Post #203544 by procinema29 on Sat, Dec 17, 2005 11:00 AM

Just recently I have had trouble logging in to my Shutterfly account (anyone else get a nothing page when they click on "member sign in"?). But I wanted to mention that, inspired by some photos I saw this year of tikis combined favorably with jack-o-lanterns, I decided to take a resin tiki and attach a red Santa Claus hat to it. This was fairly simple. I had a Christmas-oriented cat toy of a mouse with such a hat, and noticed that the hat could be carefully removed with a pair of manicure scissors. It looked like a good fit with the tiki head, so I removed it. It wouldn't stay on very well just placed there so I figured gluing was necessary. I fired up the hot glue gun. The tiki had deep ridges sculpted into the top of the head; and I figured that if I molded some aluminum foil down into those ridges, I could squirt a dot of glue onto the tin foil and stick the hat on top of that. The tin foil would act as a barrier layer that would allow me to remove the hat. later, leaving no glue on the tiki. (I didn't care about damaging the hat, but I couldn't damage the tiki at all, you see.)

It is in the window now and looks very bizarre and appropriate!