Happy New Year!

Cheers to a 2018 filled with joy and googlyness.

Remember to be just as excellent to each other as last year and lets continue to keep this place filled with good chuckles, warm smiles and curious eyes.

I'd say we are off to a great start already!

Thank you @tillygerbi, @marpa, @marzi, @isteemithard, @photoquest, @abbijulie, @davor27, @lildebbiecakes and @ivimipa for submitting your awesome entries for this round.

The Prize Pool:

rolling over from last week: 15.391 SBD
and an available delegation-prize of 87.186 SP
plus
all rewards of last week's winner announcement:
23.811 SBD and 8.559 SP

that's 39.202 SBD in the cash pool:

40% will remain for next week, 60% will be paid out today!
^{3rd - 10%; 2nd - 20%; 1st - 30%}

95.745 SP will be delegated to the googly winner!

^{How does the delegation pool work? [Read here!]}

_{drumroll please...}

🥁 HERE ARE THE WINNERS: 🥁

_{the images link to their posts... please give them an upvote, too ;)}

🥉 Today's 3rd winner is: 🥉

@ivimipa with
"#rodolfo"

Christmas is barely over and this poor guy is already working another job? I guess the economy at the northpole isn't doing too good lately. This would have been great for last week's prize, too. But @ivimpa's elevator button is still cute enough for a 3rd place in 2018!

🥈 The 2nd winner is: 🥈

@isteemithard with
"Make It Rain For Googly Drain"

@isteemithard's previous entries showed off the wonderful climate where he's living. I guess this week we learn that the common cold can catch you anywhere! Happy New Year and keep steeming it hard!

🥇 And Our Grand Winner is: 🥇

@marpa with
"Un árbol despide el año"

Usually I have to tell entries without "proper" wiggle eyes that they have to try extra hard in order to win something. This first winner of 2018 shall stand as shining example for being able to win the #GooglyPrize with DIY-GooglyEyes, it just takes that little extra nudge of creativity! Truely Ingenious @marpa! Happy New Year!

aaaaand

_{another drumroll, please}

🥁 this week's Googly-Delegation-Winner is: 🥁

@ivimipa

you'll receive the #GooglyPrize delegation of 95.745 SP for a week.

_{@ivimpa has the lowest self-voting quota and the lowest available SP balance out of our three winners .}

The #GooglyPrize continues!

prizes are being awarded every 7-8 days.

No-Conditions Policy:

No mandatory resteems, upvotes or follows required!

just:
- get some #GooglyEyes -
- stick them onto something -
- take a picture -
- post it with the tag #googlyeyes -

DONE! You're qualified!

More Winners Every Week!

The prize-pool for the next issue contains:
15.680 liquid SBD and a delegation-prize of 99.437 SP
plus
100% of all rewards on THIS POST!

New-Year meets the 25th Issue celebration with bonus bonus images:

_{lucky clover shuffle}

_{anyone feeling out of place?}

_{can you see the heart-beat?}

A huge shout-out goes to @krystle & @ausbitbank as well as @reggaemuffin! They helped me start this contest and are supporting it since!
_{@ausbitbank and @reggaemuffin are also running a witness, why not consider giving them your approval?!}

_{More shoutouts go to @steemit-health, @okkiedot, @girlbeforemirror, @melodyrussell, @minnowsupport, @outerground, @thinknzombie, @marty-art, @jsock, @samic, @marpa, @davor27, @hethur240, @marzi, @w0olf, @sallyswitchblade, @isteemithard, @warrkin, @abbijulie, @shweyaungmyanmar, @hazel420, @isabelpena, @krakonos, @bonggita, @lastminuteman, @artz, @hilltop, @steemprentice, @stephen.king989, @youshouldseeit, @gamerveda, @photoquest, @lildebbiecakes, @whiessl, @nsbachurin, @camillius, @jhermanbeans, @steemabuse, @marinaart, @pomperipossa, @gindor, @pusteblume, @uow, @unimelb, @chivesz, @banjo, @whatamidoing, @cryptohustler, @myday, @numpypython, @decibel, @micayla, @starsteem, @edrivegom, @qwasert, @germanaure, @taica, @hidden84, @dennisphillips, @brendashockley, @beng05, @derosnec, @nesbitt, @timbalabuch, @imamalkimas and @swagger who also upvoted last week's post!}

everything is better with #GooglyEyes

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^{100% of post rewards are going into the prize!}