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....

The Great War

On April 12th and 13th, I was very excited to make my first visit to Midway Village Museum's 'The Great War' re-enactment. I had unfortunately missed the previous years event and I was looking forward to attending this years with my family.

I always enjoy spending the day at Midway Village and bring my children as often as possible to such events. Their day is spent participating in games that are designed to revolve around the re-enactment, so as they play, they learn and at times I don't think they even realize that they're enjoying their history lessons.

I decided to make a dress that would be fitting for the event. I did some research and I came across a photograph of a dress from 'Downton Abbey'. Amazingly almost every item she wore, I just happen to have in my home. I had the hat, pearls, shoes and almost the same fabric. The Downton dress was beige with light brown stripes and my fabric was beige with forest green stripes.

My feeling lucky about having the necessary items was short lived as I realized that I could not find a pattern for the dress. After I spent some time, actually a very long time of searching for a pattern I decided to just go for it and cut. Honestly, I wasn't too worried about cutting, it was matching up the stripes and hoping that they didn't come out in all directions thus creating a dizzying effect on passersby!

I'm a big believer in 'Better that it be too big, than too little' and so I cut a the dress a little larger than I needed, so that it would give me some wiggle room for any issues that might pop up...they did.

I went through so many fitting issues with the back neckline and shoulders, that I ended sewing into the wee hours of the night. I finally decided to just wear the dress as is, no sleeve cuffs, no lace on the shoulders, but even without them I was happy with dress.

 

I was so tired from staying up late trying to fix my fit issues that I completely forgot to wear my  hat and fan to the event. I was planning on making a matching handbag...oh well.

Although, it was a raining throughout the day and there were many muddy pits to be avoided on the museum grounds, it still took nothing away from the event. I was just as interesting as it could be. I actually think it gave it a bit of an effect on the re-enactment.

As always the museums volunteers were helpful, informative and did what they could to answer every question my kids were asking. The event was fun and we learned so many things about 'The Great War' that my kids actually asked to return to the event again the following year.

I took so many photos that it took me several days to go through them. I couldn't decide in what tone, color, sepia, aged or b&w, so  I decided to make a collage, until I could decide how to tackle my favorite photos.

More from TresYours Vintage Corner

The following pictures are of some of my dresses from TresYours Vintage Corner. Some are from the 1940's, 50's and 60's. It would be very difficult for me to pick my favorite for each one has a special memory attached to it. The green was my wedding gown, the cream floral I wore to my wedding reception, the black dress with bows and rhinestones I wore for my very first photo for the blog and so on. You see,  way too difficult!!

The green in the middle was my wedding dress.

The two red dresses are not the same.