Antique Cupboard
While dusting this cupboard today, I decided it would be fun to tell you about it on my blog tonight.
I don’t know its history, other than it was in the cellar of the farmhouse when I was growing up. It came to our house one day several years ago, when I mentioned to my stepmother that we were going antiquing to fill an empty spot in the kitchen. (I stored my portable dishwasher here before getting a built-in one.)
She said we should come to her house first, because there was a cabinet there that belonged to me or one of my siblings. It was perfect! I first called my siblings to see if any of them were in need of this piece of furniture. They all kindly bestowed it to me.
I love the old hardware. The right side is even missing a knob.
It is so old that we certainly didn’t have to do anything to make the wood look old or stressed.
The linen runner was a gift to me from Cerwin’s mother in 1977. She received it as a young girl (about eighty years ago) from her Grandma Brackbill – who is the person who did the embroidery.
Because of her lifespan, it had to be embroidered in the late 1800s or early 1900s. She died in 1927.
Another item on the cabinet is one of my favorite perpetual calendars.
The agate coffee pot was a gift from our son Jeff.
The dried flowers lying across the top, behind the artificial flower, were gifts from Cerwin.
These dried roses were a gift from Cerwin last year. I dried them before they began wilting so I could keep them looking like this.
The corsage was from Cerwin on our forty-fifth anniversary in September.
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I treasure the memories this cabinet creates.
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