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Collectible mugs, upcycled vintage, rattan furniture & other treasures.🗿🍹Lovechild of &

10/23/2026

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💡 CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: THE FOURSQUARE

One of our newer designs, the Foursquare has been turning heads since its debut at Tiki Oasis 2026. Part of our Choose Your Own Adventure lamp series, this design delivers a compact package that plays nicely with lower ceilings and gives you plenty of room to get creative.

What makes it a favorite?
🌴 A combination of flat and curved surfaces
📐 A design that tucks snugly into lower ceilings
🎨 Plenty of opportunity to mix and match fabric patterns
Make it yours. Choose from 20+ fabric patterns, incorporate vintage tapa, bring your own cloth, or mix and match to your heart’s content. Want to take it a step further? Add hand-painted accents for a truly one-of-a-kind creation.

Your lamp, your rules. Chase those lamp dreams and let’s make something that fits your space and your style.

📩 Message us to start planning your custom build!

Photo cred: Jeff Ross

10/22/2026

👻🍹 MONSTERS & MAI TAIS AT TONGA HUT! 🍹👻

We’re excited to be back at Tonga Hut this Sunday, October 25th, for Monsters and Mai Tais! It’s always a good time hanging out with friends, enjoying a few cocktails, and we just happen to also be bringing along some of our creations too😁.

We’ll have a few new items making their debut, and we can’t wait for you to check them out! Along with the new stuff, expect handmade tiki décor, custom lamps, hand-painted upcycles, vintage finds, artwork, and other tropical oddities from the First Wave Tiki collection.

Come say hi, browse the goods, grab a Mai Tai, and get into the Halloween spirit with us. 👹🌴

📍 Tonga Hut 📅 Sunday, October 25th

See you there!

10/16/2026

🌴 Closing out 2026 with First Wave Tiki 🍍

We’ve still got a few more stops to make before we wrap up the year!

We had a great time heading north last weekend for the Sac Ohana Marketplace at The Lost Port of Sacramento. It was such a pleasure to be included in the inaugural marketplace at the Streets of London Pub. Thanks for the invite and to everyone who stopped by, shopped our work, and made us feel welcome!

We’re not done yet, though. Still a few more stops on the tiki marketplace road. We’ve compiled a list of more opportunities coming up to find our wares in the wild — from handmade lamps, hand-painted upcycles, custom carvings, vintage tiki décor, restored finds, and other one-of-a-kind tropical oddities.

Keep an eye out for us at these upcoming events up and down the great state of California, and maybe a few more to add to the list coming up. We’d love to see some familiar faces, meet new friends, and help you find something a little different for your home bar, tiki room, or collection.

See you out there!

10/06/2026

Take a look underwater at this custom crate lamp we built for one of the cabana huts at Son of The Big Tiki Woo Woo this past weekend. 🪼💡

We were commissioned to build a lamp with a Jellyfish theme for Siren’s Jellyfish Garden. It was a fun challenge for William La Gone Jr. as this was his first time adding blacklight to one of his lamps. So, there was a bit of experimenting, testing and figuring things out along the way. But we think the finished piece came out pretty damn well. It got a lot of chatter at the event.

We love getting the chance to build something that’s completely one-off, especially when it involves trying something new.

Have an idea for a custom lamp, sign, bar piece, or some other wonderfully specific thing you can’t find anywhere else? Message us. We’re always up for a build. 🔨🌴

Big thanks to Amy Zabel-Nordstrom Alan Nordstrom The Siren's Keep Nordstrom Mr. Woo-Woo & ELViRuS

10/05/2026

Sacramento, here we roll! 🌴

We’re packing up and heading north (again… 😉) this time to The Lost Port of Sacramento, deep in the delta, hosted by the Sacramento Ohana crew at Streets of London Pub on Sunday, October 11 from 12–6 PM.

We’ll be bringing a fresh selection of First Wave Tiki goods, including the usual hand-painted up-cycles, handmade tiki lamps, custom carvings, tropical artwork, vintage tiki & Hawaiiana, restored vintage finds, and plenty of one-of-a-kind collectibles.

We’ve been traveling a bit you might have seen, and we’re looking forward to seeing our Sacramento friends this time north, meeting some new ones, and finding out what treasures make the trip home with us. Because apparently we can’t travel anywhere without bringing something back. 🍍

📍 Streets of London Pub Streets of London
🗓 Sunday, October 11
⏰ 12–6 PM
🌺 The Lost Port of Sacramento

Hosted by Sac Ohana Home Bar Tour

Come say hi, shop the booth, grab a drink, and spend the afternoon with us at the Lost Port. And if you miss us this Sunday, we’ll be hanging around the Bay for the rest of the week into the SacOhana crawl the following. Reach out if you’d like to pick something up from us or have something we can bring you.

10/03/2026

We’re heading to Ventura for SON of BIG TIKI WOO-WOO! 🌴🍹

🛍️ Marketplace: Saturday, October 3
📍 Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach

We’ll be set up in the marketplace with a fresh assortment of First Wave Tiki goods, including hand-painted upcycles, custom tiki décor, vintage finds, handmade lamps, carvings, artwork and other tropical oddities.

Come by, say hi, dig through the booth, and find something that needs to come home with you.

Two days of tiki, vendors, music, costumes, cocktails and South Seas-inspired shenanigans. We’ll see you in Ventura!

🌺 SON of BIG TIKI WOO-WOO
October 2–3, 2026
Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach

10/01/2026

… Hey there, Long Beach locals. Looking to get your hands on some high-quality handmade tropical lighting? We’ve partnered with LBC’s sneakytikiboutique on Retro Row (aka 4th Street). Come see our lamps set up next to a curated selection of vintage clothing, decor and more all with a love of the tropical and tiki-tastic.

Open 10:30AM to 6:30PM everyday.
2226 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90814

Stoked to see our items in a real brick-and-mortar. Knocking a lot of items off ye old 2026 bingo card.

09/28/2026

🌴 Next stop on the Fall Tiki Tour of CA - Ventura! 🌴

First Wave Tiki will be vending at Tiki Adventura’s SON of BIG TIKI WOO-WOO on Friday, October 2 + Saturday, October 3 at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach.

If you haven’t been, this is a full weekend of South Seas and Adventureland-inspired décor, exotica, surf + lounge music, vintage vinyl, drumming, dancing, tropical cocktails, rum tastings, food, art, shopping, symposiums, special guests and plenty of Woo-Woo. 🌺🍹🔥

And we’ll be there with a selection of the things we make, restore and collect:

💡 Handmade tiki lamps
🎨 Hand-painted art, trays + vintage pieces
🪵 Custom carvings, signs + décor
🪑 Restored vintage rattan
👜 Upcycled pieces
🏝️ Vintage tiki + Hawaiiana
🍹 Barware + vintage mugs
🔎 One-of-a-kind tropical treasures

FRIDAY | 11AM–11PM
🌴 The Island Awakens
🍌 Cabana Banana Corn Dog Deck Party
🥃 Rum Research tastings
🏝️ Isle of Zug-Zug Preview
🌋 Late night at the Lava Lounge

SATURDAY | 10:30AM–11PM
🛍️ Tiki’s Ventura Beach Marketplace
🎶 Live music + drinks on the Lanai
🥃 Rum Research tastings
🔥 Son of Big Tiki Woo-Woo Cosplay Party
🌋 Late night at the Lava Lounge

📍 Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach
450 E. Harbor Blvd., Ventura, CA 93001

It’s going to be a busy couple of days, so come find us, say hello, and dig through the goods. We’ll see you on the island. 🌴🍍

21+ | Valid ID required for admission

09/27/2026

We’re on the second stop of our September NorCal tiki sales for Forbidden Island Parking Lot Sale! 🌴

Come dig through the vintage, handmade and one-of-a-kind treasures we’re bringing along from FIRST WAVE TIKI.

We’ll have hand-painted upcycles, custom lamps, tiki & Hawaiiana, vintage finds, handmade décor and a few oddities that have no business being as good as they are.

📍 Forbidden Island | Alameda
📅 September 27, 2-8pm
🌺 Come for the sale, stay for a painkiller (or two).

We’ll see you there!

09/11/2026

🏴‍☠️ SHIPWRECKED TOMORROW! 🏴‍☠️

We’re packing up the First Wave Tiki treasure chest and heading to Shipwrecked at The Warehouse in Marina del Rey tomorrow, 11am–3pm.

We’ll have a limited number of handmade lamps, plus hand-painted trays, original art, and a few vintage PNG masks for anyone looking to add a little tropical weirdness to their collection.

Can’t wait to see all of our favorite people, listen to some good music, and imbibe a Rum Barrel or two. 🍹

Come say hi before the good stuff washes away, and don’t forget to check out all the other amazing artists and vendors who will be slinging their wares as well.🌴

Address

Long Beach, CA
90801–90810, 90813–90815, 90822, 90831–90835, 90840, 90842, 90844, 90846

Telephone

+14154099880

Website

http://www.firstwavetiki.com/

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