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| I Love Clothes. and Shoes. ALOT. I am trying to talk my daughter into being a shoe designer when she grows up just so i can get some new kicks for free. Even though i love clothes, I am too frugal (cheap) to pay mall or department store prices. 85% of the clothes in my closet are from thrift stores and yard sales. I bought this dress at Salvation Army. It was originally $5.00 but since it was Wednesday and half price day, I got it for $2.50. |
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| This shirt was $2.00 at a yard sale and the skirt was $2.00 at Salvation Army (half price day again)! Not a bad $4.00 outfit! |
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| Shirt $1.00 at a yard sale and $4.99 Skirt from Goodwill. |
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| I think I paid either $10.00 or $15.00 for this jacket at a yard sale. WAY more than what I would normally pay but I loved it and it was brand new. |
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| My favorite colors! |
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| I grabbed this up at a yard sale this year and have worn it almost everyday. $2.00 |
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| I found this sweater at the same sale for $1.00. A little something for the cool summer nights that we are NOT having here in NC. |
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| Seriously almost broke my back jumping over a table to get to the almost band new Kate Spade boots. I am a summer girl but I am ready for fall just so I can wear them. $5.00 |
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| When I saw these jeans at a yard sale for $2.00 I bought them right away. They were the right size, right length (XXX short) and right color. I like some beat up jeans as much as the next person but this gigantic hole near the girlie parts was something I was going to have to fix. |
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| I grabbed some left over fabric from a bench that i had just recovered, |
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| some pins, |
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| some pretty thread, |
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| and laid out the patches where I wanted them to be sewn on. |
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| I sacrificed myself for you and had my picture taken with the jeans on. YIKES!!! The pictures I took of them laying across the chair just didn’t do them justice. We will see if the thread holds, but if it doesn’t I will just get out my glue gun and glue them on. With only $2.00 invested in these jeans what do I have to lose! (if you want to get some strange looks from your husband, dress up a maniquin and take pictures of it in your entry way right when he gets home from work)! |
My name is Angela Statzer and I love to incorporate just about anything into my artwork. Ranging from recycled materials, vintage items, wood, jewelry, other people’s junk, buttons and fabric, my style is fun and diverse. You can find me smiling at any yard sale, thrift store or flea market. I am a momma to two amazing kids and wife to one hot husband. 
Adorable! I love all the outfits you got epecially the jeans and the Kate Spade boots. I need to shop secondhand more often!
this is my favorite thing you ever wrote and i love everything you write. i am COMPLETELY inspired! THANK YOU! xoxo…
Ohhhhh Christina you just put the biggest smile on my face! Thank you!
Lots of loveeeee
Angela
just showed all this to my Molly and she is uberinspired. we already only shop clearance racks but this takes bargain shopping for a whole new level. it also helps that you have a fabulous sense of style.
<3
Tracy!!!!! I want to know where u shop!!! You always look amazing! Love you girl!
Angela
Angela! I'm only 4'11…I need to know what brand of jeans come in xxx short! pretty pretty please? ps-I'm a friend of Christina's and also your newest fan.
Hi Rachelle!
Unfortuantly I was joking about the xxx short jeans!!! I have the shortest legs in the world and need xxxshort!! I did find a pair of Fossil jeans one time and they were the perfect length! Let me know if u ever come across any!!
Lots of love
Angela
WAY too cute stuff you found! Love the patches! Didn't know about half price Wednesdays! I'll see you there next week! Ha!
Jamie
Oh my gerdness!!!! I LOVE that coat!!! Ok I love it all but I don't actually own a coat (1. It's Texas and it's hot 9 months of the year and 2. I have a hard time paying so much money for something I'm gonna wear from the car to whatever building I'm going into that will have the heater on). I cannot believe you got it for $10-15!
And the patchwork jeans…my favorite 8-year-old Gap jeans have a hole in an inappropriate place so I'm gonna try your trick.
You are just the bee's knees
Brandy
Oh Brandy you are two funny! Bees knees!?!? I will have to remember that! I have to get down to Texas so we can hang out, I think u would crack me up!
Love
Angela
Angela the Wonderhands! You did it again! Love the jeans, they look PRETTY!
*sigh* I will resume the search. But if your legs are as short as mine…then KUDOS to you because the length here looks perfect! No hemming? Say you swear?
ps-she's right, you are the bee's knees!
Rachelle email me your email address at buttonbirddesigns@gmail.com and I will check to see whAt type of jeans those were!!
Mujus !!!! I have seen your beautiful bags and you my friend are the one with the wonder hands!
Xoxoxo
Angela
Ok girl – you truly are a kindred spirit. Honestly, I want to do a frugal Fashionista fashion show at Becoming. How daring are you? Will you model a few of these?? I know, CRAZY , but the ladies would LOVE IT. Corral the nester and let's do it. XOXOXOX
LOVE that first dress! I seriously have to shop SA more often. I never go there for clothes, but I know I need to (having read Jen @ BBB for several years!)! These outfits are adorable!
I cannot believe you find this stuff at thrift stores!!! I find JUNK. Please, please take me to your stomping grounds. My clothes are so sad…..so sad…….
i tried to leave a comment on this a long time ago but it didn't work:( I'm sure I had some amazing remark but whatever, it's gone now.
I love you and your style and we need to go shopping together soon!!
miss you!
Omg those ltitle birds. I'm in it as soon as I finish painting my bkuegfeen side. tables dark Brown. slapsome off white paint on them. let em dry in this 98° heat we r having then sand The heck. out of them. I will then put my 2. New lamps I got from hobby loby . I then want to put a little knob for a faux drawer n the front maybe a woo den spool . got. a whole jar of antique ones. Should I paint it the color of a blue bird. very light. Keep ur juices running girl. Lovelove love. oh and the shutters I've got them too and a mantle. I'm thinking paint thiseshutters and put the birds on and stick. it on my mantle. Need a change. thanks. keep it coming.