Original Art · Prints · Curated Finds · Second Life GPT
Debbree's Closet is an elegantly modern home for original artwork, prints, custom requests, and carefully chosen finds. Warm. Personal. Worth returning to.
One-of-one textured works with warmth, color, and second-life beauty.
Collectible, giftable, and ready to live with.
Art by room, memory, palette, or story.
Clothing, goods, arts, crafts, and second-life treasures.
One-of-one textured pieces designed to feel alive, personal, and worth returning to. Pricing by size, complexity, materials, and time.
A growing print collection from Debra's originals. Beautiful, accessible, giftable. Ships nationwide under 5 lbs.
Have a room, memory, story, or palette in mind? Debra welcomes custom work.
"Tell me what you're imagining. A memory, a room, a person, a feeling. We'll find the right piece together."
Women's and men's clothing, household goods, arts, crafts. Items under 5 lbs ship nationwide.
Where It Started
My love for thrift stores, second-chance items, and shopping for treasures started very early in St. Louis, Missouri. My parents divorced when I was four, and my mother Ethel Mae raised me as a single mom — the oldest girl in a southern family — in a 13-room home. She managed everything, and we looked great.
I had four years of private art lessons as a child — not offered in school, so my father Henry paid for them separately. That is where the eye came from. Ethel Mae gave me resourcefulness. Henry gave me the art. And the name.
The Women Who Taught Me
I went shopping with all the beautiful women in my life because that is how we bonded. They talked to me, taught me, and loved on me the whole time. I would say with excitement — "Tell me when you're going thrift shopping because I want to go."
One of those women was Alene Clay — my son's grandmother, and one of the closest women I have ever known. We both loved, loved thrift shopping. She is part of why this shop exists.
"As a very young woman, I asked the owner of the thrift store if we could sell hotdogs, potato chips, and lemonade outside her business on Saturdays. The owner said ‘of course.’ That was the most fun Saturday."
St. Louis, Missouri — First entrepreneurial move
The Discipline
In the divorce settlement I received an allowance I had to manage myself. School supplies, field trips — everything came out of that. I learned to budget, to make decisions, and to find more value in secondhand than in retail. That was not a limitation. That was the education.
The Dream
I always wanted a secondhand shop as a child. The plan was simple: my shop on the first floor, live on the second. I went to Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri and earned degrees in Business Management and Marketing with a minor in Sociology. That was the plan. Life had another plan. Now I'm coming back to the original one.
I am diving into my art, crafts, and second-chance treasures. I hope you enjoy visiting and that you tell a friend. Please come back. Talk to me. I'm very friendly. I love to connect.
In memory of the beautiful women who took me shopping — Ethel Mae Byndom · Alene Clay · and all the ones who loved on me while they taught me.