Post #676066 by danlovestikis on Tue, Apr 30, 2013 8:40 AM

I'm never going to have a photo of Dan as good as those. We took two days off and went to Capitola, Santa Cruz and San Jose.
We were tiki hunting as well as having some fun food. Here's our trip.

At the Beach at Capitola.

I found a tiki tile.

On Sunday's the Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz plays and the show was outstanding. They sang too.

Right behind the grandstand was this tiki.

Then we took off for Santa Cruz and went to Happy Hour at Hula's.

We had a fun food dinner.

Next we drove to the beach to watch the surfers.

Back on main street we went to Mr. Goodies and checked out the tikis for sale.

Monday we left and went to San Jose to the Rosicrucian Center. It was closed but we walked the grounds.

Dan figured out the guy wanted tiki mugs but Dan showed him he didn't have any.

We stopped in Livermore and at the Blue Door I found a home-made apron.
This is Tom the owner.


Home and back to work.

Progress Report:

While Dan carried in our suitcases I unloaded the kiln.

More heads out of the oven.

One spec of dust and the glaze crawls away from it. Here in on the chin

and here in the hair.

I went over each head and decided that each one could benefit from a touch up. So I'm going to glaze each one in some spot or another and fire them once more before we use those boxes. Our home always looks like a tiki factory.

So one more week before we are ready to start shipping these out. Nothing is easy but its all worth the work to get it right.

Cheers, Wendy