however...

you'll have to wait until October 1st, 2012, to enter the site for our
4th year of Hallowe'en Trick or Treating
with international artists displaying their incredible seasonal art!

In the meantime, you can still visit Bat Conservation International and Bat World Sanctuary
and make a difference in helping find a solution to the devastating White Nose Syndrome that's
wiping out whole colonies of hibernating bats in the US and Canada.

Looking for that ideal gift?  How about adopting a bat species or adopting an individual, rescued bat?

"We in the bat community share the great sadness of witnessing the carnage of WNS, but we also share the privilege of it being our day - our fight to win.  This is our opportunity to make this story one we can tell our grandchildren with pride.  We can make a difference here, we have to, and I fully intend to help see that we do."  -- Alan Hicks, wildlife biologist who first raised the alarm about White Nose Syndrome and continues the battle

Who's joining us in 2012?  Here's a list of the artists that plan to take part:

S.J.Tucker,

Stacy Saman,

Pam Pontious,

Melanie Clark,

Sally J. Smith,

Tammi Beaulieu,

Deborah Downey,

Amber Rose Lawrence,

Margarita Castillo-Bernard,

Karen Lyons,

Martha DeRaimo-Burch,

Adrianne Kinsella,

Amy Thornton (tentative),

April Norton,

Peggy and Gordon Hayes,

Sarah Medina,

Angela Wyman,

Kelly Dauterman,

Darien Goldman,

Pat Wilde (tentative),

Castle Halloween Museum,

and me, Karen Waschinski.

It's going to be ghoulishly, gorgeously ghastly!

Please join us in 2012!

If you'd like to join our mailing list and be kept up to date on what's brewing for
Hallowe'en 2012, please email me at woosel[at]scratchingatthewindow.com