Post #416783 by tobunga on Sat, Nov 1, 2008 11:49 PM

Mahalo everybody! Thanks for the encouraging words!

Here's some new stuff:

I created a banner for Tonga Hut's 50th Anniversary. It's about four feet by 18 inches, acrylic on canvas stretched inside a bamboo frame (not sure of the frame's measurements). It was great seeing it hanging at the Hut amongst all the revelers at the 50th Anniversary party!

I also made some 1.25" 50th Anniversary buttons. There were about 100 of them, and they were placed on the tables for everyone to help themselves. By the time we got there at 10pm, there were none left, but it was nice to see people wearing them!

For Halloween, Manuel and I went as Tikis! We worked on the costumes for about two weeks. They're made mostly of cardboard and paper mache. The arms are cloth, to give us some flexibility. (Manuel is Lono, I'm Ku). We went down to Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood on Halloween, and our tikis were a big hit... every twenty steps or so, someone would stop us for a photo. Then someone else would get a pic, then someone else, then like 10 more people would come up for pix... it was lots of fun, but a little unusual having people clamoring for our photo... still, we appreciated that people liked our costumes... made the work worth the effort!

It was great how many people know what we were, too. We realized, or hoped, that we were raising tiki awareness!

That's it fer now! Thanks fer lookin!