It's that time... just in case you missed some of my Summer of Giles posts (and because I like to have everything in my journal anyway), here's the first of two posts of everything I've put up so far.

04x wallpapers
06x banners
37x icons
02x layouts

the teasers:
     

( Icons --- Giles: How did you know it was me? / Buffy: Your eyes. You're the only person in the world that can look that annoyed with me. )

( walls & banners ---- But that's the thrill of living on the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage. Pardon me for finding the glass half full. )

( Layout #1 )

( Layout #2 )

From my summer_of_giles posting day - the fic tributes, in their entirety (gushing included)...

Set I:
This is another open love letter.  I seem to be sending them out a lot lately, but that's because there's plenty of love in this fandom, and I couldn't leave Giles out of it.  For those of you who saw my spring_with_xan posts, you'll know what I'm talking about.

For those of you who didn't, I wanted to create graphics for my favorite Giles stories and for my favorite Giles authors.  It's going slowly, but this post today will hopefully reflect a little of the fangirl adoration I share for two radically different but equally amazing authors mireille719  and janedavitt.  Both of have a habit of writing the Giles I fell in love with, and yet both bring their own interpretations of his personality to the front so much so that I fall in love with him all over again after reading their fics.

Behind the cut you'll find links to wallpapers that include some of my favorite lines from each fic, so you can enjoy the memory of the fic even when you're not reading it!  And, of course, links to each fic in question so you can read them if you're so inclined!

( here are two tributes that hopefully show how grateful I am )

Set II:
There are some fics that stay with me, with sound or shape or form. Sometimes they're richly textured enough that they leave an indelible imprint on me.  Doesn't matter how long the fic.  Sometimes it just takes a couple of words. 

So below the cut you'll find my adoration for savoytruffle and lostgirlslair and glimmergirl expressed via images (paltry, but hey, it works), and a couple of fics that, if you haven't read them, you really really need to check them out.

( this way to the three tributes that hopefully get close to the fics they're based on )

I just realized that when I did my SOG post to my own journal, I forgot to include the layouts I made *is a dork*.

So here they are.

Preview: 

( Layout instructions for I'll Be Your Watcher )

Preview: 

( Layout instructions for Air Kisses )


Preview:  .

( Layout instructions for Memory of a Kiss )

My roundup of my summer_of_giles postings ... it's all over... *SOB* ... but the love goes on...

teaser/preview:
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+ please let me know what you think
+ please don't modify (talk with me, I'm happy to modify for you!)
+ please don't link directly
+ icon/graphics website HERE, resources HERE.


( \\giles wallpapers\\ )


( \\giles only banners\\ )


( \\giles\spike+xander+jenny banners\\ )


( \\50 giles icons\\ )

It's coming up on Valentine's Day, and since I haven't put much out by way of graphics, I thought I'd make some banners and sorta story art (for stories that haven't been written yet, so you writers out there, that's a hint, really it is!) AND icons, of course.  All Giles pairings - my favorite ones. 

So Happy Early VD!

teasers:
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( this way to the pretty banners )


( this way to the pretty walls/story art )


( this way to the icons )

 Rather than do a fic year in review I thought I'd do a kind of summary of my graphics.  Below you'll find the pieces I kind of fell in love with (or the ones that turned out far better than I had any right to expect, or heck, the ones I was most surprised by).

( //icons// )


( //wallpapers// )


( //manips// )


( //banners// )

I forgot to repost my summer_of_giles entries in my own journal.  So, here they are, in their entirety.  This post is not for the faint of dail up.

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Inside:
[84]x icons (includes Giles only & Giles with as many pairings as I could make + icons from walls and manips)
[06]x walls (G only, G/Wes, G/S, G/B)
[07]x banners (G only, G/Wes)
[08]x manips (G only, G/Wes, G/S, G/F, G/B)

( this way to see the many faces of Rupert Giles )

I don't know about you kids, but I'm getting a little stale on the icon thing.  So this will be my last icon post for a bit (not graphics - I seem to still like those) but icons. 

The idea with this set was to capture the space in between... I'm not sure if it totally worked.  You tell me.

Teasers:
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( the space in between )