Saturday

While I spent the day working on product with the help of Maya, Caroline and Natalie,

Joe was busy working out how to mount the Fez-o-rama sign for the booth. With Ikabod's help it all went together rather easily.

Tomorrow we will start the finishing touches on the sign to make it look all neglected.

Monday

The Sign got its first coat of color today:
(picture to be added as soon as I take one)
The idea is to make it look like a worn-out roadside attraction sign.

The tricky part here is to make it look like it was painted by the un-skilled without making it actually look like it was painted by the un-skilled. This is totally against what I usually do. I'm usually trying to make myself look like I know what I'm doing...

Anyway, the plan is to distress to colors so they look like they've been in the sun and dirt for years, all while not paying for the right paints.

Sunday!

While we had many people over working on product and the Cult booth, a bit was done for the Fez-o-rama booth.

The signage had one more sanding pass and the front side got it's first coat of base paint. Many thanks to Caroline, Troy and Cannibal for working on that.

12 days and counting

Actually little was done on the Fez-o-rama booth today. Most of the focus was on the Cult of the Eye projects. We had the blessing of Tofujoe traveling from Oakland for the day to oversee the disassembly of the Tiki Booth and prep for the last of the work needed on that.

I was focused on CotE Fezzes, finally finishing the new version of the PontiFez for Stickmann.

1st Sunday after the 1st Full Moon after the Spring Equinox

Well after getting a later start due to having breakfast with my lovely wife, my mother and my grandfather; we went back to work on the signage.

Here you can see some more shaping done with a knife and Dremel then later, sanding blocks.
After that we attempted to fill in gaps with expanding foam. It worked fairly well but not perfectly. I'm sure there is a learning curve here but we have no time for that.


Tomorrow I will fill in the massive gap on the backside with foam and next week we will hopefully have this in paint.

Saturday

Embroideries continue! On the booth side of things Troy and my Mom came over to work on a sign for the booth. What started as a broken windsurfing board is slowly being hacked into a sign.

Troy worked up the design before we started at it with kitchen knifes.


Early testing showed that a dremmel works great for carving foam but makes an incredible mess!

Tomorrow we will do some more work on this.

Monday

Went in search of stuff for the booth. Picked up raffia table skirting to use on either the front counter or as camoflage for product in the back.

I did find one lamp that might work for a base for the backdrop but I'll wait to see what Joe finds.

More work on product today as well.

Sunday

Today's Players: Maya, Troy, Joe, Tiny and Irk.

Joe started right in with working up possibilities for the booth's backdrop. I was damned impressed with his use of crap laying about my home.

He also spent some time considering gels for the counter's underlight.

Tiny returned to work on skulls with Troy pulling multiple duty on Shambooâ„¢ (Irk is to be credited with that trademarked name) Glasswares and skulls.


Maya was working on Glassware and paintings.


Irk was hard at work on the new sculptures for the Tiki booth.


I was running between embroideries, vinyl and construction.

It was a very productive day!

Saturday

Despite having the Long Beach Grand Prix going on Stick and Irk still traveled down to get some work done.

I wrapped the three box liners in fabric before anyone arrived.

Troy and I backed the bamboo with black fabric so now it looks much better!

Irk's work on the Tiki Booth looks spectacular! I'll let him post about that.

The rest of the day was spent on product work.

Mid-week Review

Today is the one month mark for Tiki Oasis. Deadlines are looming!

Here is where we stand (in a nutshell)

• Front Counter
  
  • Plexi Tops -done
    
  • MDF Tops -done as black
    
  • Legs -done
    
  • Frontage
    
    • need to back bamboo with fabric
      
    • possibly add grass skirting to lower edge
    
    
  • Curtains -add to the back side to hide storage
    
  • Skull Displays
    
    • Skulls -need to be decorated and sealed
      
    • Sambooâ„¢ Poles -need to be faux-finished and sealed
  
  
  
• Lighting -we have three possibilities to explore
  
  • LED lighting with battery power
    
  • Backlight salvaged from a flatscreen
    
  • decorative Ikea lighting.
  
  
  
• Backdrop -possible ideas need to be compared to the limited time we have left.
  
• Packing -create bags and totes for all of the bits so we don't lose anything.

My focus is now on the product so less and less attention is left for the booth needs.

32 days and counting

Today's players: Troy, Mike, Irk and Maya.

Assembled the booth for a final look. The tops were painted black just for the time being but they look so nice I may have to leave them black.

Trimmed the edge of the bamboo. I didn't care for this uniform wave so I went for a more random edge not in the photo. You can also see the foam lining of the bamboo on the inside. This iritates me. I think I will remove that and glue black fabric on the bamboo.

We remade the shelf for the cut-out box and covered it with fabric.

Troy layed out a template to do the same for the bottoms of the plexi cases.

I spent a good deal of the day working on the new designs for this year. Graphics are done so I just need to create the cut files and then engineer the embroideries.

Maya and Mike sorted all of the glassware and assigned the designs. This is a big help for me because I usually go into vapor lock if I have do decide all of these things on my own.

Paint!

No pictures today... not much to look at really.

Troy put second coat on the cabinets... I re-did the base coats on the "Shamboo"

Mostly I worked on new designs and embroidery.