i love creating a fresh look on our front porch for each season.  okay, it's not a porch. more like a 'vestibule' - long, na...

our Hawaiian holiday style continues onto the dining table... using what we had on hand already, along with a few simple and inexpensiv...

our Happy HULAdays theme begins at the front door,  with a totally terrific tiki welcome... i made these guys by simply painting fa...

my thinking is: if you're going to do a Christmas theme, do it all the way. the  TIKI tree in my last post was just the beginnin...

 nope, this is NOT your ordinary Christmas tree... THIS, my friends, is what our tree looks like THIS year: it's a TIKI TREE! o...

i created this tree last year, from  lampshades and wire lampshade frames & a wire waste basket. that was after i had stepped away...

designed to coordinate with the contemporary rustic style of our 'tree' theme, as seen in the faux wood junk trees in the backg...