Post #605549 by danlovestikis on Mon, Sep 5, 2011 9:11 AM

Ah Kenny, good thing you don't live here or you'd be hugged to death!

Thank you hang10tiki. I'm so glad I got to meet you at Oasis. You are a very creative carver. I looking forward to seeing your work for years to come.

It's getting so close to the Sacramento Crawl in October so I've been working 12 hour days to get these done. I've now identified 6 "seconds" so I'm making from scratch 8 replacements just in case any of those fail inspection. By no means are any of them perfect like Tiki Farm productions. I just do my best and hope you are all happy with them.

This weekend I painted white flowers, art shapes, and 50 of the words Tiki Bob's. We hosed off the 8 newly bisqued decanters and I painted all six sides and the volcanoes. Today I start on Bob's face.

If anyone wants one and is not on the list send me a PM. I will ship to those on the list who do not make it to the crawl or are out of town - if I have any left.

I can only fit three decanters into the home oven at a time to set the cold paint. Poor Dan I'll be baking for 38 hours and he likes a cool home!

The photo also shows two wall plaques I made out of ruined decanters. Dan's grabbed those as one of his rewards for helping me every step of the way.

Cheers, Wendy

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2011-09-05 09:18 ]