Honorable mentions go to Zainab, Debby, Sophie, Alina, Jia, Ombodi, Parker and Liz. Thank you everyone for taking the time to vote.

All the entries can be seen here.

I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who enters our competitions. It’s great seeing all the new calendars every month, from new people, and from faithful fans who compete regularly. Even if you don’t win, I hope you are learning, improving your skills, and most importantly, having fun.

Time to choose the calendar for August!

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.

Please make sure you write your choices in the order you like them. Your favorite should be first, then next favorite, etc.

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. You don’t have to choose 5, you can vote for just one if you like, but you can vote for 5.
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 August 1, 00:00 GMT.

Good luck everyone!

A new picture with Emma and Dan from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has appeared, thanks to our friends at UHP.

Some more pictures from the Arved Colvin-Smith photoshoot from 2008 have surfaced. Credit to IHeartWatson

Vogue.it has a feature on how to get Emma’s look at the Glastonbury festival. Thanks MG for the tip.

Emma Watson has now joined Facebook! In a tweet on her official twitter, Emma has posted a link to her new facebook page.

It sure has been a week for surprises!

Emma’s Twitter
In less than a week, Emma’s twitter following has grown to over 55,000 members. In a second tweet she thanked everyone for all the messages, saying “I have the best fans!” I’m still getting questions asking if this is really her. Yes, it is Emma. The twitter is linked from her official site. You can believe it. There are still twitters that claim to be Emma, or an official site account, but you can know they are fake because they are not linked on EWO. Happily, some of these are disappearing.

20 Most Beautiful
Portrait Magazine is planning their first issue dedicated entirely to beauty. They are accepting nominations for the most beautiful people in entertainment and sports, with “beauty” including physical beauty as well as attitude, style, career choice, charity and environment involvement, role mode status and behavior. The top 50 nominees will then compete in a poll, and the top 20 will be featured in a “20 Most Beautiful” article in their beauty issue. Emma is a beautiful person in so many ways, so let’s make sure Emma gets on that list and nominate her here.

Scans
Bec let us know that Emma is featured on the August cover of Dolly in Australia. We have a preview of the cover, but don’t know if there is an article along with it. Dominika sent us a couple scans from a Polish magazine, not sure what the article is about. And from Elmira, we have a scan from the August issue of Instyle UK, which mentions Emma and Rodarte fashions. Thank you all.

Burberry Displays
Kate sent in some photos she took of the Autumn/Winter displays at the Burberry store in Vienna last year.Thank you Kate.

Emma is now on twitter Great Fridays, the people behind Emma’s official site, announced on their facebook page that Emma is now on twitter and posted her first tweet. The twitter is not verified, and has not been announced on EWO, but I’m 95% convinced it is real. If not, it’s a very good fake.

Update:Emma’s tweet was retweeted both on Great Friday’s twitter and Rob Noble’s twitter, founder of Great Fridays. 99% convinced. 😉

Update 2: WB’s twitter HarryPotterFilm has tweeted welcoming Emma to twitter. Convinced. 🙂

Update 3: Emma’s official site has an update on her new twitter account. And Emma’s twitter has been updated with a picture and background. The account is also now verified.

Ok, everyone who followed Emma or “official site” twitters in the past, now you know they are all fakes. Please unfollow them.

Ok, let’s get the August calendar competition started.

• 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.
• It must have Emma-Watson.net and August and it should have the dates. It should be mostly original work, and images used should be respectful of Emma’s privacy.
• The deadline to submit calendars is July 27.
• No more than 3 entries per person please. All entries must be sent to emmawatson.graphics@gmail.com

We have a lot of new fan graphics added to the site for you today!

New fan art from Erin, Riley and Yaroslav.

A new wallpaper from Elena.

New banners from Chiquita.

A bunch of new avatars by Jia and Chiquita.

And we have a couple restyles from Emily and Elena.

Thank you all for sending them in.

Hey everyone, I meant to post this earlier, but things happen. I’ll just copy a comment by Alyssa, but thanks to Alin and Cheryl also. There are literally only a few hours left to vote, midnight EST, but HPA is only a few hundreds votes behind the lead, so every last minute vote will help.

The Harry Potter Alliance, the same amazing organization who had the hugely successful “Helping Haiti Heal” event earlier this year needs your help!

They are in competition for a $250,000 donation to their organization, which would go towards helping some amazing causes such as literacy and LGBT rights.

If you haven’t voted yet, go to http://www.hpaforthewin.com and vote now.

1. Click “Get started to vote” (the second green button, top right)
2. Allow access and then click “Like”
3. Click “Vote now” (green button, top right)

On The Run
More segments previewing Deathly Hallows have aired on ABC Family. This second video features scenes of Harry, Ron and Hermione ‘on the run’ and searching for the Horcruxes. Interviews with Emma, Rupert and Dan are included.

Forest Run
The third video shows Hermione, Ron and Harry running from the Snatchers through the forest. Emma, Rupert and Dan talk about who runs faster.