Sweet River Studios

River and I participated in a C-WAGS Summer Scent League held at Anything Goes for Dogs in Marysville.  River has been participating in scent trials since March 2015 and has titles at levels 1-3. She needs one more leg for a Level 4 title and she's needs a few more qualifying rounds at levels 1 and 2 for her ACE titles. We attended the scent leagues in June and July which is held two Wednesday's per month in the evening. Here's a pic of a Q ribbon. River earned a total of 14. River has a great time searching for scent, although she usually likes to run around the room then she'll remember she's supposed to check out the objects on the floor. But in the end she usually alerts to the odor by sitting or laying down next to the right object.  But I think she really loves it when other people pet and pay attention to her and she gets to socialize with other dogs. It definitely makes for a late evening but the part I like the most is the result. You get ...

Well it's taken me forever to continue posting about this quilt. I wanted to add a wash of color to the quilt to soften the glaring white fabric but I lost my inks. I looked for several weeks and had to continue posting about my other applique quilt project in the mean time. That quilt has had a serious set back and I'm really not happy about it or with my self since it was totally my fault. Of course it was my fault! I'm the one making the darn thing. Anyway, I still can't find my inks, so I finally broke down at the end of June and purchased the ink that I know I have lurking in my house somewhere. I'm pleased to say that I got the ink wash on last week. It really helped to blend the colored portraits together. I also got the edges a little darker. When applying the inks, I was trying to only blend so far into the portraits. They have white areas that I did not want to color and if the ink gets to the white area it's not going to come out and it m...