Blog Award & The Petties

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Many Thanks to Elka from The Elka Almanac for passing on the Versatile Blogger Award to our Blog. It's always an honor to receive one of these and we look forward to passing it on.

According to the rules, I must list seven things about myself, and then pass it on to fifteen new or newly discovered bloggers.

A little Bit About Me:

1. I love cooking and baking, especially Polish Food
2. I love birds and and I'm outside at 5 am usually filling all the feeders much to my husbands disgust.
3. I play the piano
4. Love reading Computer Tech Magazines and books
5. Used to teach How-To Craft Classes
6. I would love to own a Tarantula
7. Most dogs ever to grace my house at the same time was 8

I pass on this award to the following blogs:

1. Adventures of a Cattle Dog
2. Shiloh's Space
3. It's a Greyt Day
4. The Painter Pack
5. Kirby the Dorkie
6. 5 minutes for Fido
7. The Daily Oscar
8. I am Santa, a Miniature Schnauzer
9. Gardening with Wyatt
10. Snoopy's DogBlog
11. The Other Winnie Cooper
12. MUTTerings and Things
13. My Life in the Dog Lane
14. Puppy Kisses
15. Macho Minute

The 2011 Petties Award

The Petties Awards are Dogtime's annual celebration recognizing excellence among animal-loving bloggers of all stripes. The Petties are the only awards nominated by, voted for, and presented to individuals in the pet blogging community.

Between now and June 29, 2011 you can nominate your favorite blog to win 1 of eight awards. DogTime will honor winners with a $1000 donation to the shelter of their choice.

You can nominate a single blog/blogger for as many categories as you like, and you can nominate as many different blog/bloggers as you like for a single category — or as many categories as you like. (You may not, however, nominate the same blog/blogger in one category more than once. In the highly unlikely event of a tie, DogTime will choose the finalist.)

At the close of the nomination round, the four bloggers with the most nominations in each category will become finalists. The voting round then begins on July 5, 2011. Don’t miss out — mark your calendars for these important dates:

June 29, 2011: Nominations close

July 5, 2011: Voting for finalists open

July 29, 2011: Voting for finalists closes

August 26, 2011: 2nd Annual Petties Awards ceremony, held at the BlogPaws Conference in Tysons Corner, Virginia

We are up for nomination in the "Best Designed Blog" Category and would truly appreciate your support in nominating us.

You can nominate your favorite blogs HERE

 

  

Don't forget it's time for the Saturday Pet Blogger Blog Hop

Have a Great Weekend!

Cats and Dogs Fathers Day Freebie

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These freebies can be used as frames, quick pages or even a blog header. Each zip file contains two sizes. Just add you favorite photo and you will have a special memory to display and share for Fathers Day.

If you would like to use one of these and personalize it with your photo and name but don't have a graphic editing program or not comfortable doing it on your own? For a small fee I will add your photo and text to the desired graphic. Visit our Custom Graphics Page to purchase.
http://freedomtobark.blogspot.com/p/custom-graphic-services.html

Please remember all my freebies are Personal Use Only and a link back to my blog is required & appreciated if displayed on the web.

To see a larger sample click HERE

Download Fathers Day Cats Page HERE

4 files in zip file

Download Fathers Day ~ Schnauzers HERE

Download Fathers Day ~ Yorkies HERE

Download Fathers Day ~ Golden Retriever HERE

Credits:

Some elements created with scripts from
Joanne's Digital Designs

Enjoy!

Patriotic Pup Kit & Blog Background

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Created to match my Free Patriotic Collection, so you can easily mix and match to create numerous designs for yourself or to share with others.  My Freebies are Personal Use Only which still allows you to share what you make as long as you offer it as a Freebie. I also require & appreciate a link back to this Blog in your post or credits.

Papers come in 2 sizes - 2000x2000 & 800x800 - 300dpi
Both sizes are included in the zip file.

Download Patriotic Pup Kit HERE

Blog Background comes in two sizes. You can download the backgrounds or use the code below.
Download Backgrounds HERE

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<style type="text/css">body {background-image: url("http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv76/ahcpics/patriotic/ftb_patrbl1920x1300.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style>

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<style type="text/css">body {background-image: url("http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv76/ahcpics/patriotic/ftb_patrbl1680x1138.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style>


Credits:
Some elements created with scripts from
Joanne's Digital Designs
Crazed's Creations

Keep updated on this Delicious Scandal and those involved. Warning! For Mature Pups Only!

foleymonsterandpocket.blogspot.com
http://foleymonsterandpocket.blogspot.com/2011/06/apology-from-foley-monster.html


kolchakpuggle.blogspot.com
http://kolchakpuggle.blogspot.com/2011/06/puggle-at-center-of-yorkiegate-responds.html

Newsandtales.com
Exclusive photo of Weiner’s weenie

Enjoy!

Patriotic Kit Scrapbooking Freebie

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This Digital Scrapbooking Patriotic Kit is perfect for your Independence Day Designs. Create tags, layouts, pages for yourself or others, ect. My Freebies are Personal Use Only which still allows you to share what you make as long as you offer it as a Freebie. I also require & appreciate a link back to this Blog in your post or credits.

Papers come in 2 sizes - 2000x2000 & 800x800 - 300dpi
Both sizes are included in the zip file.

Download Elements  HERE
Download Papers HERE

There is an Patriotic Pup Addon I made to match which I will be posting soon!

Enjoy!

Join the Tanner Brigade - Guest Post

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An invitation to join the Tanner Brigade

I know many of my friends in the blogger community who have read my blog have noticed me reference the Tanner Brigade and may wonder what it is.  The Brigade is an invitation only Ning social network.  It has about 150 close knit members.  We stick by each other in good times and bad.  When one of us is sick the others rally for us, pray for us, give us advice, and most of all support.  We share the best health advice we can, the best information about food, updates about recalls, work on placing homeless dog with no families, do transports, basically everything done here in the blogger community.  We constantly make each other laugh with great blogs.  And when we're lonely all we need to do is go online and see all our friends.

We have a number of friends in the blogger community who are members of the Tanner Brigade.  Erin of Freedom to Bark is one of our administers and does all our layouts.  We have, without a doubt, the prettiest dog site, or human site, on the web.  Kolchak and Felix from Kol's notes are very active in helping dogs with heath and food treats.  Jan Cabral who writes The Dogs of Brazil blog, Smoochy, who writes the brilliant Smoochy's Observations Blog, Abby the Yorkie who writes My Life in the Dog Lane, Silvie from the Silvieon4 blog, Nadia Rosin from the Healing Art of Pet Parenthood blog, Shiloh, our astrologer dog, who authors Shiloh's Space, and Hobo Hudson, who writes a blog at newsandtales are all valued members. 
We have Zoe Boe and her mother Connie Gross who does the best pet portraits I have ever seen.  For an example take a look at the drawing of Kolchak on Koli's Notes.

Our divas:  the adorable Hattie Mae and Sydney can make you the best dressed dogs in town.  Luca and Junior do wonderful writing contests, Ruggie Ruger and Cocoa do our graphics contests, and we do weekly beat this caption contests, plus we pick pups of the week, and ask questions of the week to help us either understand our dogs or learn how to better their lives. 

There is a long story of how we came together as the Tanner Brigade.  If you haven't read my last blog, which covers the history of the Brigade, and if you're interested, you can read it here.  Some of our members still belong to big groups like Doggyspace, and others are just happy to be in a our small quiet village.  Truly, some of my closest friends are here, and I have only met one:  Laura, the mother of Pokey and Maggie, and who does many rescue transports on the 95 corridor.  

Some members of our group are on site every day, some once a week, some once a month, and some pop in and out to check on their buddies.   The Brigade is built on wood cut from the same tree.  It's a tree just south of Rainbow Bridge.  It's the tree where the humans meet their pets living at the Bridge when they pass from this world.  The Tanner Brigade is built from the tree of Unconditional Love between humans and dogs; and the unconditional love we have for our friend's dogs, and their delightful owners.


We don't recruit members to be part of the Brigade.  We only want members who reflect our views:  that dogs, cats, any household pet that look at you with eyes filled with love, are one of our most precious resources, and together we need to explore how to make these little angels from heaven lives as perfect as possible while they are with us.  They know, somehow, how to be the perfect companion to each of us, no matter how difficult we can be.  The folks who hold this view a very select slice of the world's population.  But I have found many of these people in the Blogging and Twitter communities.

So I am inviting my blogging friends and my Twitter friends to join the Tanner Brigade.  Please don't think you are under any obligations to do so. Social communities are not for everyone.  And I am sure some of you belong to other groups, and, as much as we would like to, we can't spend all day on the computer talking about dogs.


But if it sounds like this might be your brand of kibble then you can leave your e-mail in the comments section of this blog, or send me a message on Twitter with your e-mail, or e-mail me at Foleymonsterandpocket@gmail.com. We will send you an invite and you can take a look around.  If you like the place you can set up a profile and play in our playground.  While Ning is a pay site we are paid until July of 2012.  After that we ask for a $5.00 contribution a year.   And if you can't pay one of our friends would be more than happy to sponsor you. 

So, if you would like to join, what us Tanner Brigade members believe is the best doggy social network on the net, let me know.  And if not then keep us in mind.  We'll leave the light on for you.


Foley Monster and Pocket's Blog: An invitation to join the Tanner Brigade

Dog Day Blue Blog Theme Freebies

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This is just a sample of a larger collection coming soon which you will be able to purchase. Here are a few freebies that will give you an idea of what you will be able to create with my "Dog Day Blue Collection"
Please remember all my freebies are Personal Use Only and a link back to my blog is required & appreciated.

We love visiting all our furfriends so if you use any of these I would really like to see how they look on your blog, email your link or leave it in a comment.

Grab what you want & Enjoy!

View Larger Sample HERE

Download Banners/Frames HERE

Download Backgrounds HERE

If you prefer to use the background code I supply, they will be at the bottom of this post.

QuickPages
Zip file includes 2 sizes
2400x2000 & 900x750

Download HERE


Blog Background Codes


For Help installing background, Read my tutorial here, http://freedomtobark.blogspot.com/2009/07/changing-your-background-on-your-blog.html Follow directions from where it directs you to add an Html Gadget.

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<style type="text/css">body {background-image: url("http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv76/ahcpics/Dog%20Day%20Blue/ftb_ddbblbkg1920x1300.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style>

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<style type="text/css">body {background-image: url("http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv76/ahcpics/Dog%20Day%20Blue/ftb_ddbblbkg1680x1138.jpg"); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: fixed; }</style>



Credits:
Some elements created with scripts from
Joanne's Digital Designs

Would you like to use one of my premade banners and personalize it with your photo and name but don't have a graphic editing program or not comfortable doing it on your own? For a small fee I will add your photo and text to the desired banner or quickpage. Visit our Custom Graphics Page to purchase.
http://freedomtobark.blogspot.com/p/custom-graphic-services.html