Jewellery Making Holidays, Short Breaks & Workshops in the Beautiful Aveyron, SW France

We run a variety of jewellery making holidays all year round. From short breaks to a week long holidays, all are suitable for absolute beginners and those looking to expand their skills. We specialise in teaching using sterling silver, semi-precious stones, Swarovski crystal and freshwater pearls.
Featured in the Sunday Times Best 100 Summer Holidays 2011

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You will stay in our lovingly restored farmhouse in your own large comfortable attic bedroom with exposed stone walls and lofty high ceilings.
We are also vegetarian friendly, just let us know when you book ! We'd love you to click on our Facebook "Like" button at the bottom of this page !

Price Includes accommodation, breakfast, lunch, transfers from and to Rodez airport* and materials.
Cheap flights are usually available via RyanAir. Please feel free to call with any questions - 00 33 6 30 74 20 35 or 00 33 5 65 46 13 55.

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Introduction to Silversmithing Class

Introduction to Silversmithing
2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person
2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person

We will take you through all the basic techniques Including sawing, hammering, forming, soldering, cleaning and polishing and you will design and make a number of pieces including rings and a pendant

NEW - Introduction to Silversmithing & Jewellery Making Basics - 3 Workshop Days / 4 Nights - £405 - We added a day of jewellery making basics to our standard workshop for those of you who want to include beads in your silver work but don't have any basic jewellery making experience - the additional day includes wire wrapping, opening and closing jump rings and making earwires and basic beaded earrings.

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Jewellery Making Classes An Introduction to Jewellery Making

Introduction to Jewellery Making
2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person
2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person

All the basics from choosing and using tools to learning how to make your own findings & ear wires, making wire wrapped loops, using crimps, beading etc and you'll have a choice of projets including earrings, bracelets, necklaces and wire rings. A wonderful introduction to jewellery making if you haven't the time for our week.

NEW - Introduction to Jewellery Making & Basic Soldering - 3 Workshop Days / 4 Nights - £405 - Our Introduction to Jewellery Making workshop plus 1 day of basic soldering making your own soldered jump rings and heavier hammered soldered rings as elements to use in your jewellery making plus a pretty set of stacker rings.

 
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Rings workshops anticlastic spinner stacker

NEW - Silversmithing Special - Rings Workshop - Stacker, Spinner, Anticlastic & Barrelled !
2 Days / 3 Nights - £295 per person
2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person

Suitable for beginners as we will cover the basics but with an emphasis on making rings !

 
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NEW - Stamping Workshop

2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person
2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person

Basic jewellery making and stamping - Stamped, personalised jewellery is becoming more and more popular, learn how to stamp words, designs, pendants, rings and bracelets. Workshop by arrangement - please email me with your prefered dates.

 
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NEW - Handmade Findings Masterclass

2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person
2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person

Make your handmade jewellery really special and unique with your own handmade findings - learn to design and make ear wires to suit your earring designs, clasps, earring, bracelet and necklace elements - Please email me for more information.

 
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Tiara and Wedding Jewellery Workshop Holiday

Tiara Making & Wedding Jewellery
2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person
2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person

You will learn to design and make 1-2 stunning tiaras and a beautiful, sparkly hair vine as well as earrings, bracelets and necklaces and maybe presents for your bridesmaids too !

 
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Introduction to Chain Mail Jewellery Workshop Holiday

Introduction to Chainmail
2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person
2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person

We will make lots of earrings (giving you chance to learn a number of weaves in a short time) and at least one bracelet - the weaves covered will include European 4 in 1 weave and the timelessly beautiful Byzantine Chain. You will also learn wire wrapping and how to make your own findings.

 
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Wireworking Workshop

Wireworking Workshop including Making Perfect Wire Wrapped Loops

2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person
2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person

This workshop will teach you all the basics from making wrapped or simple loops, through to forming shapes, making simple chains and clasps, making earwires & earrings, opening & closing jump rings, making light fine silver head pins with a torch, hammering to harden, making a wonderful bracelet and lots more.. NEW - We are now including the beautiful herringbone wrapping technique !

 
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NEW - Charm Bracelet - Silversmithing and Precious Metal Clay (PMC)
2 Days / 3 Nights - £300 per person
2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £345 per person

You will make your charm bracelet from scratch using sterling silver wire and silversmithing techniques and design and made charms using PMC along with learning how to create dangles for your bracelet using semi-precious stones - You'll go home with lots of new techniques (including torch and kiln firing PMC) and a gorgeous unique charm bracelet (we'll make sure we have some time for earrings too !) Please email me if you would like to book this workshop.

   

A Week of Jewellery Making - Learn to Design and Make Your Own Jewellery
£650 per person

A fabulous week of jewellery making covering a wide variety of projects from stringing to wire work & chain mail, lots of earrings to beading a wonderful sparkly bracelet in Swarovski crystals. We will cover all the basics plus much much more and you'll go home relaxed with lots of beautiful jewellery.

 
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Shopping and beading - bespoke jewellery making breaks

Come With a Friend (also Perfect Mother and Daugher Breaks)
Book a short break or weeks holiday with a friend and you will get the workshops and cottage to yourselves we won't take any other bookings for the time you are with us.

 
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Shopping and beading - bespoke jewellery making breaks

One to One Workshop - Workshop designed to suit you and you get the cottage to yourself !
(unfortunately we cannot offer these workshops in July or August)
2 Days / 3 Nights - £425
Week - £975

The Ultimate in attention - We design the workshop around you, what you want to learn and make (we discuss prelimary ideas with you before you arrive to make sure you get the most our of your time). We arrange the sightseeing to suit you whether you want to spend all your time jewellery making, spend some time relaxing by the lake, exploring the Aubrac or visiting local sights. You get the whole cottage to yourself as we don't take any other bookings whilst you are with us. Spoil yourself - you know you deserve to get away from it all and have some "me time". Just email me and we can talk about what you want to do !

 
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Rosary making workshop

Rosary Workshop
3 Days / 4 Nights - £385 per person

A two day workshop exploring various methods of making rosaries including rosary bracelets - Dates will be by arrangement so please email me if you are interested in this workshop. There will be 2 full workshop days plus a day of sightseeing. The sightseeing day will be spent visiting Conque and at least two stopping off points along the pilgrims route "Les Chemins de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle " Workshop by arrangement - please email me to arrange

 
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Dichroic Glass Jewellery Workshop Class Holiday

Dichroic Glass Fusing & Jewellery
2 Days / 3 Nights - £285 per person
2 Workshop Days, 1 Free Day/ 4 Nights - £330 per person

2 half days of fusing this fantastic glass interspersed with 2 half days of making your glass into jewellery. Workshops by arrangement - Please contact me if you would like to book a date for this workshop .

 
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Wire ring workshop

Wire Ring Workshop

Fun and addictive - Once you start making wire rings you won't be able to stop - This popular workshop is part of a number of our holidays - please click the photo for more details

 
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* Please add £75 for pickups from Montpellier and £100 from Toulouse Airports to cover additional mileage - please contact me for more information


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For our Dutch friends

Wij zijn gevestigd in Aveyron in Zuid-West Frankrijk en alle workshops die wij organiseren worden in dat prachtige gebied gehouden. Nu bestaat eindelijk de mogelijkheid om te leren hoe je sieraden kan maken en tegelijkertijd genieten van de schitterende, rustige omgeving waarin wij wonen. Het is hier een waar paradijs voor de natuurliefhebber. Wij hebben een aantal nieuwe workshops opgezet. Deze zijn wat korter omdat we je daarin de beginselen van het sieraden maken bijbrengen. Ook deze workshops worden gehouden in Aveyron en zelfs in die korte tijd zal je hier helemaal tot rust komen. Je zal ontspannen naar huis terugkeren met de meest fraaie sieraden, dat je helemaal zelf gemaakt hebt. Alle details over de korte workshops, en de workshops die wij tijdens de Kerst en Nieuwjaar periode houden, vindt je op de Workshops pagina. Zijn er speciale sieraden die je zelf wilt maken? Wilt je liever privé les hebben, dus een één-op-één cursus? Wil je ons bezoeken op andere dagen dat de workshops worden gehouden? Wij zijn heel erg flexibel en kunnen aan bijna alle speciale wensen voldoen. Email ons even om je speciale wensen door te geven dan kunnen wij dat spoedig samen verder bespreken.