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Tiki VIP #50 Chrissy Weena – Ceramics by Weena Bee

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I recently was in Denver on a home tiki bar tour. About thirty of us climbed onboard a chartered bus and it drove us all around to three home tiki bars in and around the Denver. One of the tiki bars was about forty minutes outside of Denver so to kill time we did tiki trivia and I actually won! The prize was a tiki mug made by Chrissy Weena. This mug was beautiful! Chrissy has also made mugs for some of the local bars in Denver like Hell or High Water. Here is the story of Chrissy and Ceramics by Weena Bee…

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #105 Ka Laki Lolo Tiki – Dundee MI

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Sometime life imitates art, or is it the other way around?

Mr. X’s Valet, a painting from Shag, was the inspiration for the Ka Laki Lolo Tiki. Art decided to use elements of the tiki bar in that Shag painting and Ka Laki Lolo Tiki was born! Art and Maria’s home tiki bar is in Dundee Michigan and when things get cold in the winter they have a wonderful tiki bar to escape to. It’s an enclosed patio turned tiki bar and Art and Maria can enjoy a Mai Tai or two even though it might be two below outside! Here is their story…

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #104 The Midwatch Bar – Duval WA

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If you ever served in the Navy and was out to sea, you probably have spent some time being on watch. Midwatch is the time between midnight to 4:00 AM and this is how Mike met his now wife Shannon and Midwatch is the name of their home tiki bar. I’d say it’s fitting! Here’s a little bit more of how Mike met Shannon and how their home tiki bar came together, Ships Ahoy!!

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #103 3 Palms Tiki Lounge – Las Vegas NV

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You can build a tiki bar but not in my living room!

And with that Kitty and Mike got to work on converting their spare bedroom into their home tiki bar. Three large palm trees line the front of their mid-century modern home so naming their home tiki bar was easy, they called it 3 Palms Tiki Lounge! Here is Kitty and Mike’s story…

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Tiki Lifestyle – By Don Logay (An Article For Vegas Legal Magazine)

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I’d like to present to you this article by Don Logay. He reached out to me a couple months ago and asked if I could help him out with information for an article he was going to write about living the tiki lifestyle. I was flattered to be asked to be a resource and I talked with Don over the phone giving him all the tiki knowledge I can. Don really did his homework and his write up on the tiki lifestyle covers all the bases! Click on Tiki Lifestyle by Don Logay or you can read it here in Vegas Legal Magazine

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Home Tiki Bar Spotlight #102 Kanaloa’s Demise – Kent WA

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Kanaloa is a god symbolized by the squid or the octopus…

Situated in Chris and Cathy’s backyard is Kanaloa’s Demise. The theme of their bar is all things octopus. You will find, pantings,  lamps and other amphoral related to the might sea dweller, the octopus. Want to learn more about octopuses, or should I say octopi? Want to learn more about how this incredible nautical theme bar came to be? Keep reading…

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Straight Edge Tiki #5- Libations Arts for Brain Health Coloring Book (Eric Spruth)

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I recently stopped drink alcohol because of health reasons and as of this writing I haven’t had a tiki drink in over four months and counting! I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the drinking I have done over the course of my life and even thou I never plan on drinking again, I have and always will have a relationship with alcohol. It was mostly good until it wasn’t. Unless you never started drinking, you also have a relationship with alcohol and hopefully that relationship is a good one.

The Libations Arts for Brain Health Coloring Book was created for this reason. It’s a coloring book that makes you think about your relationship with alcohol. Eric Spruth is an art therapist and he is going to tell you about this therapeutic coloring book…

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Tiki VIP #49 Lowtiki – Tiki Mug Artist from The Pacific NW

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I’m always excited to see new ideas when it comes to tiki, especially tiki mugs. Mugs from Lowtiki have a distinct style pulling from the spooky, the tropical and the beautiful. Sam, is the woman behind these incredible mugs and she’s from the Pacific North West just like me and when you live in a city that rains nine months out of the years, Sam’s mugs brighten the day! Here’s is Sam’s story…
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