Pinewood Derby/Day in the Life Entry

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Pinewood Derby/Day in the Life Entry

This is my entry for CK's A Day in the Life contest. Cardstock is Bazzill and some unknown for the red and yellow. The two main pages really are the same color, they just came out poorly in the scan. On the tags I used PP by 7 Gypsies, MAMBI, and Bo Bunny Press. Also used Rebecca Sower Nostalgiques vellum and sticker. Cover of tags also has Sticker Studio license plate stickers. The race car stickers are unknown. Also there are MM Artisan Labels throughout the tags. MM brads and elets, DMC floss, unknown car eyelets, Junkitz Ringz, Offray ribbon, chalk and Pioneer Alpha stickers on the flags. Font for all journaling is CK Retro Block. Main journaling block reads: “In preparation for the Derby, we went to the Boy Scout store to see if they had plans available for building a track. When the guy working there heard of our plan to host a Derby, he suggested that I become a Den Mother. Ha! He just didn’t understand the way my mind works. Chris was able to find plans online for building a track, so one day he went into work and used scrap wood to make us a track; much nicer than the $100 or so it would have cost us if we had to buy materials. The day of the race came and there was a great variety of styles of cars, workmanship, and originality. There was Hanna/Dad’s decorated block of wood, the highly polished car that no one but Andrew was allowed to touch, and mine that in making I discovered I was much more interested in the concept of making a car than actually making it. I think in the end everyone had a great time. There was discussion of where to get cars in the future. And since we wouldn’t want the track to go to waste, we decided that this would become an annual event.” Journaling inside tags reads: "There were two aquatic vehicles- Darlene’s ship and Dan’s kayak. Naturally we had to race them against each other. Darlene tried to sabotage the race by loosing a wheel in the hopes that it would impede Dan’s progress. Dan kept losing wheels throughout the races. In one heat against my car, we had to rely on a photo to see who made it through first. Digital photography came in very handy! And as we could tell by the picture, he was slowed down by the finish line posts. Jeff, one of Chris’s co-workers made a bulldozer. He was able to win the slowest vehicle race because he was able to pivot the front of his car so that it would provide extra friction along the center guide strip of the track, thus slowing him down. Jeff’s brother Dave tied with Andrew in the Best in Show category. Dave made a fire engine and Andrew made a hot rod. Andrew made his entire car out of quarter inch strips of pine. He spent most of the week before the Derby working on his car. Chris’s family decided to mail their entries since they wouldn’t be able to make it up from Georgia. Mom Tedford’s purple car won the award for the fastest car. Dad Tedford made a pickup truck which also did well. Michael’s black car also proved to be speedy. Hanna/Dad submitted two entries. One of them was just a decorated block of wood with some screws in the bottom. This car did surprisingly well. Steve’s car was another one that didn’t make it down the track. The problem was that he and Darlene were using a different brand of kit from everyone else that turned out to have inferior wheels/axels. In an attempt to see if he could get it to go faster, he raced it down the track backwards. I made two entries for this year’s Derby- a pastel flower power car painted with Making Memories paints and an illegal car that was a replica of my Echo- complete with some dents, although not in the correct places. I had thought there would be more entries in the illegal car category. It turned out that there were just three. I had my Echo, Jeff submitted a piece of steel filled with lead shot, and Dad Tedford submitted the winner in this category.