We’ve worked a good bit on Sparkly today, adding a bunch of new graphics and tidying up the pages a bit so they’re more accessible. Hope you like these!

Firstly, wallpapers! I’ve added eleven new wallpapers thanks to a donation by the fantabulous Martha (thanks again, Martha!!) as well as one by Kaetlyn and two by myself. Those two are rather an experiment again, and I’m quite pleased with one but not quite sure about the other!

Next up, icons! Connor donated fourteen great Emma icons, and in case you missed them earlier, there are also two new Potter icons by Martha up. So if you’re looking for something for your LJ, check those out!

I added another new page today – welcome, banners! In-between signatures and blends, they’re medium-size graphics you can use to prettify your LJ (or any site, really – I’m using one over at my personal!). So we’ve got twelve gorgeous banners by Kaetlyn up there, hope you enjoy that!

Karly is also in the process of uploading several gorgeous fanmixes. Check out the gorgeous cover artwork and song listings for now, and we’ll let you know as soon as we have those available for download.

Kaetlyn has been working hard on the gallery and we now have nearly 400 images in the appearances section, all the way up to the gorgeous 2005 BAFTAs gallery. Check those out if you’re in need of some Emma photos – high-quality and untagged, this gallery is easily the best around.

Finally (finally!), I’ve made the Sparkly! section a bit easier to navigate with links to each person’s artwork on the icons and wallpapers pages. Hope those are helpful, and hope you enjoyed this update!

EDIT: I’ve added another of my own wallpapers – lots of experimenting today. – Allison

EDIT: Lynn let me know that several of the banners weren’t working – whoops, sorry about that! All of them are now working and you can check ‘em out here.

I thought this deserved it’s own news post! Allison first wrote: Congrats to Emma, for making Sweet 16 Magazine’s list of the “16 Sweetest Stars Under 16″ in the February/March 2007 issue! If anyone would be able to scan a copy of this, please let us know as that’d be much appreciated! Thanks, y’all!

You can also view some articles on the subject here. Emma joins stars such as Anna Sophia Robb, Jamie Lynn Spears, Freddie Highmore and Emma Roberts. The editor-in-chief, Mary Lou Carney said the following about the celebrities on this year’s list:

“We considered a large number of Hollywood’s hottest actors, actresses, and recording artists for this special feature. Those who made the list are the young teens who not only have big talent, but big hearts. These are truly the ‘nice kids’ of Hollywood!”

Full list and story available in Sweet 16’s February/March edition.

Congrats to Emma!

The update below features Sparkly, gallery and site updates, so be sure to read those! – Kaetlyn

Allison here, now! I’d like to address the controversy popping up now about the recent merge of four other Emma sites: Electric Watson, Shimmering Emma, Miss Watson, and Princess Emma Watson. For those who haven’t heard, these four sites just recently merged to form Princess Watson. They’ve been getting a lot of obnoxious comments accusing them of copycatting and stealing our ideas and frankly, that’s just not cool.

The four of us can’t truthfully say we weren’t a bit annoyed or angry when we found out that the sites were merging right after we did and visited the new one. It’s really not a big deal, though – this is just a hobby, a cool little project set up to appreciate Emma and for a cool thing for fans to be able to visit and have some fun with. Nobody’s out to take over the world (at this site or their’s), and let’s not freak out and make this a big deal.

This is our official statement, the press release on behalf of all the staff. Hope y’all agree with us and are cool with this. – Allison, on behalf of all the I♥W staff

My original plan was to upload the captures for all 4 films, but after Philosopher’s Stone took me around an hour, I gave up. How does Kaetlyn do it? Anyway, those will probably be moved around in the future as the movie gallery is built up (not to mention I don’t want Kaetlyn to kill me for messing something up). Anyway, go look at those.

In addition to that I’ve made a small update to the Favourite Pairing page with 5 new submissions. Keep sending those in!

Another Sparkly update: 27 AIM icons.

To finish things off, pay our new affiliates a visit: My Heart Belongs to Daniel Radcliffe, Princess Clemence, Beautiful Enthrallment and Forever Miley!

EDIT: I’ve also added two new wallpapers of my own, so check those out as well! I’m experimenting with styles and colouring techniques, so I hope you like these – I’m sure I’ll have more up soon! Enjoy! – Allison

EDIT: Yo yo, ’sup? Anyway, moving on from the scary speaking Kaetlyn, I’ve been uploading and uploading … and uploading. Appearances is still getting a work-out done, and I’ve fixed up the errors reported on the Prisoner UK Premiere. Anyway, still uploading, and don’t forget to report errors! Also, I go back to school tomorrow, so gallery updates will lessen to about one or maybe two albums a day, only, but I will try and get more in. - Kaetlyn

EDIT: Yet more updates! I’ve added two awesome animated Potter icons to the icons section. These were donated by Martha, so give her a big thanks!