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Fri, Mar 10, 2023 7:37 PM
hang10tiki you and SewTiki brought us a gift to our hotel in Las Vegas. It was the first time we met. Recently the little Frankie's let loose and fell to the bottom of the box. When I opened the box up I decided to take it apart and put the swizzles in Dan's jungle room and to use the box for myself. I wanted to have one of each of my necklaces displayed in our home. I glued them to the backing and put the box back together. Thank you for making this possible. We enjoyed the Frankies treasures for many years. Now I get to enjoy more of my work.
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I did a post before this one but this one started a new page. So, something is new at the bottom of 221 and the top of 222. |
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Sun, Mar 12, 2023 8:57 AM
One of our favorite photos was taken by the Sacramento Bee during an interview. I decided to make a puzzle of it for Dan for Christmas. We put it together and here it is.
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Sun, Mar 12, 2023 9:00 AM
I also had a puzzle made of the tiki hut in the tiki jungle room in it's hey day. We put it together.
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Sun, Mar 12, 2023 9:04 AM
I decided we should keep these two puzzles together so I bought this glue. It works wonderfully well.
I decided that transferring the puzzles to a cardboard backing would make them easier to hang in the garage. Only I tried to slide it fast, and this happened!
We put it back together, glued them both and they now hang in our garage.
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Sun, Mar 12, 2023 11:07 AM
Love the puzzles Wendy! <3 Reminds me of my visit to your house |
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Sun, Mar 12, 2023 8:10 PM
MadDogMike you and Teresa are always welcome here. |
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Sun, Mar 12, 2023 9:07 PM
Great puzzle. We do them too, but that’s a great one Glad the Frankie’s swizzle stick frame got a second job Hugs Jon |
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Mon, Mar 13, 2023 3:39 PM
Always fun to see you men post on my thread. Next up repairing Dan's war club. He dropped it and the brittle twine broke. My first helpful hint is to always keep a pair of pliers with your glue. Second helpful hint is to ask your husband if he likes the rope before you add it!!! The twine was an improvement. Back in place and looking fine.
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Wed, Mar 15, 2023 6:56 PM
Good fix |
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Thu, Mar 16, 2023 5:10 AM
Most of my life is held together with E6000. Good stuff. |
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danlovestikis
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Fri, Mar 17, 2023 11:00 AM
hang10tiki you almost bought this war club. You would have saved me the repair!!! Thank you. Will carve just the best for so many projects! |
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Sat, Mar 18, 2023 9:27 PM
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danlovestikis
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Thu, Mar 23, 2023 10:29 AM
We are painting the inside or our home. Room by room we are making the puttied holes from hanging tikis disappear. Here's an update as to our progress. Before and after photos. We had a family gallery in our laundry room. All these photos went into albums.
A few walls after they were finished. We removed the mirror. Fresh paint is wonderful.
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Thu, Mar 23, 2023 10:47 AM
I painted the nook. The nail holes needed another layer. I opened a new can of paint and went to work. It was the wrong color. I ended up painting the room a third time. NO nail holes with putty show up now!
All done. I can't figure out the white area on the wall and window. It's not there except in this photo. [ Edited by danlovestikis on 2023-03-23 10:49:09 ] [ Edited by danlovestikis on 2023-03-23 10:50:05 ] |
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MadDogMike
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Thu, Mar 23, 2023 3:23 PM
Looks like a lot of hard work! |
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danlovestikis
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Sat, Mar 25, 2023 6:30 PM
MadDogMIke I will forever check my paint color before covering a whole room while thinking it will lighten up when it dries. Lesson learned. |
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Sat, Mar 25, 2023 10:13 PM
So you paint on stuff other than black velvet? |
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danlovestikis
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Tue, Mar 28, 2023 7:58 AM
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Yes! Would you like a flower on your cheek next time we meet? |
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Tue, Mar 28, 2023 8:00 AM
When we were at Kelly Moore's we met Gregory Calhoun a real paint contractor. He showed me this bucket and grate. Said my project would go faster if I used one. I bought it and he was so right. We learned a lesson. If you buy 5 gallons they come in a huge bucket. So we bought five cans and split it up at home. [ Edited by danlovestikis on 2023-03-28 08:02:48 ] |
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Tue, Mar 28, 2023 8:05 AM
Now it was time to strip and paint the dining room. It's being changed to Asian to match the living room.
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Tue, Mar 28, 2023 8:18 AM
Up in the tiki jungle room waiting while Dan decides to keep or give them up.
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Tue, Mar 28, 2023 8:24 AM
Next we stripped the walls of tikis and prepped the downstairs bedroom for painting. Every spot on each wall shows where a tiki items once hung. We didn't believe in empty wall space.
For over 20 years tikis were hung and re-hung on our walls. Holes were puttied. Here an example on one wall before and after painting. [ Edited by danlovestikis on 2023-03-28 08:25:48 ] [ Edited by danlovestikis on 2023-03-28 08:26:54 ] |
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Wed, Mar 29, 2023 8:20 AM
Wow Lots of work Looking good I like the fireplace decor Thumbs up |
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Tue, Apr 4, 2023 6:44 PM
Thank you hang10tiki. I have more to share. Here is the downstairs bedroom finished. It now has a bird theme.
Also a few cats ready to pounce!
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Tue, Apr 4, 2023 9:36 PM
Painting is a pain But End results good |
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Sun, Apr 9, 2023 9:12 AM
hang10tiki you are so right! Next up my office/art room. Lots of nail holes here. I used to have all these heads I made for submission for an airport project. I wanted to call it Passengers, Past, Present and Future and have them put among a backdrop of cloth from around the world. I was told they only selected projects where they had input. Not almost completed projects. Oops! I have since given these all away to friends and family. 42 in all. Some are missing in these photos.
Time to paint and cover the mess.
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Sun, Apr 9, 2023 9:25 AM
This is the spare bedroom upstairs.
Our walls were covered with tikis. Then puttied nail holes and now new paint.
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Sun, Apr 9, 2023 9:29 AM
Dan calls making CD recording of his favorite music his life's work. I call his binders of CD's a mess because of the messy labels. I convinced him to make a list so I could make neater labels. We are a team.
Next I gave him some art to hang. We are tikifying the tiki jungle room again.
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Sun, Apr 9, 2023 9:37 AM
We continue to purge and give to friends things we are able to part with. These things have left our home. We feel so much lighter and able to paint easier.
With so many records gone Dan had shelves in the tiki jungle rooom and I filled them with tiki art. This is the only room we will not paint at this time.
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Sun, Apr 9, 2023 1:55 PM
WOW!!! So much work! I get tired just scrolling through the pics! LOL It looks beautiful! |
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Sun, Apr 9, 2023 7:33 PM
MadDogMike, there's so much more to share. We are painting again tomorrow. Thanks for noticing. |
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Fri, Apr 14, 2023 9:05 AM
Our house painting continues. Sorry, this isn't tiki, but TC is also my cloud. Our master bedroom is Egyptian. This room we had completely done, even the ceiling. First we had to remove and store the treasures from King Tut's tomb. Then the painters did the rest.
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Sun, Apr 16, 2023 7:09 PM
The last painting project was to do 3 stalls of the garage. We had just gotten all our art hung and now we had to take it down. To prepare for painting we swept, scraped off clay, vacuumed and washed where needed and puttied a hundred nail holes. When we broke for lunch, we had take-out that gave us a wonderful message.
All prepped and ready for paint. However, I made one HUGE mistake. We are using up paint that was either too light or two dark in the house. I should have mixed it all together before painting. Instead, I just mixed a pint of too dark with a gallon of too light but then I didn't have enough of one color to keep that mix going. Oh well. I'll just have to figure something out. [ Edited by danlovestikis on 2023-04-16 19:14:13 ] |
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Tue, Apr 18, 2023 6:17 AM
Aloha The jungle room still has a lot of TIKI Yaaaaaaa Good job on the painting Looks great Like all the inspiration books on your shelves!!! |
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Thu, Apr 20, 2023 8:18 AM
We continued to work on the Garage painting. I missed a step and fell from the ladder. This was a week ago and I'm better each day. Sitting down has been the hardest part so we continue to work on the house. My mom had a dental lab where she made gold crowns and retainers. She is sitting in front of one of the desks we painted. They have been antique white, pale orange, brown and now beige. Still in use since 1959 when they were bought unfinished at Nature Wood when it was on Stockton Blvd.
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Fri, Apr 21, 2023 8:57 AM
Painting our garage has finished. I had fun using up the last of our paint by doing huge snowflakes on the wall. Then the next morning I went outside to collect our trash cans and found someone's napkin in our front yard. Imagine my surprise when I found that the background looked just like our wall. I have covered it in plastic tape and put it with our pictures. Dan re-hung them and for now the garage work is done.
Dan is standing in front of an empty space. We will do another puzzle to fill this spot in. Dan was a college student working at Safeway, then he became a Radiologic Technologist and we both worked in Diagnostic Imaging at Sutter Hospital until we retired. The old framed photo is of his father's parents. [ Edited by danlovestikis on 2023-04-21 09:00:32 ] |
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Mon, Apr 24, 2023 8:49 AM
I was stopped at a red light and saw this license plate. I hid the part not needed to be seen. The rest is fun for you drinkers!
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Wed, May 3, 2023 10:07 AM
Our guest bedroom before we sold our tiki collection.
We have guests coming. The bedroom is now minimalist tiki and we decided to pick up some new sheets.
It's so nice to have the house all painted too. [ Edited by danlovestikis on 2023-05-03 10:12:52 ] |
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Thu, May 4, 2023 6:26 AM
Ouch, Sorry about the fall. Hope you are ok. House looks great! Love that gold monkey And Dan-os poster, way cool |
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Thu, May 4, 2023 6:31 AM
Almost forgot I know you like coincidences So New Tiki bar just opened up here in Vegas: Evidently you have the mascot Lol
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Fri, May 5, 2023 8:14 PM
hang10tiki the Golden Monkey was made by MadDogMike! He's been with us for years. That is fun that you have another tiki place in your city. Glad you like my posts. Cheers, Wendy |
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Tue, May 16, 2023 6:42 PM
Robert E. Coleman bought all of my ceramic supplies, kiln and molds. To help him get started I sculpted a couple of mugs for him. We also taught him mold making with the first mug. He is now casting this mug. He said I should show the steps to the part I did for him. The sculpt and the mold. He gave me the drawing photo of his idea to work from. I destroyed the last crawl mug sculpt and used the clay. Romo clay is so hard I use a hammer to shape it.
I sculpted and added clay until the basic shape was ready.
I then did the bottom. Today when I posted on fb it was pointed out that the year was 2021. That is when I did this sculpt and made the mold. I let Robert know. He can change the last number if he wants to.
The face will come next. This is a fun project. I will enjoy seeing how he does the glazing. I will be there to guide him along. Ceramics are not easy. |
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Thu, May 18, 2023 5:58 PM
The sculpt for Robert E. Coleman is a Pumkin Tiki Bob with a story that is his to share. Here are the last sculpting steps along with how I add a chunk of clay where it will make a slip entrance through the mold. He will hand sculpt each stem and add it to the top after he removes each mug from the mold.
Up next will be the making of the mold. |
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Fri, May 19, 2023 7:09 PM
I've posting very detailed mold making steps on my past pages. So these photos are to just show that Robert E. Coleman's Pumpkin Tiki Bob mug has been molded. We used it to train Robert how to make a mold. I have sculpted one more mug for him and hopefully this summer we will give him a final lesson.
It's fun getting my hands back in the clay and plaster.
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Fri, May 19, 2023 7:15 PM
Robert E. Coleman will produce the Pumpkin Tiki Bob mug. He took the mold home and using fans dried it 100%. Then he began to cast the mugs and to add the stem. I'm looking forward to seeing his finished mug.
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Sun, May 21, 2023 9:17 PM
Pump kin bob Kool |
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hang10tiki I'm hoping he has fun making his first idea for a mug.Sacramento, CA Psycho Tiki D put together a tiki sale at the Elks Club on Cypress. We had so much fun. Vampiress RN gave me a book on Black Velvets and Eric Gabry's gave me an autographed book by Sven Kirsten I had wanted. Slow Hand Tiki Man gave us 2 bottles of water. We also received many hugs from all our friends. It was a blast.
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I used a spatula to get every drip.
Dan scrubs the baseboards before I paint.
Dan took apart the stereo system. Some went to a friend and some fit into the jungle room and master bedroom.
Now the room is ready to paint to cover all the puttied nail holes.
It ended with all of this going home with Nelson. 
Our home is so much lighter.
One wall is done and Dan's coming in to check on my progress, he paints the baseboards. 
All done. The best part is having the tiki books now closer to my table. Time for the next project.
The work and the finished room. No art yet.
This fellow bought the lamp. I made the tiki and Gregory Smith turned it into a lamp.
Gregory and Debbie stopped by for dinner a perfect end to a fun day.
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