East Boldon antiques shop celebrates one year in business

Laurie Scully, a long-time antiques dealer, has reflected on her Easy Boldon business being open for a year.

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00:00I'm loving it, absolutely. It's everything and more that I wanted. It's a good space to display

00:08all the vintage and antique stuff. I love the socialness of all the people coming in for a cup

00:13of teas. Art classes, they've grown out of the last year, so I do a lot of art and craft workshops.

00:21This month we're starting music evenings where we're looking at minor music, so it's really

00:26across the board something for everybody and growing all the time, so couldn't ask for more.

00:33The amount of people who I hear, I overhear them eavesdropping and they're going, oh I love this

00:38place, oh this is a little Aladdin's cave. It's the best feedback. I get people come in a few times

00:44a week for a cuppa, so again that's good feedback that they want to come more than once in a week.

00:50I've just done all the outside area, so we've got a new garden sitting space, so again some people

00:56last week came three days and sat out there and had a cuppa while on a dog walk because we're dog

01:01friendly. So yeah, really positive and lots of repeat supportive custom. The art side is sort of

01:09just within me bursting out. I started off with a degree in fine art and a few people have seen my

01:16work and asked if I was going to teach some bits and bobs and that's gone from a bit of hesitation to

01:22doing one to two classes to now we have at least two to three a month here and again I get loads of

01:28repeat customers and customers for that and people coming back and yeah, so again that's the best

01:34compliment that people come back, people bring people with them which again is the best compliment

01:39they want to share. Music, again I have a really broad music history and I think growing up in Wales I miss

01:48the singing here that there's not enough singing social nights so that's what next week is going to

01:54be is singing and chatting and yeah just socialising and coming together and sharing some space and some

02:02joy. People who didn't know each other before now meet here because they've already met here so they

02:07arranged to meet here now or people just sit and chat together. There's no everyone sitting different

02:14table it's a really community space the sort of kitchen area is can get sort of eight people sitting

02:21around a four person table because everyone wants to join in and have social discussions and talk about

02:27everything so I love that it's the best bit about it that wasn't planned. Thank you to the whole community

02:32for like continued support all my different ideas that would return custom for cuppers just thank you for

02:40everyone's taking it to the hearts