Me teaching at the Handmade Fair I was very excited to be asked to be a jewellery expert and teach workshops at the first ever Handmade Fair spearheaded by Kirstie Allsopp. The three day event was held in the beautiful grounds of Hampton Court Palace . The event wasn't just about shopping. As part of the ticket you got to choose a skill workshop, a session in the super theatre learning from the likes of Kirstie Allsopp and Cath Kidston and a ticket to a 'grand make'. Plus there was a lovely shopping village. The jewellery skills workshops were run by the London Jewellery School and over the three day event my colleagues and I taught over a thousand people! I absolutely loved it! I got a microphone (a head mic!) and a camera that was focussed on what I was making and transmitted to a screen at the front of the tent. At any one time we had about 100 people in a class so we had one person on stage doing the demo and other tutors were helping individuals at the tab...
by Anna Campbell