to market, to market

here are some of my other purchases from the flea market! {i had to let my boots shine and star in their own post} but i found some other gems too. the nashville flea market is all kinds of wonderful. it happens on the last weekend of every month. so i like to believe it lets people save up all their goodness for one major explosion of awesomeness. plus i'm a master bargainer and i love to get the price as low as possible. so how about everyone comes on down at the end of july and we can have a weekend filled with bargins and flea market!

my carrie bradshaw purse!

i'm slightly obsessed with this. its like a gold shell guarding my phone, keys, and wallet for a night out on the town! my friend actually found it and showed me because she knew without a doubt i would love it. {the guy was asking 10 bucks for it and i got him down to 6! CAN I GET A WHAT WHAT!} also the chain was super short and i wanted a long strap so i just used an old necklace chain to make it longer!

i wanted to buy every old antique plate i saw. {which was about a billion} but i settled on these two for 2 bucks each! so now i can eat my muffins while pretending i'm queen of a faraway land and joseph gordon-levitt is by my side. {yes, i get all that from a plate. hooray for imaginations!}

expanding my collection of vases! i used to use le sueur pea cans to hold my flowers so i'm moving on up on the vase food chain! {the lady was asking $8 for this but i bartered and bargained my way down to $6!}

it down-poured while we were there so everything outside got drenched. but it turned out to be good news for me because i was looking for uber cheap frames to hang up on my wall and since these got wet i got the lady to give them to me for 50 cents each!

after my BOOTS, these vintage dresses are my second best purchase! i've been in love with blue lately and these dresses fit the bill! plus i asked for a special deal since i was getting two of them so i got them both for $16 total!! the lady that was selling them said that all the dresses were her great aunts {she kept all her old dresses!} and so that puts these dresses from the 40s-50s. and in excellent condition!! i couldn't believe how lucky i was to stumble upon them!

hope your day is simply the best and filled with some thriftiness!

p.s. on the subect on thrifty, have you heard of shop it to me? they offer sweet discounts {i'm signed up for j.crew and anthropologie} and you can get FREE GIFT CARDS! i've already gotten $30 to starbucks and $20 to urban outfitters!! click here to sign up!

double p.s. justine is offering this great deal at her blog, she does great blog designs and she is doing them for dirt cheap! HOORAY for saving money!

Driving Miss Chelsea

SOOOO my intentions with this blog was to be completely honest no matter what. And let me just say 4 days in and I already want to break it! Don't you hate when something happens that is completely and utterly YOUR fault so you can't even blame anyone else to make yourself feel better! haha. Well this was me today. It all started with the fateful flashes of blue lights from

the police car that was pulling me over for expired tags. EXPIRED TAGS! I mean it wasn't even something hardcore like speeding. BUT don't worry it gets worse. {little history, did get a speeding ticket and did the whole traffic class education in april...but I failed to realize that you had to turn in a certificate for completing the class...} so as soon as he looks up my license he comes to tell me that my license is SUSPENDED and he takes it away. He takes it away. Gone. NOOOOOOOO...

BUT thankfully it was a nice Mr. Officer and he said someone could come pick me up but he said that usually he would arrest the person.

Let's see how that would of gone:

"Hey who wants to come get me out of jail" she says.

"We are broke. We will come and get you in a month." her family.

"Oh." she says.

BUT it did not come to that and my most FABULOUS and

wonderful friend Stephanie came to my rescue and we were able to continue our venture to lunch and beyond {an hour later after we were supposed to.. woops.}

Kind of a damper to the day huh? You wouldthink... BUT I got to go to

PANCAKE PANTRY with one of my best friends. and it just doesn't get

better than that.

But before I came to peace with the idea of no more driving {since let's be honest.. broke college student. getting that license back ain't gonna happen.} I kept beating myself up over the fact that I was that irresponsible to let a sheet of paper get away without being turned in and having to pay BILLIONS of dollars {might as well be} for that mistake. Coulda Shoulda Woulda. NEVER got you ANYWHERE and it turned out to be splendid day.

Pancakes, flapjacks, hot cakes... it's all bread. And its ALL served at PANCAKE PANTRY!

QUOTE OF THE DAY from Miss Stephanie-"My new year's resolution is to watch more t.v."

HILLSBORO village is one of the many gems in Nashville!

this little dragaon never ceases to crack me up everytime I'm in Hillsboro Village.

I appreciate Nashville more and more everyday!

SO I made some PUUPY chow for my friend who I am seeing tomorrow for the first time in forever and it just looked to good to resist.I might have stolen a bite or two {plus six}.

MY SECRET: I double the chocolate,

PEANUT BUTTER, butter MIX but keep the rice chex at the same amount! Makes it extra DELISH!

SO after looking back on my day I couldn't help but notice what was right in front of me. There it is.. always waiting for me when i get home. And if you look closely you can see some of my favorite things. My wonderful laptop, my trusty TV to watch FRIENDS and GREY's ANATOMY, my journal, my phone, my incredibly smelling HOLIDAY candle, {the christmas tree I refuse/too lazy to take down}, my red nail polish, my {8th} cup of water{!!!}, and last but not least the incredibly cool PARRAFFIN hand wax machine that makes my hands SO soft and is so fun to play with that I got from my sister for christmas. And that was enough to send me to sleep with smiles and happy thoughts.