Don´t ask me why, but I made this little picture after having watched too many Bond movies one night and found my idea absolutely hilarious then. 😉
And since I still like Bond even though the hilarity is no longer around and has been replaced by a mere placid smile by now, I decided to go through with this idea as a Holiday/Christmas greeting for you. 🙂
Wishing you all
Happy Holidays!
And for those of you who celebrate it –
a wonderful
and
Merry Christmas!
🎄 ⛄️ 🎁 ❤️
I like it. Who needs Christmas trees and bunnies? Ha ha. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Happy Creative New Year! 🙂
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Thank you, Diana! Wouldn’t it be great if James Bond were to bring the presents instead of a heavily overweighed and bearded man? 😉 Maybe I should contact Daniel Craig about it. 😄 Happy Creative New Year to you too! 💕
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Oh my. That would be hysterical. New story idea: A young handsome Santa takes over for his grandfather, and has all kinds of Christmas eve problems with a variety of women and their husbands. Daniel Craig would fit the bill.
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Hahaha! 😄 I really like your story idea! And I can’t wait for the movie after it should he get the part! 😁
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That is so awesome. I love the play on Bond’s standard introduction. Very creative. Cheers
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Thank you, Chris! Cheers! 😄
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made me smile, Happy New Year
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Thank you, Kelly! Glad I made you smile – Happy New Year to you too!
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I like a unique Bond Christmas greeting, Sarah. I never watched too many of them, but the couple I saw were really entertaining. I like how we can derive inspiration from so many different areas. I hope you had a fabulous holiday, and glad to see that your mum is getting better! xoxo
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Thank you so much, Lana! It’s good that you haven’t watched them all, that way you can always get back to them when there’s nothing else to watch 😉
Christmas was quiet and relaxing which was very nice! Hope yours were equally pleasant!
Wishing you a wonderful, creative and Happy New Year! Much love! 😄 xoxo ❤
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Awesome, Sarah! We’re big fans of Bond, too, so this was great. Thanks for the unique Christmas greeting, and I hope you had a good time and that your mum is getting a little better with each new day. Wishing you a healthier and happier new year to come. Love and hugs! 🎆✨🎉🎊🎇💕
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Thank you very much, Lauren! It’s so great to know that all my friends here are big fans of James Bond too. 😄
My mum is indeed getting better and her physio therapist praised her yesterday for her success in raising her arm a little bit higher each time which is all the encouragement she needs. 😄
Wishing you a wonderful and creative New Year! Much love and many hugs! 💕😄🎊🎶🐞
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Haha 😉 You’re so creative! Happy holidays, Sarah ❤
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Thank you, Christy! 😄 Happy holidays! Hope you will have a wonderful New Year’s Eve and a fantastic New Year! ❤
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And to you, and to you! xo
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Hehe. I love this. Bond films are such a great spurce of spoof material. Hope you had a lovely Christmas xx😃
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Thank you, Su! 😀 Christmas was quiet, peaceful and relaxing – totally new experience!! Hope yours was lovely too! xxxxxx 🙂
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I’m so glad you had a relaxing Christmas. Ours was ok. We spent the morning at home with the boy-child, then got kind of hijacked into a very long lunch with relatives. Lovely in one respect, but we had planned to go to the beach!! xxxxxxx 🙂
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Now that is a unique Christmas greeting. And it made me smile, too. Merry Christmas!
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Thank you, Ann! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas too! 😀
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Who made the rule that Christmas and the holidays have to be the same for everyone every year. I applaud your inventiveness. Good wishes are good wishes and I’m sending some your way. I have no creative drawing to go with mine but the wishes are just as real. I loved watching the Bond movies too. Have a creative new year. 🙂
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Thank you very much for your lovely comment and the good wishes, Marlene! Glad to have found another Bond appreciator 😄 Wish you a wonderful and creative New Year too! “Guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr!” 😄
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And the prize for the best Christmas greeting goes to …… SARAH!!! Love love love this. I worked for a wonderful man who had primary progressive multiple sclerosis some years ago and he always called me ‘Moneypenny’. Can’t remember how it started now but you have tweaked a memory of a lovely fellow who sadly is no longer with us and you have made me smile broadly. Thank you dearest friend and I hope yours has been a wonderful wonderful time full of love and laughter xxxxxxx
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Hehe! 😀 Thank you so much, Fiona!
And I can completely understand why he called you Moneypenny – you´re a generous, big-hearted, intelligent and beautiful woman! 🙂 James Bond himself could count himself lucky to have you but your lucky husband got there first. 😉 I´m glad my card reminded you of this lovely man and friend of yours and I´m so sorry he´s no longer with us.
Much love! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ❤
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I was so sad when he died but he had slowly degenerated from being a brilliant musician (and brain – he kept that as his body deteriorated) so I like to think that he is entertaining the masses with his wit, wisdom and music upstairs and I know I will dance to his tune again one day …. James Bond is a tough act for my Husband to have Gazumped but there are many who think he himself is a spy – he is entirely inscrutable and despite my own best endeavours I remain none the wiser. But I think he is 😉 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Oh wow – your husband the spy! 😉 I think know the type – my maternal grandfather was one!! 😀 He was quite something from all the stories I´ve heard about him, sadly I never met him.
And from now on I will always hear the James Bond theme ringing in my head when you write about your husband 😉
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Ah but the stories keep him alive … the stories you can tell (embellish at will, please do …) of this mysterious man that begot the ones that begot you. My husband will meet you one day and you can make up your mind. For me I always think of Quaxo aka Mister Mistoffelees the mysterious cat conjured by TS Elliot … You ought to know Mr. Mistoffelees!
The Original Conjuring Cat–
(There can be no doubt about that).
Please listen to me and don’t scoff.
All his Inventions are off his own bat.
There’s no such Cat in the metropolis;
He holds all the patent monopolies
For performing suprising illusions
And creating eccentric confusions.
At prestidigitation
And at legerdemain
He’ll defy examination
And deceive you again.
The greatest magicians have something to learn
From Mr. Mistoffelees’ Conjuring Turn.
Presto!
Away we go!
And we all say: OH!
Well I never!
Was there ever
A Cat so clever
As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!
He is quiet and small, he is black
From his ears to the tip of his tail;
He can creep through the tiniest crack,
He can walk on the narrowest rail.
He can pick any card from a pack,
He is equally cunning with dice;
He is always deceiving you into believing
That he’s only hunting for mice.
He can play any trick with a cork
Or a spoon and a bit of fish-paste;
If you look for a knife or a fork
And you think it is merely misplaced–
You have seen it one moment, and then it is gawn!
But you’ll find it next week lying out on the lawn.
And we all say: OH!
Well I never!
Was there ever
A Cat so clever
As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!
His manner is vague and aloof,
You would think there was nobody shyer–
But his voice has been heard on the roof
When he was curled up by the fire.
And he’s sometimes been heard by the fire
When he was about on the roof–
(At least we all heard that somebody purred)
Which is incontestable proof
Of his singular magical powers:
And I have known the family to call
Him in from the garden for hours,
While he was asleep in the hall.
And not long ago this phenomenal Cat
Produced seven kittens right out of a hat!
And we all said: OH!
Well I never!
Did you ever
Know a Cat so clever
As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees!
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I do know Mister Mistoffelees! I saw (a version of) him play in Cats almost two decades ago in London and just loved the character! Thank you for bringing back those memories by sending me this lovely poem by Eliot! And now I’m off humming some musicals! 😄 xxxxxxxxxxxx
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When I saw the Musical, Paul Nicholas played him and I just loved it! That was too many years ago to imagine but I remember it like yesterday. Elaine Paige sung Memories and her voice still haunts … xxxxxxxxxxx
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Wow! The original cast! That’s awesome! And I also remember it like yesterday, it made a huge impression on me age 13! I immediately joined our jazz dance/musical/theatre group at school afterwards. 😊 xxxxxxxxx
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I’m as old as the hills 😉 xxxxxxx
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Nonsense! You’re as fresh as the dew on lovely daisies in a glorious early summer morning! Xxxxxxxxxx 😄
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Sarah, your whim of an original Christmas greeting has me smiling…I enjoyed all the earlier Bond films. Hope you’re having lovely Christmas, my friend! 😀❤️
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I’m so glad to have made you smile, Annika! 😄
Hope you’re enjoying a lovely Christmas with your family too! ❤ xxx
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Oh that’s hilarious! I would get a patent if I were you 🙂 You only have to create your own clip art, and the patent is in your pocket.
I adore the Bond movies, and have seen them all. Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2018 to you! xxxxxxxxx
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Thank you so much, Inese! I’m so glad you like this card and even think it worth a patent 😄 It’s so lovely to know that I’m not alone in having watched all the Bond movies 😄
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We are the team 🙂 ❤
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Definitely an original holiday card. Wishing you much joy today, Sarah.
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Thank you, Sharon! 😄
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Very Classy !! … Merry Christmas !!
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Thank you! 😄 Merry Christmas to you too!
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Happy holidays, Sarah… and Happy Christmas! 🕊 💕 Best wishes 2018… keep up your lovely, creative art. 🥂 🎨 😃
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Thank you, Iris! Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year to you too! Much love! 😄💕
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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, Sarah! ❤ xo
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And to you, Bette! ❤ xoxo 😄
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I love the James Bond movies, especially those with Sean Connery. Merry Christmas, Sarah! 🎄
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Oh yes, those were great! He’s a wonderful actor.
Merry Christmas, Jennie! 😄❤
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🙂
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I love it! The first movie I looked for this morning was a Bond movie, any Bond movie. Teddy does an excellent impersonation of Sean Connery’s Bond. May your day be stirred not shaken! 🍸
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Thank you, Kerry! I would love to hear Teddy impersonating Sean Connery! And may your day be stirred not shaken too! Cheers! 😄🍸
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Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!
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Thank you, Peter! Wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too! 😊
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Brilliant Sarah. 😀 Happy Christmas.
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Thanks, Darren! Merry Christmas to you and your family! 😄
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Merry Christmas, Sarah! I’m so happy we met in 2017! Great card!
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Thank you, Jill! 😄 Merry Christmas to you too! I’m so glad we met too! 😄😍🎄⛄
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Merry Christmas, Sarah 🙂
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Merry Christmas to you too, Oglach!! 😄🎄🎁🎀
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Many thanks, Miss Gentileschi, and a very lovely merry Christmas to you as well.
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Merci beaucoup, Gilles! Joyeux Noël et un Bonne Année! 😄
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And not surprisingly from Pacific Paratrooper ___
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Haha! Awesome! 😄
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Loved that Bond reply!!
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Merry Christmas!
I always like Bond movies too.
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Thank you! 😀
Which Bond is your favorite then?
Have a splendid time!
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I think I like them all. I’ve seen them since Sean Connery series all the way to today time.
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I agree, they are all great!
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