It's Cinco de Mayo!

but i'm not in any mood to celebrate. we just finished watching "An American Crime" (starring Ellen Page) and i just feel so drained and depressed. (it's based on a true incident that happened in Indiana in 1965. you can read more about it here.) don't get me wrong, i think it's a pretty good movie, but i really got into it and i felt so moved, yet disturbed. (i was in tears for most of the movie.) alright, i won't get into anymore details, so on to lighter things...

...i finally got my embroidered tags from ETSY in the mail today. yippee! they're a little bigger than expected (i'm no good with measurements), so i might cut it into a square when i use it. i feel so profresh now! ...but i haven't got anything to put them on just yet.

after work today i stopped by Howard's (a local art supply store and apparently one of the oldest businesses in H-town) and picked up a few things. i went to town as soon as i got home and made some rubber stamps thanks to this tutorial from Weirdbuglady's blog and this book by Lotta Jansdotter. it was pretty easy, when i wasn't carving the small parts, but it took me close to two hours to make these four stamps.

these are the tested images. i chose silver ink so that it would show up better on colored paper.

i don't know where i got all of my energy from, but after the stamps, i moved on to plushies. i sketched and finished this little guy...

i haven't made an owl plush in a while so it was really refreshing when the finishing product kind turns out looking like one. i have an idea for a series of birds i'm doing using these fabrics...
...but i haven't decided on the pattern or the type of bird yet. i started making a prototype with an older sketch and started on it right before i sat down. i think there's going to be pretty cute. hopefully i'll be finished with some of them sometime tomorrow so i'll post some pictures.

well, i'm feeling pretty tired (and so does Remy)...

guess i'll be seeing you again tomorrow. goodnight world.