Friday, December 10
by Karen Robert
I love holiday cards with pets on them, in fact I used a picture of a dog wearing a Santa hat on the cover of my book . Dogs are particularly fun on cards because their faces can be so expressive. I decided to find the absolute best, most funny, holiday dog photos ever. As far as I know, none of these are commercial cards, they were sent out by their owners as their personal cards. In my quest for these photos I had to look through pictures of many hundreds of adorable looking dogs all dressed up for Christmas. There are a lot of dog lovers out there! In my first edit I had a hundred, but I finally narrowed it down to these 40 cards, and I couldn’t get any more pared down than that. Each of these 40 photos were so amazing and wonderful, I decided I had to show them all. I adore how most of these dogs look mildly annoyed yet stoic about having to wear a Christmas outfit. I have no idea why, but there is a preponderance of Chihuahuas, bulldogs and pugs in this final edit. Maybe photographers have a penchant for these breeds. or maybe these breeds just have absurdly funny looking faces. I promise I am not biased, I have a Golden Retriever , a breed which only got one photo in my cut.
I’m starting with this picture which was in my book. I think it is one of the great dog pictures. There is something about those bare bulbs above the dressed up dog on a present that I love.
By Eric Getty at : http://www.flickr.com/photos/photeric/2106607883
This adorable photo of a puppy wearing a hat way too big for him is beautiful.
Taken by Chad and found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/xmarine1973/2126132328
I love this photo of three dogs (chihuahuas?) wearing hats and looking very much like Christmas.( I love the Kath Kidston Wallpaper as well!)
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/88499915@N00/5223766659
This Photo of a German Shepherd with a wreath around his neck is wonderful
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/doublewithcream/3095481950
This is an amazing picture of a dog looking doleful about having to dress up in a Santa Hat.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dianabog/4201761902
This is a very funny photo of a dog wearing glasses for a Christmas card. This dog is one of the few who doesn’t seem upset about dressing up.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainriver/2133469094
Funny photo of a dog wearing tinsel looking like a tree for this Christmas card.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/venosdale/5172999059
Funny dog photo for a holiday card wearing a hat and scarf.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7234729@N05/3096002699
This dog is so cute modeling a yellow hat and bow tie, like he is a harlequin.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aarynleathjames/3100384713
This dog , a pug I think, models a Christmas hat in this Holiday card.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/newstock/3867404188
This is a fun picture of a dog with a big star in front of him for his Holiday Portrait.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainriver/2096588346
Fun picture of a pug all dressed up for the Holidays
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55023235@N02/5103359752/
Great photo of a dog with a hat on in this Holiday Card, this is one of my favorite dog Cards.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nogsonline/3130883388
Great face on this Bulldog in this holiday photo
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsmetj/242801666
I love the face on this gentleman dog with a bowler hat in this photograph. Priceless.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/priviteraco/4948191712
Cute chihuahua dressed as an angel in this Holiday photo.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/itsmetj/244601781
This dog is so cute holding a Christmas Stocking in his mouth in this Holiday card.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/new_years_resolutions/4174593857
This pittbull’s face looks adorable with the santa hat on.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ride2anywhere/3089220121
What an elaborate dog Holiday card this is. I love the bone in his mouth.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosebud81592/5209095374
The bull dog in this Christmas card is adorable with a bright red nose.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/diypaper/5044398946
I absolutely love the face on this pug in this Christmas card, it looks like he’s had too much Rum Punch.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugbunnybambam/2110612296
What a doleful face on this hound wearing a santa hat. He looks very depressed about Christmas.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hannah19/4128749010
I love the cat and dog partnership as they look up at the star in this Christmas card. How they got them to do this is a mystery to me.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcpayne/4127595512
This dog is wearing a wreath for his christmas card, and looking very cute I must say.
Found at:
This is a very cute bull dog wearing a Christmas outfit for his holiday card.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/finetra/5192381693
These two bull dogs are wearing very silly antlers for their Christmas card.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/retalesbotijero/4225708517
The look on the face of this bulldog in this Holiday card is so charming, It looks like his eyes are bugging out of his face.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizkerrison/3070993379
Here is a very cute picture of a pug dressed in a Christmas costume for his Card looking mortified.
Found at: Flickr
This Photo of a German Shepherd holding a Christmas Tree branch in his mouth is wonderful.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lamygrrl/3129803046
I love the picture of this black lab with one eye hidden under a Christmas hat.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9936312@N05/4191179762/
Funny Picture of a dog, a spaniel, with antlers on his head.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24569010@N06/3085219549
Another funny picture of a dog with antlers on his head.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rainriver/3094989163
Hysterical picture of a Chihuahua wearing a Christmas scarf in this holiday photo
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/redskygraphics/4132347590
This is a funny picture of three French Bulldogs (or pugs?) wearing costumes for their holiday photo.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/labimposter/306969742
Very nice dog portrait for his Christmas photo for a Christmas card.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chadlatta/5222419517
Cute picture of a dog wearing antlers for his Christmas card portrait
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cryrolfe/3063252084
Here are some very cute long haired dachshunds in this dog portrait for a Christmas card.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/doxieone/3087291621
Very sweet picture of a dog holding a Christmas tree in his mouth for his Christmas card.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28601488@N05/5192462011
And finally, this is one of my favorites of a dog wearing a wig and Santa hat for his holiday card.
Found at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pilarkitty/3085113928
“Bone Annee!”
Wednesday, June 16
by Karen Robert
Since so many of you read the Mother’s Day Quotes I posted a few months ago, I thought it was a wise idea to make things equal and post the 50 best Father’s Day quotes. I searched far and wide and sorted out the ones I thought worthy of including. I thought this would be a list of the top 25 best quotes, but there are more great sayings than I thought. This time I decided not to divide out the funny ones from the sentimental ones however, since most of the great quotes I found for Fathers were, in fact, mostly funny. Does this mean that Dads have a better sense of humor than moms?….Hmmmm. I hope you enjoy them and use them all on your favorite dads this father’s day. Go ahead, spoil them with a great card full of all sorts of praise. they deserve it.
1-”He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it”
-Clarence Budington Kelland
2-”My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”
-Harmon Killebrew
3-’There are 3 stages in a man’s life: ‘My Daddy can whip your Daddy.’ ’Aw, Dad, you don’t know anything.’ ’My father used to say . . .”‘
-Dwight McSmith
4-”Dad, you’re someone to look up to no matter how tall I’ve grown”.
~Author Unknown
5-”Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers – and fathering is a very important stage in their development.”
-David M. Gottesman
6-”Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope.”
- Bill Cosby
7-”Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world”.
-John Mayer
8-”I’ve had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started”.
-Bertrand Hubbard
9-”Children seldom misquote you. They more often repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said”.
-Mae Malloo
10-”The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, ‘Daddy, I need to ask you something,’ he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.”
- Garrison Keillor
11-”My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”
- Jim Fox
12-”The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.”
-Robert Frost
13-”You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular.”
- Robert Frost
14-”A father is a banker provided by nature.”
- French Proverb
15-”Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
-Anne Geddes
16-”Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.”
-Louisa May Alcott
17-”A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
- Enid Bagnold
18-”I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”
- Sigmund Freud
19-”Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
-Ruth E. Renkel
20-”A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season“.
– Unknown
21-”A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.”
– Unknown
22-”Small boy’s definition of Father’s Day: It’s just like Mother’s Day only you don’t spend so much.”
– Unknown
23-”By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
- Charles Wadsworth
24-”When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.’”
- Jerry Lewis
25-”I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”
-Mario Cuomo
26-”A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.”
- Marlene Dietrich
27-”If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.”
- Bill Cosby
28-”A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.”
- Bill Cosby
29-”When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
-Mark Twain
30-”It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
-Anne Sexton
31-”A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.”
-Knights of Pythagoras
32-”Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.”
-Anonymous
33-”It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping”.
-John Sinor
34-”He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn’t afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures … but he was never in them.”
-Erma Bombeck
35-”Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.”
-Al Unser Jr.
36-”It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was”.
-Anne Sexton
37-”It is a wise father that knows his own child”.
-William Shakespeare
38-”The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”
-Confucius
39-”It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
-Johann Schiller
40-”A dad is someone who wants to catch you before you fall but instead picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again.”
–Anonymous
41-”A father’s words are like a thermostat that sets the temperature in the house.”
-Paul Lewis
42-”My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.”
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth
43-”Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough.”
-Wilhelm Busch quotes.
44-”Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine a marriage and a carrer.”
- Sam Ewing
45-”Good fathers make good sons.”
-Anonymous
46-”One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
-George Herbert
47-”Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher’s mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.”
~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
48-”Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.”
-Red Buttons
49-”A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”
~Author Unknown
50-”It is a wise father that knows his own child”.
-William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice (Launcelot at II, ii)
Sunday, April 18
by Karen Robert
I haven’t posted in a while, I’ve taken a few months off to be a mom. But now that I am back in the swing of things, I am realizing that Mother’s Day is fast approaching, (Kids: THAT’S SUNDAY MAY 9th). I thought it may be a good idea to research a few sweet sayings about mothers. You may want to include a little quote in your card, or in a quick e-mail in case you wake up on May 9th without a plan. Here are my favorite 25 sweet, but not too sentimental, sayings. I know my mother would like to hear them. Happy Mother’s Day Mom.
1- “Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.”
Anonymous
2 – “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
3- “Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at de sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”
Zora Neale Hurston
4- “That best academy, a mother’s knee.”
James Russell Lowell
5- “Anyone who doesn’t miss the past never had a mother.”
Gregory Nunn
6- “A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. “
Tenneva Jorda
7- “The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.
She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”
Rajneesh
8- “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
Author Unknown
9- “A man loves his mother the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.”
Unknown
10- “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible”
Marion C. Garretty
11- “To the world you might just be be one person, but to one person you might just be the world.”
Unknown
12- “God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.”
Jewish proverb
13- “I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
Abraham Lincoln
14- “Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”
T. DeWitt Talmage
15- “There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.”
Chinese Proverb
16- “An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. “
Spanish Proverb
17- “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness”.
Honore de Balzac
18- “I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother”
Abraham Lincoln
19- “Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother
Anne Taylor
20- “A mother understands what a child does not say.”
Anonymous
21- “To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.”
Arlene Benedict
22- “My mom is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.”
Graycie Harmon
23- “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”
Charles R. Swindoll
24- “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”
Marion C. Garretty
25- “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Friday, December 11
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