Butterflies Are Free . . .

Butterfly children's chair - Sold

If you know my work - you know I love painting chairs.

In many ways - chairs were the gateway to many of my other items that I create. (Is there a 12-step group for that?)

I love taking old chairs that people are tired of and giving them a new life.

Full of color and whimsy - they become useable pieces of art.

And who can't use an extra chair?

People use their chairs for their desks, for a focal point in a corner of a room, for teacher's chair for story or circle time in a classroom . . .all sorts of things.

And of course - children's chairs are the most popular.

A few years back, I was lucky enough to stumble on an ad on Craigslist.

A church was selling a whole room full of old children's chairs.

Make us an offer, they said.

So I did - $2 per chair for as many as I could put in the back of my van.

The price was perfect - but I worked for those chairs.

I had to carry them all out of a basement - up 2 flights of stairs - on a hot August day.

I brought home a lot of children's chairs. We had them stashed everywhere possible.

I have painted them and sold them over the last few years.

But alas . . .I have only one chair left.

And they are getting so difficult to find - school districts have destroyed their supply of wooden chairs -

they are not considered sanitary.

People who sell them now consider them an "antique" and want "antique" prices.

I am a sad, sad person. . .

So I send a message out in to the universe . . .

where is an artist to find inexpensive wooden children's chairs?

May I happen upon another source from someone who is just anxious to make them someone elses problem?

I would be kind enough to take on that burden. . .