Create your own peaceful Zen Garden with a copper wire tree, crystal base, colorful sand, and wooden or bamboo tray. Join us for a magical and relaxing workshop where you’ll create your own beautiful Zen Garden featuring a handmade copper wire tree sculpture, a crystal base of your choice, colorful sand, and a wooden or bamboo garden tray. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to twist and shape copper wire into your very own enchanted tree, decorate it with tiny sparkling crystals, and design a peaceful zen garden around it. You’ll choose your own garden base, sand colors, and finishing details to make your piece feel personal, calming, and unique. Important: After purchasing your ticket, please send us a private message as soon as possible to let us know which sand color you would like for your Zen Garden. This helps us prepare the materials in advance and make sure we have your preferred colors ready for the workshop. This is one of our more luxurious workshops, with more materials, more design choices, and a beautiful finished piece you can take home and enjoy as décor, a meditation corner, or a special handmade gift. Please note: tickets are sold per […]

An elevated Paint & Sip experience designed to help you release, reflect, and reconnect through intuitive painting, guided prompts, breathwork, and artisan tea. Each month offers a different theme.  Repeat guests welcome. No art experience is required—just a willingness to create. Each session offers a unique opportunity to express yourself, reduce stress, and leave feeling lighter and renewed. Your ticket includes: -Guided intuitive painting -All art supplies & take-home canvas -Grounding breathwork -Artisan tea -A calm, supportive, and creative experience Use code GLOW15 for 15% off.

Uncover the Haunted Past of Savage Mill Step into the shadows of Historic Savage Mill, where history lingers… and so do the ghosts. Journey through the Mill’s eerie corridors as you uncover the harsh realities of 19th-century mill life and how those struggles echo through the spine-tingling encounters reported today. Meet the mischievous spirit of a little girl who just loves to trip the living, and hear the stories that have left even skeptics wide-eyed. Tour starts at the Big ChairCourtyard Entrance, Historic Savage Mill8600 Foundry Street, Savage, MD 20763Directions Recommended for ages 12 and up.Reservations required. No walk-ups accepted.Tickets are refundable in case of emergencies or cancellations. Tours may be canceled due to severe weather or flood warnings. In those cases, you'll receive a refund or be offered a reschedule. Can’t make it? Notify Maryland History Tours at ecrfpres@aol.com within 24 hours for a full refund or to switch dates.Please don’t resell your ticket. We maintain a waitlist and offer openings directly. Get your tickets now:mdhistorytours.com/tickets

Herbal tea can be a source of brightness, balance, and renewal—supporting both the body and spirit through the fullness of the summer season. Join us for a hands-on, interactive workshop where you’ll create your own custom herbal blend using a curated selection of herbs traditionally used to uplift the spirit, support vitality, and encourage emotional and energetic balance. Guided by both practical knowledge and intuitive selection, you’ll work with herbs that nourish, energize, and restore while creating a blend aligned with your personal needs and intentions. In this intimate gathering, we will explore herbal allies associated with joy, creativity, vitality, and emotional well-being while reconnecting with the simple practice of working with plants as everyday support. In this workshop, you will: ~Select from a variety of herbs based on your needs and intentions ~Blend your own custom tea to take home ~Learn the foundational properties and uses of key herbal allies ~Explore intuitive approaches to working with herbs ~Receive simple guidance for preparing and incorporating your blend into daily life This is a hands-on experience designed to be both accessible and meaningful—perfect for beginners and those looking to deepen their relationship with herbalism. All materials provided. No prior experience needed. […]

Please join us in welcoming back local fantasy author Grace Carlisle! Grace will be visiting for an author pop-up and she's bringing copies of both her books! Come swing by, chat and (hopefully) buy a book!

Dive into a treasure trove of beads and findings to craft your own inspired jewelry pieces, whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned maker. Ready for a burst of creativity! At Alumia Design Studio, you’ll dive into a treasure trove of beads and findings to craft your own inspired jewelry pieces. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned maker, you’ll learn new techniques with plier work that will give you skills to fix your own jewelry at home and to understand where to start creating the new. Explore and sharpen your motor skills, enjoy playing with our vast collection of materials. Perfect for birthday celebrations, girls’ night out, mom & daughter quality time, friend hangouts, bridal parties, team bonding, creative date nights, or anyone who wants to relax, play with color, and leave with jewelry they made themselves. Details: · Prices: $25 for kids ages 6-12 // $35 for young adults 12-18 // $45 for adults 18+ (includes entry and instruction; some quality beads and materials are individually priced at affordable rates) · Duration: 1.5 hours - 2 hours · Ages: Open to all, from age 6 and up · Create as many pieces as you can in the time […]

Design & Saw Your Own Ring - Level 1:  Create the first stage of your handmade ring in brass or sterling silver. Join us for a creative and hands-on ring making workshop at Alumia Design Studio, where you’ll begin creating your own custom ring from sterling silver or brass. Important: This is a Level 1 ring making workshop. You will design and hand-cut your ring strip during class, and the final ring will be shaped, soldered, polished, and finished after class. In this unique workshop, you’ll plan and design your ring, learn how to work with a professional jeweler’s saw, and hand-cut your design while working at a traditional bench pin. You’ll be guided step by step as you create the flat ring strip that will later become your finished handmade ring. This workshop is perfect for beginners who want to experience real jewelry-making techniques in a fun, approachable way. You do not need any previous experience — just patience, creativity, and a willingness to work carefully with your hands. After completing your ring strip, you’ll have two options: Option 1: Studio Finished Ring Leave your ring design with us, and we will professionally shape, solder, polish, and finish it […]

A Restorative Ritual for Release & Renewal Unwind beneath the illuminating energy of the Full Moon during this calming guided meditation experience. Through meditation, breathwork, grounding practices, reflection, and a soothing tea ritual, you'll be invited to release what no longer serves you and reconnect with clarity, balance, and inner peace. Experience Includes: -Guided meditation journey -Breathwork + grounding practices -Reflection prompts -Tea ritual -Gentle closing affirmation ✨ Use code GLOW15 for 15% off.

Learn from a professional how to carve, saw, file, and perfectly shape a pendant from metal in only 2 hours at Alumia Design Studio. Discover the art of metalwork jewelry making in this 2-hour hands-on workshop at Alumia Design Studio in Savage Mill. Using a jeweler’s saw, you’ll design and carve your very own pendant - choosing from our collection of silhouette templates or bringing your own printed custom design. This workshop is perfect for friends, couples, or small groups (up to 6 people) looking for a fun, creative experience. Whether you keep your pendant or gift it, you’ll leave with a unique, hand-carved piece of jewelry to treasure. ✨ What you’ll learn: How to use a jeweler’s saw and tools to create detailed designs Techniques for clean, precise sawing Tips for personalizing your pendant with your own design You’ll choose to work in brass or sterling silver. The metal sheets we carve on are purchased separately in the workshop (0.8 mm thick): Brass: 3×3 cm = $10 | 4×4 cm = $15 | 5×5 cm = $20 Sterling Silver: 3×3 cm = $45 | Larger sizes priced by weight 💎 Finishing touches: Alumia offers in-house gold plating services, so […]

Create a magical wire tree on a crystal base! A 2.5-hour workshop to twist, shape & craft your own enchanted sculpture. Join us for a magical and relaxing 2.5-hour workshop where you’ll create a stunning copper wire tree sculpture on top of a large crystal base. You’ll learn how to twist and shape copper wire into your very own enchanted tree, decorated with tiny sparkling crystals. It’s not hard — but it does take time, focus, and patience. Feel free to bring your own base for the tree - whether it’s a crystal, a sturdy stone, or a unique piece of wood. You can also choose from our beautiful in-store crystal collection, available for purchase at fair rates at the start of the workshop. • Duration: 2–2.5 hours (at your own pace) • Ages: Best for ages 12 and up Alternate Dates & Times If you’d like to book this workshop for a different date or time, just email us at alumiadesigns@gmail.com and we’ll do our best to accommodate you. Location: Alumia Design Studio — the purple shop inside the New Weave building at Savage Mill. We’re right next to Bearing Gifts, in front of the candle shop, and on […]

Create your own peaceful Zen Garden with a copper wire tree, crystal base, colorful sand, and wooden or bamboo tray. Join us for a magical and relaxing workshop where you’ll create your own beautiful Zen Garden featuring a handmade copper wire tree sculpture, a crystal base of your choice, colorful sand, and a wooden or bamboo garden tray. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to twist and shape copper wire into your very own enchanted tree, decorate it with tiny sparkling crystals, and design a peaceful zen garden around it. You’ll choose your own garden base, sand colors, and finishing details to make your piece feel personal, calming, and unique. Important: After purchasing your ticket, please send us a private message as soon as possible to let us know which sand color you would like for your Zen Garden. This helps us prepare the materials in advance and make sure we have your preferred colors ready for the workshop. This is one of our more luxurious workshops, with more materials, more design choices, and a beautiful finished piece you can take home and enjoy as décor, a meditation corner, or a special handmade gift. Please note: tickets are sold per […]

This is a space to soften and reconnect with what feels alive within you. Reconnecting with Joy & Pleasure is a single-evening, in-person practice session designed to support emotional spaciousness, sensory awareness, and embodied connection through herbal practice, reflection, and ritual. This is not a lecture-based class. It is a hands-on, practice-centered experience. Throughout the evening, participants will work with herbs, guided reflection, and sensory practices that invite openness, creativity, beauty, and emotional nourishment. Together, we will explore the ways joy and pleasure can become pathways back to presence, softness, and self-trust. At the center of this experience is relationship. Relationship with the body, with beauty, with desire, with joy, and with the herbal allies that help us reconnect with these experiences gently and without shame. This is not about forcing happiness or bypassing difficulty. It is about making space to notice what nourishes, expands, and restores you. Ancestral wisdom is woven throughout this space, not as something to learn or follow, but as something to remember within yourself. What We’ll Explore Joy and pleasure as forms of nervous system healing Sensory awareness and embodied presence Herbal allies for emotional nourishment and openness Reconnecting with softness and beauty Practices for […]