Welcome to True North Pin Up
Photo from the amazing Shutter and Flash YYC http://shutterandflash.ca
Well Hello Dolls,
Welcome to the website for True North Pin Up Magazine!
I am so excited to bring this dream to life. I am quickly learning that dreams happen when you set goals and smash them with actions!
I realized this summer how disconnected Canadian Pin Ups are. We are the second biggest country and Canada is a vast and dynamic nation. It wasn’t until I scoured the internet looking for a Canadian Pin Up magazine to subscribe to I realized how disconnected and reliant on our Southern neighbours we can be.
My journey to Pin Up has been long and winding. I have always loved vintage everything. I was collecting vintage goodies from thrift and antique stores for years before pin up. The 50s has always been a favourite era for me; all the colour, the glamour, the hair, *swoon* I can go on. Oh please, lets talk about Pyrex and kitchen things!
In the never warm “spring” of 2016, I bought my first pin up dress and heels at a wicked little place in Calgary called Blame Betty (oh how I miss you!). For anyone that knows me that was a big deal. I used to be a lulu and big hoodie typical undone Mom. Then I bought a second dress and set of heels in the winter. In 2017, I entered my first ever pin up contest at the annual car show in my small town. I was looking for community, empowerment and acceptance; that came in the way of the other pin ups who graced the stage.
2018 rolled in and I had relocated back to Calgary as a new single mom and was looking for some pin up fun, I was told about the local A&W and their weekly Cruizin’ the Junction Friday car show. I was hooked. I have found the community I was searching for. Every weekend became car show related, sometimes 4-5 shows in a weekend. I roped my bestie Amanda into the Calgary scene from our little town and the weekends got even more fun.
I was starting to feel like me and I was starting to feel alive again. Something I hadn’t felt in years. After only 2.5 months of planning in September 2018 my business partner and best friend Tracy and I planned, coordinated and hosted our own fundraiser car show to help women fleeing domestic violence. Rides For Relief is now an annual celebration car show fundraiser happening in the Calgary Alberta Area. (I’ll drop all the details about that later).
Now here is where the fun really begins! So thank you for joining me on my next big leap in the Pin Up world!
Next stop Vegas we will put it all on black and spin that wheel!
Love, kisses and empowerment!
🖤 Keri