Welcome
to Trick-Or-Eat at HELLOmynameisHeather.com. Today, nine favorite food,
craft & lifestyle bloggers await behind nine haunted houses — with
an array of holiday tricks and treats to greet you. At the end of this
post, you will find two mystery houses. Join in the fun by clicking on
one of the next homes on the block. Discover all of the Trick-Or-Eat
contributors and find direct links to their posts at
www.Trick-Or-Eat.com.
To
prove the point, meet Betty Boo. Some might say she’s a spoiled bat,
but I think she’s rather sweet, as far as vampires go. Betty is
not too cross to wear flowers — but she’s not too kind to sock-you-one
either — so, stay on her good side.
Come on inside — no tricks here, only treats. Don’t mind the carnivorous plants creeping out the windows.
Today I’m handing out a NEW, FREE PATTERN —
fun-to-make & easy-on-the-thighs. Click here to download my free
pattern for a snappy little sock doll. Make your own mischief from one
unassuming sock, wool-blend felt, and a few other bits & baubles from your crafting scraps.
Don’t
go batty picking materials. If you want some help, I’ve dug up all
sorts of spooky socks and supplies for a handful of kits at The Heather Bailey Store (while supplies last).
Win a free Betty Boo Sock Doll Kit. Four winners will be picked at random. (If you’re not a gambler, see the Freebie Code at bottom of post.) Leave a comment; make up a Halloween poem, share a Halloween story — or just say ‘Hi’.
Now, vahtch your step. And Happy Halloween!
Whooo’s Next? Head to the next house on the street — or run, run, run, with your candy-bag wide-open.
See what the other Trick-Or-Eat hosts and ghostesses have cooked up for
you today; Click on one of the haunted dwellings below:
**Freebie Code** Happy Halloween! Treat yourself a FREE Betty Boo Sock Doll Kit, by entering the
code “BatBatThing” (on a purchase of $35 or more) at The Heather Bailey Store.
While supplies last — first come, first serve. (When you’re ready to
check out, add your selected bat doll Kit to your cart, then enter the
coupon code where indicated. The price of one kit ($9.95) will be
removed from your total. Code expires 10-31-09.)
how cute! this halloween i’m dressing as a garden gnome! i love halloween!
🙂
very cute craft!
hi heather!! betty is so cute…..just starting on my 6 yr old daughter’s costume…I am making Autumn the Woodland Fairy costume with no tutu as per her orders!! lol!
This year my girls are requesting a fall punk fairy and a purple dragon–both need wings of course lol
Betty is adorable! My favorite costume is the classic Witch. I have dressed up as a Witch more times than I can count. Happy Halloween to you and yours!
My 16 month old son is an adorable garden gnome this year. He is so adorable to watch walk around with his tall red hat. It is my favorite costume. Last year he was a pine tree air freshener and that is almost my favorite.
So cute! Both of my boys will be gladiators this year. My In-laws brought back armor from their trip to Rome, and I’m making them pillowcase togas.
This year we will have Napolean, a Roman Centurian, and a Spanish dancer!!!
Very, very cute!
Okay, I’m trying (with little luck) to convince my husband to go as Julia Childs and I’ll go as Paul. He is tall with dark hair and I’m short so it would be so perfect!
The kids are still deciding which is crazy with 9 of them and Halloween days away!
lovely bat !
I once had a ladybug, and a bee too…
so cute! a fun costume? zombie bridesmaid. bought a cheap dress at goodwill and rubbed it in dirt. still didn’t say “dead” enough, so we ran it over with the car a few times. perfect!
Betty is so cute! Love it! My daughter will be going as a ladybug with a sparkly red tutu and wings, if I can finish them in time 🙂
Cute! My kids haven’t decided on costumes yet — eek!
I’d have to say my favorite costume idea is wearing a shirt that says “Ceiling,” carrying some pom-poms and yelling “Go Ceiling!”
Quick, easy and hilarious once people put it together.
In case you don’t get it yet…I’d be a Ceiling Fan. 😉
Wrap yourself up in tin foil and go as leftovers 🙂
I love costumes that have a homemade feel! Something you didn’t expect. Like using rubber gloves for a bird costume for feet 🙂 My oldest went as super Alden this year. I made him a cape with a big A on the back and a mask and shorts (to wear over his pants as all super heros do) all out of cute matching fabric!
Boo to YOU!
Happy Halloween.
Regina
What an adorable little bat!
I am going as the tooth fairy this year, complete with teeth necklace and pliers. 🙂
That is the cutest bat I think I’ve ever seen!
That is such a cute bat doll. Not so scary at all!
What a cute bat! Thanks for sharing the pattern. Happy Halloween!
That’s adorable! This year for Halloween I made a spider costume by attaching knee socks to a t-shirt. Turns out 4 extra hands just get in the way. 🙂
My daughter and I are going as butterflys this year. I didn’t have the gumption to make a costume this year. She’s happy so I guess I shouldn’t feel guilty about not making her costume from scratch.
love the bat – absolutely adorable!! We are doing trick or treating this year, as chickens!! We are carving our pumpkins today and hopefully roasting pumpkin seeds tonight!
she is so cute! Thanks so much for the pattern!
I love bats and this one is adorable!! Very clever!
love it!!
too cute!! at our house, my little girl loves the nursery rhyme, three little ghostesses, it gives her a little bit of halloween without all the scary just yet.
Very sweet! I was making caramel apples this morning to share soem Halloween love.
Way cute – I love it!
This is so fun Heather. I love what you’ve cooked up here.
HI – love the bat so devilishly demure. I am obsessed with bats on halloween (last name is batt) this would be super way cool – thanks for the pattern! love love love!
that is adorable!!! I just love your site. it’s always so happy and filled with wonderful ideas.
So cute! love the girly bat.
My 4-year-old daughter is going as a flower – I made the costume using an oversized green tee and some craft felt. I also knit a headband and added some more felt petals to it. My first time making a costume….but my daughter loves it!
And my 4-month-old daughter is going as a bee (her sister’s hand-me-down costume from BabyStyle).
So very cute! You are so creative!
So cute! But I don’t think I could ever hold her upside down……
Very cute – my kiddos would love one!
What a cool idea! I’ve heard of sock dogs, but never sock bats! 🙂
so stinkin’ cute!!!
Oh my gosh! the cutest thing ever!!!!!
So so cute! 😀
Happy Halloween – she is soo cute!
That boo bat is so cute! Thanks for sharing the pattern.
You amaze me as always – so cute! I have to order some of your felt – it’s gorgeous!
Adorable!
what a sweet boo she is.Thanks for the no calorie treat.
Cute cute cute! I love Betty! Maybe I’ll ditch finishing up Halloween costumes and make sock dolls instead!
Here’s a poem for you:
There once was a girl named Heather
She couldn’t decide which was better:
Christmas or Halloween
On both she was quite keen
In the end it was decided by the weather.
Okay, it’s not great, but at least I tried! I would love to win a little Betty Boo Sock Doll kit! So cute!
This is such a fun idea…hmmm which house do I dare go to next 🙂
I so love Betty Boo Bat, she is so stinkin cute. It’s a great project to do with my girls.
This pattern is super cute, I am going to try to get 2 of them done as a Halloween treat for my girls…Better than candy:)
Betty is very cute! Thanks for sharing the pattern.
There once was a bat named Betty,
and every night for dinner she ate spaghetti.
She was made out of socks
and her best friend was a fox.
She was cute as a bug
til she turned into a thug.
She got into some trouble
and had to hide in the rubble
and now poor Betty is gone.
Happy Halloween!!
thank you so much for the bat pattern. my girls are going to love it.
Thank you so much for the pattern! DD will LOVE this. My first order of HB fabric and felt arrived a short while ago… thanks for the fun! 🙂
What a cute little bat! I love it!!
cute, cute, cute, cute! What a great way to introduce young children to Halloween without all the gore! THanks Heather!
This year I sewed my very first Halloween costume. My daughter wanted to be a witch. I’d planned on buying the fabric while she was at preschool, but was running late that day, so I had to pick her (and her brother) up before I went fabric shopping. She decided on the spot that she wanted her dress to be made with black and white polka dots and a red satin cape. Add to that some knee high socks with rainbow bowed skull and crossbones on them. We will have the most…unusual costume this year 🙂
so very clever…
I saw this on Craftzine – she is adorable!
The pumpkin princess in my house would love to carry along her batty friend!!! Too cute.
I LOVE Betty Boo! She would fit right in with my vampire collection! What a great creation…
So cute!
How cute is that?!? I would love to have Betty Boo fly on over to my house!
I’m all cracked up by this post! CUTE!
LOVE Betty! Thanks for the pattern PDF…I’m not good at poems, so I’ll just Happy Haunting and have a great week!
Some bats are scary,
But Betty Boo is too cute.
If you don’t like Halloween,
We don’t give a hoot!!!
Happy Halloween!
Very creative! New blog on the Hx. of the Ladybug: http://historyoftheladybug.blogspot.com/
hi ! (I said it !) my son will be a pirat, but a ugly one, with a lot of scars ! and my little daugther is just hoping to be picked and to receive a Betty Boo !
Adorable as ever! Thanks for linking to me, Heather!
What an adorable Bat! Thanks for sharing!
Being that Halloween is my favorite holiday, I always like clever Halloween craft ideas like this one. Thanks for posting!
She is SO cute!
Thank you for the pattern!
Best post ever, a freebie AND a contest!
Last year my husband taped a leaf on a string to the bill of his ball cap, so that the leaf hung in front of his face. When people asked him what he was he blew at the leaf. He was a leaf blower, ugh!
Thank You! Delightful and easy —love your style and generous creativity. So fun to give my “scraps” purpose
Pretty cool! I´m sure my Leni would love such a bat.
I am going to search for some old socks…
Thanks for sharing!
Sarah
Nice vampire bat!
Hi-what a cutie!
I love Halloween. Just finished up the 2nd princess costume and an owl for the youngest grandson…1 year old. Very fun time, the 5
grandkids range from 1 to 10 years old. Next
year is middle school for the oldest so he is near the no costume age! Thanks for the fun Batty pattern and it would be a treat to win
a kit.
How do you do it? You come up with the cutest things! Love the batty bat!
Hugs,
Gina
http://www.gigglekidsboutique.com
What a lovable bat, Miss Betty Boo Bat is! Happy Halloween week!
I cannot wait to make the bat! My daughter will love it!
Amazing! My daughters love this! and so do I.
So darling! Crossing my fingers!
I saw this on Craft, and I just had to download the pattern. So cute, and I already know the sock that wants to be the bat…
so fun! The little girl I nanny for has the initials BAT- so cute!
What a cute little bat! I’ll have to keep my eyes out for some cute Halloween socks (unless I win a kit 😉 )
Thanks, Heather! What a great Halloween treat! Hopefully it will help me lay off the candy. 😉
What fun! A halloween theme!
So much fun stuff to be seen.
Can I make through?
So much laundry to do…
Oh well, a girl can dream.
That little bat is so adorable, you are so very talented Miss Heather!!
Well I’ve had a totally craptastic day, so I’m going to enter to win a kit!
BOOOOO! Aren’t you scared?! he he
My favorite memories growing up…block parties for Halloween, trick or treating with my older brother and wearing my red gypsy costume that my mother made. She made the skirt from curtains. The bottom of the skirt was actually the white plastic rings used to hang the curtains. The skirt made noise when I walked. That was in the 70s. Now, I’ve got my own goblins. I love how excited they get right before we leave the house to trick or treat and how content they are when they pour out their goodies on the table. Precious pattern! Another cute design! I love your blog. Happy Halloween!
Love that bat… really.
Darling.
Ohhhhhhh Heather, Betty Boo is so cute! I would love to add her to my Halloween collection of goodies. My favorite costume of the girls was last year when my Jordy dressed up as a vintage witch. We found a vintage style dress at the Good Will store. It was bright orange with black velvet, viney flowers. A big brimmed hat and a witches broom completed the costume. Thanks for sharing your fun ideas!! Mish
She’s so cute! I love her!
Halloween is such fun. Betty Boo will make the perfect treat for a little friend of mine. Thanks for the cute pattern.
Soooo Cute, I love tha pattern. What a FUN Project!
Looks like my little girl is going to be a Halloween baby, so would love to make this for her asap!! At least while I sit around and wait for her to make her debut, I could be doing something creative. ; )
In October I will be host
to witches, goblins and a ghost.
I’ll serve them chicken soup on toast.
Whoopy once, whoopy twice
whoopy chicken soup with rice.
Okay I didn’t make it up but it is was my 5 year old is singing to me all month from school. He made a sock bat at crafternoon at school but boy, would he be delighted to make this one for his little sister. Betty Boo Bat is sooo cute!
Such a cutie! I’ll have to make this up to leave for the kids — in exchange for their Halloween Candy.
Hi Heather. Thanks for the giveaway!
Oh pick me, pick me! Your creations are ALWAYS so fabulous!!! Love it!
That little bat is darling! I’d love to get the kit but can’t spendy spend today. 🙁
A story written by my son.
In a deep dark castle there were 100 ghosts and 2 goblins.
In a deep dark room in a deep dark closet in the dark dark dark dark corner there is a shelf.
On that shelf there is a box and in the box there was a … mouse!
A mouse, about as big as a corncob, eating a big chunk of cheese.
A happy happy happy mouse as big as a pumpkin!
He rolls like a ball that the ghosts play with.
So adorable, I love it!
Hi Heather…you are such a creative, crafty lady…..love Betty Boo!
What a cute bat!!! Another project to start! Happy Halloween!
i love, love, love halloween. i’m so making this bat, one for each of my kids to be waiting for them on halloween morning. thanks!:)
What a darling little vampire bat! I’m in the midst of costume sewing… 4 done and one to go 😀 YAY!! LOVE LOVE LOVE Hlaloween!
terriblement adorable cette chauve-souris!
toujours autant d’inspiration!
I adore Halloween. Making the costumes is a great part. My daughter wanted to go as a mummy this year. I made her costume out of old pjs, dyed muslen torn into strips and a needle and thread. Her favorite part was that she gets to wear her pj’s.
Love Betty Boo! How clever and cute, and very un-spooky! Great project! Thanks for doing the giveaway!
SO cute! I love your blog:)
Chelsea
here is a halloween poem
The mean old witch jumped on her broom
Through the air she did zoom
Up and down and all around
on her face was a frown.
Finally she did land
at the house of the Creepy Crawly band
A smile did appear on her face
as she heard Frankie Frankenstein play the bass.
Hi Heather,
Even though my kids are grown and gone I still LOVE Halloween! Love decorating, love crafting, love dressing up!!
Betty is adorable!!
Heather:
I love your bat. This past Sunday I attended my grand’niece’s fifth birthday Holloween Party, and she was Bat Girl. I wish I had made her a Bat sock, but it’s not too late. Hope I win. Thank you.
Betty Boo Bat is adorable. I am reminded of the many times trick or treating when I was younger. We went door to door in the snow many times. Not like this Houston weather where you sweat if you wear a long sleeve shirt. Maybe not this year though we have had some mild weather lately, and I love it.
I just downloaded the patter. I HAVE to HAVE one of these Bats!!! I will have fun making one, but would LOVE to have your kit to see and use the amazing fabric choices you picked out to use.
would love to win this pattern – so clever for all those funny socks out there. My two boys will be pirates this year – argh! I should be sewing their costumes now but am taking a break.
Thanks for the pattern. Your PDF is a beautiful looking document – worth having just for itself, even without the gorgeous bat!
Am going to have a go at making one of these tonight. Happy Halloween!
Can’t wait to make one of these cuties!! Thanks for another awesome idea.
What a cute idea! I love it. Would love to win one too.
love the different haunted houses! What a fabulous idea. Betty Boo Bat is adorable, but I wouldn’t expect anything less.
Soooo cute! Great job, Heather. Thanks for the free pattern.
Oh I love Betty already what a great project. I link to your blog from mine and hope my friends also will make one.
Thanks for sharing this article, greetings
thanks for sharing the pattern! adorable!
Hi Heather, I just found your site. I LOVE your designs. I don’t sew, but you are sure making me want to try! Maybe I will for my two little ones. Thanks for the inspiration, and we’d love a Betty Boo Bat! 🙂
Amy
She is so cute! I wish we celebrated Halloween a bit more in NZ.
OOh, she is the best! Would love to win a kit, but thanks for the free pattern! 🙂
what fun you offer .. thanks!
happy halloween to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love Halloween and your little bat sock is just adorable!
“Happy Halloween” This little bat is so cute. I really don’t like bats. I find them very scarry but…I would love to make this one.
this project is fabulous! Off to search for some great patterned sox.
thank you,
marcia
Thank you for this wonderful pattern – love the Betty Boo and sewed two of them. Cuties! My first sock dolls 🙂
Perfect to hang at the door and welcome Halloween visitors.
even though halloween in past … i need to make these regardless!! thank you!
OMG how cute is this…I have put a link to you on my freebies blogs…thanks for sharing…Khris
ooo!!!! C’est super!!!! Ca me plais énormément!!! Vous avez le bon gout!!!!
This is really stinkin’ adorable.
very, VERY cute!
Happy Halloween to all. Not dressing up myself but grandsons will be a dementor (Harry Potter) and Indiana Jones.
Thanks SO much for the free pattern! It’s too cute!
Finally! My daughter’s mermaid costume is complete! Thanks for the bat pattern. We will enjoy making a Betty this weekend together.
So cute!!!
Really cute Betty 🙂
Love your Betty Boo Bat!! She is adorable!! Can’t wait to make her this weekend!!
From: Vicki
What an endearing little bat! Even if I don’t win a kit, thanks for your generosity in sharing the pattern!
Wonderful! I mean vunderful! This will be fun to make!
Thank you for the free pattern it is very good of you. You are very generous.
Betty Boo Bat is very cute and so original! I would love to win her!
Your bat kit is absolutely batty fun!!