Every fall (just ask my family) I turn into a crazy woman ..painting every thing my hand can get a hold of! Our annual school fundraiser comes around on Columbus Day weekend which is the busiest tourist weekend of the year! (Altho THIS year the date was changed to about 3 weeks earlier,) so I had to change gears a bit...set my canning and gardening aside and focus my attention on painting and such in early September already! Yes, madness set in, and several of my dear friends, Jody,Gina and Jane tore into it with me. Without them...well ,let's just say...I couldn't have done it without them!! WE had sooo much fun talking and yacking, figuring out what each peice wanted to look like, and did some serious painting inbetween!! This cute little chair was the winner in my book, and Gina gets the credit!! It came with the seat broken and looking pretty sad, but now its lookin right shnazzy,i'd say!! I don't know what its called, maybe akin to a gossip chair...? definitely an old peice!
It's really hard for me to turn down free furniture,especially if I know it has potential with a little paint and some TLC! Well, the timing was great to have a school patron buying a house with lots of goodies left behind, and she...generous enough to donate it to school, but yeah...first it needed some help! Plus she donated furniture from Farmersville Auction, AND a local business was willing to rid themselves of excess inventory that wasn't in good shape. I wondered if the market would be flooded with all this STUFF! But it sold very well, for the most part, and it was fun to watch on Auction Day after putting all that work into it ,to just sit and watch it go...We did have our best sale ever...thanks to all the people who put their hands to the task ahead of them, and also the buyers who were willing to give top dollar for the sake of the school! And yes...my family has their Mama back!!:)
AND...since our youngest daughter is in 8th grade, this was our LAST year!!!
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