A Week of Jewellery Making - Learn to Design and Make Your Own Jewellery
£400 per person

A fabulous week of jewellery making covering 9 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.

Introduction to Jewellery Making -
2 Days / 3 Nights - £200 per person
3 Days / 4 Nights - £275 per person (includes 1 day sightseeing with transport)

Tiara Making & Wedding Jewellery
2 Days / 3 Nights - £200 per person
3 Days / 4 Nights - £275 per person (includes 1 day sightseeing with transport)

You will learn to design and make 2 stunning tiaras as well as earrings, bracelets and necklaces and maybe presents for your bridesmaids too !

Introduction to Chainmail
2 Days / 3 Nights - £200 per person
3 Days / 4 Nights - £275 per person (includes 1 day sightseeing with transport)

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.

NEW - Wireworking Workshop
2 Days / 3 Nights - £200 per person
3 Days / 4 Nights - £275 per person (includes 1 day sightseeing with transport)

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. Please click here if you would like me to email you when more details are avaiable about this exciting workshop.

NEW - Introduction to Silversmithing
2 Days / 3 Nights - £200 per person
3 Days / 4 Nights - £275 per person (includes 1 day sightseeing with transport)

Including sawing, forming, soldering, cleaning and polishing - more information coming soon - please click the image for photos from our last workshop.

NEW - One to One Workshop - Workshop designed to suit you and you get the cottage to yourself !
2 Days / 3 Nights - £300
3 Days / 4 Nights - £375

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 !

NEW - Ladies Weekend Away - Jewellery Making and a visit to a spa !
By Arrangement

Get together with a friend or two and take over the cottage for the weekend. You'll be pickedup from the airport, given a guided tour of some of our beautiful scenery before arriving at the cottage for drinks and nibbles then a choice of buffet dinner or being taken to a local restaurant. The next day you'll have a relaxing day of jewellery making with a break for lunch, be taken to a local restaurant for dinner and the spend the next day at a really lovely small spa in the middle of the Lozere countryside. Please contact me for costs as this will depend upon the number of people and options taken.

Rosary Workshop
3 Days / 4 Nights - £275 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 "

Dichroic Glass Fusing & Jewellery
2 Days / 3 Nights - £200 per person
3 Days / 4 Nights - £275 per person (includes 1 day sightseeing with transport)

2 half days of fusing this fantastic glass interspersed with 2 half days of making your glass into jewellery. Workshop available from Autumn 2009.

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

Bring a Friend / Partner

If you would like to bring your partner or a friend along with you who doesn't want to take part in the workshop and will be sharing your room just add £50 for your partner (to cover transfers etc).

Jewellery Making & Fishing

If you have a fishing mad partner and find it difficult to find a holiday that suits you both this may be the answer, he can spend his day fishing and you have a relaxing break making jewellery. There are 20 varieties of fish in the lot including Carp, Catfish & Trout. We are near the lake at Castelnau-Lassouts which is very popular with carp fishermen and the Lot river for river fishing. We have contact with 2 local fishing guides who can be hired by the day or half day to ensure a successful days fishing as they are more than happy to take fishermen around and show them their secret fishing grounds.

All of the above workshops can be combined with fishing, just add £50 for your partner (to cover transfers etc) and the optional cost of a local guide (approx 100 euros per day). Please email for more information. Please click the photo for more fish photos.