Advent Calendar Making with Miss Witt
Thursday 26th November 2026 | 7pm-9pm
Make your own chocolate advent calendar with Miss Witt in this festive, hands-on workshop. Discover the art of chocolate making, learn tempering and piping techniques, and decorate your own delicious creations, ready to enjoy from 1st December.
Lino-Cut Wrapping Paper with Kate
Saturday 5th December 2026 | 11am – 1.30pm
Make your gifts extra special with a festive lino-cut printing workshop. Design your own Christmas motif and discover the art of hand-printing to create unique wrapping paper with a personal touch.
Botanical Baubles with Becki
Saturday 12th December 2026 | 11am-1.30pm
Create three beautiful botanical Christmas baubles with creative designer Becki Clark in this relaxing watercolour painting workshop. A lovely way to add a personal touch to your tree or create thoughtful handmade gifts.
Embroidered Decorations with Chrissie
Saturday 19th December 2026 | 11am-1.30pm
Create something to treasure this Christmas with a festive embroidery workshop. Stitch, embellish and add a little sparkle as you craft a beautiful, jewel-toned heart decoration by hand.
Meet our makers
A bit about Kerry
Chocolate By Miss Witt was founded by Kerry Witt in 2012.
Kerry is an award-winning chocolatier and chocolate educator, having received World Renowned Academy of Chocolate Awards for her work between 2015 and 2022.
She has also been invited to judge for the Academy of Chocolate Awards over the years. She has travelled to Ecuador and spent time at a supplier’s cacao estate, taking part in the cacao harvest and learning first-hand about the journey from cacao pod to chocolate.
A bit about Kate
Kate Smith, from Kate Smith Prints, lives and works in the New Forest where she finds inspiration from the surroundings of the beautiful National Park.
Kate uses lino printing to convey her love of nature and wildlife. She enjoys sharing her passion for printing by teaching workshops where people can relax and find flow by carving lino before getting inky and playing with printing.
A bit about Becki
Becki Clark is a multidisciplinary creative designer & Author inspired by seasonality and nature with over ten years of experience working in the creative industry.
Based in the New Forest, Becki finds inspiration in her surroundings, the changing seasons and the colours and florals that reflect them.
Becki’s signature style lends itself to a vast range of projects from illustration and surface pattern design to craft projects and prop making. She loves to get to share her passion for seasonal living through workshops teaching others how to embrace the seasons through creativity.
A bit about Sarah
Based in the heart of the New Forest, Chrissie has been stitching since childhood, developing a lifelong passion for hand embroidery. She trained at the Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court Palace, qualifying as a specialist in the craft.
Alongside teaching for the Royal School of Needlework at venues across the UK, she runs her own business, Cloud Juno, delivering workshops, embroidery holidays and online classes to a global community. She is also an award winning embroiderer and the self published author of the 50 Blackwork Patterns series.
Through her work, Chrissie aims to make hand embroidery accessible to all, drawing inspiration from nature and the beauty of the world around us.
