Wendy Cevola - New colors of the Frank mug by Frankoma now available.

The Black Velvet Wish of Derreck Heritage is finished. Here are photos in regular light then with UV light. The photos done the same way but with the painting in its frame. This has been a fun project. I never know what I will paint next until the wisher tells me. I love working with a person and their idea.

Went to a 25,000 square foot antique mall for a walk. Saw tikis every so often.

Saw a set of shakers. I said to Dan the set we have just says Otigiri. Let's get these. We did and I was right. He was impressed since we haven't touched the shakers in many years.

It's fun to give in once in a while.

Wendy, that Black Velvet/Black Light came out AWESOME!!!!! Thanks for sharing with us <3

Ah, thank you MadDogMike.

Kelly B. posted her Frank mugs on facebook. It's really to see who ordered them. Dennis at Frankoma keeps selling out and then figures out the next color. If you call he'll put you on a waiting list for new color versions and he'll give you a call.

In 2023 via Ancestry, I met 3 cousins and parts of their families. This is my cousin Sally and her husband Dick. They also love Hawaii and tikis. When they found out I had a new mug out they bought a couple. They are displayed in the smallest room of their home!

Fun times.

Ray Wyland with his Frank mug.

Gregory Smith makes really cool tiki lamps. The front one with a Gecko mug and the back one with a Tiki Crate mug I made.

We started Thanksgiving early. First Black Bear Diner. We started a few days earlier.

Then Sky River Casino. !

At home.

Then at our dear friends Wylee Raven and Eva's. DSCF3760 The meal was to be a fusion Japanese and American. We brought the Japanese Beer. Also an ice chest and ice. They had the same plus more beer!!! A wonderful time for all 17 of us.

Now it's time to think of fun in December. Cheers, Wendy

And now I'm hungry again! Looks mighty tasty!

Wendy... A) The Velvet came out Dynamite! B)The Mugs look sweet C) The Food Porn is great

coldwarspacemonkey it was really a treat. It's fun to have new flavors. They are so nice to invite us each year to be with their family. I hope you found something good to cure your hunger pangs.

Or Got Rum? A) thank you so much, I had fun doing it twice. Once with regular paint and then again with florescent paint. B) It is wonderful to have my hands back in clay and to work for Frankoma Pottery again. C) I will have to tell Wylee Raven and Eva what you said, they will love that.

We recently saw this in a store in Sutter Creek, CA. Not a favorite style for us with the human head on top but it's a legitimate Hawaiian style.

We were recently in a thrift store and saw these mugs. OA what's that? I really didn't think I knew the answer. I posted and was told it was Oceanic Arts. Dang I should have bought them. Too far away to return to snag them.

Sweet OA mugs...maybe they will ship?

Or Got Rum? I called them and left a message, no reply. I found an email address for the store and wrote to them, no reply. Then a month after our first trip we got in the car and did another day trip to Grass Valley.

On the way we stopped at the store. Due to open at 10 am. At 10:15 am someone finally arrived and unlocked the door. The mugs had been moved but Dan found them and we bought them. They are now on display in our tiki jungle room. It was a fun day.

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Very cool! Glad you were able to go back and find them

Or Got Rum and MadDogMike, thank you. They were there for an entire month before we returned. A lucky break.

A nice find in the wild!

Wait, u bought 2 mugs. Oh boy, here it goes again!!!

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MaukaHale one we passed up until we heard from Swanky and Babalu telling us to go get them. It was a month before we returned and were really surprised to find them still there.

hang10tiki plus those sun god shakers! Once a tiki hunter always a tiki hunter. As Dan sorts out and lets go of tiki albums we have empty shelves. I've been filling them with Frankoma mugs I've made but right now these mugs just fit right in!

Whoa!!! How cool and never seen that before. I know that mug was initially designed by Stella Bodey and made by Spurlin. Spurlin and Stella Bodey worked hand in hand with Oceanic Arts. Around 1966 Spurlin (Stella Bodey) sold all their tiki molds to Desert Ceramics and Beauce Canada. Beauce's tiki line is all Spurlin mugs and bowls. Desert Ceramics also has quite few mugs based on Spurlin molds. Desert Ceramics was located in Palm Desert and also worked closely with Oceanic Arts and made mugs for them like the Mahi Mahi mug. So most likely Spurlin sold or borrowed this mold to Oceanic Arts (or Desert Ceramics). Desert Ceramics then made this mug for Oceanic Arts. I think there's both a Beauce and Desert Ceramics version of this mug as well.

So I would guess circa 1966, designed by Stella Bodey manufactured by Desert Ceramics for Oceanic Arts.

Anyhow, I have never seen this version of this mug before. Crypto for sure. And the only other mug with the famed OA logo on it is the OA Cobra's Fang mug. Great score.

Tattoo thank you so much for your detailed description of the mugs. We were truly amazed that they were still waiting for us a month later. We are happy to display them for now. I love all your information. Wendy

Merry Christmas Tiki Buddies. We wish you a wonderful New Year.

We celebrated Eva's birthday (yes, it is on 12/25/23) today at Macaroni Grill. We had a lot of fun conversations going.

Merry Christmas

Looks like you 2 had a good day

Cheers

Jon

Thank you, Jon, we did. I bet you did too! Happy Holidays to you and Janelle. Wendy

Sporting a couple Wendy necklaces

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hang10tiki I tried to load your photos too and it didn't work. Could you do them again? ![DSCF4244]

We went to Sky River Prime for New Years. Nothing tiki but our shirts and a good time. I talked Dan into a tomahawk steak. Big mistake. I didn't know Prime could be so marbled with fat. Great taste and horrible cholesterol. It was fun though. (/uploads/251/659440f8c439a.jpg) PS yes there was more to our meal than steak.

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Now that's a proper TOMAHAWK Rib Steak! Happy New Years!

Or Got Rum? We would never buy one again. When the leftovers came out of the refrigerator for slicing it was so full of fat it was gross. I know, more flavor but that's not us. Dan cooked it and squeezed out the fat into paper towels.

We visited some friends and I photographed some of my art on display in their home. I made all the Tiki Bobs in the first photo. In the necklace photo I did the bumatay and the seahorse.

Then to lunch at Elia's Greet restaurant and then home. I will repair this Tiki Crate mug for her. She won it with the chip on eBay. I'm happy to fix one of my creations.

You obviously don't live in earthquake country. I would never put anything that heavy and fragile on an upper shelf LOL

MDM those at at someone else's home. But we don't live in an earthquake area but they do!

Derreck has now hung the painting I did for him at his home and he got a UV light strip to put below.

Regular light.

UV light.

Dan and I built a jungle so we could use vines to hide all the chords.

Looks great

Looks Great Hanging Wendy

hang10tiki and OGR thank you. I really appreciate those who send me a photo after it's hung. I need to suggest a vine to cover the cord!

I've been sorting and cleaning recently, and look what I rediscovered. Remember sending me this three years ago, when TC was down?

Hamo, what a fun thing to see again. That was right near my retirement (which hasn't lasted at all). We have been friends a long time. Cheers, Wendy

Repairing a chip takes a lot of steps to be successful. Here are some of them. Wet the chip with water. The wood putty will not crack when drying if it dries slowly. Also, it sticks better to wet bisque fired clay.

I add a thin layer of wood putty and let it dry overnight. I did this 3 times for this big chip. Once it's dried, I sand it flat to match the rest of the surfaces. Then I carve in the detail.

I clean it off and painted it black. I wiped it off the raised surfaces and then mixed paint to blend it in. Not perfect but close. Then when this paint was dry I sprayed it with a glossy fix to make the glossiness match the rest of the mug.

It's good enough to display now. It was fun working on one of my Tiki Crate mugs done for Forbidden Island.  

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My husband Dan was notified that my tiki mug for the Coral Reef came in #7 in the top 10 butts of all time post. An honor for sure. This is on The Search For Tikis facebook page.

Fixed the pics on my 12/30 post above

Fixed good as new

Nice butt mug. lol

I forgot I gave you a Tramp Stamp necklace! I'll post that photo on my fb page.

Congrats Wendy...sweeet azz 🍑🍑 mug

Or Got Rum? thank you I will tell Dan.

Hana said “hi”

So cute. I just posted this on fb. The Terminator kitty that comes for dinner each night. I recently found out he visits our neighbor EJ each morning.

This red cat belongs to Julie across the street. We feed many animals.

Scardy Cat is ours.

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I'm almost done sculpting #2 of 5 more projects for Frankoma. I miss painting.

Two done and working on a third for Frankoma. Meanwhile someone needed a mug fixed and I said send it to me. It came from Florida and will end up in Hawaii. I'll be posting the steps here.

Michael bought it with the chip because it was #1 of 80.

Steps, wet the white surface. Cover with wood putty and then clean it off the glazed parts.

I repeated these steps 4 more times in 4 more days.

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Cool Process steps...Thanks..