Oswestry Traders Moves from Market To High Street

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00:00I'm Michelle Braden, I'm a trainee milliner and my shop is called Forever After.

00:08I started it over three years ago actually and then I moved into the

00:15indoor market and I moved around there for quite a few years in different

00:22locations and then decided, someone told me about this and I thought it's, and my

00:28actual business was getting better because I was doing handmade bespoke

00:36fascinators so I thought oh I've got to go for it and I've got to you know I've

00:42got to break out and it was just a case of you know speak to someone and that

00:51was it and here I am now after about a month when I just finished.

00:59Well I was trained, I was just embellishing people's hats and

01:05fascinators for them or if they buy off me I would actually just embellish if

01:10they wanted extra colours and I thought there might be a bit more to this so I

01:15did some research and looked into actually making my own so I just put

01:21millinery in and found one lady was in London and then I thought okay I joined

01:27her for a bit and then I found someone else who is actually makes them for I

01:34think it was royalty or top celebrities what-have-you and then I joined hers and

01:41then I joined somebody else so I have two ladies who actually teach me all on

01:46zoom so they give me a little bit of each other and I'm yeah getting taught

01:52actually how to make so these three here are my pieces that I did that was for a

02:00competition for Ascot yes it was it was dry flowers and real feathers that I

02:10actually found on the floor so it was yeah and then it just added a little

02:16bit of embellishment as well and the same with this one just made it because

02:22we have cool blocks and so you put the cinema or whatever kind of material you

02:27put around and then you'll cut it out on a certain shape and I just happened I

02:32wasn't making a bee but he ended up being one but yes it's it's just it's

02:37rewarding and it's we're the only one in in Oswestry I think there is a few

02:44dotted around but yes it's really exciting new shop new adventure