So here's a little bit of what I've been working on lately. Sorry for the no updates. School has been ruling my life lately. Hopefully soon I will have an icon update. Be for warned this will be a big post to load. Here's a small preview:





I have included, icons, blends, banners and signatures:

( Tons of Graphics )

First I want to start off telling you all about this wonderful new Harry Potter site that I help to mod. Its a really fun place to get together and discuss Harry Potter. There is also an interactive House Cup competition. If any of you are interested in the site just click on the thumbnail below. :D





Secondly I have actually been working on a new icon update. Its gonna be a little different because they are all on one canvas. Before I post I'll probably be pasting a few on new canvas for you to use. So be on the lookout for that.

Other than that I have been making graphics like crazy. I'm part of a graphics contest site that is tons of fun. So I will probably be posting some of my entries here as well.

-Sam

Wow, sorry guys that I haven't posted much on here. :/ From here on out I shouldn't be to busy and I should have a graphics post hopefully soon... It depends though. Well there is a reason that I haven't been on LJ much. And its all due to two Harry Potter sites. The first one: http://fortuna-major.net/ . I made most of the graphics on there. The default, Dueling Club, Hermione Granger, Slytheirn, Liquid Luck, Luna Lovegood, Ravenclaw, Ron/Hermione, Ron Weasley, Staff were all made by me. Along with the buttons. I also made most of the icons featured on the site.

As for the second site that has kept me busy: http://great-hall.com/index.php
Again, I made all the schemes EXCEPT: Hufflepuff, Classrooms, and Room of Requirement. All of the deafult schemes were made by me. And over 800 + icons were made by me. So I have been one busy little bee. If you are interested in joining http://great-hall.com/index.php, I would appreciate it if you referred Lily Evans (that's me LOL). I hope to see you guys there.

All my links are at the top of my LJ. So good chances that if I'm not posting here I'm busy at one of those links. I also have a graphics shop open on both sites. So that keeps me very busy too.

Again I'm sorry for being so MIA on here. But both these sites have taken a lot of my time.

Hey everyone,

It has finally happened. I have caved and now I have a twitter account. I mostly did it for a forum that I go on (you got points for joining) but now I like twitter and use it pretty often. You can reach me at: http://twitter.com/xiggy89x

Oh and you may have heard of spymaster. Its my new obsession!!! And I would love for my spy ring to grow. :p So if you play follow me and I will return the favor. I hope to see you guys there. =]

A few new things. As you can see I have deleted my emma_zone community. I was upset to have to do it, but I just don't have the time to maintain it properly. I was at first going to change it to a graphics community only, but there already is an lj comm for that. In the future I might think about re-doing the whole thing, but as of right now I just don't have time. All it really was turning into was a recycling of other Emma sites.

As you can see I haven't really been making icons lately. That is because I've been busy making graphics for other things. Here are just a few graphics I've been working on:

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This will be short and sweet. I'm a big fan of message boards in case you didn't know. Well today a friend of mine linked me to a very cool Harry Potter/Twilight board. Its called graceful-arc. If you remember Dumbledore's Army, this is being run by the same people (aka Bex). Check it out it seems like a really cool place. If you join, please put Crookshanks into your referral box. (I'm Crookshanks on there btw) Hope to see you over there.

-Sam

1-59…Keira Knightley
60-146…Harry Potter
147-180…True Blood
181-224…Twilight
225-230…Wallpapers
231…Gradients
232…Love Quote Brushes
233…Texture Set



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hey everyone,

Well school is finally out for the summer. Woohoo!!!! And that means I can go back to spending my days making graphics. :p I've already started on a few things (and will probably have my first update of the summer by the middle of next week, maybe sooner). My new update will be pretty simple: keira knightley, true blood, harry potter, wallpapers and textures. I also wanted to point out that I added a new link to the top of my page. It is for my deviantart page. I put graphics up on there days before I post them on here. I also have some things that I don't/won't post on here. Right now I have two new wallpapers uploaded (they will be included in my new graphics update) so don't click if you don't want to be spoiled. Umm...what else did I want to add?? lol...oh I'm also going back to a paid account. I have everything all set up just have to send the money order in. So no more pesky ads. Oh and last but not least my request shop is open again. If anyone has a request for me just send me a message or post it as a comment I'll try to get it done as quick as possible. =]

Its really late and I couldn't seem to fall asleep. So I opened up photoshop and just started playing around with a few things. I seriously cannot wait till school is over and I can work on some proper stuff. I've missed photoshop so much. =]

The first thing I made was a fake website layout. And the second is an extremely simple Keira Knightley wallpaper from The Duchess.

This is a fake Keira Knightley Zone layout for a website that I made. I do not know how to code these things, but I've always wondered what it would be like to make one. So I just did this in photoshop. I have no clue how it would actually come out if it were to be coded. I wasn't going for a complete website look. More like a basic outline of what a Keira website would look like with just the basics. This is also the first time I've ever made something like this. I took posts from my own LJ community: [link] to make this. I made the header from a new Keira Knightley photoshoot with James McAvoy.

I know it been awhile since a real icon//graphic post from me. Sorry about this. School has been taking up so much time. Good news is that after May 1st, I'll be back on here and back to my usual graphic making self. I'll also probably go back to a LJ paid account (I can't stand the advertisements :p) I didn't re-new because I knew I wasn't going to be using my LJ to much. Only 3 more papers and finals then I'm done for the semester. Woohoo!! I hope everyone's having fun and enjoying the Spring weather.

-sam

hey,

Sorry for the absence of graphics posts lately. Its because of odious midterms. I have another one coming up on Tuesday too. But after that I should have a couple of new graphics posts. I'm itching to use some new picture's I've found on the internet.

Now on to the reason for this post. I thought it would be fun to get interactive with everyone, and have everyone share their five favorite internet sites (please only clean sites :p). If your like me, and addicted to the internet you have those certain sites that you must check daily and often. I know I have a routine when I first turn my computer on. I need to check my five favorite sites before I do anything else. Its just habit. And without further ado these are my personal five favorite sites:

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-P.S.
Damn ABC Family Potter weekend for making me have to whip out my Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. :p After watching OotP I have to read Harry and Neville pwnage. =]

This is to funny and cute not to post. :p

This bird is one cool cat, and he totally digs Ray Charles! Go on and shake your tailfeather!

I was just wondering if anyone had a suggestion on a fandom I should make some graphics on. As you can probably tell I make a ton of Keira Knightley, Twilight and Harry Potter. Anything else you would like to see from me?? Any certain manips?? I would love some suggestions. =]

-Sam

Preview
1-40…Keira Knightley
41-62…Emma Watson
63-97…Twilight
98-123…Harry Potter
124-127… Friends Only
128…Profile Header
129-133…LJ Headers
134-146…Wallpapers
147…Twilight Mood
148-150…Textures
151-156… Downloads (brushes, Manips, ect…)



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hey everyone,

Wow sorry its been so long since I've posted something. I'm constantly making graphics, I just like to post everything at once instead of things here and there. So that's why you haven't had anything in awhile. I've been working on time consuming things (a twilight mood, wallpapers, textures, ect...). I'm about halfway through with the mood and I have one more batch of icons to make and then hopefully I will post it all. Right now I'm guessing I'll probably post sometime this coming week.

Oh and happy belated Valentine's Day. I didn't get a chance to get online much. =]

-Sam

Preview:
1-6...Twilight Profile Codes



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Firstly, I'm not sure how many of you know, but I created a lj community called keira_zone (its a keira knightley community). We are currently in the middle of header contest and I thought I would let you know in case any of you wanted to enter into it. The contest can be found here. The contest ends this Wednesday. I would love to see some of your artwork. =]

Second, a graphics update is coming very soon. Sorry its taking so long since the last time. I got sidetracked with iheartkeira. Its been a busy couple of days with Keira news and i had to stop what I was doing. =] I'm happy to announce I have a couple of new goodies I've never made before. So be on the lookout for that in the next couple of days. Most likely I'll post it all this weekend.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Preview:
1- Pregnant Bella
2- Renesme Cullen
3- Vampire Bella



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