Illness drove us to open a shop

By Richard Tyler, Enterprise Editor 326PM GMT sixteen March 2010

(L-R) Amy Trevaskus, her sister Nicola Clifton and silent Sheila Clifton at their emporium in Nailsea, north Somerset. Photo JAY WILLIAMS

Instead, his mother Sheila and their dual daughters, Amy and Nicola, have only non-stop a shop.

"His seizure gathering us to do this," says Amy, 30. "When someone is diagnosed with a depot seizure all as well fast you realize we are all here for a unequivocally short time. It can occur to anybody."

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Sheila Clifton, 44, from Nailsea, nearby Bristol, left her pursuit as an accounts physical education instructor at a internal edition association in 2006 to see after her husband. In her gangling time she done bespoke handbags and has given complicated stained potion at her internal college.

"Mum cares for Dad full time and she needs an outlet. She is a beautiful person," says Amy.

The family attempted employing stalls at internal traffic fairs but did not think they worked well as spaces for internal craftspeople and artists to show their wares.

"Mum pronounced to me and my sister one day, "I unequivocally whim opening a shop". We looked in to it," says Amy. They found a empty premises only down the highway from their home, creation it preferred for Sheila to change David"s caring with using the business.

Amy says "A lot of it was down to luck. It"s a big emporium and we have lots of space to fill. We got a unequivocally great deal. They are construction the construction subsequent year so no determined commercial operation was rebuilt to take it on. Our plan is to settle ourselves and get well known as a place to find unequivocally poetic things."

The Blue Room non-stop the doors 10 days ago and Amy reports that traffic at the qualification and humanities art studio has been brisk. "Saturday went amazingly well, but not often Tuesday was better, with some-more people entrance in and some-more sales. We have had illusory comments from people, both who know us and those who don"t," she says.

They are charging a price and commission to display, foster and sell any works. Amy is construction a website and plans to tell a newsletter to inspire commercial operation to return. It is her second craving she additionally has a copywriting try called Hartland Creative as well as a full-time job.

She laughs at the idea that they are advantageous that they all get on environment up a commercial operation with relatives and siblings can be fraught.

"We have regularly been a close family and we are unequivocally propitious that we similar to each other," says Amy. "We all get on so well. Mum and Dad, when he was well, regularly speedy us to do what we longed for to do; not sitting and vouchsafing the universe pass us by."

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