For those keeping up, Starfury’s T2 Convention was this weekend in London.  It’s a sci-fi convention that brought together actors from a few different series, most noticeably for us — Chuck.

Originally, T2 was the hot topic of European fans of Yvonne Strahovski.  She was scheduled to appear and a few people from our forums banded together to buy some Strahotski.com gear and make an appearance.

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Unfortunately, Yvonne’s off filming The Killer Elite and had to cancel.  No ill will towards her, of course.  I think we all can’t wait for her to become the movie star that she should be!

The lack of Yvonne Strahovski did not deter her fans, however.  They still showed up in their Strahovski best and made a splash at the show.  Many of the actors commented on their shirts, and I’m told that Adam Baldwin even mentioned Strahotski.com in a Q&A.

Julia Ling was asked to step in for Yvonne Strahovski at the last minute and I’m told that she didn’t disappoint.  Our own Strahotski Crew was lucky enough to win some raffle tickets for a meet’n'greet with Ms. Ling.  Though it comes as no surprise, Julia is apparently awesome and won the hearts of all manner of convention goer.

Since kroblues from our forums was wearing one of our “Got Strahovski?” shirts, Ms. Ling signed an autograph for him, etched with “Got Ling?”.  Inspired by her suggestion, I added a shirt to the store just for her and I’m told she thinks it was a great change to the shirt design.

Adam Baldwin is also said to have been great fun, and everyone seemed pleasantly surprised at how funny Bonita Friedericy and her husband, Phlox… I mean John Billingsley… was.  Apparently, some convention goers even got to watch a soccer game at the same pub as Mark Sheppard.

All in all, it sounds like it was an amazing time.  Though we all wish Yvonne Strahovski could have been there, her fans were not deterred and showed up in force to show both their love for Chuck and their love for Ms. Strahovski herself.

I am also told there was much squeeing to be had.  If you want more stories and pictures directly from the convention goers, check out the forum topic on the subject.

Though the site hasn’t been updated during the hiatus, there’s been a lot going on behind the scenes.  Fans have been hard at work supplying us with Yvonne Strahovski content.

First off, I was humbled to be asked by NBC to participate in a conference call with Zachary Levi and Josh Gomez this past Friday.  Though I didn’t get to ask a question, it was a lot of fun as they talked about geekdom and what we can generally expect from the rest of Season 3.

The transcript of that interview should arrive in my inbox shortly and I hope to post the entire thing here on Strahotski.com for your perusal.  Until then, remember to watch Chuck starting tomorrow at 8pm EST for the rest of Season 3.

Two drawings have been added the a new Fan Art gallery to show off the artistic endeavors of Yvonne Strahovski fans.  Both are impressive additions to the site, and the latter is featured on one of our official Strahotski.com t-shirts.

Bzzg came through with some new screen caps from Headland that I’ve put up in the gallery.  She originally sent me a whopping 320 screen caps, but in the interest of storage space I narrowed it down to what I considered to the best of the bunch.

Dan from the forums has donated a lot of time into capturing some choice images from Mass Effect 2.  He turned up his rig as high as it would go to get some super high quality screen captures of Miranda.  He sent only the best, and the best are a beautiful testament to both the game and Yvonne Strahovski.

Nima has also been hard at work to help promote the site.  He whipped up a promotional video for the site which is extremely well done and will hopefully attract even more fans to the site.  I know there has to be a few Yvonne Strahovski fans out there that haven’t joined the ranks of Strahotski.com yet.

We really appreciate the submissions of everyone!  We are but a few people, and when the Yvonne Strahovski fan-base chips in to provide content we just get that much more Yvonne out there in the world.

Have anything you’d like to submit to the site?  Send us Yvonne Strahovski related stuff at submissions@strahotski.com!

A while back, I put out a call for Yvonne-related costumes and reader Ali just came through with some photos of her homemade costume that she whipped up for Fan Expo 2009.

Not only did she look the part, but she caught the eye of Chuck Producer and Director Robert Duncan McNeill.  He posed for a photo with Ali and her Chuck counterpart.

How did Ali do it?  With a lot of hard work!  She hand-made the skirt, corset and name tag.  She used shoes, earrings, and a watch that she already had and managed to only spend money on the shirt and the all-important hot dog necklace.

All the work for Fan Expo paid off in October when she dressed up like Sarah once again for Halloween.  Very cool.

I’ve put all of her photos up on in our Fan Photos Gallery so head on over and check out the awesomeness that is Ali’s Sarah Walker Wienerlicious costume, including the one with Robert Duncan McNeill.

Have you dressed up like Sarah Walker for some event?  Send us the pictures — submissions@strahotski.com!

Those who follow the site may remember the daughter of forum-goer radi8n who dressed up as Sarah Walker for Halloween.

Well it turns out Chuck writer Ali Adler got word of this awesome costume and made a point of showing it to Yvonne Strahovski on the set of Chuck.

That alone would have been a major coup for little Bailey, but it only got better from there.

Yvonne was so impressed with the costume, that she mailed Bailey a special gift for her awesomeness.

It’s not like we needed more evidence to prove that Yvonne Strahovski is an amazing person, but I really love being able to post this kind of news.  Looks like that’s certainly a one-of-a-kind souvenir!

Yes, Yvonne Strahovski is beautiful.  And of course she’s an amazing actress.  But what really endears her to all of us is that under it all she’s a great person.

It’s small gestures like this that really endear Ms. Strahovski to her fans.  A special congratulations to Bailey for her awesome jacket!

Just a quick update to let everyone know that I’ve added two new photos to our gallery, both submitted by fans! I think they’re both worth a look.

The motivational poster came via our forums from Swedude, while the wallaper was sent to us by reader Nat.

I love’em both, and that motivational poster pretty much sums up the post-Yvonne Strahovski world we live in.

If you have any works of art or pics of Yvonne you’d like to share, email them to us at submissions@strahotski.com!