Jewellery Making Workshop: Personal Statement Necklace

Looking for relaxing things to do in Melbourne? Join this costume jewellery with personal meaning workshop today!

This workshop is all about slowing down, leaving your cares behind and being creative for 4 hours and spending some “you” time with like-minded people learning about creating your own personally meaningful jewellery.

In this workshop, you will learn how to create your own hand fabricated jewellery using beads, chain, jump rings and clasps, possibly sawing, sanding and hammering your own meaningful discs from copper & brass to add to your piece.

Creating your own personalised necklace is a therapeutic practice, where you match patterns, colours and textures or deliberately mismatch to create individual pieces of hand fabricated jewellery, either as a necklace and or matching earrings.

An large array of materials will be provided and can include:
Glass beads
Copper discs (you decorate these)
Wooden beads
Polyclay beads
Copper/brass and silver (all nickel free) chain
Jump rings
Clasps
Leather.......

You will have the option to :
Saw, Cut, Wire wrap
Stamp and more....

and you will be working at a Jewellers desk to create your own pieces.

You can bring some of your own beads and fittings.

**Note: For this class to proceed a minimum of two participants is needed and the maximum is 4 participants.

Please note: Public dates for this class require at least 2 guests to run. In the unlikely event that we don't reach this number, we'll cancel the class; in this case we'll inform you and allow you to get a refund or reschedule, so please watch your email/SMS one day prior to the class.

This workshop is suitable for complete beginners or someone who may have previously dabbled in beaded jewellery making. Participants must be 18+ in age.
  At the end of the day enough material to make one necklace and Australian Sterling Silver for 1 pair earrings hooks will be supplied.

• Tools, pliers, glue, chain, glass, poly clay, wood and ceramic beads provided.
• Other materials, such as semi precious and precious gemstone, sterling silver fittings can be used and are an extra cost. These items will be tallied up and paid for on completion of your piece/pieces.