Workshop: Scents of Christmas: Aromatic Crafts
Join expert practitioner Tanya for a relaxed, hands-on, festive workshop combining clay art and fragrance. We will be working with a range of materials to create three different festive-inspired products that you can recreate again regardless of the season. We will look at how to get started in working with air-dry clay, creating various shapes and designs and to prepare them for drying at home and further decoration. You will then be introduced to a range of key essentials oils, gaining basic knowledge of their properties, aroma and understanding of how to safely combine them to create a Christmas-inspired neat essential oil blend and a luxurious body scrub. The essential oil blend has many uses, and you will be guided on how to use it in numerous ways, whether added to your body scrub, used to scent your clay decorations, or added to a diffuser to scent a room. We will be sharing ideas for further designs and uses of clay decorations, how to fragrance them and suggestions for creating other essential oil and scrub blends for home practice. This session is ideal for anyone who wants to try something new, enjoys crafts, using essential oils and those looking for homemade gift inspiration!
Together we will cover:
How to use and store air-dry clay and decorating options
Safe use and understanding of essential oils
Explore essential oil safety, dilutions, storage, creating a formula and record keeping
Create a 5ml master blend of essential oils to use for clay fragrance, diffusing etc
How to make and personalise a luxurious body scrub
Tips for developing other clay art and essential oil recipes at home
You will leave with around 5 clay hanging shapes, 1x 5ml bottle of essential oil blend, and 1 pot of luxury body scrub to take home, along with comprehensive notes and additional recipe tips to help your continued experimenting at home.
Please bring along a lunch box (or similar) to take your clay shapes home in, as well as a rolling pin if you have one!
Meet Tanya
Tanya (TIDHA, MIFPA) trained as a Clinical Aromatherapist, which led to further studies in natural perfumery. She now combines her clinical work with delivering events and workshops in blending, botanical skincare and perfumery; and provides conceptual fragrance ideas for events, museums and public spaces. She has a passion for unusual ingredients, botanical history and use of plants in folklore. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @perfumemistress and find out more about her work on her website here.
Price: £85/ Free for Southwark residents
Free places are available for Southwark residents aged 19+. Each resident can claim 1 place per academic year (Oct 23- Jul 24). To check whether you are eligible, please click here.
To claim your free place, click ‘Book Here’ below, and enter code ‘SOUTHWARK23’ under ‘Redeem Coupon’.
You will then be charged a £10 deposit in order to claim your place, this deposit will be refunded to you after you attend the workshop.
Please note that you will be required to fill in a Southwark Council form, including some personal information, in order to confirm your place on a workshop. Your place will not be confirmed until this has been completed in full.
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