Rawhide

These are photos from the annual Langley Cruise-In back from 2008. The car show is one of the largest in B.C. and covers several city blocks. Throughout the show they have different musical acts. My favorite from this year were the Blues Brothers. Lately the Blues Brothers movie has been aired on tv probably once a week for past couple of months. Let me tell you....I want to watch it everytime! I love this movie! It's packed with quirkiness, unrealistic police chases and excellent music. I want to open up a hair salon just so I can name it "Curl up and Dye". 

This year the Mainland Misfits will be hanging out at the Langley Cruise-In, skating around and sharing the awesome world of roller derby with all the car loving folk. Should be a fun weekend!

A 60th Celebration

Excerpt from two entries ago.....

"First installment-More to come (hopefully before next year)" dated September 1/2010.

Clearly I failed miserably at blogging on a regular basis. Looking back I hold a track record of one entry per year (pretty much to the week or in this case to the day). At least I'm consistent.

This past weekend we held a 60th birthday BBQ for my Dad plus two of his co-workers whose 60th birthdays are also around the same time. My Dad loves being outdoors, either hiking, spending time at the lake or puttering around the garden, so a woodsy theme was the obvious choice for party decor.

I picked all the flowers and foliage from a local quarry. I trespassed for a good cause.

The pine cone tree was a little tricky to construct. In the end I used a cardboard cone to give it support and secured the pine cones together with thread and glue.

My sister baked 60 cupcakes and I made the cake banner out of vintage word game pieces.

My boyfriend and I cut 1/2" log sections using a hand saw. Lots of elbow grease was needed but it was well worth it. I wasn't able to see the party location until we got there to set up, so my original plan to display these guys failed. We ended up hanging them on the fence with bent wire coat hangers.

The wind really picks up through the valley late afternoon/early evening so we either had to weight everything down or move it to safer spots until the wind passed.