~The days grow longer...
~Only seven months until October...
~The March EHAG Emporium approaches (March 31st at PM EST)...
~And... it's time for an EHAG Goblinesque Giveaway...
You could win...
Halloween Witch Cat Mini-PODDs
one of two Mini-PODD witch cats, signed and dated
an original "Soft in the Head" design by P.K. Gracia
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"Gnome Jack"
a Limited edition postcard print
by Christopher A. Klingler of Designs By CK
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"Halloween Night"
a 5x7 signed, open edition print by Iva Wilcox of Iva's Creations
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"Gerty the Oaktree Goblin"
from Leah Humberston of Leah's Art Magic
a mixed media ornament of paper, styrofoam, and paperclay
wooden body covered with felt and chenille legs.
Gerty wears a gown of silk leaf.
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To win, simply leave a comment below. If you wish, share your earliest Halloween memory. Names of the five winners will be drawn on the eve of the March EHAG Emporium. Be sure to include a way to contact you ~ blog, email, etc. If we can't reach you, the ghostly paw will have to pick another lucky winner.
Thanks for joining us, and have a magnificently mysterious March from the artists of EHAG.
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woohoo what goodies to win!!!! earliest memory was being jealous of a girl named lori who had the plastic barbie costume with the plastic mask complete with pearl earrings! of course now i realize how amazing my mom was for being creative and handmaking all our costumes!:)
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ReplyDeleteMy earliest memory is trick or treating in my grandmother's neighborhood as Batman. This was mid/late 70s so it was SuperFriends style costume. I don't know why I remember this particular night, I just have s few seconds of it in my mind of jumping off a low stone wall with the elastic-around-the-head mask on.
Well, my earliest memory was thinking that Nuns were witches, but I shared that story before, my teenage memory was telling my mother I was not too old to go out trick or treating, and I ran as hard as I could to get a bag full of candy, hiding the bag in some bushes, then going to hang out with my friends...
ReplyDeleteLove Halloween and love give aways!
ReplyDeleteI remember trick or treating in the neighborhood...the screams, the running, which house had caramel apples. We were allowed to go out with friends at a pretty young age...nothing happened. We didn't worry about things like parents have to these days. I miss those days of innocence!
What a great giveaway! LOVE Pam's Podds. I remember going out with my friends and trying to go to as many houses for candy as we could get to.
ReplyDeleteHalloween is my favorite holiday! These goodies are too good to pass by!
ReplyDeleteI think my earliest memory is going to my Aunt's house around seven years old and supposedly her not recognizing me because of my costume. I know she did recognize me, lol.
It was a homemade costume of course but for the life of me I can't remember what I was...just me knocking on the door and yelling "Trick or Treat!" Those were the good old days! We didn't worry about things like we do now. Hopefully one day we can get back to that simplistic way of living.
My earliest memory is of my mom making my costume for me and it was the neatest clown costume. She was so good at sewing.
ReplyDeleteI love these cats! Thanks for this giveaway!
(I want it sew bad!)8>)
My earliest memory is of getting all bundled up to go trick or treating and my little sister's stinger bumping me on the leg all the time. She was a bumble bee that year.
ReplyDeleteThe art work you have up for grabs is spookilicious! I soo hope Iget lucky!!
Thanks so much,
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Too good to pass up!!
ReplyDeleteIts hard for me to recall my first memory of Halloween - I was born in October, and my baby sister Nov 1st, and as far as we were concerned, the wild rumpus started Oct 16th and lasted till Nov 2nd. We had very little money, so costumes were make-dos. We would put on our shabbiest clothes, scuff our faces with dirt and soot, tie a big napkin to a stick and go as hobos. We collected candy from the second we got home from school till it was well past dark, and having grown up in Queens, NY, I can tell you we rang a LOT of doorbells in those precious hours. There were no kids richer in the world than me and my sisters as we returned home with our napkins and pillow cases filled with candy. We sat and watched my Mom cull through those treasures - we waited with our breath held as she seperated the haul into the safe candy and the sorry cast aways, those unwrapped and suspicious treats that were guarenteed to poison us dead right then and there if we had been foolish enough to eat them before Mom got through with her inspections. Halloween was and is my very very favorite holiday and the candy we give out these days is always tightly wrapped, sealed and of the very best chocolate kind here at this house. :)
HORRAY FOR HALLOWEEN!!!
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My earliest Halloween memory is making the rounds of a few houses by our place, and being invited in to select my own caramel apple...Who knew that anything that color could taste so great?
ReplyDeleteI have LOVED Halloween as long as I can remember! It has always been my favorite. My Dad always took me trick or treating. We always had to start at "The rich man's house" (He really was loaded!) He gave out the king sized candy bars! So many great memories of the holiday! Now that I have kids of my own, they are following in my footsteps! They love it too!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Halloween memory is our first haunted house we made for the neighborhood kids. Such a great time!
ReplyDeleteI love Halloween. When my boys were little my Husband would dress up with a big rubber mask and wear an old trench coat. He would put the candy in the pockets of the coat and the kids would have to reach in and get it out. It was fun waching the childrens reactions.
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Pam is so generous to offer her Halloween goodies in the form of a Contest! Contest are such fun. I am always so eager to see what she has come up with each month, I have a sneaking suspicion that her house is filled with even more goodies than she's able to put up on the her sites. Keep Creating Pam, and Please always be Soft in the Head! LOL
ReplyDeleteFortunately, I grew up when parents were still able to allow children to go house-to-house on Halloween. Of course, we only went to neighbors we knew. Coming from a family with eight children, costumes were very basic and were always hand made.
ReplyDeleteTo date, as an adult I have never had a trick-or-treater come to my door. But I still make sure there is plenty of candy here in case. It never goes to waste, just adds to my waist.
Trisha
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Going back in time when we used wooden grocery baskets to collect all our candy. There were 3 of us-all born one year apart. The only thing that was taken out was gum! My Dad just did not want us to have that one. Growing up so tall-I had the disadvantage of being told I was too old for trick or treating! Hum-this is not sit well with me. So on the very next house, I took off my shoes and placed them by the door and kneeled down and rang the door bell. Waited until they closed the door and got up, got my shoes and ran to the next
ReplyDeletehouse and do it all over again. Tee hee hee I sure did have some fun. And even today I still do. I dress up every year to go trick or treating with my Grandsons. They love it. Cheers Fran
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I think my early memories of Halloween are what has driven me to be the crazy Halloween fanatic I grew into. I have always waited in anticipation for fall. As a child as soon as the leaves started turning and the air started to chill it was time to prepare for Trick or Treating. I remember going to the store and the boxes of costumes. Oh yes-those wonderful plastic costumes. The hard mask and that wonderful printed plastic outfit. It never failed-half way around the block the seams tore out and there you would be with your steaming face mask and costume flapping in the wind! I think that's why once I hit 10 I started making my own. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat great works of art! One of my favorite Halloween memories was of my mother dressing me up as a gypsy. This was always the "go-to" costume if I didn't have something specific in mind. So much more fun to dig around in the costume box rather than buy a premade costume in a box. Good times!
ReplyDeletegrowing up always went to the halloween party at church back when they had halloween parties so we didn't go trick or treating Then one year new neighbors moved in and invited us to go toting. We went door to door and hit a few houses and then went to a local haunted house I was a little scared at first but loved it after all I'm a halloween baby {alright the day before] that way Ihave 2days of parting
ReplyDeleteI think about halloween all year long family and friends worry about me but who cares a good halloween idea can hit me at the strangest time thats all that matters
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This may not be my earliest memory but it certainly is my best: Filling and emptying pillowcases full of candy and staying out past dark to trick or treat.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the luck of the "paw" will find me a winner!
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Thanks!
Rebecca
I would love to win! Calling in some st pattys Irish luck!
ReplyDeleteReally great art as always! I remember wearing the skunk costume my neighbor had sewn with the paper mâché mask my dad made!!! Still have it! :)
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Great Prizes, I'm here from the HIVE!
ReplyDeleteMy earliest Halloween Memory is of trying to get my Cowboy costume over my snowsuit! The temperature had dropped wwwwaaayyyy below zero the day before Halloween and there was no way the vest and the chaps were going to fit over my snowsuit. I was in tears. My Mom, ripped up an old black skirt and made me a cape and an eye mask, she made me a sword out of a curtain rod and Voila! I was ZORRO!!!
It did not matter that my hat was white and so were my pearl handled 6 shooters! Zorro was a good guy!
Thanks for the memories!
Oh what fun! Halloween in March - I always love decorating for this delightful time of year. I'd so love to be entered in your drawing and am a new follower (so glad I found your blog via FB) I can be reached over at my blog, but my email is rvwzies@aol.com.
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One of my favorite memories is going Trick or Treating TWICE each year with my brother..I'm not sure how that started by people actually gave candy out two nights-wow-the goodies we raked in!
I say it's never too early for Halloween. This isn't my earliest memory, but is my fondest.I
ReplyDeletemade pencil & eraser costumes for my boys & they were the hit of trick or treating that year. Everywhere they went, people would laugh & comment on how cute they were. The boys loved it!!
Becky
Now this is a highly cool giveaway! So many great Halloween memories...I live in a town with lots of old victorian houses...walking up the wooden porch steps...lit pumpkins everywhere...and decorating: flying witch silouettes my dad would trace for me taped on the lampshades...love it! Thanks for sparking great memories ~*~Lisa themoonlitstitch.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteOh yes please enter me in this wondeful contest..I guess for me I loved getting dressed up at school when we did our "parade" through the rooms..the anticipation till we could get dressed was so thick you could cut it with a knife..I also remember trick or treating in the snow one year..the snow as so deep..about up to our shins..but it didn't stop us and we had the moon to light our way.;)
ReplyDeleteMy fondest is of a neighbor who would every year dress up for all the kids trick or treating one year he dressed up as a vampire and had his sons dressed up hiding in the bushes by his house when we would walk up to the door they would jump out and scare us. Another year he had a huge coffin in his front year that he was laying in when we looked inside he would sit up and we would scream! LOL
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My first memory would be my Droopy costume that i wore for my kindergarten party. i SWORE nobody would know who i was because the costume covered every inch of my body except for my hands and feet. As soon as i walked in the room my teacher said,"Good morning,janie!" i was so
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Wow what a great giveaway! I love the things that can be won. Very neat! Good luck to everyone who enters to win... but mostly good luck to me ;)
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Wow great giveaway! I love Halloween it is my fav
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Wonderful offerings!
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My fondest memory of halloween is of our daughter kimberly.When she was 10 she thought she was grown up and wanted to go trick or treating by herself, that year she was dressed as a M&M. When she got to the end of our street one of our neighbors jumped out at her we heard a scream and saw a big green M&M running toward as. We laughed and laughed , she would never go trick or treating again alone jen---jkhowell@comcast.net
ReplyDeleteThose are great! I don't really have an early Halloween memory but I do still have in my possession a vintage Halloween cat & jack o' lantern lamp that I remember being in my parents' window when I was really little.
ReplyDeleteI use to love seeing the glow of the house lights... and wonder who would answer the door. It was a time of wonder and magic for me. All us girls would spend weeks helping our mother make our outfits.... and thinking up the perfect outfit that no one else thought of was the whole fun of it. I wonder how many people dressed up as "Boy George"....really... I did that one year LOL.
ReplyDeleteI love the items offered in the Giveaway, especially the kitty PODDS from Soft In The Head.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember trick or treating as a child, but I loved going out with my own children when they were young. They refused to quit and went for hours, block after block. I made several interesting costumes for them including turning my daughter into a Baskin Robbins Ice Cream Sundae.
I can be reached at whimiscialkreations@gmail.com Sherry H.
Me Oh My, What a wonderful giveaway. I would be so excited if I won any of the goodies. My early memory of Halloween would be dressing up as a witch with the plastic mask with my cousins. We would go all over town getting candy and having a wonderful time. If you go to my blog you will see the pic of me with the mask on the left side bar.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful giveaway! Here in Denmark we are just getting used to celebrating Halloween, but never theless is it growing in popularity. My first memory was being dress out as a ghost haha.
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Ann
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Tis my favorite time of the year ! My best memories ? Too many to list... Halloween should last the entire month of October !!
ReplyDeleteHalloween is my favorite holiday and fall the best time of the year! Hard to recall my earliest memories because I have so many Halloween memories. I got my love of spooky things and Halloween from my Mom and she always made sure we had a great Halloween. The thing I remember most is the care and thought she put into our homemade costumes, no store bought ones for us! Paper mache always seemed to make it's way into our costumes and I remember having masks made of owl faces and alien creatures. One year I was a mouse and my sis was the cheese. And today, Mom and I still celebrate Halloween together.
ReplyDeleteI think my earliest Halloween memory is being dressed in one of those plastic costumes with the plastic mask as a Barbie princess and remembering the odd plastic smell behind that mask. The home made costumes were much better and I began favoring them shortly after the plastic smell!
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Wow what a treat! I remember going to our neighbors house and she always gave us home made popcorn ball! They were the best.
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I remember the year I had to trick or treat for my younger sister, Joana, because she had the chicken pox really bad. Her birthday is October 25th, and she was sick for that too. I didn't mind trick or treating for her since I was the one who gave her the chicken pox in the first place. :)
ReplyDeleteI just love halloween.I always have. I love dressing up and all the parties. Carving pumpkins,making scarecrows etc.
ReplyDeleteHalloween has always been a special time because my daughter was born in October and we always had halloween birthday parties. Her favorite character was a black cat and mine was a witch so it was always said that she was this witches little black cat. One particular halloween was really special because I had moved into the country on 5 acres so I had the space to be able to invite Brittany's whole school class to her birthday party. Brittany and I had so much fun planning all the festivities of her party and really decorating the house and front yard with all the halloween decor we could think of. All the kids that came were so excited because it was the first time they got to wear their new halloween costumes. My place was a buzz with all kinds of hob-goblins. We had games to play, winnies to roast, we made smoores from chocolate and marshmellows, and right before they were picked up we went on a hayride. I figured that would calm them down before their parents picked them up. It did to some fell smooth asleep. It was a magical night for Brittany and I. We had a tractor pulling a trailer for the hayride. I sat up on the tractor with my husband looking back at all the kids talking about the night. There was such laughter and happiness all over that trailer. Brittany was a star for the next week at school. Everyone talked about it for a long time. Halloween is a favorite time for me, it's just more special now with the celebration of Brittany in my life.
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I always enter these because the prizes never fail to make me smile. Earliest memory of halloween ............ Me as a witch and my mom wearing a Kentucky Fried Chicken Colonel Sanders mask. Why I don't know.
ReplyDeleteI love the ehag artists! You always come up with the most clever Halloween decor. Halloween is my favorite time of the year, I have never understood people who don't like Halloween...what's not to like? Maybe they are scardy cats!
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Great giveaway. I love EHAG and all the wonderful artists. Please count me in for the giveaway. Thanks. Sherry H.
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Incredibly awesome giveaway and such talented artists! My earliest Halloween memory was when my mom made me a tootsie roll costume! Loved it so much the first time, that I recreated it by sewing a new one when I went to college and one first place for most original!
ReplyDeleteMy first is a favorite, Halloween memory of a photo being taken of my brothers and I. We all put our heads through a backless bookshelf. Just a funny picture. Makes me smile when I think of it. This is a great give away - so many talented artists here.
ReplyDeleteGreat giveaways! Keep up the wonderful work!!
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Thanks Millions!
I'm loving the giveaway goodies. Such great artists and work!
ReplyDeleteMy first Halloween memory is being dressed as a Geisha and wanting to be a witch. I've made up for it since growing older (not up!). I'm definitely a member of the black hat club.
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Cool! I don't know what my earliest Halloween memory was, probably when I dressed up as a ghost and my mom, scared of me tripping over a sheet, made an all-white outfit with pants and a shirt and mittens and I rang our neighbor's doorbell and he spotted me through the glass storm door and he looked SO surprised and said THERE'S A GHOST AT MY DOOR! I was so tickled. I think I was three.
ReplyDeletewhat an unexpected and great giveaway for March, among all the other blogs giving away little flowery things. Love it! My memory is probably how there was a woman we called The Witch in the neighborhood and we would always dare each other to trick or treat at her house but I don't think anyone ever did.
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these were fun to read thru! yeah, who can forget the plastic mask against your face, the moisture from breathing, the smell, and oh don't forget trying to stick your tounge thru that little tiny mouth hole! I once was a plastic face frankinstein. why? i have no idea! I love the memory of my mom and halloween, I hope my kids feel the same someday, they are now my most favorite halloween memory and memories to come.
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There were six kids in my family and we didn't have a lot of money so my mom would make and save each costume from year to year. I remember we'd bring out this bag of costumes any time we were bored and dress up--dreaming up what fabulous costume we'd get the next Halloween. I think this is my favorite memory, that Halloween could and should be any day of the year. (you should see my Halloween-themed office!)
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