done today

The most exciting thing I did today (other than convincing my son to vacuum, make fruit salad, and sweep out the garage on his day off) was to carve 2 rubber stamps. I'm working on a serendipity piece, and an image of a birds nest stuck in my head. Since I don't have a stamp with the image I wanted, I made two of them, one 2 1/2" across, the other 1 1/4". I used the "graphite pencil on an image" transfer method, and it worked a treat. Of course, the resulting stamps don't resemble the original image, but that's the charm of hand-carved. Of course, the piece is not done yet, but that's also part of the charm. Let it evolve!