Caitlin Penny was working in a cafe kitchen, but dreamed of doing something else. So she enrolled on a course and it's changed her life. Caitlin is one of the new generation of market traders forging a career by harnessing their own talents.
When you think of market traders you might imagine fruit and vegetable stalls, lots of brown paper bags full of apples being spun around between hands, large weighing scales and shouts of prices per pound of potatoes and broccoli. But young business people are taking markets in new directions with unique and enticing products.
It was a dramatic change of direction for Caitlin, 24, from Llanmorlais, who, after years of preparing food in the cafe, decided to follow her creative side by enrolling in a silversmith course at Gower College Swansea - she found a new passion and, after working with a local jewellery designer, in October last year launched Caerynys Shed Jewellery.
