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" #1: Let Hilary Duff Help You Design Your Own Stuff! Pick up some Stuff by Duff DIY craft supplies at Michaels! Looking for fun ideas on how to make your own cell phone case, decorate some cool tees or plan a fashionable accessory selection for the new school year? Look no further than your local Michaels craft store, where Hilary Duff has launched her new line of Stuff by Duff DIY craft goodies. The collection includes more than 40 items, from iron-on transfers and handbags to jewelry and rhinestone sets, and the Michaels.com Web site even offers free project ideas for incorporating the Stuff by Duff pieces into your wardrobe. An embellished large canvas tote (the perfect book bag?), charm bracelets, caps and a necklace and bracelet set are just a few of the gems you&amp;#039;ll learn to craft with the DIY designs. Love it!  Check it out now at  Michaels.com. #2: Become a Monopoly millionaire by playing MONOPOLY Disney Pixar Edition (Hasbro)  We LOVE all the different versions of Monopoly (one of our all-time fave board games) you can buy now, and none is cuter than this updated classic that includes recent Pixar hits Cars and this summer&amp;#039;s Ratatouille! In fact, all your favorite Disney Pixar characters and properties are in on the fun here, including tokens in the shape of Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, Remy from Ratatouille, Lightning McQueen from Cars, Nemo from Finding Nemo, Sulley &amp;amp;amp; Boo from Monster&amp;#039;s Inc. and Mr. Incredible from The Incredibles. The colorful board also comes with Al&amp;#039;s Toy Barn and Traffic Cone pieces (stepping in for the houses and hotels from the original Monopoly), plus Piston Cup Cards, Bon Appetit Cards and the chance to buy prime Disney Pixar properties like Andy&amp;#039;s Room, Luigi&amp;#039;s Casa Della Tires, Monster&amp;#039;s Inc., Edna Mode&amp;#039;s Mansion, The Parr&amp;#039;s Family Home and Gusteau&amp;#039;s Restaurant. A perfect evening with family and friends: Divide up into teams for a game of Monopoly Disney Pixar, and the winning team gets to choose which Pixar classic you all watch afterwards! Pssst. We&amp;#039;ll have a bunch of these awesome games to giveaway as part of our upcoming Sweet September - beginning on 9/7! Check it out now at  Amazon.com. #3: Color your lips and grow some flowers, thanks to Cargo PlantLove Lipsticks Cool lip color? Check. A portion of the lipstick purchase price given to a wonderful charity (the St. Jude Children&amp;#039;s Research Hospital)? Check. An environmentally cool lipstick tube that can be planted in your backyard to grow wildflowers? Check!  These gorgeous lipsticks come in 11 colors (five designed by celebrities!), including Nahinni, a shimmery copper brown; Yakushima, a glittery red; Kilarney, a terracotta pink; Majella, a rosy plum; Yellowstone, a deeper plum; Sagarmatha, a dark rose cream color; plus great shades created by Lindsay Lohan, Evangeline Lilly, Maria Menounos, Mariska Hargitay and Sarah Chalke. And when you&amp;#039;re done with the tube, which is made of a special corn-based material that&amp;#039;s embedded with wildflower seeds, you plant it in the ground and it will dissolve safely, and then sprout flowers! A great purchase for yourself, and, needless to say, a great gift for others! Check it out now at  Cargoplantlove.com. #4: Make your own animated movie at Claymation Studio (Honestech) Ever think about making your own animated flick? With this cool new software, it&amp;#039;s as simple as taking your photos and video clips, uploading them to your computer and turning them into claymation movies! The software, which retails for just under $40 (WOW!), lets your create your own characters, and even offers options to add backgrounds and scenery, as well as music, meaning you can take those characters and truly create your own storylines, actions and video clips with them! Why not unleash your inner-Spielberg and see what fun cartoons you can make from your family&amp;#039;s summer vacation videos, or your friends&amp;#039; beach pics? Check it out now at  Honestech.com. #5: Watch Justin bring sexy back! Tune in to Justin Timberlake: FutureSex/LoveShow (Sept. 3, HBO, 9 p.m. ET) Even if you&amp;#039;re not a big fan, JT&amp;#039;s the ultimate showman and, yes he&amp;#039;s brought sexy back \u2013 big time. For those of us who missed out on seeing Justin Timberlake live on his summer concert tour, the &amp;#039;N Sync front man comes right into our living rooms in this HBO special! Singing selections from his two solo CDs (and even an &amp;#039;N Sync song or two, we hear), this show, taped at Justin&amp;#039;s Madison Square Garden show in New York City in August, includes spectacular dancing, elaborate sets and the fabulous Mr. Timberlake playing instruments, getting his groove on and crooning gems like &amp;quot;Rock Your Body,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;My Love,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;What Goes Around . . . Comes Around,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Cry Me a River,&amp;quot; and, of course, &amp;quot;SexyBack.&amp;quot; We&amp;#039;re already setting the TiVo up for this one! Check it out now at  HBO.com. #6: Make a funky snack like Mini Taco Bowls  What a fun recipe for a snack, an appetizer or a dinner party meal! These cute mini taco bowls are made from heating up a tortilla, pressing it into a muffin pan tin, baking it for a few minutes and filling it with taco filling goodies like ground beef, cheese, sour cream, lettuce, tomatoes and whatever spicy treats you like on your tacos. A simple recipe, and such a cute presentation! A few other ideas for Taco Bowl fun: use grilled chicken, grilled veggies or ground turkey or chicken instead of or in addition to ground beef; form and bake the tortillas and fill them with pudding or ice cream for mini Mexican desserts; or shape and bake the tortillas into mini bowls that you fill with melted cheese for individual cheese dip bowls for nachos. Yummmmm! Check it out now at  Kraft.com. #7: Get some FREE books from Project Gutenberg   Is there a summer reading list you were supposed to be working on for school? Maybe you were supposed to be tackling some classics, like Tom Sawyer or This Side of Paradise? No worries; you don&amp;#039;t even have to head out to the bookstore to catch up with some of those literary works, thanks to Project Gutenberg, the largest online collection of free (and LEGAL!) book downloads. Bookmark this one on your computer now, because it&amp;#039;ll be a valuable resource for you all the way through high school and even into college. Among the other great finds available for free download at Project Gutenberg: the complete line-up of William Shakespeare plays, Jane Austen&amp;#039;s classics, Dracula, foreign language books, books of old fashioned Christmas carols, how-to needlework books, Alice&amp;#039;s Adventures in Wonderland and even sheet music. It&amp;#039;s like having a library on your computer!  Check it out now at  Gutenberg.com. #8: See what all the excitement&amp;#039;s about\u2026 Pick up Heroes season one DVDs (Universal Home Video) September 24: That&amp;#039;s when the second season of Heroes kicks off on NBC. In the meantime, you can refresh your memories of the show&amp;#039;s incredible first season with the new bonus-packed DVD box set! All 23 episodes are included on the set, along with excellent bonus features like the unaired original pilot episode, 50(!) deleted scenes, interviews with the show&amp;#039;s stars, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the show, a feature on the special effects (some of the best on TV), a test to see if you have mind-reading abilities like cop Matt Parkman, a documentary on the show&amp;#039;s stunts, a feature on the show&amp;#039;s music, and a profile of Tim Sale, the artist who creates all the show&amp;#039;s amazing paintings and comics artwork. Phew! Lots and lots of goodies there, making this DVD set a must-own!  Check it out now at  BN.com. #9: Watch some fun \u2013 and funny \u2013 family comedy! 8 Simple Rules season one is now on DVD (Buena Vista Home Entertainment)  Who wouldn&amp;#039;t want a dad like Paul Hennessy? Sure, he&amp;#039;s way overprotective, and sometimes he&amp;#039;s such a goofball that it&amp;#039;s a bit embarrassing for his teen daughters Bridget and Kerry. But Paul also has a list of rules for the girls&amp;#039; potential boyfriends that include the rule, &amp;quot;You make my daughters cry, I make you cry.&amp;quot; Scary for the boys, but again, also kinda sweet. And that&amp;#039;s actually a great overall description for this show, which was always laugh-out-loud funny and warm-fuzzies sweet. That the family comedy also included guest appearances from hottie actors like Thad Luckinbill, Nick Carter, Billy Aaron Brown, Paul Wesley and Jonathan Taylor Thomas certainly did not hurt its case as must-see-TV, and now must-see-DVD!  Check it out now at  BN.com. #10: Read (or re-read) the original before the TV show starts\u2026 Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar (Little, Brown)  Mark your TV calendars: Sept. 19 on the CW is the start date for the Gossip Girl series premiere, and if you&amp;#039;d like to get a jump start on what just might be one of the new TV season&amp;#039;s hottest shows, take a whirl with the first Gossip Girl book, which inspired, of course, the New York City-set series. The book \u2013 and show \u2013 revolve around a group of friends who attend (and gossip with each other about) a wealthy NYC prep school where the teens often indulge in some very adult-like behavior. The plot revolves around a blog written by the mysterious &amp;quot;Gossip Girl&amp;quot; (who will be voiced by Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell in the TV show), who chronicles the activities and sparks the rivalries between best buds Serena and Blair, and the boy they both like, Nate Archibald. And with dozens of books in the series so far, there&amp;#039;s plenty of drama to be adapted for the TV show. So consider the books a very fun spoiler for what&amp;#039;s to come! Check it out now at  BN.com. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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