I am finding it hard to believe it is almost Christmas again! I came back to this earlier post and realized I likely didn’t know you then.. Now I do, dear friend, and I value you so much ❤
I know right, one month to Christmas! Where did 2017 go?!!!! Ah, my sweet Christy, likewise, I think we know each other about 2 years now [if not more] but WP has had some glitches in the past and the follows have been on and off [with some people I still can’t connect and have to go to WP happiness engineers to fix every time!]. Happy and grateful for our friendship! 🙂 xx
Wishing you God’s wonderful gifts of faith, hope, peace, and love
at Christmas-time and always.
As we take a moment from our busy lives to celebrate the birth of our Lord,
we pray your holidays are filled with love, and your New Year filled with peac
Beautiful images Marina. My warmest wishes to you and yours for the holidays and a very Happy New Year. Thanks for all your support and encouragement throughout the year. Please know that it has been so very much appreciated. If you weren’t so far away it would be lovely to sit and chat 🙂
Aw, Andrew it would be lovely to sit and have an artistic chat, even better a painting chat! I hope you had a brilliant Christmas and are enjoying the holidays.
You also have my warmest wishes for you and your loved ones, my friend. 🙂
Love the variation on a theme for the two events. Merry Christmas to you and all those close to you … and a Winter Solstice salute as well. … and holiday salutes to all your readers here.
PS: My holiday salute should be up for your Christmas Eve morning.
I was going to go out and do some Christmas shopping today– I always enjoy the glitter and excitement at the Mt. Olympus Mall. Or I thought I might do some caroling: when they hear me sing, people always throw figgy pudding and wassail bowls; it’s great– all artists love free food!!
But now I’m paralyzed with beauty! I look upon the latest work by The Great Kanavaki (maestro, a fanfare, if you please!!), and I am riveted to the spot!! What perfect colors! What utter simplicity of design!! Nay, nay, not just one design, but two!! And each a perfectly realized gem, with both reaching out to everyone, with a wish for peace, joy, and harmony!!
I must lie down. The exquisite emotion is too much for a man of my exceptional sensitivity. I see a tree with sparkling lights in the corner. Yes, I’ll go lie down under that until I recover. I shall fade into a happy dream… of sugarplums… goddesses in holly-trimmed togas… and… figgy pudding… : )
I have just received the most wonderful gift…
My tree has now a cause: to provide shelter and dream fields to an amazing talent: YOU!
Now excuse me while I go fly off on cloud number 9! 🙂
Thank you, my dearest friend.
Enjoy this Winter Solstice and Christmas week. 🙂
fyi: Mt.Olympus A.M.D. [annual meeting of directors], decided to grant you a lifetime supply of figgy pudding! 🙂 🍨 [oh and they are contributing an emoticon soon with a figgy pudding symbol in your honor! Till then they humbly ask your understanding for this poor substitute] 🙂
A lifetime supply of Figgy P.?? From the Mt. Olympus Bakery?? I’m in ecstasy!! This is the best Christmas present I ever got!! Thank you, O Kindest of Christmas Spirits & Elf Immortals!! I’ll just have a little taste… 🍨🍨🍨🍨🍨🍨🚑
Don’t worry, I’m here: […err what is it with emoticons – no nurse symbol?!!!!! okay, here’s the next choice:] 😇 [got to do something about that too at Mt Olympus tsk tsk tsk]
Merry Christmas, dear Marina! ⭐ ⭐
Love and hugs and kisses to you & yours! I’m so happy that the winter solstice has arrived! Now, the days will get longer. YAY!!!! Thank you for sharing your art, & I really love your solstice image. ❤
xoxoxo
Marina Kanavaki 
I am finding it hard to believe it is almost Christmas again! I came back to this earlier post and realized I likely didn’t know you then.. Now I do, dear friend, and I value you so much ❤
I know right, one month to Christmas! Where did 2017 go?!!!! Ah, my sweet Christy, likewise, I think we know each other about 2 years now [if not more] but WP has had some glitches in the past and the follows have been on and off [with some people I still can’t connect and have to go to WP happiness engineers to fix every time!]. Happy and grateful for our friendship! 🙂 xx
Gosh I am sooooooooo late with reading this but Merry Christmas anyway!!! 😀 😀
Hey, Merry …err Christmas to you too!!!!!! 😉 [never late, Ken! ] 🙂 🙂
Ha ha! Early for next year? 😉
Liebe Marina danke für deinen Link morgen ist Karneval Weiberfastnacht und Klaus macht eine Pause sei ganz lieb und herzlichst gegrüßt in Freundschaft
Lieber Claus, ich hoffe, Sie genießen [genossen] Ihre Pause und wünschen Ihnen einen schönen Februar. 🙂
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HAPPY POST-WINTER SOLSTICE TO YOU ALLL!!!!! (GET LIGHTER LATER, EVRY DAY!)
Happy Holidays , Marina ! 🙂
Happy New Year 2016 !! 🙂 🙂
Regards,
Aliosa.
Ah, thank you! Happy Holidays to you too, Aliosa and a beautiful 2016! 🙂
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Marina!
A beautiful New Year to you too, my dear Bente!!! 🙂
I hope your Christmas was one to remember. With all the strife in this world, the season means so much more. Happy New Year Marina.
Indeed, my dear Donna, so lets pray for a better year – a kinder and healthier one! 🙂 xx
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
Thank you, Mithai and the same to you too! 🙂
beautiful work, by a beautiful woman! carry on, marina…and best wishes for 2016…!!
Awwww…. thank you, my friend. Best …better best wishes to you too!!! 🙂
Και ανυπομονώ να 2016 με πολλές δημιουργικές ιδέες από εσάς!
Ah, ich danke Ihnen, mein lieber Frizz und ich hoffe, dass 2016 bringt Freude und gute Musik! Ich wünsche Ihnen alles Gute, mein Freund. 🙂
I hope you had a very merry Christmas and the New Year will arrive at your door step with huge loads of inspiration!
Ah, thank you, Inese. May it do so for you too, with a huge basket full of colors and wonderful brushstrokes! 😉
Wishing you God’s wonderful gifts of faith, hope, peace, and love
at Christmas-time and always.
As we take a moment from our busy lives to celebrate the birth of our Lord,
we pray your holidays are filled with love, and your New Year filled with peac
Thank you so much for your wishes, Mihran. May your holidays and New Year be filled with joy, love and peace. 🙂
Have a wonderful Christmas that full of peace and joy, Marina!
Ah, thank you! Peace, Joy and harmony to you too, Chris! 🙂
A merry Christmas dear Marina. Beautiful colours and great combinations. Regards. 😀😀
Thank you, my dear friend! I hope you enjoyed Christmas and are having wonderful holidays. 🙂 🙂
Merry Christmas Marina
Hope you enjoyed your Christmas, Jake and wish you the best for the rest of the holidays and New Year! 🙂
Enjoy a very happy holidays Marina, I send you my best wishes for these days.
A big hug!!
Thank you, my dear Belén! My very best wishes to you too! Have a wonderful time. 🙂 xx
Happiness , peace and love to you Dear Marina…beautiful post a always…:-)
have a great year ahead…:-)
Thank you, my dear friend. Wishing you too happiness, peace and love and an abundance of beauty [something you always share with generosity!] 🙂
Sending joy, peace and blessings for a very Merry Christmas. with love, Eddie
Ah, thank you, my dear Eddie! Joy, Peace and blessings for days full of love and beauty, my friend. 🙂
Beautiful images Marina. My warmest wishes to you and yours for the holidays and a very Happy New Year. Thanks for all your support and encouragement throughout the year. Please know that it has been so very much appreciated. If you weren’t so far away it would be lovely to sit and chat 🙂
Aw, Andrew it would be lovely to sit and have an artistic chat, even better a painting chat! I hope you had a brilliant Christmas and are enjoying the holidays.
You also have my warmest wishes for you and your loved ones, my friend. 🙂
Thank you Marina. Having lovely holiday time with family
I love that first design. So full of life and energy.
Hope your Christmas is the merriest and brightest ever!
Thank you, my friend – nice and quiet [the way I like ’em]. Hope yours was even better than your expectations! 😉
What a lovely Christmas card Marina, thank you. I hope you have a wonderful time, full of blessings, with love G x
Thank you, my dear Gilly. Wishing the very best to you too! love and xxxx 🙂
Beautiful Marina.. sending you also so much love and greetings for a Very Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year..
Love Sue ❤
Thank you, my dear friend! love and hugs to you! xxxxxxxxx 🙂
Good one and Wishing you the same 🙂
Thank you!! 🙂 🙂
🙂
Love the color palette, gorgeous images. Merry Christmas and Creative New Year to you!
Thank you, my dear Elena. A very Merry Christmas to you too and a wonderful 2016! 🙂
Love the variation on a theme for the two events. Merry Christmas to you and all those close to you … and a Winter Solstice salute as well. … and holiday salutes to all your readers here.
PS: My holiday salute should be up for your Christmas Eve morning.
Ah, thank you, Frank. Enjoy the holidays, my dear friend! 🙂
Liebe Marina hab ein schönes Weihnachtsfest mit ganz vielen lieben Grüßen Klaus in Freundschaft
Wir danken Ihnen, lieber Klaus . Auch Sie genießen Weihnachten und meine besten Wünsche für das neue Jahr . 🙂
Same to you.
And thanks for sharing – beautiful.
Thank you, Jay! 🙂 🙂
Merry Christmas and happy New Year, Marina! 🙂 ❤
Merry Christmas and a beautiful 2016 to you too, Natalie! 🙂
Thanks! 🙂 ❤
And to you too, Marina. RH
🙂 🙂
Beautiful greeting card, Marina! Wishing you and yours a peaceful winter solstice and a most beautiful holiday! ~xxx
You too, my dearest friend! My warmest wishes! 🙂 xxxxxxx
What a wonderful design Marina! Wishing you as well a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful Happy 2016 New Year to you and yours!
Thank you, my dear Eva. May 2016 be all you wish it to be …and more! 🙂
XOXO :))))
Dear Marina, have a great time, during the holidays and beyond! Now Days are getting longer again 🙂
Happy Holidays to you too! 🙂
yes, they are getting longer… 😔
Lovely, Marina! Season’s Greetings to you, also 🙂
Thank you, my dear friend. Have a lovely Christmas week and Winter Solstice! 🙂
I was going to go out and do some Christmas shopping today– I always enjoy the glitter and excitement at the Mt. Olympus Mall. Or I thought I might do some caroling: when they hear me sing, people always throw figgy pudding and wassail bowls; it’s great– all artists love free food!!
But now I’m paralyzed with beauty! I look upon the latest work by The Great Kanavaki (maestro, a fanfare, if you please!!), and I am riveted to the spot!! What perfect colors! What utter simplicity of design!! Nay, nay, not just one design, but two!! And each a perfectly realized gem, with both reaching out to everyone, with a wish for peace, joy, and harmony!!
I must lie down. The exquisite emotion is too much for a man of my exceptional sensitivity. I see a tree with sparkling lights in the corner. Yes, I’ll go lie down under that until I recover. I shall fade into a happy dream… of sugarplums… goddesses in holly-trimmed togas… and… figgy pudding… : )
P.S. Beautiful work, dear Marina!!!
I have just received the most wonderful gift…
My tree has now a cause: to provide shelter and dream fields to an amazing talent: YOU!
Now excuse me while I go fly off on cloud number 9! 🙂
Thank you, my dearest friend.
Enjoy this Winter Solstice and Christmas week. 🙂
fyi: Mt.Olympus A.M.D. [annual meeting of directors], decided to grant you a lifetime supply of figgy pudding! 🙂 🍨 [oh and they are contributing an emoticon soon with a figgy pudding symbol in your honor! Till then they humbly ask your understanding for this poor substitute] 🙂
A lifetime supply of Figgy P.?? From the Mt. Olympus Bakery?? I’m in ecstasy!! This is the best Christmas present I ever got!! Thank you, O Kindest of Christmas Spirits & Elf Immortals!! I’ll just have a little taste… 🍨🍨🍨🍨🍨🍨🚑
Don’t worry, I’m here: […err what is it with emoticons – no nurse symbol?!!!!! okay, here’s the next choice:] 😇 [got to do something about that too at Mt Olympus tsk tsk tsk]
Best wishes to you for the festive period, Marina!!!
Thank you, Graham! My very best wishes to you too! 🙂
Merry Christmas, dear Marina! ⭐ ⭐
Love and hugs and kisses to you & yours! I’m so happy that the winter solstice has arrived! Now, the days will get longer. YAY!!!! Thank you for sharing your art, & I really love your solstice image. ❤
xoxoxo
Ah, thank you thank you thank you, my sweet friend.
Have a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones.
Sending lots of love and hugs xxxxxxx 🙂
Merry Christmas Marina and many best wishes for a wonderful 2016 my friend!
The merriest Christmas & 2016 to you too, my dear Mary. Enjoy your holidays! 🙂 xx
Hugs and kisses to you as well, dearest Marina! :-)c
Love and lots of hugs to you, my dear Claudine!!!!! xxxxxxx 🙂
Have a very happy Xmas, Marina! And a fantastic new year!
Happy Christmas to you too, Richard and a joyful 2016! 🙂
Merry Christmas, friend. 🙂
🙂 Merry Christmas, my dear YS! 🙂