In the early 1990's I was well on my way to a nursing career. My kids were all in their teens and my personal life was slowly coming onto the front burner. My brother, Norman and I had made a pact together to get our RN degrees. I was working at a assisted living / nursing home facility and was a CNA. They had a program there to help you advance your nursing career if you had the desire. They only asked that you work for them during your schooling, and sign a contract upon graduation to work for them for an additional two years. I was fine with that..I enjoyed where I worked! I never missed a day, and loved everyone that was entrusted to my care. Nursing was my future and I was ready to get on with it.
This is where I met Pam we worked together in the same ward. Pam Cotman was from Kenosha, Wisconsin and her mom owned an antique shop there. On one of our long weekends off I went to her parent's home with her and we went antiquing.
Nancy, Pam's Mom, had a little shop, very neat and clean. She had a wonderful selection of vintage linens, quilts, and costume jewelry. The shop also had a sampling of other things too, pottery, knick-knacks, and small pieces of furniture. Pam, who grew up in her mom's shop. was an antique dealer too. She was visiting her mom to pick up a load of things to put in her rented spot...in The Heirloom Cupboard. My favorite shop in Medina.
A few weeks later, Pam and I went to an auction. I won the bid on an old 1880's humpback trunk (I spent far too much for it!) and bought box lots of things too inexpensive to pass up. Afterwards, I lamented to Pam, "Why did you let me get carried away...what am I going to do with this stuff?"
That is when Pam let me in on what she was thinking..."Why don't you see if Jane Riegger will let you rent a space in The Heirloom Cupboard, like I do?" She asked.
Can't help it....
- Shirley
- Medina, Ohio, United States
- I would rather go to a flea market and dig through old boxes of stuff...than go to the Mall. I am a romantic at heart. I like the cozy feeling I get in a room decorated with tea-dyed lace curtains at the windows and old leather books stacked on oak shelves worn from many years of use. I prefer hard wood floors with hand braided wool rugs instead of wall-to-wall carpeting. I love hand sewn quilts on beds with pillows that have pillowcases with embroidery accenting the edges. and kitchens with vintage flowered dishes in the cupboards... I was just born in the wrong era. The 1930's would have suited me much better.... Oh well, I have adjusted as best I can. When I come home at night, I enter my little world, that is full of all my treasures, and wonderful finds from the past. I am happy. I own an antique shop that is located in the Historic Train Depot in Medina Ohio. Built in 1894. Medina Depot Antiques was opened on November 5th 1994...and I've been having a great time ever since. Antiques, and what they represent, are my passion.
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