My husband and I have been together since the end of 1999. We met online not to long after each of us came out of  a divorce.   It seemed that God gave us a Second Time Around-a chance in our lives to try  to find some happiness. He gave us each other and on my parents wedding anniversary in 2003 we got married and joined our families together, although for the most part they were grown and gone.   Between us we have 6 kids and 13 grandkids.  Bobby had worked many years as a building contractor and had just given that up to work for the USPS; I had quit my job in SC and moved to VA where Bobby lived.   I worked at various jobs in my new hometown.  But on my time off I enjoyed finding old furniture and redoing it for our home.   I had been working on restoring furniture my whole life.   It was a grand escape for me and I loved taking something that others had tossed away and turning it into something of beauty and use again. A SECOND TIME AROUND.   Bobby and I found that we both enjoyed the working in a shop on pieces of furniture, either restoring them or building them, which was Bobby's favorite since he missed working with his hands as a building contractor.  So when people started dropping by and commenting on what a great job we did in our workshop we decided that maybe we could turn this into our own business at home.   I for one wanted something that I could do from home and not have to go out and work for others again. Bobby continues to work for the Post Office and work here in the evenings and on weekends and whenever else he can find time to go out there. So we got word out that we were in business and we began to get customers regularly.  About that time I thought that if I couldn't restore the furniture to its former beauty that I could transform it by using decorative painting techniques, and so that phase of our work began too.  I had worked for someone who had many decorative painted pieces and I thought that I could do that to; and so I began.   I found things that I could paint in a decorative folk art style at auctions, flea markets, yard sales and yes even the dump. I brought them home and watched my caterpillars turn into butterflies.   I love the process of taking another mans trash and making, what has great bones and style into something useful again.   And since both Bobby and I love to go antiquing we find many things and have a constant turnover in our home. So here we are now with our own business where we restore/refinish your furniture with loving care; paint folk art country accessories and furniture pieces; build custom furniture if you have an idea of what you want and also make reproductions of country and primitive antiques to your specifications; I am also going to try my hand at floorclothes and of course we have some nice country antiques to sell to make room for more here at home. So look thru our pages and call us about anything you see and have questions about. About everything in our home has a price.   We will be glad for you to come here or if you live some distance away we can send more pics of anything you want to see and be glad to help you in any way we can.

Contact us at (540) 675-2313 or at 296 Tiger Valley Rd., Washington, VA 22747 or email us at address below:

debbiebrown@shopsecondtimearound.com

DEBBIE BROWN