Post #698105 by danlovestikis on Fri, Nov 1, 2013 3:42 PM

hang10tiki has GROG shown up yet???

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kingstiedye returns. A couple of years ago Brook/kingstiedye and his wife Sandy moved and we lost touch. But a few days ago he gave us a call and the next day we jumped in the car and went for a visit. During the time we were apart he transformed their new living space into a tiki paradise. We had just fun. There were more rooms than I documented here. What I was most impressed with was his pendant collection. He found a way to perfectly display it. We had a great time.

He is unofficially a member of Duck Dynasty. He grew his beard in 2 years. It took less time for him to stack tikis to surround his doorframe.

As an avid sports fan he has a lot of his collection to view during the commercials.

Even near his front door there is a wonderful collection.

It's really fun for me to see art that I've done in collectors homes. I did a face of Gecko and a rat fink for him years ago.

An unusual ceiling allowed Brook to hang pendants all the way around.

He has them in wood, bone and jade.

There are other areas as well, this is above the TV.

Brooks wife made a "live story" quilt for Brook that has all of his interests and milestones commemorated.

Close up you can see the tikis.

On one of his Gecko shelves he has my Bloody Maori. When he got it he came to my home to have it autographed (my first) and that is how we met.

Two Bosko's we'd never seen before.

Brooks favorite area, TV sports and tikis.

I posed with Brook while he held the 2012 Sacramento Crawl mug I made.

As we left we passed under more of the awesome pendants.

We love visiting with Brook and next week he'll bring Sandy to our home for a visit.

See you soon Brook, Wendy

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I like to think of this mug as having been made from nothing. It isn't a tiki that I've carved to make it fancy. It started as a plane tube and by carving it turned into an album cover for the December swap.

I glazed the inside in glossy black and gold.
On the outside I used pottery coat a flat black.

I let it sit until it dried.

Using wet paper towels I removed glaze from the surfaces that I wanted exposed.

Now I let this dry again for a day.

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I hope you all had a fun Halloween, cheers, Wendy

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[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2013-11-01 15:44 ]