Tama - NZ Pounamu/greenstone - Last post for '08! - pg99 - Tiki Carving

T Tamapoutini Member Aotearoa (New Zealand) Joined: Aug 30, 2006 Posts: 1530	T Tamapoutini Posted posted on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 1:36 AM Gidday. How the Tiki are ya? Long time no post huh.? I trust all are well and carrying the torch of Tiki high! same ol story around these parts; too much tiki and not enough wiki.. Although it was good to have a few beverages and a yak with Paip and a couple of other stone-chippers last weekend. Work continues on preparing the new garden/future building site and we have been taking advantage of the cooling weather to get out and do some donkey work. Ive just gotten over a week of hell while my poor jaw recovers from a "stubborn" tooth extraction - the word just doesnt do the pain justice, haha BenZ: the last time you posted here was in disbelief at how long it had been since my last... doh! LLT: No progress on the lil Pacific Princess but you'll be the first to hear. Glad Im not gonna be hauled off to court for breach of intellectual property rights! :lol: Cheers Grog and Robin! -- Since my last post MrsT and I dumped the kids for 10days and headed to sunny Melbourne. Awesome city is all I can say; great times. Among other things we made sure to check out a few galleries and museums (with me on constant vigil for Pacific/Oceanic exhibits). A couple of highlights was a display of canoe, paddle, sail etc types from all over Polynesia/Melanesia/Micronesia, in the Melbourne Museum: Is that a slit-gong in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me..? Melboune Arts Centre and sure enough, a cold soothing brew (free no less!) to end the pilgrimmage to MELBOURNES HOTTEST TIKI BAR! ,luckily catching them on their first day of reopening for the year. Had a good chat with the proprietor and left him my gift of an Air New Zealand Hei-tiki for the bar. -- -- Back in Aotearoa and back to the grind: A recently finished Hei-Tiki/Toki: Another recently finished piece; a cute lil traditional Hei-tiki: 'Hei-Toki Tangaroa': And last but not least an in-prog piece: dry: wet: backlit: Keep on Tiki'en! Tama :)

Gidday. How the Tiki are ya? Long time no post huh.?

I trust all are well and carrying the torch of Tiki high! same ol story around these parts; too much tiki and not enough wiki.. Although it was good to have a few beverages and a yak with Paip and a couple of other stone-chippers last weekend.
Work continues on preparing the new garden/future building site and we have been taking advantage of the cooling weather to get out and do some donkey work. Ive just gotten over a week of hell while my poor jaw recovers from a "stubborn" tooth extraction - the word just doesnt do the pain justice, haha

BenZ: the last time you posted here was in disbelief at how long it had been since my last... doh!
LLT: No progress on the lil Pacific Princess but you'll be the first to hear. Glad Im not gonna be hauled off to court for breach of intellectual property rights! :lol:
Cheers Grog and Robin!

Since my last post MrsT and I dumped the kids for 10days and headed to sunny Melbourne. Awesome city is all I can say; great times. Among other things we made sure to check out a few galleries and museums (with me on constant vigil for Pacific/Oceanic exhibits). A couple of highlights was a display of canoe, paddle, sail etc types from all over Polynesia/Melanesia/Micronesia, in the Melbourne Museum:

Is that a slit-gong in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me..? Melboune Arts Centre

and sure enough, a cold soothing brew (free no less!) to end the pilgrimmage to MELBOURNES HOTTEST TIKI BAR!

,luckily catching them on their first day of reopening for the year. Had a good chat with the proprietor and left him my gift of an Air New Zealand Hei-tiki for the bar.