I pack up a complete silversmithing workshop and bring it to wherever you are. You choose the location — I bring everything else. Leave wearing a sterling silver ring made entirely by your own hands.
Your garden, your home, your retreat venue. I travel to your chosen location — no studios, no strangers.
Every tool, every piece of silver, every consumable. A complete professional workshop, set up at your location.
An unhurried afternoon. From raw silver bar to a polished, wearable sterling silver ring.
6 guests per session, with two sessions possible in a single day — up to 12 guests total across a morning and afternoon workshop.
This isn't a jewellery class. It isn't a craft kit. It's a fully equipped mobile silversmithing workshop — packed into my car and delivered directly to wherever you've gathered your people.
Choose your garden, your kitchen table, your favourite retreat, your venue. I do the rest. All you need is your people and the occasion.
From the moment I arrive and set up the workshop, everything is taken care of. Every tool. Every piece of sterling silver. Every step guided with patience and care — Gaynor's hallmark — no experience required from anyone.
Three hours later, each guest leaves wearing a sterling silver ring they made entirely themselves. Sized, shaped, soldered, and polished. Real jewellery, made by real hands, in your own space. Each session takes up to 6 guests — and if your group is larger, two sessions can run in the same day, accommodating up to 12 guests altogether.
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There's no studio to find, no unfamiliar address to navigate. I come to you — and that changes everything about how the day feels.
The kitchen table, the dining room, the conservatory. I transform any surface into a working jewellery bench. You make the tea; I bring the silver.
When the sun is out, there's nothing better — tools on an outdoor table, dappled light through the trees, the whole workshop in the open air.
If the weather turns, no problem at all. I bring a gazebo so the outdoor workshop carries on whatever the British summer decides to do. The show always goes on.
A barn, a studio, a beautiful hotel room, a village hall. If you've hired a space for your occasion, my workshop fits right in.
Running a wellness or creative retreat? My mobile workshop slots naturally into the programme — slow, grounding, and an activity guests talk about for years.
Bell tents, shepherd huts, glamping sites — I've set up workshops in some beautiful unexpected places. If you have a gathering, I have a workshop.
"You choose the place. I bring the workshop. It's as simple as that."
Tell Us Your LocationEach step is guided and unhurried. No experience needed — only curiosity and open hands.
I arrive at your chosen location and set up the full workshop — tools laid out, silver prepared, everything in order. You don't lift a finger.
Each guest is sized for their ring. The sterling silver strip is cut and marked — the moment the material becomes yours alone.
Using a mandrel and mallet, you coax the silver into a circle. The resistance gives way, slowly, to the pressure of your hands.
The join is soldered with a gentle flame. Silver flows, seals, and cools — transformed from a strip into something whole.
Needle files smooth the surface. Slow, meditative, satisfying. The ring begins to reveal its character.
The final polish. You hold it up to the light — and where there was a silver bar, there is now a ring. Yours.
The whole point is that you do nothing but enjoy it. Everything else is my job.
The workshop is fully mobile. I load the car with every tool, every piece of silver, and every consumable — and drive to wherever you are. You simply open the door and show me where to set up.
Send an enquiry with your date, group size, and location.
A personal reply within 48 hours with everything you need to know.
On the day, I arrive at your location and set everything up. Your only job is to be there.
Each guest makes their own sterling silver ring. Guided. Unhurried. Memorable.
Guests leave with a polished ring in a gift box. Made by their hands, at your place.
Far more memorable than a bottomless brunch. I come to your home or venue — the bride-to-be and every guest leaves wearing a ring they made themselves.
Your home or venueI travel to the birthday person's home or a venue of your choosing. An afternoon everyone will still be talking about years from now.
All ages welcomeMy mobile workshop is a natural fit for wellness and creative retreats. Slow, meditative, and deeply satisfying — wherever your retreat is based.
Any retreat venueTools on the outdoor table, finished rings by sundown. And if the weather turns, my gazebo goes up — the show always goes on.
Your gardenMothers and daughters, sisters, grandmothers and grandchildren — the ring-making table brings generations together. I come to you and make the day effortless.
Any location you chooseA creative team afternoon with something real at the end of it. I come to your office or off-site venue. Everyone leaves with something made by hand.
Office or off-site
"There's something different about making something in your own space, with your own people around you. That's exactly why I come to you."— Gaynor, Where's the Tom
Thank you Gaynor, from all of us! Everyone was thrilled. The only thing we'd suggest you do differently is to believe in yourself — as you were so patient & a brilliant teacher!
All prices include tools, materials, ring boxes, travel within the region, and my full guidance. The silver itself is paid for separately on the day — see the note below.
A note on silver — each guest pays for the sterling silver used in their own ring, charged at the market rate on the day. This has typically been £15–25 per ring, though it varies with the silver price. You only ever pay for what you use.
Share a few details about your occasion and your location, and I will be in touch within 48 hours. No commitment — just a conversation.
I travel to your home, garden, venue, or retreat space
2–6 guests per workshop
Personal reply from me within 48 hours
Gaynor — known to friends and workshop guests as G — grew up in London before settling in the Cotswolds, trading east end streets for meadows, stone walls, and the slower rhythms she'd always been looking for.
She has been making jewellery for over ten years, and went on to study a BA in Jewellery and Objects at the prestigious School of Jewellery in Birmingham — deepening the craft she'd already spent years building by hand.
Her love of teaching came from an unexpected place: festivals. Setting up at outdoor events, Gaynor watched strangers discover they could make something real with their own hands — that was the spark. From those early festival workshops, my mobile jewellery workshop was born.
"Tom — short for Tomfoolery. Cockney rhyming slang for jewellery. A small nod to where I come from."
Now Gaynor brings that same energy — patient, generous, quietly brilliant — to gardens, kitchens, retreats, and venues across the Cotswolds and beyond. Every workshop is run personally. Every ring is made by the person wearing it.
BA Jewellery & Objects, School of Jewellery, Birmingham
10+ years making jewellery · festivals · private workshops
The Cotswolds · travelling across Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire & Wiltshire
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