Oh dogdaz, you are so kind, to grace Dear Kitty. Some blog with the “Blog of the Year 2012″ Award. We really appreciate you thinking of us. If you have not met dogdaz yet, then please check out the blog here.
The “Blog of the Year” award is a little different from some other awards, because you accumulate stars.
Here are the ‘rules’ for this award:
1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award
2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.
3 Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/ and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)
4 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them.
5 You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience [I cannot join that group as I am not on Facebook].
6 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…
Yes – that’s right – there are stars to collect!
Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different!
When you begin you will receive the ‘1 star’ award – and every time you are given the award by another blog – you can add another star!
There are a total of 6 stars to collect.
Which means that you can check out your favourite blogs, and even if they have already been given the award by someone else, then you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!
For more information check the FAQ on The Thought Palette.
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I want to give this award to so many blog friends that I don’t know where to start. Even though this time I have nominated many more blogs than on earlier occasions, I will very probably forget many deserving blogs. Please keep passing it on and keep the star shine going for blog years and years to come.
Here are my nominees, in no particular order:
2. cindyknoke
3. PhotoBotos
4. Առլեն Շահվերդյան. հեղինակային բլոգ-կայք
6. European Scientist and Journalist
8. schtiel
11. Live simply, travel lightly, love passionately & don’t forget to breathe
12. deeacalinescu
13. dragoscalinescu
14. natycalinescu
15. tomsimard
17. Denisa Aricescu
18. JoëlleWrites
19. dou dou
20. Annette J Dunlea Irish Author’s Literary Blog
22. Geanina Lisandru
23. Digging History
24. toemail
25. Miss Marzipan
26. Canadian Hiking Photography
27. ExploreDreamDiscover Talks
29. Mirrored Images Photography
30. Paradise
31. Animal Sciences..Serving Humanity
33. addgrainonearth
35. bafricabotswana
36 slicethelife
37. L’amore e forte come la morte
39. Milners Blog
41. YESCuba: Jamaicans in Solidarity with Cuba
43. Zeebra Designs & Destinations ~ An Artist’s Eyes Never Rest
44. My Scribbles
46. Thoughts
47. garyschollmeier
48. mothergrogan
50. Ann Novek–With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors
51. Wine And Roses From Outer Space
53. Muhammed Muhsin Varikkodan
54. Ratzone’s Blog
55. Le Superkikke
56. metaretriever2
57. Traveling to Tangier, Morocco
59. Rental Mobil Kebayoran Baru
58. marina kanavaki
59. Adirondack Images and Tales
65. advocatemmmohan aksharaalu
68. BeeCee
69. Cristian Mihai
72. TeMeMi
73. The World Of Alexander The Great
74. G.E. Gallas
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Congratulations to you
Critique/review/comment this flash fiction in the LINK please
http://yourstoryclub.com/short-stories-social-moral/short-story-remembrance-the-fall/
Thank you! And congratulations for your nomination, of course
OH OH!!
I am such a bad observer that I didn’t see my blog there…Thanks a bunch for nominating me!
Critique/review/comment this flash fiction in the LINK please
http://yourstoryclub.com/short-stories-social-moral/short-story-remembrance-the-fall/
Congratulations! You dserve it trully!
Thank you very much for nominatiing me! Much appreciated!
Arlen
Thank you Arlen! Your varied blog deserves it!
All the best to you, people and animals in Armenia and elsewhere!
Thank you again! Can I just ad the award on my Awards page? or I must by all means follow the rules?
Surely you, and all bloggers who don’t have much time, can add it to the Awards page
Blogging awards are to help bloggers, not to hurry them up 
“Blogging awards are to help bloggers, not to hurry them up” – GOLDEN WORDS!
Thank you! I am going to add it now! I deeply appreciate our friendship!
Dear Kitty, thank you again!, please see: http://arlenshah.wordpress.com/awards/
Thank you, Arlen. It looks fine among your other awards there!
It really lookes fine! Thank you again!
congratulations on your award – and wow! what a lot of blogs you have nominated … !! (goes off to put kettle on and settle down for a long read!) .,,,,
Yes, I have never before nominated so many blogs and I will probably never nominate so many again
As this is nearly the end of 2012, and about one year since my blog moved to WordPress, I thought Let’s do it once.
You have a blog about a beautiful region
thank you!
Yes, see these blog posts:
http://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/tag/algarve/
Congratulations dear Kitty ♥
and thx for my Nomination.
hugs (may I )
Thanks so much! All the best!
Congrats once again!!! So well deserved!!!!!!
Thanks for the nomination!!!!!
You really deserve it, marina! Best wishes for you, your art and your blog!
Aw, thank you!
…and all my best wishes for you and your wonderful blog!!!!
Congratulations and a huge thank you for nominating Fictional Machines! I really appreciate it- I’m going to sit down over this weekend and accept awards & I will definitely be accepting this one! Congrats again & have a great one!
Thank you, and all the best for you, your writing and your blog!
Thanks again- And all of the best to you as you bring attention to all of the important issues that [Conveniently] get ignored by most of the “mainstream media!” Keep up the great work!
I will try
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Thank you!
Beautiful night, Petre!
And beautiful night to you as well! All the best for you and your well illustrated blog!
Thanks a lot ! and Congratulations to us !
Thank you, and see you again!
Congratulations! And thank you so much for the nomination!
Thank you, MisBehaved Woman, and all the best!
Thank you for having me nominated for this award Blog of the Year 2012, makes me very happy and honored! I follow with great attention to his blog and I think it very nice! A greeting. Antonio
Thank you, Antonio. All the best for you, your poems and your blog!
Thanks!!!
Congratulations on your award, more than well deserved – because your blog is must read- even for has-been bloggers like me!
Thank you so much for including me in your roll of honour – I’m very touched and delighted, as you can imagine. Very best wishes, Valerie
Thanks for your kind words, Valerie!
Best wishes for you and your family!
We miss you, Valerie!!! Take good care!!
Hello Dear Kitty!
Thanx a bunch of rosemary and lavander from my frontyard! 
It’s a pleasure to have been mentioned on your list! Friendly greetings from Toulouse, France and my very best, Mélanie, catlover à la vie, à la mort… 
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http://incaunipocrit.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/hello-kitty-terminal-taipei-taiwan/
Thanks Mélanie, the rosemary and lavender look and smell very fine
Keep blogging!
oh, thank you!
this is the third time you nominate my blog for awards, really greateful
Well deserved, Hasan, as it is a varied blog with interesting photos. You are the only blogger I know from Lebanon, and I don’t want to nominate all the time only blogs from North America or Europe
Congrats Kitty
- you deserve it! And very sweet of you! Thank you for thinking of me 
Thanks, Miss Marzipan! Best wishes for you and your blogging!
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Hi Kitty, that’s wonderful, thank you very much for nominating me. You’ve made me a very happy person. Without doubt, you deserve this award more than anyone I know, congratulations Kitty and all my best, bye for now, SN
Thank you, supernova! Enjoy
Congratulations!! You deserve it!
Thank you very much for nominating me dear friend!! I appreciate it so much. You made my day!
Sincerely,
judy
Thanks for your warm words, judy! All the best for you, your kitchen and your blog
Congratulations
and thank you so very much !
Thanks Carina, all the best for you and your blogs!
same to you
and thank you for hosting such a great blog site, love it
(grateful) (blush)
Thank you so much! I’m sincerely honored!
You are welcome, sage:) Keep writing and blogging!
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My dear friend – congratulations on a well deserved award and congratulations to all those remarkable bloggers who received your nomination. I am honoured to be a participant in this esteemed group. To me, this award is a celebration of friendship. Albert Camus says it much better than I do… “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
Definitely, Clanmother. Thank you for your kind and eloquent words! When I had to move to WordPress almost a year ago, I hardly knew any WordPress bloggers. I think the WordPress system of “likes” (which did not exist at Blogsome where I used to be) helps to get to know many interesting and kind people.
I agree! Sometimes you don’t need to add to the conversation, but you want the blogger to know that you appreciated the content and the amount of effort that went into creating the post. Have a great day!!!
Thanks, Rebecca! So far, my day has been great, and I hope that goes for you as well
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Congratulations on well deserved award Kitty! Thank you so much for nominating me, I’m honoured! I appreciate your kindness and support. Have a lovely day. Hugs, Maarit-Johanna
Thanks for your kind words and hugs, Maarit-Johanna:) You really deserve the award for your varied and well-illustrated blogs. My best wishes for you, your blogs, Finland and ancient Greece
Congratulations my sister Kitty on a well-deserved award. I appreciate and draw inspiration from what you highlight and the caring spirit which I think is the source of your blog. Thanks for spending so much time to make us more aware of matters often neglected in the mainstream media.
Many many thanks for the nomination!!!!
In the Jamaican language, nuff love and respek mi sista.
One love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xjPODksI08
Russell, Jamaica
Hi Russell, thank you for your kind comments on my blog. And for this video of a famous Bob Marley song:
As you may have noted, I myself sometimes post Bob Marley videos here.
I will keep trying to make this blog play its part for a better world.
Yeah man sister Kitty. You are doing a great job. Another world is possible. One love.
Thanks, brother Russell! Let people everywhere keep up the fight for justice.
And all the best for you, your interesting blog, and the people of Jamaica!
Give thanks my sister. Love.
thank you so very much my dear friend!
You really deserve this award, and its star. Let it shine brightly
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Thank you so much for nominating me, I’m honored! I appreciate your kindness and support. Have a lovely day. For special thanks please check the link;
http://justsimplyinlove.wordpress.com/bloggers-appreciation-awards/
Let your well-earned star of this award shine brightly
Thank you………..:)
Hi petre141, Thank you very much for this award which I accept gladly. Have a nice weekend : )
Well deserved, Joëlle! Let the star of the award shine brightly
Thanks petrel41. Best greetings:)
All the best to you, your writing and your blog!
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Congratulations!
And thank you so much for the nomination of our international blog “Voyage en éphémère”!
Best regards from little Belgium, Eric
Hi Eric, Belgium may be small, but your blogs are big
Let your award’s star shine brightly!
I will try my best!
Do your know our blog about the amazing murals of Winnipeg?
You mean
http://whenresameetsthemuralsofwinnipeg.wordpress.com/ ?
Yes, beautiful photos!
Yes, that one!
Resa is a Great Photographer!
Please, see all slideshows of Murals (in the menu … 15 slideshows!)
See you!
Eric
Yes, see you as well!
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You are special and deserve tons of stars.
Thanks so much, dogdaz
I got 20 Blog of the Year 2012 stars, and that was heavy already
Way cool!!!
Just accepted this award- Thank you so much once again! http://fictionalmachines.com/2013/01/12/blog-of-the-year-2012-one/ Have a great weekend!
Well deserved! Keep writing and blogging in 2013!
Thanks- I will do my best! Keep up the great work on your end as well!
Well deserved
Thanks for your kind words!
No problem!
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