Halloween is only four days away. Wow, time flies when you’re driving all over Texas visiting friends and family, and someone else at at your house watching your cats and unpacking boxes and organizing your house.

Coming home to a clean, orderly house that doesn’t have a stack of boxes in the corner of each room was so wonderful. Brenda did us a good deed. I’m going to pass it on that by GIVING AWAY my two remaining crocheted trick-or-treat bags, totally FREE!

The catch is that Halloween is only four days away. As much as I love you guys and want to spread goodwill and all, I don’t want to spend a fortune on overnight shipping. Therefore, this giveaway will close on Wednesday, October 29th, at 4pm PDT. At 4:01 I will use random.org’s number generator to pick two winners, and will mail the bags to them via USPS Priority before 5pm that day. Since Priority Mail takes 2-3 days within the continental U.S., there is a good chance your bag will get to you in time for Halloween…and there is a chance it might not. Just so we’re clear.

If you’d like the chance to win one of these bags, follow these two simple steps:

1. Leave a comment, telling me about your best/silliest/most memorable Halloween costume. It’s okay if you can’t think of a costume story. I’d like to read your stories, but if you can’t think of any just leave a comment saying you want to enter.
2. Email me (bethanyactually at gmail dot com) the name and address where I would send your winning bag. (Note: To make it easier on me, put “halloween giveaway address” as the subject. Because I’m going to close the giveaway and then mail the bags out within an hour, you must email me the shipping address in order to be entered. Unless, of course, you know with 100% certainty that I already have your address.

Good luck!

At 4:03pm PDT, I am closing comments. Thank you so much for all your Halloween/costume stories. I enjoyed them very much! You are a creative lot and I got some great ideas. I’m about to finish up some administrative details and then I’ll pick the winners.

Someone asked me today in an email when we were leaving OMSHville. Oh, uh, we left there two days ago. I just have not had the chance to blog about it, what with picking Troy up at the airport in Houston, staying the night with friends there and loving on their seriously cute baby boy while Annalie played with their equally adorable almost-3-year-old daughter, and then driving half a day to Troy’s mom & stepdad’s RV park.

Oh, and I also crocheted a Frankenstein’s Monster trick-or-treat bag. I had the idea for his curly hair and just couldn’t resist. I don’t know yet what I’ll do with it, if I’ll keep it or give it away or put it in my shop.

Troy is going to be helping his mom buy a laptop and she’s getting DSL installed so I hope to have the chance to post more later in the week. If I don’t, then you can just assume I had better things to do (like swimming in the heated pool). Off to have BLA’s (bacon, lettuce and avocado sandwiches) for lunch!

Last year around this time Brenda asked me if I could crochet a trick-or-treat bag for her daughter according to a design she dreamed up. I did, and then I made another one for Annalie. Last week while I was at my Aunt Julie’s house with no cable and no high-speed internet, I made a bunch. They’re in my Etsy shop now, waiting for good homes. (Except for that white one in the top row, that one’s already been claimed by Beachmama!)

Annalie has tested each bag out carefully to ensure they are up to code. I think she was satisfied.

If you have a different bag in mind, feel free to ask me if I can make it. As always, I love custom orders!

P.S. Don’t forget, my friend Jill is hosting a raffle giveaway for a custom pottery piece, painted by me! It’s for a very good cause, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and you only have to donate $1 to enter. The giveaway ends October 10, so please go check it out!