welcome welcome!

Decided to take the plunge and rent my own little booth at
the local flea market mall filled with treasures!
just East a few miles from The World's Largest Truck Stop
sits The West Kimberly Mall, a hidden gem in Davenport, Iowa.
open 7 days a week!
I called my booth The Painted Chair Shop Booth #6034
and can be found on a more active Facebook page
The Painted Chair Shop there too!
Even have a website created right here from Blogger
called
While i love being a traveling Gypsy and of course we
should all treat ourselves like princesses, I am guessing
The Painted Chair Shop seemed appropriate for a
name to sell painted chairs and things.
We will see how it all goes!
Oh! even better? Who Doesn't need a few extra dollars
deposited in their Paypal account every now and then?
Try signing up currently for as low as 8 dollars
with me and my team at Abby and Anna's! You could earn
commissions on sales as well as on your downline, or in other
words your people you sign up under you are your downline!
Please do message me at sunnydays140@aol.com and put
abby sign up in the title so i can find your request!
if you have any questions just ask! Thanks. :)

Happy Summer! which is going way. too. fast. i have painted 1 count em all 1. end table. the entire summer which has been soaked with rain or too darned hot to be outside without scorching exhaustion.

stay cool! stay dry. if the weather would cooperate i would be able to just maybe finish a few more pieces of furniture!

Christmas is on its way, gift giving should be all year long

Christmas is on its way. 
My personal belief is that the spirit of giving should be all year long. 
Ebay and Etsy are great places to find unique vintage rare antique and one of a kind items!
Or just ask me. I and a few friends travel many areas of the US to find the best most unique items
in out of the beaten path way where the best things are yet to be discovered...

Please message me for correct total prior to purchasing from outside the US. This site is in progress and international shipping has not yet been added to reflect correct amounts. The Buy it Now button is for US customers only at this time.

I welcome you to message me to request a correct invoice via paypal for your international priority mail order request. 

Mikasa Germany bowl 6 US dollars plus shipping.

sold

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Vintage Echt Bleikristall Over 24% Pb0 Lead Crystal Bell Frosted Heart Tall:6.75" Wide 2.5" Made in Germany.

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Avon candy dish
$5 — davenport
6 inches wide by about 4 inches tall with lid on

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This dish is 3 inches tall. with lid, just under 5 and a half inches tall about 4 inches across the top with 2 inch base. Anchor Hocking EAPC or early american prescut.

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sales vs vine videos

so we all know i love
treasure hunting at thrift stores
estate sales and little shops
on unbeaten paths along the back roads of the midwest...there is something new though besides still learning how to add
a pay now button and order form to my blog page...which is even more work..still i have other outlets for that..and will get to it..for an artist, i when i see new things or think of them, like creating and writing a sequel ending to It's a wonderful life like i believe needs to be done
my next venture includes learning to make a vine video.. so thats next!

Christmas decorating..

Soon i will have a forest of trees indoors. I have always have been fascinated with trees year round for decorating. This is the only time of year the family lets me get away with it all. Cannot help but feel a little bit guilty for going a little overboard, but then remind myself that life is short and we should never feel bad for doing things that truly make us happy. This makes me happy. Helping others also makes me happy. It is a good feelimg when we can smile, be blessed and help bless others too. I like to think that happens when I set out each day to do good things in life. Smile and make someones day, you never know how important and big that small gesture may be to them. While it may be a really small house, i try to make the best of the tiny spaces to make a home, and that is big. Happy Holidays!

so i was checking out pyrex...and i realized i had no chair memes...so here we are! i found a picture and created this. it makes me laugh when i see it. enjoy!

happy Autumn! Chair Planters! happy halloween!

so i love rescuing chairs on curbsides, from habitat ReStore, from thrift shops and just plain broken sometimes and unwanted chairs. all of the chairs i hand painted in many colors of dry brushed layers using Heirloom Traditions Paint..I even added some Danube blue and feathered Nest to the banner chair as an accent color to bring out the mermail tail, mandarin, and red devil colors, . I call it my banner chair, as it was missing the whole back middle and top section. i used twine and tied on both sides and wrapped a window cling banner around the twine. This can easily be switched out to use for any season! :) not technically a plant or garden chair more a banner chair. still awesome!

The Chair on the left had been in my family room of all places, waiting patiently for me to someday restring the caning...which i have no clue how to do, nor do i have the patience to attempt it..it did have a broken caned seat so i just pushed through the middle, and added a plant. the first plant fell all the way through to the ground.I got smart and found a bigger pot to put the flowers in and now there she is! beautiful in feathered nest blue with a touch of mandarin as an accent color.and .so it became a planter chair today.

This set of what i call My Twins were found at Habitat ReStore in Davenport, Iowa. Someone had painstakingly stripped them completely to bare wood and then donated them where i promptly grabbed them up and brought them home. I struggled with do i paint or not paint. They are in less than perfect condition and the paint colors i decided to use took two full days of adding colors til i got them just right! i asked my sister what she has seen at shops around town to get an idea of pricing...She replied with a compliment which was very welcomed! saying that she has seen similar chairs with plants for 50 to 60 but not painted in all the pretty colors that i used. :) nor did they come with a vintage aluminum pail which i also love collecting,,,this so far is my only one. and it was claimed with the chair and plant as soon as i posted it. the chair on the right had not yet been finished at that point. so Twins are now finished and gorgeous! What front porch wouldnt be blessed to have these beauties gracing their space?

Here is a chair missing its entire seat. i most likely wanted to reupholster it but the seat was badly damaged...or ehem misplaced, which tends to happen when one has over 200 chairs, usually finding nowhere to sit is ironically a common occurence here as well strangely enough! i found the most gorgeous huge white mum yesterday for sale. and had to have it. i would hate to see this one go, but maybe i can find another one to plant before the frost and snow hits i am hoping! if it doesnt sell, well hey i love it too. Hard to choose just one favorite when they all turned out so gorgeous!

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