While you are focusing on your crafts, background music will be played, so feel free to mute this if you would prefer to work in silence or play your own soothing music (we‘ll wave a sign when we’re ready to start the next step!)

These musical interludes will give some of you the chance for a one-to-one chat with Ruth in a breakout room if there’s something on your mind.

6 weekly 2-hour sessions

£40 per session 

Online (Zoom)

20 participants per course. (Some sessions may be delivered in small breakout groups)

A list of materials you could buy from Amazon will be emailed in advance of each session, with an average budget of £20.  Many of these materials can be used across several different projects and future courses.  Build up your very own crafting toolkit (add as many pompoms and sparkles as you like… fun isn’t just for children!)

Course 1: Handmade Cards – create bespoke cards for every occasion
Course 2: Edible Spa Products – spa products made from kitchen cupboard ingredients
Course 3: Create your own Brand – design your own logo
Course 4: Hair Fascinators
Course 5: Back from the Brink – revitalise your tired wardrobe 
Course 6: Home decoration, baubles and belles
Course 7: Edible Gifts – create a mini gift hamper
Course 8: Belle of the Ball – personalise your party dress

You’ll receive a shopping list (budget under £20).


Yes, weekly payments are available (£40/week).

Ruth is a passionate crafter! Her visceral need to craft is like your need to cough or sneeze. This lifelong love of creativity came from her Italian Mama and ‘finishing skills’ learned in a traditional English boarding school. Ruth was diagnosed with combined ADHD at the age of 52 and is still on the waiting list for her diagnosis of autism.

Ruth’s work is strongly influenced by nature, English crafts, history, myths and legends. Over 30 years, she has: baked biscuits and cakes, batch-cooked for her freezer, taught creative writing, decorated biscuits, made edible spa products from secret family recipes, decoratively embroidered, made gift hampers (sweets, biscuits, cakes, food, homeware and spa) handmade cards, floral arrangements, homeware, ornaments, pasta, patchwork, soft toys and sweets, hand-knitted complex patterns & jumpers, mindfully stitched, pickled and preserved and won competitions including prizes from the Women’s Institute!

Ruth was the Managing Director of Truly Sumptuous Ltd, an artisan ‘kitchen table’ business, specialising in creating handmade luxury spa products and gift hampers from edible ingredients. Spa products included bath bombs, bath milks, bath salts, bath oils, facial & skin oils, facial & skin scrub, lip balms. Cosy homemaking crafts included: potpourri, scented linen sachets, beeswax candles, bespoke cushion covers, and silk ribbons.

Ruth is passionate about bringing creative wellbeing to all. Life is gritty, most people are struggling financially, and joy is very hard to find. Creativity has been scientifically proven to boost motivation and improve mental and physical well-being.

Ruth is working towards a City & Guilds-accredited, Hand Embroidery Level 3

She will complete the Practitioner Coach Diploma & ILM Practitioner Coach course with Noble Manhattan in 2026

She is also a qualified Teacher with a Certificate in Education from Greenwich University.

Ruth lives in a tiny English village in the middle of ancient woods and is a member of the Seer Green Mindful Sewers.