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I’m playing catch-up, because I forgot to post yesterday, and, even worse, I forgot to take a picture of my daily thing!

I made valentines to send to the folks on my valentine exchange list.

I went to Goodwill and bought old LPs for 25¢ a piece. (I picked ones that had love songs on them.) I ditched the album sleeves, wrote a valentine message related to one of the song titles on the Side 1 label, then made a circular mailing label the same color as the record label and glued it with spray adhesive over the Side 2 label. Took them to the post office and mailed them. Just like that. A record, with postage attached. The post office lady was quite amused.

I watched one of the movies I had recorded on the tee-vee tonight.  To be honest, The 47 Ronin part II was hard for me to get through and not a favorite.  Maybe it would’ve helped if I had see part I?  I wanted to check it out because the synopsis looked promising: samurai seek revenge and all 47 of them are sentenced to death by suicide based on a true story. Visually the film had some nice stuff to look at (costumes, hair, a look into different country and different time period). 

This drawing is a paused screenshot from the movie jotted down on paper.  I roughly sketched out the courtyard that these two dudes were sitting in, but later decided to paste over the green-blue notebook paper background instead.  As the movie was in black and white, I was also able to color it however I liked.

                  Frankie’s Broken Record Productions