Emma Watson turns 20 years old today. I know a lot of people have said it, but it really is hard to believe that so much time has passed since that first scene in Philosopher’s Stone. For 10 years we’ve watched Emma grow from an adorable child to an amazing young woman. She’s made it through the teen years, the downfall of so many child stars, with flying colors. Every year I am just more impressed by Emma and her values. Every year my respect for her grows. Another year older, another year better. I look forward to the next 10 years.

I hope you will now all join us in wishing Emma a wonderful Happy Birthday, and to put you in the mood, we have a birthday video kindly made by Chiara.

Update: We now have the birthday project online in PDF format. Click the thumb to view it. It’s about 5 MB.

April showers bring May flowers. Time for some nice May calendars! Let the competition begin.

• The size of the calendar should be a minimum 1024×768. Higher resolutions are good. Widescreen is also allowed.
• Calendars must be in a common graphics format such as jpg, tiff, gif or png and should be mostly original work.
• It must have Emma-Watson.net and May and it should have the dates.
• The deadline to submit calendars is April 26.
• No more than 3 entries per person please. All entries must be sent to emmawatson.graphics@gmail.com
• If you use hotmail or msn, please attach the picture to your email as a FILE, not a PICTURE. If you use picture, it will shrink the image to a small size.

People Tree

We told you back in December about People Tree giving people the chance to send in video questions to Emma about Fair Trade fashion. They have announced that Emma selected her favourite questions, and that the video questions, and Emma’s answers, will soon appear on their website, “when new styles of the Love From Emma summer collection go on sale!”

Fans Up Close with Sassy

Our friends at Sassy were interviewed about being Emma fans for a Danish online magazine. It’s in Danish of course, and Sassy was looking for someone to translate it.

Prisoner of Azkaban Photoshoot Oclumencia has uncovered some new hi-res images from the POA photoshoot you can view now in our gallery.

Burberry Displays

Debbi sent us some inside shots from Burberry in Honolulu. Thanks Debbi.

New Fan Graphics

Another fan graphics update, this time with new wallpapers from Kate, Antoine, Ekaterina, Piyush, Kay, Sabrina, Marina, Jaclyn, Laura, Lisa, Alyssa, Senali, Ganesh and Lisa. We also have new fan respect graphics; avatars from Kay and Jo, walls from HarrypotterstarsFans and Lisa, and banners from green light, Teodora, Yarumil and Hara. Thank you all for the wonderful graphics.

Some changes are going on over at Emma’s official site. A new background graphic, and a message “New site coming soon…” Can’t wait to see it.

Birthday Project Deadline

The deadline to send in something for our birthday project for Emma is this Sunday, the 11th. See 20th Birthday Project for details on how to participate.

Scans

Glamour magazine published their annual list of 50 Best Dressed in their May issue. Emma is in the #10 spot, up 8 places from last year. Thanks Emma for the scan.

Burberry Displays

We have some more Burberry store displays, from Chengdu, Sichuan,  China thanks to Zhou…

… and from Las Vegas thanks to Shuyi.

Vote for Emma

You can vote for Emma in the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. Emma is nominated in the Best Female Performance category for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. You can also vote for Tom Felton as Best Villain, Daniel Radcliffe for Best Male Performance and Global Superstar and Half Blood Prince for Best Movie. Voting closes April 9.

You can also vote for Emma in Time’s 100 Most Influential People poll.

New Fan Graphics

The fan graphics section has been updated with new avatars from Nomeansno, and new banners from Ming, Ivana, Kristina, Roeland, Ann and Lisa. Thank you all for sending them in.

Honorable mentions go to Marta, Mel, Daisy, Katherine, Joanna and Anke. Thank you to everyone that entered, and thank you all for voting.

All the entries can be seen here.

Women’s Wear Daily spoke with Emma while she chatted with guests and ate mini slices at the LONDON show ROOMS closing party last week. Thanks KS987 for the tip.

WWD: What do you think defines British style?

Emma Watson: It’s so funny because now that I’m in America, I’m more able to define it. Before I didn’t have an awareness of another style. I think [British style] has to do with the weather. We have terrible weather. It’s very gray and drizzly so we need things to cheer us up. And I think that leads to a lot of creativity and color, and I think that’s why our designers are so innovative. Because at home we’re kind of up against the elements in a sense. And we need cheering up. I think we do very well with kind of an eclectic mix. We have great vintage and we love to mix and match: high street and high fashion, vintage…and I think that really defines it as well.

WWD: Now that you’re in Providence, what do you miss most about England and London?

E.W.: Marks & Spencer, the supermarket.

WWD: Really? What do you miss from there?

E.W.: The food, the food! Marks & Spencer’s food. I miss English chocolate. And I miss silly things like the adverts on TV.

Reminder: Don’t forget about our 20th Birthday Project.

Fake Twitters: No, I’m not talking about fake Emma twitters at the moment. It seems we have been faked too. Our real twitter account is here. You can also find the link under “Contact Us”. If someone claims to be us, but we don’t link to it from our site, it’s fake.

The same thing can be said for Emma of course. If you find a twitter, facebook, youtube, whatever that claims to be Emma, look for a link to it on Emma’s official site. If you don’t find a link, it’s a fake. Last time I checked, there are no links.

Time for the vote! Remember, you only get to vote one time, but you get to vote for more than one calendar. And please don’t talk about which calendar is yours. Let’s keep the competition fair. You can talk about your calendar after the winner is announced.

1. View the calendars here. Click on the thumbnails to see a larger preview image. Take your time, make sure you scroll all the way to the end and check out all the calendars.
2. Choose your favorite 5 calendars, and write down their numbers in order, from best to 5th place, like 84, 216, 114, … You don’t have to choose 5, you can vote for just one if you like, but you can vote for 5. (no, there aren’t 216 entries, those are fake numbers).
3. Send your vote in an email to emmawatson.contest@gmail.com or in a PM to me on the forums to dookdookdook.

Voting is open through April 1, 00:00 GMT.

Good luck everyone!

We have some Burberry related items for today.

The March issue of Harper’s Bazaar has an article on fashion and sequins, and shows Emma in the gold dress at the Burberry show as an example. Thanks to Elmira for the scan.

And we have some more Burberry store displays featuring Emma. Ali sent us these from London…

… and here is Honolulu Hawaii from Rachael…

…and an older one from Burberry in Singapore from Syamsul. Thank you all for the photos.

Site update
I’ve added some wonderful fan graphics to the site. We have new avatars from green light and Darlene, and new wallpapers from Jules, Marina, Leila, semiru, and green light. Thank you all for sending them in. There will be more in the coming days.