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Made In Words

Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute

Made In Words offers a range of contemporary, handmade framed pieces and keepsakes using mixed media materials and found papers in a creative and sustainable way - we specialise in gifts using your own words for anniversaries, weddings and births and all the special moments inbetween.

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About

Made In Words is a small business based in the West of Scotland which specialises in personalised artworks and gifts.

Made In Words began in 2009 shortly after I moved with my family to the West of Scotland. Having trained in Textiles and Fine Art, I taught for ten years in various Art Colleges in the UK and abroad while continuing my own fine art practice and I saw this move as an opportunity to concentrate on doing what I love best; making lovely objects out of beautiful materials.

Pretty much everything I make is personalised and made to order, usually individual pieces but I do make larger batches of my products for events such as weddings and parties or for use as corporate gifts. I regularly make specially designed pieces for events gifts, particularly for theatre, music and film launches - my handmade paper boat in a bottle has been used to launch the Passenger album, 'Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea', to celebrate the opening night of Jamie Lloyd's 'The Tempest' starring Sigourney Weaver and to give to the cast and crew of 'Jurassic World: Rebirth' amongst other events. I am also always happy to discuss completely new products or twists on one of my established ones and have recently made a love heart piece for the cast of Much Ado About Nothing at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane starring Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell and a lovely salt tower in a bottle for Blackthorn Salt in Ayrshire. For individual customers, I've made bow ties in bottles for ushers and all sorts of variations on my flowers and framed hearts pieces using hand written drafts of first novels and using specific and meaningful colours for hearts and flowers. Please do get in touch if you have any special requests, I am always happy to look at them with you.

The essence of Made In Words is in the making - it is very important to me that each product is hand finished to the highest possible standard. I hope that you will find something here that you can treasure or take pleasure in giving to a loved one.

Please feel free to get in touch. I hope you enjoy your visit! - Vicky Neil

tiny boats in bottles for wedding favours

My name is Vicky Neil and I design and make everything you see here in my shop with only occasional help in busy periods. I live and work in Helensburgh just along the River Clyde from Glasgow and very close to Loch Lomond. It's a beautiful place to live and, when I'm not in my studio, I'm out walking my Bedlington Whippet, Thea, in the lovely hills and along the stunning coasts that surround us. I am a keen cold water dippper so I'm spoiled for choice with salt water on one side of me and fresh water on the other. I'm also a keen gardener and so you'll see lots of pictures of flowers and fresh veg on my social media feeds - it's probably not a coincidence that my products include paper boats, tents and masses of flowers...