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Please note that we have a sparkly new website called “Made By” Craft parties (www.madebycraftparties.com) which has details of all the craft classes that we run. These include our very popular “Made By the Hens” hen party classes, our “Made by Mummy & Co” baby shower classes as well as scheduled classes and events. It has all the details about our very popular Fascinator Making Classes – our mini fascinator making classes, our most popular luxury fascinator making classes, our themed fascinator making classes and our new Hatinator making classes.
Whilst you can enjoy photos of older classes that we’ve run on this website, you will find lots more recent blog posts there about classes we’ve run more recently on the Made By website. So for more lovely photos of past classes please see the Made By blog.
Loch Lomond fascinator making craft hen party!
We were thrilled to be asked to run a hen party fascinator making class by the lovely Eilidh recently. She was organising her best friend’s hen party in the stunning High Wards Luxury Lodge in Alexandria and was looking for a craft based activity to do. We arrived (after several “detours” i.e. totally lost – oops! Tomtom’s fault…) at lunchtime at the beautiful house to meet the lovely hens. The wedding colour theme was black watch tartan so we had tailored this class to the theme and had designed a number of fascinators and brooches made with black watch tartan fabric so that the girls could all make pieces to tie in to the theme of the big day. There was a mix of crafting and sewing experience amongst the hens with some never having made anything in their life before whilst others were queen sewing bees, but everyone created a fantastic fascinator or brooch to be proud of! It was a fantastic afternoon in a gorgeous location (which we would thoroughly recommend to other hen parties looking for accommodation in the Alexandria/Loch Lomond region!) and we can’t wait to do another hen party there in the future! Here are some snaps of the fascinator making class hen party in action: Hen party fascinator making classes can be held in one of our Edinburgh venues including Hotel du Vin, the Bonham Hotel, the Howard Hotel, Hemma, Urban Angel or Norton House Hotel or at your own venue – whichever suits you best. As long as there’s enough table space that’s all we need really! All of our venues offer afternoon tea which can also be served with bubbles (which we find often helps with people’s creativity!!!) or various other drinks and snacks. We can also travel to other venues within Edinburgh or outside of Edinburgh. We also have four fabulous venues that we use for our hen party craft and fascinator making workshops in Glasgow – the Corinthian Club, Blythswood Square, Hummingbird and the Butterfly and Pig Tearooms and are happy to travel to self catering venues in other Scottish destinations. Packages can be taylor-made to make the class as simple or as extravagant as you like. The class can be themed to suit the hen party, we can adapt the class to make brooches or other accessories – it is really up to you! Discounts are offered for large groups, and for any booking for 12 more people, one person goes free! Get in touch for more...
read moreHemma Edinburgh craft hen party! Fascinator making with the hens.
This weekend we tried out one of our new Fascinator Making Workshop venues – Hemma in Edinburgh – and it was fantastic! Hemma is a funky, airy, Swedish bar/bistro with cool decor, delicious food and drink and wonderfully helpful and friendly staff! To fuel you through your hen party you can choose from a traditional afternoon tea or various sharing platters and buffet style food, together with tea, coffees, soft drinks, wine, fizz or cocktails! We were joined by 22 lovely hens who were all in Edinburgh for Eilidh’s hen party. The hens all tucked into plenty of delicious prosecco, cakes and sandwiches and got extremely creative! The ladies came up with some fantastic designs and had (as did we!) brilliant fun making their very own fascinators. They were obviously all naturally very creative hens! Many of them made fascinators to wear to the wedding next month so we are extremely excited about getting some photos back from them wearing their fascinators on the big day. 🙂 Here are some photos of the fun and very creative afternoon! Hen party fascinator making classes can be held in one of our Edinburgh venues including Hotel du Vin, the Bonham Hotel, the Howard Hotel, Hemma, Urban Angel or Norton House Hotel or at your own venue – whichever suits you best. As long as there’s enough table space that’s all we need really! All of our venues offer afternoon tea which can also be served with bubbles (which we find often helps with people’s creativity!!!) or various other drinks and snacks. We can also travel to other venues within Edinburgh or outside of Edinburgh. We also have four fabulous venues that we use for our hen party craft and fascinator making workshops in Glasgow – the Corinthian Club, Blythswood Square, Hummingbird and the Butterfly and Pig Tearooms and are happy to travel to self catering venues in other Scottish destinations. Packages can be taylor-made to make the class as simple or as extravagant as you like. The class can be themed to suit the hen party, we can adapt the class to make brooches or other accessories – it is really up to you! Discounts are offered for large groups, and for any booking for 12 more people, one person goes free! Get in touch for more information! ...
read moreBecky’s fascinator making hen party in the Scottish Borders
Gorgeous countryside venue, sunshine, good food, plenty of bubbles, great company…and a fascinator making workshop. What more could a girl want??? That is just what the lovely Becky recently experienced for her fabulous hen party in the Scottish Borders. We never expected to have an outdoors class but whadya know – we were lucky enough to have glorious weather so we could hold the fascinator making class in teh lovely garden. It was the first time we’ve run one outdoors and it was brilliant!! The rain kindly held off until about 20 minutes from the end of the class so we all grabbed thw materials and made a dash into the house! The girls were all incredibly creative and made some fantastic designs. Here are a few pics from the day – we can’t wait for the next outdoor workshop so if you fancy it – just get in touch! Hen party fascinator making classes can be held in one of our Edinburgh venues including Hotel du Vin, the Bonham Hotel, the Howard Hotel, Hemma, Urban Angel or Norton House Hotel or at your own venue – whichever suits you best. As long as there’s enough table space that’s all we need really! All of our venues offer afternoon tea which can also be served with bubbles (which we find often helps with people’s creativity!!!) or various other drinks and snacks. We can also travel to other venues within Edinburgh or outside of Edinburgh. We also have four fabulous venues that we use for our hen party craft and fascinator making workshops in Glasgow – the Corinthian Club, Blythswood Square, Hummingbird and the Butterfly and Pig Tearooms and are happy to travel to self catering venues in other Scottish destinations. Packages can be tailor-made to make the class as simple or as extravagant as you like. The class can be themed to suit the hen party, we can adapt the class to make brooches or other accessories – it is really up to you! Discounts are offered for large groups, and for any booking for 12 more people, one person goes free! Get in touch for more information! ...
read moreHotel du Vin Edinburgh fascinator making class hen party
So – we finally got our blog up and running on our lovely fascinator making class website so we can start telling you all about some of the lovely classes and workshops we have run for crafty hen parties so far! Several months ago we ran a lovely little fascinator making class for Karen’s hen party in Hotel du Vin in Edinburgh. The girls all got their creative caps on as we taught them the basics of how to make some lovely fascinators which they then proceeded to make whilst munching away on some delicious afternoon tea, sandwiches and cakes. Here are some pics of the afternoon and the girls’ brilliant designs: Fascinator making classes can be held in one of our Edinburgh venues including Hotel du Vin, the Bonham Hotel, the Howard Hotel, Hemma, Urban Angel or Norton House Hotel or at your own venue – whichever suits you best. As long as there’s enough table space that’s all we need really! All of our venues offer afternoon tea which can also be served with bubbles (which we find often helps with people’s creativity!!!) or various other drinks and snacks. We can also travel to other venues within Edinburgh or outside of Edinburgh. We also have four fabulous venues that we use in Glasgow – the Corinthian Club, Blythswood Square, Hummingbird and the Butterfly and Pig Tearooms and are happy to travel to self catering venues in other Scottish destinations. Packages can be tailor-made to make the class as simple or as extravagant as you like. The class can be themed to suit the hen party, we can adapt the class to make brooches or other accessories – it is really up to you! Discounts are offered for large groups, and for any booking for 12 more people, one person goes free! Get in touch for more...
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