handful of new panels to the story. And if you want to join in, please do!

Well, it’s available for preorder online at places like amazon and tesco, so it looks like we can show you the cover!

Yes, Find Chaffy book two, called Find Chaffy Now, is released this JULY, and it comes with not only FREE STICKERS, but your chance to win a Chaffy!
More details nearer the time. But get your searching goggles on, the hunt begins again this summer!

We’re really pleased to say that the search for Chaffy is rapidly spreading to all corners of the globe, as Find Chaffy the book finds new publishers in a score of other countries! Confirmed so far are Denmark, Spain (spanish AND catalan), France and America, with Korea later in the year!

If you’re in France (published by Quatre Fleuves) or America (published by Barrons Educational) , Find Chaffy is already out! Spain (published by Random House Mondadori) follows in April, and Denmark (published by Forlaget Alvilda) in the autumn. All fully translated, even the title! (Xaffi, anyone?)

More to follow! (hopefully)