Buckeyes & Buckeye Nuts

A lot of people having been asking me what a Buckeye is. Here is a picture of a true buckeye nut from a buckeye tree. It's the state tree of Ohio.

The buckeye nut is poisonous. People often will gather the nuts and then turn them into jewelry for Ohio State fans. The often appear on necklaces and key chains of the Buckeye faithful.

These are Buckeye candies. Everywhere other than Ohio, they are Peanut Butter Balls and are completely coated in chocolate. They are to die for! The recipe that is in the prior post is just one that I found when I Googled buckeyes candy and have not tried that one. I think that if you were to Google Buckeyes, you would definitely find lots and lots of recipes for them. They are not hard to make, just a little time consuming. Also you can Google Peanut Butter Balls and get the same thing.

Happy Humpday?

I still can't get over the feeling that it should be Thursday. Maybe I'm just looking forward to Friday off so much that I'm wishing my time away. Ok, who's watching The Biggest Loser? I always swear that I'm not gonna get addicted to reality shows each season, but sure enough I get pulled in. Love that Black team! Having been one of those kids who always got picked last for anything in school, I love to root for the underdog. I was so excited that they won the weigh in. At first it didn't look like they were gonna make it. Now I like Jillian, but I really don't think I'd want to be training with her out in the middle of a desert. Give me a treadmill in the AC any day (actually could use one). It's funny because I always laugh at the one's who complain about the workouts most, but I KNOW that would be me if I was on that show. Still not sure who I'd like to see win, but I think that they all end up winners in the long run.

I've been blog surfing since I started mine, trying to broaden my horizons and see what else is going on out in the digiworld. Yesterday I found this hysterical message from Bob Dylan (yes the Bob Dylan) for DragonflaireDesigns. Go check it out her blog (but don't forget to come back). See isn't that clever!

The designers over at DSO (digital-scrapbooking.org) have their Humpday Hunnies freebies on there blogs: Here's a short rundown. Heather has a notepaper with coffee rings ;Terriann has funky ribbons ; Sondra has a 12 X 12 frame overlay ;Kristine has a gold vellum cutout; Joy has heart & flowers sparkle charms and Mel has a cute QP
Other notable freebies include Raspberry Road. Susan has a 2 download kit she designed just for scrappers who have moved, are moving or just want to scrap when they moved. It's called, aptly enough, Moving Day. And Lindsay Jane Designs has Glitter Numbers on her blog. Don't forget on both you can go back a ways and pick up what you've missed by them. Don't wait too long though, eventually the links expire. lol

If you're around at 3 PM EST and just wanta chat, stop by SBB for a sketch challenge chat. Raechel Knight is the hostess with the mostess and always has a great participation gift. Stop by and say hi.

On the sport note: This weekend kicks off the Big Ten season for OSU with a game against Northwestern. Since we pretty much handled Washington last weekend, this should be a breeze. But never count your wins until they're in the W column. Nascar goes to Dover. My fantasy boys didn't do too bad last week. Let's hope they can keep up the run til the final race in Homestead in Nov.

Until next time- scrap happy!
**-Diane

Happiness is a warm puppy

Or rather, sleeping dogs. The old man went to a birthday party last night and did the responsible thing, didn't drive home. So I had the bed to myself. Well actually, I woke up with both dogs sleeping next to me. It's not unusual to have Jazi sleep with me, but Carmen rarely ever does. With the cold autumn morning, the extra body heat was just what the doctor ordered.



Last night, SBB had a welcome to the store chat with Penny of Penny's Miscellany Designs. There was a really good turn out and we all had a good time with her freebie ad on kit and good chat. I usually hit the daytime chats there while I'm at work and try to make myself stay awake for the night chats, but usually don't make it that long. Amy Blesser's Rock the Template on Thur. nights at 11:15 is one I wish I could make on a more regular basis. Her templates rock! I always make the Scrapbrat chat on Tues. at 2 pm with Fantacy. It's always a great time. I didn't do the challenge this week though.


I still haven't figured out how to put my blinkies on the side of the blog. I thought that someone had explained how at the Stone Accent Studios forum, but couldn't find it. They just had their grand opening. You should check out the site here.


On a sports note, My Buckeyes won yesterday against Washington. It was a bad first half, but boy that must have been some halftime speech. The win gives Coach Tressel his 200 at Ohio State, which is awesome since he has only been the coach there since 2001. GO BUCKS! The Nascar race is at New Hampshire today. There are only 10 races left this season.

Well I can't decide if I should go back to sleep or scrap. Scrappin will most likely win out. Until next time. Have a great day!

Wow I have a blog!

And it was easy to set up. Now comes the hard part. Getting it set to where I'm happy with it and coming up with stuff to blog about. Now there's no shortage of things, but I'm sure that you all don't want to read about the old lady I work with that drives me nuts or the idiot that cut me off on my way to work. Nope, I don't think that's gonna draw a crowd. But then again, who says I'm gonna draw a crowd anyway.

Why did I set up a blog? Well, it's the thing to do now, but that's really not why I did it. This month I've been set up on 2 incredible designers creative teams and this might be a good way to let everyone know what's new with them. Plus it may keep it straight for me too. The cool thing, other than the fact that these designers saw something in me to give me a chance to help showcase their talents, is that they have different styles but produce totally awesome products. Once I figure out how to navigate this place, I'll have some previews of their work and maybe a layout or two of my own with their products. There's so much going on in the scrapping community that it's hard to keep up with everything. I certainly can't, but I can tell you what's going on in the little part of the world where I hang out.

Among other topics you'll get here are my other addictions - Buckeye Football and Nascar. This weekend my beloved Buckeyes are traveling out to the Northwest to take on their first real challenge of the season - The Washington Huskies. Let's hope they come back home with a W in the column. We don't want to be like that team up north, but Karma could bite us all, since we all seemed to come down hard on that teams 2 loses. It's also the start of the Race for the Cup in Nascar. My main driver, Kasey Kahne didn't make the chase, he kinda had a really bad year. But my other fantasy drivers Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth & Kyle Busch made it, so we'll see what happens.

Wow I didn't think I'd have anything to say, guess I was wrong. But I'm sure it's nothing you wanted to read. I'm going to get things set up and see how it goes before broadcasting it's here. So this long post may never get read, but at least I know in my heart I gave it a good shot.

Go Bucks and happy scrappin,
Diane