My Summer Adventure - Japanese Gardens

Anderson Japanese Gardens

My outfit under the Yukata.

I went to my first Japanese Summer Festival at the beautiful Anderson Japanese Gardens. It was filled with fun activities, delicious food, and music.

My beautiful rented Yukata

The day was warm and muggy, but that didn't stop me from renting a Yukata for pictures. There were two ladies dressed in their own yukatas that helped me tie the obi properly and another, thankfully, was there to fan and cool everyone down while they were being dressed.

Traditional music

 

Besides being slowly roasted in my rented yukata and the warm weather, it was a fun day at the gardens.


Outfit -
Dress - The Bees Knees General Store
Handbag and Hat - TresYours Vintage Corner
Shoes - Thrifted

Catching Up

Relaxing between photos

Since I haven't blogged in such a long time, I figure the best way to get everyone caught up to what I've been up to, was to write a series of posts I will call 'My Summer Adventures.'

It will not only include what I did for the summer, but also what I did in between the last time I blogged.

I hope that these posts will not only get us reacquainted with each other again, but it will also help me get back into the habit of blogging again.

Hello!

Hello everyone! Although this took longer than expected, here are the new additions to Vivaciouslady Vintage! They are:

• a Twitter account
• an Instagram account
• an updated blog look

Posting on my blog should also be more frequent now that these additions are complete. Be sure to check out all of my pages, and another post will be here soon. Bye for now!

Coming soon to a blog near you...

    Hey vintage guys and gals! I'm happy to announce there will be new additions to Vivaciouslady Vintage! I am currently creating an Etsy shop, and (learning) how to use Twitter! There will also be a new blog look!

    This will all be released on January 30th, 2016 5:00 CST. Meanwhile, be sure to stick around for updates on Facebook!

Graduation Day

I wore my TresYours Vintage dress.

 My son's graduation was an exciting day for all of us and especially for him...he was finally done with high school! I wore my black chiffon dress, paired it with my red handbag and black gloves from TresYours Vintage Corner.

As we waited outside before entering the building where the ceremony was to take place I saw these two old buildings across the street. If you look closely there is a vintage ad painted on the side of the building.

Neat vintage sign.

The ad is for 'Battle Axe Plug Tobacco'. I'm not sure if this is correct, but I read that there was a company that opened mid 1800's  for the construction of a railroad. Apparently, the railroad company could not pay their employees money, so they paid them with tobacco. Out of all the brands that were being handed out, Battle Axe was their favorite.

I hope the city will protect this sign

There is another old painted sign over the Battle AXE. All I can see is Dry Goods and an A or G, but I'm not sure. I am thinking about making another trip to get a closer look and take more photos. Until then, if anyone has any information on Battle Axe, I would love to hear it.

Pop n' Post

As soon as I finished writing my first post after a long, long absence, I realized I had yet to sort anything I wanted to share with all of you. My photos of antique shows, flea markets, WWII days and so many other of my vintage visits were all in complete disarray.

Should I post by order of their dates?

Should I post by how many photos I have to share?

Should I post from the simplest to the most difficult?

I finally decided to go with 'Pop and Post' meaning whatever happens to just pop into my head or photo that just happens to pop out at me is what I am going to write about. EASY! And so my posts will not be in any order. You may see some posts from Winter to Summer to Winter and then Fall and so on. I'm sure some might find this a little odd to jump back and forth, but I think it will make it so much fun and far more interesting!

Back to Blogging.

I'm back....I know it's been a very long time since I have written anything. I kept saying "Tomorrow, I'll start writing again" over and over again until too many tomorrows had gone by. I just kept putting so much pressure on myself to get things just right that I was making myself miserable. The fact that I am not computer savvy, didn't help either.

Yet every time I went to a vintage event or saw something I kept taking picture for the blog. I finally realized that I missed posting things that I was enjoying in my vintage life and I wanted to share with all of you...So I decided to come back and start blogging again. 

I have so many stories and photos to share with all of you. I can't wait to get started....