Post #537653 by leleliz on Sat, Jun 19, 2010 4:38 PM

My swap package...or I should just call this post "100 More Reasons Why I Adore Eric October/Tobunga"!!

Tobunga was my swap sender and even though I knew I kind of forgot until I received this today :

There is one thing that Eric does for his friends is he creates hand drawn cards for them tiki portrait style and I have always wanted one. I was so blown away when I opened his card and found his version of my Tiki Central name done as a drawing:

For those of you that don't know i always meant my TC name to be "LeiLeiLiz" but I was typing too fast and not paying attention and it came out as "LeLeLiz" instead :)

This packages was LOADED and everything inside barely fit on my kitchen table:

A closer look at some of the awesome stuff he included:

Some highlights :

Tiki plate
Sailor Jerry 2010 pin up calendar and dog tag necklace
Original Eric October Tonga Hut print
Flyers from Tikiyaki & Sam's Seafood
Frisbee from South Pacific Promotions

2 hand stamped E.October Tiki Towels
2 DVDS including the new Tikiyaki DVD !

Eric & I have the same favorite defunct Tiki mecca - The Stockton Islander. He created this Islander pendant and a stand that has on it a piece of the bamboo Abstractiki got from The Islander ---so awesome! (and this is my 3rd Tobunga pendant...his pendants are so detailed!)

Trader Vic's stuff, DTB swag including paper/coasters/swizzles, Squids retrospective program (still wish I could of gone to this!)SHAG swizzles, Marieapalooza commerative ticket, more flyers:

Another AWESOME Islander item-Eric's handmade Bumatay Mug stuffed doll (alreay had a Tiki Bob doll that is awesome and this Bumatay is amazing!),his handmade Caliente key chain based on the root ball tiki from The Tropics Motel, some of Eric's hand baked cookies in his stamped takeout box, the mugs are from The Purple Orchid and one of the souvenir mugs from Queen K's room crawl from Tiki Oasis 2009!:

Somewhere in there are Bahooka, Tiki Ti and Sam's matches, more paper from events at Kona and Cherry Capri's sing-a-long songsheets, sickers, tiki mints and I am sure I am forgetting other stuff!

Eric you have always been one of my favorite artists on TC, you are one of my favorite people I have met off of TC and I am so unbelievably wowed by this package!

Thank you for all your original artwork and for going waaaaaaaaaaay beyond a simple swap.

Much love to you and Manuel!

p.s. thumbs up on the cookies too (they didn't last too long!!)

[ Edited by: leleliz 2010-06-19 16:45 ]