We're supposed to be saving like mad this year to pay off the mortgage but an opportunity that was simply too good to miss came up ... and I just went for it.
A lovely little antique shop in Deganwy is soon to be closing it's doors for the last time, the chap who runs it has been in the business for over 30 years is retiring and he was having a genuine closing down sale and everything was half price ... including this cupboard that I first fell in love with not long after we bought our home in Wales almost three years ago, when I first discovered the little treasure of a shop called Acorn Antiques. While he was writing out the receipt and taking down our delivery details we had a lovely chat about how sad it is to close down a business that you love, I've had to close down two shops in the past and it's like giving a piece of your heart away.
Anyway back to my 'new to me' cupboard it's a pine copy of an original Welsh 'Bread and Cheese Cupboard'. I don't think this is as old an example as I have seen before and they are usually in either Mahogany or Oak so mine is most likely a 'poor man's bread and cheese cupboard', which suits me just fine ;-)
It was made locally to us, just forty minutes up the road on Anglesey, seemingly these cupboards were only ever made in the Welsh counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire, Denbighshire and Merionethshire, so it makes me happy to have one in our home.
Now I've cleaned it all out I just have the happy job of filling it up ... although I doubt there will be any bread and cheese stored in there.
As we were leaving the shop, the owner rushed after us and handed me a paper bag, saying 'I hope you like this as much as you said you did', it contained a lovely Pewter sugar shaker that I had picked up when I first went into the shop and showed to Lovely Hubby. His thoughtful and generous gesture made my day, and now it's taken pride of place on my shelves in the conservatory, and will stay there to remind me of such a lovely man .... and such a special day ... more of which will be revealed as soon as I can :-)
Sue xx
