More of our Tiki decorations

Jeremy created this fountain. The tiki guy is wood, we got him years ago at a mall in St Louis. He was less then $20 at time. He wasnt even on the bottom so he would never sit up right and would fall over off the shelves and hit kids in the head and me more then once. I had put him up. Jeremy drilled a hole in the back for the tubing and 3 small holes diagonally down his tongue. He added a small line of hot glue along bottom of his tongue to make the water flow the way it needed to so it would go down off his body into the hole you can't see, if he did not do that it would run straight down his body.  The tubing was purchased at Lowes, less then $5 for a big long piece, I think like 5 ft, and the fountain motor was from Lowes as well. It was $10-15, not sure because we bought it last year. The wicker basket was from plant we found clearanced out and we liked the leaves but had no use for basket. He used a cheap bucket from Home Depot inside it with a silver pan(cheap ones from dollar tree) that had holes in it already. (You know, the kind you put in the oven and get for your turkey). Its topped with rocks that we had from one of my previous decorating things, added some baboo grass from the woods and all done. We plan to start taking pictures as we go instead of just the final product from now on, so we can help other do it yourselfers. Jeremy is great at doing everything for cheap. The rocks would have came from around the area and looked just as great but we had the smooth rocks already so we used them.

Now this is something he made when we were stationed in California. The sign itself is plywood scrap and a piece of 2x4 scrap, cut, put together and painted. Jeremy then made a base from a foam piece from the stuff that surronds a new tv when you buy it. It was just gonna go in the trash of course. The foam was cut to shape and sprayed with spray adhesive and some sand out of Erin's sand box, and dried overnight. Add some grass from woods, a coconut, and a green leaf, and we have an awesome sign. The sign also covers up the sandbag that holds down our canapy that covers the back patio. Its nice way to keep that hidden.

Another note, the walls are a baboo like wall that we got at Lowes in the outdoor area with the decorative fencing stuff. It was $22 and it was 20 ft long. It did 2 walls for us and the whole corner looks like a tiki hut. I think it was the best money we spent to make a big difference for not much over twenty bucks.