I happened across an auction for some 1946 pictures in Tahiti by Adolphe Sylvain. We won a couple of the prints and needed a frame for them. I also needed to get back into woodworking mode, so I figured this would be good practice. The plan was to use some discount teak I purchased years […]
We have a chair fetish, so we needed new chairs to replace the boring couch in the Party Pit.
Here’s the final post of everything we’ve done up to 2022 with some Christmas flair: This is an old project where Lina took bamboo serving trays and turned them into picture frames: As everyone already knows, the tiki work is never done. However, this is the last update for the quest! We’re looking forward to
We were home for Christmas this year and Lina decorated the house. We put up the Modern Christmas Tree. Lina decorates it from the first floor. Then I hoist it up to the second floor on a pulley. There’s a rotating disco ball and an up-light placed on the ridge over the front door. I
There were a couple of changes to the Jungle Flower in 2022: We had a crafting class where we brought a bunch of our local Denver Tiki Tribe over to the house to make some masks out of normal construction foam: The example mask didn’t really match our style, so I downloaded some images on
Lina has always wanted a bar sign and I had always planned to carve it with my CNC machine, so Lina made the following design in Adobe InDesign: I imported it into the CNC program and we made a prototype with foam: Then I tweaked the design a little to get this: And we cut
We had a crafting class where we brought a bunch of our local Tiki Tribe over to the house to make some masks out of normal construction foam: The example mask didn’t really match our style, so we tried to carve out something from the Witco and Shag catalogs. So I downloaded some images on
We bought a Three-String, 3/4 Pretzel, Frankl-Style chair home from Palm Springs a couple of years ago that didn’t have any cushions, so I made some cushions for it: I wanted more furniture to match and a Facebook post showed a full set for somewhere around $400. I jumped on it with a quick “When
Many years ago in the faraway land of Edmondton, I bought a beaded flower curtain in a vintage store. I only bought one because I thought Chris wouldn’t like it. I really thought he wouldn’t like them …’cuz flowers. However, when we got home and I unpacked it, he liked it! WTH! I could’ve bought
I’ve wanted my own swizzle stick flower crown for years now, but 1. I couldn’t justify the expense of buying one and 2. I didn’t know how to make one myself. Fast forward many years later and I found tutorials on YouTube on how to make headdresses that are similar to a flower crown. Every
