Hen parties, gatherings and group bookings

Many of our day and evening courses can be tailored to create an enjoyable creative gathering, we’re also happy to do special hen or wedding preparation parties. We can fit up to 12 people in here at The Making House or we can come to your venue.

We can do day or evening gatherings, although parties are fitted in and around our other workshops and activities, so please allow flexibility on your dates. (Most Saturdays are now booked up until July 2027)

You’re welcome to bring along food and drink and make an evening or afternoon of it. We’re also happy to provide catering at an extra cost, if you’d prefer to just turn up and enjoy!

Prices below are for delivery at The Making House. (Please note prices may vary, if for example you want to use more high quality materials to make your party special). We are happy to come to you, but if travelling to a venue we will need to charge for transport costs, (this includes time spent travelling as well as mileage etc)

– A basic 2 hour jewellery party (wire jewellery designs, button jewellery, flower brooches/slides, simple beaded designs, textile jewellery). £220, for up to 8 people, £15 per person thereafter up to a maximum of 12 (All materials supplied)

– Small Wire Flowers. A 2.5 hour workshop for up to 8 people costs £220 add extra people at £15 per head up to a maximum of 15. As a group choose to make either poppies or daisies in wire, you will create a minimum of 3 flowers each and a seed head.

– Metalwork taster session A 2.5 hour workshop for up to 6 people costs £200, (numbers are limited to 6 for this session). A basic metalwork session using aluminium and copper. You will explore basic techniques for working in sheet metal, including cutting, texturing and forming. After having a play and learning some basics, you will go on to create a pendant, keyring, small hanging or pair of earrings.

– Embossed Metal Panels A 2 hour workshop for up to 8 people costs £180 add extra people at £15 per head up to a maximum of 15. This is a lovely effective technique for creating designs in metal, your panels could be turned in to hook boards, house names or numbers or simply decorative pieces.

– Stylised Needle Felt Owl/Arctic Fox/Badger. A 2.5 hour workshop for up to 8 people costs £220 add extra people at £15 per head up to a maximum of 10.

– Botanical Gelliplate Print Session A 2.5 hour session for up to 8 people costs £250. Have fun and learn the basics of Gelliplate printing, then turn your favourite prints into a framed artwork and 2 cabochon style pendants.

Full Day Group Bookings

– Wire Poppies, 10 – 4. In the morning you’ll learn to make the poppies and create a bunch of small wire poppies including poppy seed heads. In the afternoon you’ll make a large poppy and a seed head; suitable for the garden, but looks just as good indoors! This is a lovely beginners wire workshop and with the skills you’ve learnt you’ll be able to make more at home. This full day workshop costs £300 plus £10 per person for materials up to a maximum of 8 people, add extra people at £25 per head up to a maximum of 15.

– Wire Sunflowers, 10 – 4.30 In the morning you’ll learn the techniques and create a small sunflower then go on to create a large sunflower for the garden in the afternoon. This is a good beginners wire workshop and with the skills you’ve learnt you’ll be able to make more at home. This full day workshop costs £300 plus £15 per person for materials up to a maximum of 8 people. (Numbers are limited to 8 people)

– Wire Alliums, 10 – 5. You will create a large wire allium for your garden or as a striking indoor decoration. This is a fantastic wire workshop and with the skills you’ve learnt you’ll be able to make more at home. This is a fantastic workshop with great results, but I can’t emphasise enough, it is hard work! It’s very repetitive and can be tough on the hands, so please bare this in mind if you have arthritis, carpal tunnel or similar condition. I can’t stress enough, this is a really intensive session if you want to have a completed allium by the end of the day; if you’re after a chilled out day nattering and making, go for Sunflowers or poppies. This full day workshop costs £300 plus £25 per person materials and preparations costs, up to a maximum of 8 people. (The allium uses a lot of materials and involves a lot of preparatory work on my behalf in order to make it an achievable project in a day, the price reflects this)

– Full day felt projects: We run a variety of full day needle felt and wet felt workshops, for example (avocets, magpies, woodpecker, hares, reindeers, polar bears, wet felt pictures and bowls), most can be run as a group booking. Prices will vary depending on the complexity of the project but as a guide a full day workshop would be £300 plus £15 per person for materials and preparation costs. Numbers are normally limited to 8 people so we can give everyone sufficient support.

– Small group silversmithing workshops: Small group bookings for basic silversmithing projects are possible. Numbers are limited to 4 people. A 3 hour session costs £200 plus silver costs. A full day session, (10 – 4.30) £300 plus silver costs.

Booking: Please email Anna for more details or to arrange a date and what you’d like to do. Once agreed I’ll invoice you for a deposit, with the remainder payable 2 weeks prior to the booking.

Please email Anna for more details or to arrange a date! themakinghouse@gmail.com

Testimonials

“Wanted to thank Anna for coming to our craft group Mum Art Makers and giving us a great tutorial on making jewellery. We really enjoyed ourselves and are looking forward to going solo and having another go this week. Hope it’s not too long before we see you again” 

“Thank you SO much for Friday. It was absolutely brilliant; we had such fun making the jewellery and you were great!”

Contact Me!

Please contact Anna for more details or to arrange a date!

E: themakinghouse@gmail.com

T: 07870 995843