Dead Man's Bones

i love Dead Man's Bones and their old horror movie feel/sound. been listening to their stuff all day (full album comes out Tuesday!!! woo!). they are officially my new favorite band thanks to J. and if i play my cards right, i will be seeing them live REAL soon.

ps - i HEART Ryan Gosling even more!

movies i WANT to see...soon.

(because i read the book and it was freakin fantastic!)



(Heath Ledger's final movie...that's why his character changes throughout the movie...besides that, doesn't it look AWESOME?!)

Stitch Wars!

Stitch Wars opens is Saturday at 7 pm at Bear & Bird Boutique/Gallery (i wish i lived close) and already it has gotten SO much press! what an honor to be a part of something like this! i mean, there are so many amazing artists involved...i feel star struck even talking about it.(i'm gonna get me one of these!)

(MAXIM??!!!! awesome)

(Miami News Times)

Amanda, you're doing a great job! the force is definitely with you.

this just made my day!

now, i don't know if i'm late in discovering this today...but it doesn't matter, i'm STOKED!!
Tim Burton is coming out with Alice in Wonderland!

and as usual, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter will be involved! it's set to come out in regular theater and in 3D in 2010! who's excited?

i want to see this!

Beautiful Losers film trailer from beautifullosersfilm on Vimeo.

do you?

based on a book...

i'm starting to think that all good movies are inspired by books. it started off with the Secret Life of Bees. Lacey and i went to see it in a local theater in town (they always pick very good movies to show), and that was a very good movie...granted i kept tearing up towards the end of the movie...alright! i cried, but not as bad as the woman behind us.

last night, j and i watched another movie inspired by a book called Slumdog Millionaire.


do yourselves a favor and go watch it. it was VERY good. and if you have, let me know what you think!

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.