Twilight Tuesday Farewell Blog Hop TTIC60

Hey everyone!

It’s Rebecca, bringing you something special for our last Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge.  For this event, we’re doing a DT blog hop.  Our challenge theme????  ”Love of books, the printed words on a page”  since that is what brought us all together. 

Creative portion:  Create a project that uses printed text: a page from a magazine, book, dictionary, etc. within your project, as the background or focal point.

Comment Portion: I love to read the newspaper online but nothing beats a printed newspaper on Sunday mornings. And no matter how hard I try, I can’t abandon books (hardcover, softcover, or paperback) to a digital reader. Are you totally digital or do you prefer a good old fashioned printed page in your hands?”
 

The hop trail will be in a backwards alpha order…
 
Starting here …. at the Twilight Tuesday Blog
Tonya

Rebecca

Margie

Julie

Jodi

Jen

Erica

Donna

Dani

Beth

Alison
… and ending HERE at the Twilight Tuesday Blog 

And did I mention blog candy ?????  There are two ways to win:

1. Create something using today’s inspiration  - post your project to an online gallery or your blog, then come back here and leave a link with our new inlinkz program (see below). ***
2. Watch for blog candy offerings on the Design Team (DT) blogs and leave comments on those blogs to be entered.  We’ll be offering the blog candy on randomly selected DT members ….. so make sure you go check them all out and leave us some twilight love!

*** For those of you who create and share, you will have the opportunity to win your very own Otherworldly Loves rubber stamp set from StampInsanity Stamps courtesy of Stamp Happens! This giveaway is open to U.S. mailing addresses only. 

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Please join in and play along with us! If you do, here are a few guidelines to follow:  For posting to a blog: Please indicate that you are playing along with the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge on Twilighttuesday.com and please provide a link back to our site. 

For posting on another gallery, such as Splitcoast Stampers or Flickr: Please indicate that you are playing along with the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge on Twilighttuesday.com and please provide a link back to our site. Please use the appropriate keywords for our challenges; an example is TTIC60 for challenge 60. No number signs (#) or spaces are needed in the keyword. You can also add in more general keywords for Splitcoast/Flickr (such as Twilight, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge, etc.). Thank you for your help with this!

Fan Fiction – Edward Cullen, Dick for Hire by flplmtree95

I am so excited to tell you about the story we are reviewing today. It has officially made my top 3 and I think it’s definitely in Donna’s top 5!!! So here she is:

Edward Cullen, Dick for Hire

by flplmtree95

This is story I just stumbled upon one night when I was looking for something new to read and since I devour about 3 fan fics a week you can imagine that sometimes my digging turns up some rotten tomatoes and sometimes I find some gems. Well this one is definitely a GEM!!

Donna’s thoughts are up first:

Crime scene to visit. Murder to solve. Helllooooo……

First thing I want to say about Edward Cullen, Dick for Hire by flplmtree is that it is ridiculously well written, funny, fantastic and one of the BEST FF that I have read in a long time. I think I can even safely say that it is high up on my favourites list with Clipped Wings and Wide Awake (the chapters before the ‘goddess’ took her break, not after). I can even confess that I actually stayed up well into the wee hours of the morning just because I couldn’t stop reading it!!

Imagine this… Edward Cullen is a sarcastic, quick witted; smart mouthed, and cop loathing, total badass, sometimes hero, Private Investigator. We start off the story with Edward trying to out smart the new competition that has just arrived in town, which just happens to be Bella Swan. And in true FF style they are soon thrown together to solve a case for the DC police force.  Flplmtree has given us truly brilliant one liners that have you giggling for a full five minutes and has given Edward and Bella the perfect amount of personality that they just bounce off each other flawlessly. Throw in your basic dysfunctional family (on both sides) and someone trying to kill him and OMGoodness… I guarantee you the ride is worth it.

I cannot recommend this FF enough…You NEED to give this one a go. Not only will you find the journey worth it, you will be looking for more stories from flplmtree to read.

Jen’s thoughts…

Donna did a great job filling you in on the plot! I have to say that this definitely one of my top 3 fan fics of all time. Edward is HILLARIOUS in a gruff, sexy, sarcastic way and Bella is just plain awesome. The two have serious chemistry and this story has something not a lot of other stories have… a plot beyond Bella and  Edward’s romance! In all honesty Bella and Edward’s romance play second fiddle to the delicious crime drama happening in the foreground.

You MUST read this fan-fic! It’s absolutely amazing!! And as Donna already said you will find yourself searching through flplmtree’s other stories to find more of her excellent writing to read.

Be sure to let us know what you think! And if you’d like more stories to read be sure to join our FanFiction.net C2 list to be updated when we add new stories.

Photo of the Week, 3 February 2010

Twilight Challenge :#61 – A Touchy Feely Vampire Valentine

 

With Valentines day fast approaching and everybody in a lovey dovey, touchy feely kinda mood, I thought the most obvious thing I could challenge you all to is to create a Valentine’s day card for your favourite Twilight Saga character *sigh*…Rob…I mean…Edward….What?? A girl can dream can’t she??!! …But then I thought….Nar, too easy! 

So this is what I would like you to do…. 

Craft Portion: Make a VALENTINE’S card/project for your favourite character or for YOUR valentine… but…. with texture!! That’s right I want you to add things like lace, raised embossing, distressed edges, fuzzy fibres, metal, cloth, cracked glass, leather, flower soft, sandpaper, anything that adds texture! 

Comment Portion: Tell us your favourite Valentine’s story…Or if you haven’t got one, Tell us who you would like to snuggle up on Valentine’s day with from the Twilight Saga.. 

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Please join in and play along with us! If you do, here are a few guidelines to follow:  

For posting to a blog: Please indicate that you are playing along with the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge on Twilighttuesday.com and please provide a link back to our site. 

For posting on another gallery, such as Splitcoast Stampers or Flickr: Please indicate that you are playing along with the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge on Twilighttuesday.com and please provide a link back to our site. Please use the appropriate keywords for our challenges; an example is TTIC50 for challenge 50. No number signs (#) or spaces are needed in the keyword. You can also add in more general keywords for Splitcoast/Flickr (such as Twilight, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge, etc.). Thank you for your help with this! 

Comments/Posting your link: Please leave a comment and add your link to Mr. Linky (be sure to check the box indicated that you played along and link directly to your post). We are big fans of comments around here! 

And as always, our Design Team has fantastic projects to display for this week’s challenge – please go and check them out! 

Alison ~ Dani ~ Donna ~ Erica ~Jen ~ Jodi 

 Julie ~ Margie ~ Rebecca~ Tonya

Fan-Fiction Hit By Destiny

Hi all! I hope everyone is having a fantastic Thursday. I’m flying solo today with my review, Donna just wrapped up sending the boys back to school after summer holiday and will be back next week.

This week’s recommendation is an interesting one and a little edgier and darker than most of my fan-fic recommendations BUT there is something about it that I could not pull myself away from so without further wait:

Hit By Destiny

by:  OCDMess

Here’s the premise: Edward is a jerk. He’s the not so misunderstood high-school badboy that everyone girl wants and every guy wants to be. He doesn’t play by anyone’s rules but his own. Bella is the school freak with a dark past. She makes it through each day being picked on and ridiculed by her peers all the while dealing with a family situation that makes her high school day look like a cake walk. Needless to say Edward and Bella aren’t friends and they don’t like each other. One very fateful day Edward hits Bella with his car as he hits a sheet of black ice. The story that unfolds after that is riveting.

I have never read a more intriguing story with such a quality jerkface Edward before. That’s right I said jerkface. It’s really not what I wanted to say but I’m trying to keep this PG. And even with that… I could not stop reading. There is something that pulls you to desperately want him to be good and Bella to over come her struggles.

This story is actively updated and currently 23 chapters long. I’m very interested to get the opinion of any one that reads it so please drop me a line here or over on the forums! If you are looking for more things to read be sure to join our Fan-Fiction.net C2 for updates on new stories (and quite an archive of old ones).