Happy Halloween...Giveaway!

Today I was declared the lucky winner of my cousin's blog giveaway (see post below in which I posted the winning entry! yeehaw!).

Anyway, she got the idea to do a giveaway from a friend of hers and I am loving the idea. I love Halloween stuff and I love crafting and I don't do it enough and Josh thinks I am nuts to do this because I have a to do list that is longer than I could possibly manage to do in like 3 months, but I am going to do this anyway. :)

So, you my friends, could be the lucky winner of a bag of Halloween fun! I would LOVE to take a picture of it, but since I haven't created it yet I can't. I know what I want to put in it though and it will be cool-oh so cool! (To me anyway.)

I think what I will do is post a picture of it before I give it away and before announcing the winner so that I can show it off but the winner is suprised by it showing up at their door (either in my hands or in a box that was mailed-depending on where the winner lives).

I have been trying to figure out what I wanted to make people do in order to enter. I want it to be simple enough that lots of you will do it but still fun! So, all I am asking is for you to answer a series of questions and post them on your blog along with a Halloween picture of any sort, then comment on my blog to tell me you did it and be officially entered! I am just going to do a random pick from my entries to select the winner!

I really hope lots of you will do this. I am asking these questions mostly because I think it is fun to learn this sort of stuff about people.

1. What is your all time best Halloween costume?
2. What is your favorite Halloween tradition?
3. What is your favorite Fall tradition?
4. What is your favorite book?
5. Name 3 great things that happened to you today
6. What is your all time favorite dessert?
7. Tell me something you look forward to doing in the next month.
8. Tell me something you are going to give someone else for Christmas (I need ideas!)

That's it folks! Please do this! It will be fun.

Here are my answers:

1. What is your all time best Halloween costume? Hmm, the one that comes to mind is the purple dinosaur that my mom made me when I was about 9.

2. What is your favorite Halloween tradition? Baking pumpkin shaped cookies and frosting them and decorating with M & M's. First as a child and now with my own children.

3. What is your favorite Fall tradition? Baking. Way too much baking. Fall weather (albeit San Diego fall weather right now) makes me want to bake-cookies, cinnamon rolls, donuts, etc. Starts a string of bad habits that carries through the new year. Not good.

4. What is your favorite book? I think Jane Eyre but it is hard to decide.

5. Name 3 great things that happened to you today Someone showed up at my doorstep with mint chocolate brownies tonight, I read lots of stories with my boys (and I do mean lots), and I listened to some of Harry Potter 7 in CD.

6. What is your all time favorite dessert? I think Cookie Dough Eggrolls, but again, it is hard to decide.

7. Tell me something you look forward to doing in the next month. Lots of sewing-for Christmas and Halloween costumes. I haven't sewn much in a long time and it feels good to be doing it again.

8. Tell me something you are going to give someone else for Christmas (I need ideas!) Hmm, well now that I try to answer this I realize I can't really because most of the people I am giving things to read my blog. But I guess I can say that I am giving my neighbor a Flirty Apron. I already have it. :)