Post #740031 by danlovestikis on Tue, Mar 24, 2015 8:33 PM

Tiki Ano, I didn't notice. Dan said, "OOPS" while he was laughing.

lunavideogames welcome home. The next Wish List will be around Christmas time. It seems I'm just doing one a year along with the crawl mugs and my carving for fun mugs. I look forward to hearing what you have in mind. I like all these challenges that I was given this year.

This is Dan's first beard and streaking episode! I fun one enjoy them both!

TikiHula thank you for looking at the repairs. Repairing tikis and making Should Have Been bowls for Dan gave me this wonderful hobby. I am so grateful to him that he also helps me with it daily.

Today I gave Dan a task that didn't work out.
I have one Flame Bob and one Zombie Torch in need of flames. I made them I fired them and then I remembered they needed straw holes. Dan got the appropriate drill for ceramics but it didn't work out. I'm going to start from scratch.

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Tiki Buddies meet Honu Tiki and his wife Jenae. They live in Sacramento and are members of the Sacramento Ohana. They came to our home this past Sunday. We had a wonderful visit and then we gave them a tour.

I should have squeezed Dan into this photo. I can't remember if he also wore blue.

It's fun for me to take photos of peoples first view of the tiki jungle room.

They are working on their tiki room currently. One day we will visit them.

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Here are some miscellaneous photos from my life.

Dan and I saw this African mask for sale. It was a similar mask that inspired the first tiki mug we know as Tiki Bob.

I love balloons. The auto mall put up several acres of them in Elk Grove. We passed by on

our way to my favorite store Alpha. I needed 36 gallons of slip and

found a glaze sale and picked up some new colors I'd not seen before.

At the grocery store I found a new tool. I'm going to see how well it will cut clay.

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While waiting for the kiln to cool I decided to get busy on the Hula Girl in the Hot Tub requests.
I made one and when I posted it here and on facebook I ended up with five orders. That was a fun surprise.
So when that happened I thought how wonderful it was that I had saved the Albert's Tiki Room molds as
coconut molds. That meant I could cast three a day.

So in two days I had six coconuts. Here's pouring them then after sitting for two hours

the excess slip is dumped out and the molds are left upside down overnight.

I only have 2 hula girl molds so that took three days to get enough. Here's opening the mold.

A perfect cast.

I stored them 2 at a time in plastic bags.

After my work day it was time for TV. Guess what I decided to get TV trays out and go back to work.

I paired up a girl and her hot tub.

I cut off this top and turned it over.

I carved in my name and date and started the coconut surface.

Once I finished the bottom half I smoothed it with a wet brush.

Then I turned it over and added the girl and her hair. I then went to work on the coconut surface.

Aerial view.

Side view.

Back view.

Side view.

I did it all again. In several hours of watching TV, well listening to TV I also made a second one.

Front view.

Aerial view.

Side view.

Back view.

Side view.

I'm making these for:

Dan

Theo Stool

HB Tiki

Dale. J.

B. R. MacDonald

J. Klinke

Not bad that I have three down and three to go. I'll try to whip these out tomorrow so that I can also wash the Bisque when the kiln is cool. Tomorrow I get to see if anything exploded!

I think I'll rest now.

Cheers, Wendy