The Devil’s Workshop

I felt like a kid in a candy shop at this place. Every case had something I wanted to see up close and try on. Their jewelry is unique, original, and modern. I wish they sold online so I could check in often and buy more! I had the tour guide drop me off here after my Niagara Falls trip, and spent 45 minutes looking through everything. Their sales person, DM, was very patient, and answered my many questions. I ended up buying the hammered brass earrings that first caught my eye in the window the day before. They’re beautiful!

Guys, this is where you need to go if you want to really be involved in your ring!
Here’s my story. I knew I wanted something very personal for my fiancé (now wife). After much research, I decided I should go the custom design route. I spent many days/​weeks sussing out the best way to go about this and eventually narrowed it down to a few elite jewellery craftspeople, including The Devil’s Workshop. Unfortunately when I went in, Sara wasn’t there but her lovely coworker, Shawna. She asked me to come back when Sara was in and I am so glad I did. I brought my brother with me and after just a few minutes talking to her, we both knew this was the right person to make the ring. Sara just has a calm, confident demeanour with no BS. Her pricing is very fair — in fact, she’s probably undercharging for her skill. She even worked with me so that I could repurpose my own gold — this was huge sticking point with other goldsmiths.
Anyway I could go on and on, but suffice it to stay that my wife LOVES her ring. We have both gone back to make our wedding bands in her very fun wedding band workshop.
Sara and The Devil’s Workshop are at the top of their game.
Rickesh S.

It is a good range of jewellery for everyone. I love that you can see people working in the back!!!
It is all well displayed, delicate and more modern, geometric pieces, and I was thrilled with how pretty everything was.
I’ve never been to a class, but I wanted to buy almost every necklace in that store.

I went to the Devil’s Workshop in October of last year to participate in two of their jewelry making workshops. The workshops were held on a Sunday, and I arrived slightly before noon and met Andrea, the teacher who would leave both workshops.
I had never been to the shop (having discovered the workshops online and signing up for them on the phone), so I was glad I got there early because it gave me time to look around. I was also able to go through their bead selection and pick mine out before anyone else arrived.
Each of my workshops cost $ 45+HST, and signing up to do both of them at the same time entitled me to a $ 12 bead credit while I was there. Each workshop was slated to last for two hours.
The store is tiny, but it is well-​laid out. The front half contains the retail portion of the shop. The room is painted a crisp white, and glass cupboards and shelves hold a number of beautiful, hand-​made jewelry items.
The entire space is open-​concept, so as various Sunday shoppers walked in to check out the goods, we were on display learning to make jewelry. This was, thankfully, not too distracting to take away from the workshop itself.
The workshop space is equipped with six stations designed to do some pretty hard-​core jewelry making. I was just taking wire-​working and bead-​working classes, so we didn’t use a lot of what I saw there. However, it was obvious that you can do so much more than string beads onto wire at their various workshops (wedding band and silversmith workshops, just to name a few).
In the wire-​working workshop, we learned to create floating necklaces and how to use crimp beads. After we finished our necklaces, we were able to create matching sets of earrings using similar techniques.
In the bead-​working workshop, we learned how to use head pins to attach beads to various length of chains (or other beads) to create necklaces and earrings of varying lengths and styles.
Regrettably, we ran out of time to make rings (something I was really looking forward to), but I left feeling I was armed with enough basic technique and knowledge to create my own at a later date.
After all was said and done, I paid an additional $ 3 for materials and left with a beautiful necklace and a few different styles of earrings. More importantly, I left with enough knowledge to purchase the materials I need and continue to create jewelry items on my own.

This is the place you need to come to if you want your wedding bands to be extra special. My husband, at the time my fiancé, and I were looking around for the perfect wedding bands. We wanted them to be very «us», but so far had found nothing that fit that category. We decided to check this place out on a recommendation from a couple we know, who got married a few years back.
Walking into this shop you will see displays of beautiful handmade jewelry. Lots of unique things to buy as gifts (self-​gifts included). We spoke to the owner, Sarah, who told us about their Wedding Band Class. What it entails is picking the metal you want your band to be made of (Silver, Gold, White Gold), in its raw state, and going, step by step, through the whole process until it becomes a beautiful perfect «you» band. The other cool part is that everyone makes their partner’s band. A hand made gift for your partner on your wedding day. The experience was fun and we couldn’t be happier with the results. Even though we have never done any metal working before, the bands came out looking beautiful and professional.
I strongly recommend :)

Despite it’s evil sounding nice, this jewelry-​making workshop is actually quite heavenly. I saw a sign in the door for fused glass pendant making classes around Mother’s Day, so I went inside to inquire. The woman was very helpful and informed me that the class provides the materials and the tools and you get to choose the design and create the pieces yourself.
I bought the class for my step mom and she absolutely loved it. The class was $ 80 for the two and half hour session and includes three glass blown pedants and three chains. My step mom actually made two additional pendants for $ 10 each.
To create your own totally unique, good quality, handcrafted jewelry, this is really a great deal. I saw the beads when she brought them home and they were beautiful — like she purchased them from some trendy boutique. The workshop also sells some beautiful jewelry and if you’re lucky (and a dog person) you might get to meet the beautiful German Sheppard that often wanders through the store.