Nefertari's Apothecary: Ancient Egyptian Remedies Reimagined
Step into a stillroom inspired by the cosmetic jars, resins, and sacred oils of ancient Egypt.
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore remedies recorded in early Egyptian sources — adapted safely and thoughtfully for modern hands.
Together we will:
🏺Grind and blend a natural kohl inspired by historical formulas
🏺Prepare a fragrant body oil with resins such as myrrh and frankincense — an “oil for the eternal body”
🏺Create small rounds of incense inspired by kyphi traditions
🏺Learn about honey, resins, and botanicals used in ancient preservation and care
There will be time to handle raw materials, read translated fragments from early papyrus texts, and label your jars with simple hieroglyphs if you wish.
This is not costume or theatre. It is a sensory exploration of beauty, ritual, and craft from one of the world’s oldest recorded medical traditions.
All materials provided.
No prior experience needed.
Just curiosity — and a love of beautiful jars.
🌞Expect scent, colour, and texture — and the quiet pleasure of working with materials that have travelled through thousands of years of human hands.
📍Location: The Thyme Keeper’s Stillroom, Bookham, Surrey.
🕯 Exchange: £67 per person | 3 hours | Limited to 2-3 guests per session
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore the fragrant arts of the historical stillroom — crafting aromatic incense cones, botanical blends, and floral waters using natural ingredients and time-honoured techniques. Each creation is inspired by herbal traditions once found in apothecaries, monasteries, and medieval homes.
Whether you’re just beginning or have a deep love of natural craft, this is a gentle space to reconnect with the beauty of handmade scent and the quiet joy of tending something ancient with your own hands.
What You’ll Make & Take Home:
🕯 Exchange: £67 per person | 3 hours | Limited to 2-3 guests per session
The Butter, Balm, and Flame Apothecary
A stillroom workshop for those who love scent, softness, and seasonal care.
Step into a quiet room of warmth, fragrance, and sensory delight — and learn to create natural body and home-care treasures inspired by the handmade traditions of historical stillrooms.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll craft a trio of nourishing, seasonal creations using botanical ingredients, essential oils, and time-honoured methods once found in kitchens, convents, and apothecaries.
What You’ll Craft & Take Home:
🧈 Whipped Body Butter – Luxurious, skin-loving, and softly scented
💄 Tinted Lip Balm – A hint of colour, full of nourishment
🕯️ Scented Candle – Poured with wax and essential oils, inspired by herbal blends of old
You’ll take home one of each — plus recipes to recreate them at your leisure.
What’s Included:
Step into a quiet room of warmth, fragrance, and sensory delight — and learn to create natural body and home-care treasures inspired by the handmade traditions of historical stillrooms.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll craft a trio of nourishing, seasonal creations using botanical ingredients, essential oils, and time-honoured methods once found in kitchens, convents, and apothecaries.
What You’ll Craft & Take Home:
🧈 Whipped Body Butter – Luxurious, skin-loving, and softly scented
💄 Tinted Lip Balm – A hint of colour, full of nourishment
🕯️ Scented Candle – Poured with wax and essential oils, inspired by herbal blends of old
You’ll take home one of each — plus recipes to recreate them at your leisure.
What’s Included:
All materials, tools, and step-by-step guidance
Herbal teas and seasonal drinks (spiced apple, mulled dried fruits, etc.)
Snacks inspired by stillroom pantries
A quiet, welcoming space to relax and craft
📍 Location: Bookham, Surrey (near Leatherhead).
On-site parking available.
(Note: the Eventbrite pin is intentionally inaccurate for privacy. Full directions provided by email before the event.)
🌞 This is a soft, fragrant invitation to pause — to stir balm, light a candle, and return to the beauty of making something with your hands.
Herbal teas and seasonal drinks (spiced apple, mulled dried fruits, etc.)
Snacks inspired by stillroom pantries
A quiet, welcoming space to relax and craft
📍 Location: Bookham, Surrey (near Leatherhead).
On-site parking available.
(Note: the Eventbrite pin is intentionally inaccurate for privacy. Full directions provided by email before the event.)
🌞 This is a soft, fragrant invitation to pause — to stir balm, light a candle, and return to the beauty of making something with your hands.
The Fragrance Apothecary: Incense, Potpourri & Floral Waters
Step into a quiet stillroom where scent, story, and memory entwine.In this hands-on workshop, you’ll explore the fragrant arts of the historical stillroom — crafting aromatic incense cones, botanical blends, and floral waters using natural ingredients and time-honoured techniques. Each creation is inspired by herbal traditions once found in apothecaries, monasteries, and medieval homes.
Whether you’re just beginning or have a deep love of natural craft, this is a gentle space to reconnect with the beauty of handmade scent and the quiet joy of tending something ancient with your own hands.
What You’ll Make & Take Home:
🌿12–16 incense cones made with sandalwood, myrrh, and other fragrant herb, spice, and gum powders
🌿A botanical blend (potpourri) of rose, lavender, calendula, and more
🌿A floral water to scent your home, clothing, or skin
What’s Included:
🌿A botanical blend (potpourri) of rose, lavender, calendula, and more
🌿A floral water to scent your home, clothing, or skin
What’s Included:
All materials and tools
Step-by-step guidance with herbal and historical insights
Seasonal refreshments: herbal teas, spiced apple drink inspired by hippocras, and mulled fruits & nuts
Step-by-step guidance with herbal and historical insights
Seasonal refreshments: herbal teas, spiced apple drink inspired by hippocras, and mulled fruits & nuts
🕯️Please let me know of any allergies or sensitivities when booking, and feel free to bring your own snacks if you wish.
📍 Location: Bookham, Surrey (10 minutes from the train station, on-site parking available). The exact address will be sent 3–5 days before the event.
(Please note: the map pin on Eventbrite is intentionally inaccurate to protect the privacy of the venue.)
🌞 This is more than a workshop — it’s a gathering shaped by scent, story, and something quietly luminous. All are welcome at the stillroom table.
All materials are provided.
No prior experience needed.
Just curiosity — and perhaps a fondness for golden jars.
📍 Location: Bookham, Surrey (near Leatherhead). On-site parking available.
Note: the Eventbrite pin is intentionally inaccurate for privacy. Full directions provided by email before the event.
🌞 This workshop is for anyone wishing to spend an afternoon making something beautiful, in good company, with warmth, care, and ease.
We’ll work slowly and without pressure, drawing on historical traditions of herbs, flowers, and handmade keepsakes that were once used to express care, affection, and tenderness — not as grand gestures, but as everyday acts.
During our time together, you’ll be invited to:
🌸explore the gentle history of love tokens, posies, and floral symbolism
🌸create a softly scented potpourri using dried petals and spices
🌸craft a simple, handmade Valentine-style card with pressed flowers and ink
🌸make a nourishing body butter, chosen for comfort rather than seduction
🕯️There is no requirement to share, perform, or feel a certain way. You are welcome exactly as you are.
🌞This workshop is for anyone wishing to spend an afternoon making something beautiful, in good company, with warmth, care, and ease.
📍 Location: Bookham, Surrey (near Leatherhead). On-site parking available.
Note: the Eventbrite pin is intentionally inaccurate for privacy. Full directions provided by email before the event.
In this immersive workshop, we’ll journey into the sensory heart of the spice apothecary, exploring how spices like clove, cinnamon, and ginger were once treasured not only for their flavour, but for their power to heal, protect, and enchant.
Alongside tales from ancient kitchens and stillrooms, you’ll create a fragrant collection of spice-infused remedies and rituals to take home — all crafted with natural ingredients and historical inspiration.
What We’ll Explore:
This workshop is inspired by the work of wise women, cunning folk, and stillroom keepers of centuries past — those who tended herbs not only for healing, but for protection, purification, and quiet knowing.
In this immersive, hands-on session, you’ll explore historical plant craft and folk traditions through four powerful herbal creations — used across time for cleansing, clarity, and subtle transformation.
What You’ll Craft & Take Home:
🌘 Flying Ointment – Inspired by historical recipes made with mugwort, rosemary, yarrow and olive oil — long associated with dreaming, intuition, and spirit journeys.
🛁 Witch’s Herb Bath Bombs – Luxurious herbal soaks made with salts and herbs like sage, rosemary, and lavender — for cleansing and renewal.
🔥 Herbal Smoke Bundle (Smudge Stick) – A traditional bundle of dried herbs for space purification, grounded in historical practices from various cultures.
What We’ll Explore:
This intimate workshop (for two guests only) is a chance to craft by firelight, sip spiced teas, and weave small treasures of care for the season.
What we’ll make together:
🌟A hand-poured beeswax candle, scented with festive herbs and citrus
🌟A soothing winter balm, blended with warming oils for cold hands and hearts
🌟A hand-stitched sweet bag sachet, filled with petals and spice to tuck into drawers or hang by the hearth
✨Duration: 3 hours
✨All materials provided
✨Exchange: £67 per person
✨Limited to 2 guests — a quiet, personal making experience
✨Location: my home in Bookham, Surrey (near Leatherhead), a small Tudor-style space lined with herbs, bottles, and old apothecary charm. Exact address provided upon booking
🌞 Leave with glowing hands, scented pockets, and a little light to carry through the winter.
📍 Location: Bookham, Surrey (10 minutes from the train station, on-site parking available). The exact address will be sent 3–5 days before the event.
(Please note: the map pin on Eventbrite is intentionally inaccurate to protect the privacy of the venue.)
🌞 This is more than a workshop — it’s a gathering shaped by scent, story, and something quietly luminous. All are welcome at the stillroom table.
The Honey Apothecary
A Stillroom Workshop of Sunlight, Herbs, and Sweetness
Honey has always carried more than sweetness. It preserves, soothes, binds herbs together, and holds the warmth of the sun in a jar.
In this hands-on workshop, we explore honey as a living ingredient — healer, preserver, and companion through the seasons.
Together we will:
🍯Taste and compare different raw honeys
🍯 Prepare a jar of Honey for the Long Keep, infused with chosen herbs
🍯 Craft a soft Braveheart Balm with honey, oil, and beeswax
🍯 Blend a bright herbal oxymel to take home
Together we will:
🍯Taste and compare different raw honeys
🍯 Prepare a jar of Honey for the Long Keep, infused with chosen herbs
🍯 Craft a soft Braveheart Balm with honey, oil, and beeswax
🍯 Blend a bright herbal oxymel to take home
There is time to stir, to talk, to notice scent and texture. Nothing rushed. Nothing ornamental.
Just sweetness, herbs, and the quiet pleasure of making something by hand.
All materials are provided.
No prior experience needed.
Just curiosity — and perhaps a fondness for golden jars.
📍 Location: Bookham, Surrey (near Leatherhead). On-site parking available.
Note: the Eventbrite pin is intentionally inaccurate for privacy. Full directions provided by email before the event.
🌞 This workshop is for anyone wishing to spend an afternoon making something beautiful, in good company, with warmth, care, and ease.
The Lover’s Apothecary: Tending Love, Gently
This is a quiet stillroom gathering for those who wish to tend love in its many forms — love for self, for friends, for memory, for beauty, for the seasons.We’ll work slowly and without pressure, drawing on historical traditions of herbs, flowers, and handmade keepsakes that were once used to express care, affection, and tenderness — not as grand gestures, but as everyday acts.
During our time together, you’ll be invited to:
🌸explore the gentle history of love tokens, posies, and floral symbolism
🌸create a softly scented potpourri using dried petals and spices
🌸craft a simple, handmade Valentine-style card with pressed flowers and ink
🌸make a nourishing body butter, chosen for comfort rather than seduction
🕯️There is no requirement to share, perform, or feel a certain way. You are welcome exactly as you are.
🌞This workshop is for anyone wishing to spend an afternoon making something beautiful, in good company, with warmth, care, and ease.
📍 Location: Bookham, Surrey (near Leatherhead). On-site parking available.
Note: the Eventbrite pin is intentionally inaccurate for privacy. Full directions provided by email before the event.
The Spice Apothecary: Crafting Spiced Remedies, Balms & Treasures
Step into the aromatic world of spice — a realm of warmth, ritual, remedy, and storytelling.In this immersive workshop, we’ll journey into the sensory heart of the spice apothecary, exploring how spices like clove, cinnamon, and ginger were once treasured not only for their flavour, but for their power to heal, protect, and enchant.
Alongside tales from ancient kitchens and stillrooms, you’ll create a fragrant collection of spice-infused remedies and rituals to take home — all crafted with natural ingredients and historical inspiration.
What We’ll Explore:
The healing uses and curious folklore of clove, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, cayenne, and more
Spices in love charms, protective blends, ancient rituals and trade routes
Lively hands-on activities: smell-and-guess game, light-hearted “spice personality” quiz, and more
What You’ll Craft & Take Home:
Spices in love charms, protective blends, ancient rituals and trade routes
Lively hands-on activities: smell-and-guess game, light-hearted “spice personality” quiz, and more
What You’ll Craft & Take Home:
🍯 A spiced honey electuary — warming, soothing, and delicious
💋 A luxurious spice lip balm
🌶️ A joint & muscle rub with cayenne and warming oils
Plus:
💋 A luxurious spice lip balm
🌶️ A joint & muscle rub with cayenne and warming oils
Plus:
A Mini Spice Lore Booklet with recipes, traditions, and spice secrets
All materials and step-by-step guidance in a welcoming, small-group setting
Snacks and drinks inspired by stillroom pantries
📍 Location: Bookham, Surrey (10 minutes from the train station, with on-site parking). The exact address will be shared via email 3–5 days before the event.
(Please note: the Eventbrite map pin is intentionally inaccurate to protect the privacy of the venue.)
🌞 This is more than a workshop — it’s a joyful dance of flavour, scent, and story. Come stir something ancient with your own hands.
All materials and step-by-step guidance in a welcoming, small-group setting
Snacks and drinks inspired by stillroom pantries
📍 Location: Bookham, Surrey (10 minutes from the train station, with on-site parking). The exact address will be shared via email 3–5 days before the event.
(Please note: the Eventbrite map pin is intentionally inaccurate to protect the privacy of the venue.)
🌞 This is more than a workshop — it’s a joyful dance of flavour, scent, and story. Come stir something ancient with your own hands.
The Witch’s Apothecary: Flying Ointments, Bath Bombs, & Smoke Bundles
Crafted by hand, rooted in history, carried by plants.This workshop is inspired by the work of wise women, cunning folk, and stillroom keepers of centuries past — those who tended herbs not only for healing, but for protection, purification, and quiet knowing.
In this immersive, hands-on session, you’ll explore historical plant craft and folk traditions through four powerful herbal creations — used across time for cleansing, clarity, and subtle transformation.
What You’ll Craft & Take Home:
🌘 Flying Ointment – Inspired by historical recipes made with mugwort, rosemary, yarrow and olive oil — long associated with dreaming, intuition, and spirit journeys.
🛁 Witch’s Herb Bath Bombs – Luxurious herbal soaks made with salts and herbs like sage, rosemary, and lavender — for cleansing and renewal.
🔥 Herbal Smoke Bundle (Smudge Stick) – A traditional bundle of dried herbs for space purification, grounded in historical practices from various cultures.
What We’ll Explore:
The history and folklore of these remedies and rituals
How medieval and early modern healers worked with herbs like mugwort, sage, lavender, rosemary, and more
The symbolic and spiritual uses of smoke, balm, and oil
A practical, welcoming space to blend, shape, and steep your own pieces of ritual history
What’s Included:
How medieval and early modern healers worked with herbs like mugwort, sage, lavender, rosemary, and more
The symbolic and spiritual uses of smoke, balm, and oil
A practical, welcoming space to blend, shape, and steep your own pieces of ritual history
What’s Included:
One of each creation to take home
Light refreshments and drinks inspired by historical recipes
A PDF guide with recipes, lore, and ritual suggestions
All materials, guidance, and care provided in a small-group setting
📍 Location: Bookham, Surrey (10 minutes from the station, on-site parking available).
Exact address shared 3–5 days prior to the event.
Please note: the Eventbrite pin is intentionally inaccurate to protect privacy.
🕯️ This is a workshop for those drawn to the quiet magic of herbs, the stories they carry, and the sacred art of handmade ritual. Come as you are — curious, weary, wild, or wondering.
Together we’ll create:
Light refreshments and drinks inspired by historical recipes
A PDF guide with recipes, lore, and ritual suggestions
All materials, guidance, and care provided in a small-group setting
📍 Location: Bookham, Surrey (10 minutes from the station, on-site parking available).
Exact address shared 3–5 days prior to the event.
Please note: the Eventbrite pin is intentionally inaccurate to protect privacy.
🕯️ This is a workshop for those drawn to the quiet magic of herbs, the stories they carry, and the sacred art of handmade ritual. Come as you are — curious, weary, wild, or wondering.
The Perfumer’s Table: Distilling Flowers & Crafting Botanical Waters
Step into the stillroom for a gentle two-hour session exploring the art of natural scent.Together we’ll create:
🌸a stovetop distillation of fresh lavender or rosemary, using the slow method once favoured by early apothecaries;
🌸and two botanical waters blended with petals and plant spirits — one floral and uplifting, one green and grounding.
While the distillation simmers on the hob, you’ll:
🌸and two botanical waters blended with petals and plant spirits — one floral and uplifting, one green and grounding.
While the distillation simmers on the hob, you’ll:
🌸blend your own floral waters with rose, orange, or cedar notes;
scent-test natural essences;
🌸and learn simple ways to use your creations as room sprays, linen waters, or gentle natural perfumes.
All ingredients, bottles, and guidance included — simply bring your nose and curiosity.
Duration: 2 hours | £55 per person
scent-test natural essences;
🌸and learn simple ways to use your creations as room sprays, linen waters, or gentle natural perfumes.
All ingredients, bottles, and guidance included — simply bring your nose and curiosity.
Duration: 2 hours | £55 per person
The Yule Stillroom: Candles, Balms & Warm Spiced Things
Step into the glow of the stillroom this December, where winter dark meets candlelight, and herbs carry warmth through the cold.This intimate workshop (for two guests only) is a chance to craft by firelight, sip spiced teas, and weave small treasures of care for the season.
What we’ll make together:
🌟A hand-poured beeswax candle, scented with festive herbs and citrus
🌟A soothing winter balm, blended with warming oils for cold hands and hearts
🌟A hand-stitched sweet bag sachet, filled with petals and spice to tuck into drawers or hang by the hearth
✨Duration: 3 hours
✨All materials provided
✨Exchange: £67 per person
✨Limited to 2 guests — a quiet, personal making experience
✨Location: my home in Bookham, Surrey (near Leatherhead), a small Tudor-style space lined with herbs, bottles, and old apothecary charm. Exact address provided upon booking
🌞 Leave with glowing hands, scented pockets, and a little light to carry through the winter.