Update for Twilight KickOff Contest

Our first Twilight writing contest is now officially over! Although we were unable to reach enough people and receive any entries, our efforts were not wasted as of yet:
We have found a home for our generously donated Twilight items at Shriners Hospital for Children located here in Honolulu. They will be part of goodie bags that the hospitals create for incoming patients. For those of you who may not be familiar with Shriners, they are a pediatric hospital for young patients that provide medical services at no cost to families.
Not only are we planning to donate Twilight items, but some new books as well! These will also be used in patients' goodie bags or in the hospital library.
We're thrilled that our efforts are still being put to good use, and thank you once again to all our contributors!
If you're interested in donating any new Twilight products or new books to our contribution towards Shriners, please contact us at bellainparadise@hotmail.com by August 9th, and we'd be happy to to add them to our donation!

Bella in Paradise

Hi, Twilighters! Just wanted to let you know that me and a couple of my Twilight pals have created a group called Bella in Paradise. It is designed for kids in Hawaii who love books, and we encourage them to write through cool contests.

Our Twilight KickOff Contest is starting today, with the grand prize winner receiving a Twilight goodie bag plus a $10 gift card from Borders! There will also be Twilight goodie bags for 2nd & 3rd Place!

You can check out the contest rules here, and be sure to let the Twilight loving kids in your life know about it, too!

What to do after Eclipse fever has died down???

It's happened before: the buildup to a Twilight movie, anticipation sets in, a climactic movie premiere experience, crazily seeing it a few more times, then..... what?

What can you do if you still have Twilight fever and nothing to feed on?

Not to fear, I've come up with a few ideas to quench your thirst:

1) Re-read Breaking Dawn

It's not too early to get into the fervor of this last Twilight film being broken into two parts. There are several sites already set up, such as breakingdawnmovie.org

2) Better yet, re-read Eclipse!

Compare it to the movie.

3) Buy some Eclipse merchandise

I backed up my Civil War Jasper mini crush by purchasing his bookmark from Suncoast

4) Make plans for the Twilight convention coming to Honolulu

If you haven't bought your tickets yet now may be a good chance. Consider booking a room at the hotel with special kama'aina rates and make a Twilight slumber party out of it! It's also fun to plan which actors you'll take photos with. Don't forget there's a wolfpack package...

5) Play some fun Eclipse games with your friends who have seen the movie

I recently decided to continue on the frolicking by asking each of my TwiBuddies their favorite quote from Eclipse. Write them down, put them in a bag, shake it, and read each one out loud while guessing who submitted it! It's a great way to learn more about your buddy.

If these options haven't helped, then the only thing I can suggest is getting into Justin Bieber............

St. Patrick's Day Twilight Gear

Here's my latest design - I was going to put Kiss Me I'm a Cullen, but someone else already made it! LOL

One of my latest...

I made this for a gym bag design contest on CafePress - I didn't win, but it was fun making it!

Welcome to Twilight Class!

We all know that Twilight is a well loved series, but did you also know that it could make you smarter? (Just look at that "Defining Twilight" book that helps prepare you for the SATs.) Well take this topic and let's stimulate some of those brain cells that have been inactive from being at work and staring at the monitor too long! Let your thoughts flow, and voice your opinion - even if you haven't read the books, you can still discuss it if you've seen the movie!

Topic: Is Bella Swan a Modern Day Heroine?

She may be the most self-sacrificing character we've read in awhile. But is she heroic in her own sense? Do you look up to her as woman? Btw, this question is not being posed in reference to the drug - although Edward does compare her to it!

Rob's Future Plans?

Well, we all know that his upcoming movie "Remember Me" is set to debut next month, but what else is Rob working on?

I checked out one of my favorite Twilight blogs, and found out that he is indeed going to start filming a movie called "Bel Ami" next month. The film stars all these big-name actresses, including Christina Ricci, Uma Thurman, and Kristin Scott Thomas - and why, you ask all the females? It's cuz Rob's character's going to be bedding all of them! [gasp!] Well, the movie is set in the late 1800's, and he plays the role of a wanna-be journalist that sleeps with all these women to gain fame.

I don't know how I feel about this premise, I will have to see how he does with a real love scene in his next movie, cuz there sure weren't any ones in Twilight. Then again, his first kiss with Bella is pretty steamy... he may have no problem with these ones!

Then there's talk that he may do a movie adaptation of the book "Water for Elephants". I believe that Reese Witherspoon is already cast as the middle of this bizarre love triangle that takes place in a circus, of all places!? I just might wander out of my usual genre of books and read this one if he is really going to star in it.

Well, I must say these roles that Rob choose seem more on the challenging side, coming from an actor's standpoint, I'd guess - so I kinda admire him for picking them!

As long as he's not the next Spidey, ok???...

Rob as Spiderman? --NOT!--

Although I love my RPatz, I gotta admit that when news first reached me that he was being considered to replace Tobey Maguire for the role of Spiderman, I was totally and utterly shocked. Every cell in my body revolts! My head mutters "no, no, don't do it!" Here are my top five reasons why:

#5 I don't think I could stand to see the sight of him and Kirsten Dunst together. Ugh! I may just gag during a kiss scene. This will just feed more flame to my "I don't like Kirsten Dunst fire." I'm telling you, I am even having difficulty seeing him kiss that other actress in "Remember Me"! He should only be kissing Bella! (I'm such a Twilight-moron...)

#4 Rob is known for his slightly out-there roles. Not some mega, superstar, comic book character! I like him because his parts in movies are kinda artsy, and atypical. You cannot fit Robert into a square peg! Hello, the main reason why he fits playing a vampire so well is because he is just good at being "different"??

#3 He can't look dorky. Hey, I am defending him here against all the Rob-haters/Team Jacob freaks! Isn't Peter Parker supposed to be some nerdy photographer who hides behind his camera all the time? It's in the eyes, I'm telling you - Toby was good at the wide-eyed, innocent look. But Robert, oh my, Robert's eyes are.... well let's just say that there's a reason why there's a site devoted to him called "His Golden Eyes". To call it smoldering wouldn't be doing it justice! Now if there was a super hero that could kill with looks...

#2 The hair - what would we do with his hair? If I recall correctly, Peter Parker has this pasty, Ken doll hairstyle. No, no, no - Rob can't have that! His hair just naturally goes.... up! The only time I saw his hair down was for that indie film where it was really long. Otherwise, it just has that natural oomph. And don't forget, he's constantly fluffing his hair up subconsciously!

#1 DUDE CAN'T RUN!!! (Much less swing from web-to-web!) I love Rob, but he is just not athletically superior enough to take this role on. In the cast interviews for Twilight his costars all voted him the least athletic, and even joked about his running resembling that of a mountain goat! That was also obvious in Alice's vision in New Moon where he is chasing Bella. He's got one of those stiff, I-don't-normally-run kind of gaits. And when he was getting pummeled by Felix, he managed to look graceful enough to dodge his attacks, but that's about it. Once Felix caught him in his iron grip, Rob just looked very young, as if he were gripping a little boy! So no, I just can't see Rob beating up the bad guys, if ya know what I mean...

Don't get me wrong, if indeed he does become the next Spiderman, I will support him as usual. Of course I will go see the movie! But if I could talk to the producers I would tell them to leave Rob alone and go find their own Peter Parker, cuz he is OUR Edward! :P