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!

these boots were made for me.

on a recent adventure to the flea market i found a pair of boots that i had been searching for my whole life. yet i didn't even know it. it was like all the sudden i questioned how i ever lived without them! but the second i laid my eyes of the beautiful masterpiece that would put Leonardo Da Vinci and his "mona" to shame. {and they say i'm dramatic} i had already bought bundles of goodies but alas, i couldn't resist. {and it didn't hurt that the seller was the kindest oldest man ever. and he tugged at my heartstrings. i would of bought dirty socks from him.} plus they were $32 and i got them for $25! AND when i was little i had a pair of pink sparkley boots that i wore everyday. and then they got thrown out {i don't wanna talk about it} and there has been a boot shaped hole in my heart ever since! so basically these boots were the best purchase of the year.

i haven't taken them off since i got them. {okay only when i have to shower.. but even then i think twice. but then i slap myself and think "silly girl! you shan't DARE ruin such a fantastic pair of boots!"}

and i can't help but bust out my pigtails to complete my inner cowgirl! {am i a nashville cliche or what? but throw me in southern rehab when i start listening to country music. that'll be the day when a bachelor couple actually makes it!}

have a rootin' tootin' yeehaw kind of day!

3 dollars and 82 cents of pure awesomeness.

something happens on the first saturday of every month.

something giant.

something magical.

something i like to call

50% OFF EVERYTHING at goodwill!

oh whats that?

my new cereal-eating-ice cream-enjoying bowl for a mere 50 cents? yes, thats right!

these plates were truly a find.. and at a dollar for both i was bummed out that they didn't have the whole set! oh well, dinner for two!

75 cents for this purse?! HOLD THE PHONE! thats less than the pack of gum inside my purse! spruced up with one of my favorite scarves and i've got a new summer purse ready to be filled with disposable cameras and sunscreen!

needed a brown belt. could of paid 30 bucks for a new one at urban outfitters or i could pay less than how much a diet coke costs me! needless to say, i think i made the right choice.

bringing back the old school candle sticks. and at 25 cents a pop, why not?!

now that was a good shopping day, didn't break the nonexistence bank of chelsea and only bought things i'll definitely use! {yes, i almost came out with about 5 different skirts that needed sewing, a blazer with shoulder pads all the way to mars, 3 different coffee mugs, and an old school coffee pot. but alas, i contained myself!}

UNTIL the first saturday of july that is!

have a thrifty, money-saving kind of day!

p.s. two lovers on the run made some banana pudding cake in a mug! hooray! their's looks better than mine! and seriously "cupped cakes" is the greatest thing i've heard!

two is better than one: p.p.s. i might have been making a billion new prints this weekend and i just made this one... am i allowed to play favorites?