Excerpt thumbnails on main page

Ok, I’ve looked everywhere for an answer to this question so if I’m creating a duplicate thread please don’t flame me. I already use excerpts for the thumbnail gallery on my photoblog but I want to know if there’s a way to pull out the most recent two excerpts (from the last two posts) and display them in the sidebar? They would also need to be clickable, taking visitors to the post associated with that excerpt.

Thanks for your help. ??