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Welcome to You can make it : Masterclass!
CAN YOU MAKE IT? 😮
CAN I MAKE IT? 🤭
CAN WE MAKE A 'YOU CAN MAKE IT' 2025...? 😳 🤯 🙌🏻
You Can Make It was a hugely popular UK Metal Clay residential conference which ran in 2017, 2018 and 2020.
I organised the events with my fabulous Metal Clay team, and fantastic support every year from a huge range of wonderful tutors. These events were a highlight for many (including us), offering hands-on experience in a way that had not been done before, amazing learning opportunities, and the chance to connect and get together with our wonderful metal clay tribe.
Whilst they were amazing, magical, exciting, and so much fun, behind the scenes they were exhausting, time consuming, and took a toll on us physically as well as on our business. But, our fond memories and the demand (we absolutely love that you haven't stopped asking, and we really treasure that YCMI has meant so much for so many of you 🧡 ) have led us to consider the future of YCMI.
Over the last few years Stuart and I have discussed whether we could create a new hybrid version of YCMI, that would be gentler on us and our small team, but hopefully still special for anyone taking part.
For us the most important part of YCMI was always the hands-on experience together with socialising and having some fun. Last year our musings became a real possibility so we got in touch with some special metal clay artists to see if our idea made sense and if they would want to take part. And we think we've got a good solution worked out...
Here is You Can Make It : Masterclass - we hope you like the sound of it!
We're really excited about this new chapter for YCMI and sincerely hope You Can Make It... Your support and enthusiasm has been the driving force behind these events, and we can't wait to experience it with you again. 🧡
Love,
Petra and the Metal Clay Team x
*Spend time surrounded by amazing, generous, and fabulous artists and metal clay makers!
*Learn new techniques and further your skills through hands-on classes and a demo day
*Make new friends - all as mad about jewellery making as you!
Almost bursting and thankful to be able to be a part of this mind blowing amazing event. I had one of the funniest creative weekends of my life.
It was my first time at YCMI and it was the most amazing experience ever! Thank you to everyone for making me feel welcome, you are a wonderful warm bunch, full of a wealth of knowledge you are so willing to share! I couldn't have asked for a better weekend! I feel ready and excited about exploring new ideas and techniques... Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, everyone!
I came away with so much confidence. It was enriching, enlightening, energetic and positive experience! It was just "Epic and Off the Scale”! It so exceeded my expectations! BIG THANKS, looking forward to coming again next year!
Every time I look at ... my charm-swap chain... I will remember the fabulous sound of that crazy "christmas morning" like excitement of everyone connecting and sharing. It was a true pleasure to share time with everyone, take part in the fantastic classes and generally have my creative consciousness expanded beyond anything I could have imagined.
I had a wonderful time, it was lovely to see that everyone was having a ball, smiley happy faces everywhere, a testament to our 'MC clan' as we are surely family now.
Roll on next year!