Ruby Tuesday (meme). Not creepy: ʻIʻiwi or Scarlet Hawaiian Honeycreeper (Vestiaria coccinea). Dorincards: one created with a folded card, and the other one with a cut-out from a book.

"The ʻIʻiwi or Scarlet Hawaiian Honeycreeper (Vestiaria coccinea) is a Hawaiian"hummingbird-niched" species, of the Hawaiian honeycreepers, subfamily, Drepanidinae, and the only member of the genus Vestiaria. One of the most plentiful species of this family, many of which are endangered or extinct, the ʻiʻiwi is a highly recognizable symbol of Hawaiʻi."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'iwi

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BBC: First Valentine: Lasting legacy of 500-year-old love. Also, "Hellelil and Hildebrand: The meeting on the turret stair", my maximum card idea, my entry for Happy Blue Monday! (meme). Happy Valentine's (Voluntyne's) Day

Read from BBC (but please read also this blogpost, while you are at it): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12419712
"In 1477 Margery wrote a letter to her John pleading with him not to give her up, despite her parents' refusal to increase her dowry.

Addressing her "ryght welebeloued Voluntyne" (right well-beloved Valentine), she promised to

 be a good wife, adding: "Yf that ye loffe me as Itryste verely that ye do 

ye will not leffe me" (If you love me, I trust.. you will not leave

 me)."

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I would like to create a maximum  card/ maxicard/ dorincard with this Irish postcard, showing the Meeting on the Turret Stairs, 1864 (also known as Hellelil and Hildebrand), a famous painting by Sir Frederic William Burton RHA (8 April 1816 – 16 March 1900). 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Burton

To me, this great painting is a whole book/drama condensed in one image.

I could write quite a few observations about body language and the meaning of this image, as a whole, and in specific detail.

But soakin' [so can] you. Please comment, will you?

Everybody would have his own interpretation of this, more or less original, more or less credible.

Well, after you think about it, read this:

http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/meeting_of_turret_stairs.htm

I should research if there is already a stamp (Ireland/ any other country?) with it, then create a maximum card, if possible.

:)

Here's an interesting postmark of a knight in shining armor (don't worry about the stamp -  I did not have a matching one available):

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Happy Blue Monday! (meme)

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Fwd: FREE Maximum Card Journal

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From: TERRYW7633@comcast.net
Date: February 13, 2011 17:20:20 EST
To:
Subject: FREE Maximum Card Journal

Fellow collector of Maximum Cards,

The Maximum Card Study Unit (MACSU) of North America has recently published a short, nineteen-page Journal about Maximum Card collecting.   This Journal is FREE and has been attached to this email.

Please read this copy of the North American Maximaphily Journal and feel free to pass it on to any stamp collectors that you think might be interested. 

I would appreciate any feedback that you can offer regarding the journal.

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