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GoblinQueeen — Mele Kalikimaka Mug
Published: 2004-12-01 04:06:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 9753; Favourites: 57; Downloads: 1496
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First came the non-denominational holiday mug art, now the denominational. Not trying to impose my beliefs on others, just celebrating in my own way
For those who don't know, Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaiian for Merry Christmas. Through the cold months, maybe it will be good to keep warm thoughts
Media: Design and text created with pen tool in Photoshop, brush effects created with brush tool.
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Comments: 78
love it! I really like your style too! shall be watching you from now on methinks
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I walk around work singing "Melekalikimaka" all the time and the two girls I work with actually had to ask me to pronounce it so they could even say it. Needless to say, I wish I could get my hands on this mug, but I dun have a credit card or anything like that! T^T
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lol, it's just one of those fun things to say. You can't help but smile the way it rolls off the tongue
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dude that is also an awesome osng too lol a Melekakikimaka is the thing to saw on a bright hawaiin christmas day.....awesome jobs its looks very festive
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Yay! It's Milkman Mug... thing... stuff... y'know!
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Aaaaaw!
Hawaiian desing! It's very very adorable!
Amazing job! I love the colors and the Santa's hat! XD
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Hm... let's see here. Color = 
Yup, I'd say this was definitely 
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Hail to the xmas tiki
this is cool and the colours are delicious
i found this via ~retrotography
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Haha, I love it! I've been really gettin' into the Tiki stuff a lot... very neat. Excellent work as well, feels very polished and professional.
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Haha, I love it! I've been really gettin' into the Tiki stuff a lot... very neat. Excellent work as well, feels very polished and professional.
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cool, its tropical and festive! i like the style a lot, it's so 50's tiki hut-ish.
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ahh this is the mug you were talking about...nope hadn't seen it yet, but wouldn't expect any less from you 
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It's the same mask design, but I streched it out a bit and re-drew it with the pen tool so the lines are a lot cleaner
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ahh I gets ya...at least I know now that I'm not going crazy...that it did look like I had seen it before
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lol, I used to have a roomate from the Marshall Islands, and she'd often greet us with this. Very fun and festive ^_^
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Wow! Thats such a cute design. It could almost make me give up my Stitch Mug as my main coffee holder ^^
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Aww, I wouldn't want to bump poor Stitch out of the way, though
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very good idea for a xtmas mug
and the picture looks really great.
well done
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Warmth + tiki = my kinda xmas!
Yeah, that song (Bing version), Santa Baby, and Snoopy's Christmas are the only songs being played right now that don't make we want to stuff my ears with snow fluff. Xmas tunes are nice and all. But hearing them round the clock at work starting three days before thanksgiving is too much.
This would make a lovely door sign...or car window banner...or tie.
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lol, yeah. A couple years ago, pzb, Jas, and I were at a Color Me Mine. They had the music on the whole 6 hours we were there and we were so ready to hear something else by the end.
OOOoooo, a banner would be cool. I think I'm going to make some cards out of it
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Aa! Ee! Mele Kalikimaka e Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!! 
I swear every Christmas we have to sing this song more than we really should because all of the folks visiting us from the mainland think it's all exotic and stuff... Hehe, but it's fun! ^_^
Me ka aloha pau ole a hui hou! *Christmas huggles*
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lol, not exactly what leaps to my mind when I think of native sounds, but as far as holiday songs go, it's one of my favs
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I love it.
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A tiki dude!
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Did you draw this directly in PS? Awesome design work. It's flows perfectly. Kudos
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Well, I had a sketch of the tiki head and the flower to go by, but yeah. I love the pen tool
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HA HA! I Love how its not obviously Christmassy... It took me a minute to notice the hat on Mr. Tiki... XD Very good!
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You live in Hawaii?!?!????!?? Why didn't I know that?
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I wish! I live in SoCal
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god, im a sucker for 60s beach culture. is that a font or is that custom done?
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I have a font that's quite similar based on the Gilligan's Island style that I've used on occation, but this a bit different done with the pen tool in Photoshop.
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Yay! another mug!
You know I didn't even read the description yet and "Lilo and Stitch" popped into my head.
Good job!
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you created this with the pen tool on Photoshop? wow, you have much more patience than i!
it really looks great, though, the lines are so clean....
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oh, the pen tool is very much my best friend now that I know how to use it
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wow, i bow to your talent! 
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lol, you should
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the ctrl button? is this on a Mac or a PC? you know, i should just open Photoshop and figure it out for myself....
thanks for the tip!
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That's PC talk. If your working Mac, I think it's the apple key or the wierd little one next to it.
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you're right, it's the apple key thingie. thanks for the tip, i shall wrestle with the pen tool soon.... if i were really ambitious, i'd try to ink my drawings that way...but laziness shall probably prevail!
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You never know, sometimes I feel like I'm being more lazy by using it
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hard to believe, but i guess that goes to show how comfortable you are with it!
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Ohhhh, I love that. The little tiki with the Santa hat is ADORABLE. Mind if I email this link to my uncle? He loves Hawaii.
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