The “Made By…” Blog
News, photos, recent classes and other fun stuff…
Welcome to our blog! Here you’ll find blog posts about past classes and events that we’ve run, info on our popular DIY kits for hen parties, baby showers, corporate events and girly days out and any offers we’re running.
For more photos, you can also see our sister site www.fascinatormakingclasses.com which has photos and news from older fascinator making and bunting making hen party classes which we ran.
February Hen Party Craft Class Offer
During the month of February, our sister business "Made by the Hens" craft parties is offering any hen party bookings made in the month of February a fabulous goody bag for the bride-to-be. This offer is for any hen party booking for more than 15 people. The...
Edinburgh Hen Party Fascinator Making Frolics!
Well we had SUCH good fun a couple of weeks ago running a hen party class for the super lovely Aenone's hen party. The hens had rented a fabulous self catering house in Edinburgh where we ran the class for them. We took over the huge dining room with our materials...
Fascinator Making Fun in Glasgow’s West End
Danielle recently ran a fascinator making hen party class in a flat in the lovely West End of Glasgow for a bunch of ladies celebrating Lesley's hen weekend. As always when we are hosting our classes in people's own flats, we have to come up with imaginative ways to...
Fascinator Making Hen Heaven at Harvieston Hall!!
A couple of weeks ago we set off out of Edinburgh down past Dalketh towards the Borders, to the impressive Harvieston Hall for another afternoon of fascinator making fun. The hens had opted for our luxury class so we had the car filled to the brim with mountain of...
Make Your Own Christmas Decorations – Free Tutorial!
Look what we've been making! How cute are these little DIY Christmas decorations! You can either hang them on the tree, on the wall or grab a few small branches from the garden, paint them white, stand them in an old glass jar, tie a ribbon round the jar and...
Vintage Bunting Heaven
Well we just LOVE this vintage bunting that we have made this week in preparation for our vintage bunting classes in Edinburgh and Glasgow. It looks great up on the wall in our studio, and would look equally fab in a dining room or strung up at a wedding. Using...
Stirling Bunting Making Baby Shower
We had a great time in Stirling recently running a bunting making baby shower. The ladies had all brought along delicious cakes, scones and traybakes (with a particularly AMAZING chocolate and orange chocolate traybake which I am still daydreaming about...). We...
A “Roaring 20s” fascinator making hen party workshop in Edinburgh!
Looking for something a little different for your hen party? Love Great Gatsby? How about a 20s themed fascinator making class? Here are some photos of our of our Great Gatsby, roaring 20s style fascinator making classes where we bring plenty of headbands, feathers...
Almu’s Dunblane Fascinator Making Hen Party Fun!
Several weeks ago, we set off to Dunblane to run a Luxury Fascinator Making class for the lovely Almudena and her hens. The fascinator making class was being held in the lovely Westlands Hotel which was beautifully decorated with fresh flowers and gorgeous decor....
Glasgow’s Hummingbird Hen Party – more fascinator making fun
Back in August, Kirsty organised a great afternoon with Laura and her hens, in the ultra stylish Hummingbird in Glasgow. Kicking off the party with a delicious afternoon tea, the girls each made a beautiful unique fascinator - their designs were totally individual...