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Fiona (1m7vwus0ta071): 46, Female
GB

Etsy Shop:: fionamacneil.etsy.com

Flickr:: www.flickr.com/photos/fionamacneil/

About Me:: Hello and welcome to my page. My name is Fiona. I live in Scotland with my husband and three children. I work with Glass, selling my wares on Etsy.

I've been interested in Arts and Crafts all my life. Art was my first big love but crafts came quickly after. After leaving school I trained to be a secretary and then went on to train as a nurse. Makes sense eh? What happened to the art? I always wondered that until I retired from nursing due to ill health and decided I needed experience in another area if I was to get a job. What happened next was nothing short of a miracle. I applied to a local college to train in Alternate Therapies and was told two weeks before the course started that it was being cancelled. After spending a few years unemployed and sinking deeper into depression this was really devastating news. After the tears had stopped I made a search of local college courses and found an Arts course. It hit me like a ton of bricks when I realised this is what I had wanted to do all my life. I started by studying Design, then Fine Art and finally Glasswork. This took me four years and I really enjoyed going back to college as a mature student, meeting new friends and learning a new skill.....(glasswork). It's funny how life can completely turn around the circle back to the beginning. I look at it as a chance to start again, career-wise.

My studies finished this year and I am now experimenting making fused glass pendants in my mini-microwave kiln. I'm saving up at the moment to buy a much bigger, more pratical kiln. I still love crafts and have been greatly inspired by all the wonderful art and crafters on Etsy. I could be selling wares other than glass in my shop......? :)

Thanks for taking the time to get to know me......:)

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Added a reply Apr 1

Thanks for this information, much appreciated! Read More »

This is a lovely little painting, it's amazing how much detail can be gotten in something so small, I think that's why I like miniatures. That's great you sold your Dads work on Ebay and I don't bl... Read More »

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Added a reply Mar 30

hi katey.......glad to hear about 'ways round problems'....."phew". I do like drawing and painting but as I've been studying glass I'd really like to concentrate on that at the moment. I recently b... Read More »

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Posted by Fiona on August 18th, 2008 at 8:19pm — No Comments (Add)

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Well, I finally finished my college course and have been making glass pendants in my kiln. Today I went to a fantastic glass bead making workshop which I thoroughly enjoyed and now want all the tools so that I can get to practise making beads........Have been enjoying relaxing a bit more.........no more college essays or reports to write. Just waiting now to go on our family holiday in August and then I'll get going with all the glass art projects I have in mind.

Posted by Fiona on July 12th, 2008 at 7:59pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 9:32am on August 18th, 2008, ollieandjunebug said…: There's a pic of my etched bud vase on my blog (blog.ollieandjunebug.com)! I'm going to play with more designs this week. There are so many possibilities!

At 7:39am on August 17th, 2008, Sakura said…: Love the beautiful, juicy colours you use in your work! They looks gorgeous (^_^)

Sakura ♥

At 1:22pm on August 12th, 2008, ollieandjunebug said…: Hey Fiona. I just responded to the etching glass comment you left over on my page. I didn't want to take up your comment wall with a long response! :)

At 12:56pm on August 12th, 2008, Walk on the Moon said…: Thank you & love your pendants!

At 6:00pm on August 11th, 2008, chanelle richardson said…: very fun pendants, fiona! sounds like you have quite a story, and i am glad you have found your niche.

;)
cheers!
~chanelle

At 5:34pm on August 11th, 2008, Irith Mashiah said…: Thank you Fiona,

Your glass pendants are very unique!

At 12:14pm on August 7th, 2008, HeatherRai said…: Love your glass pendants! I'm from Appleton, WI :-) Someday I'd love to travel to England though! Nice to meet you.

At 12:21pm on August 6th, 2008, Fiona said…: Thankyou.......ah, I like visiting Edinburgh, especially art galleries. Been to the museum of childhood and the Pixar exhibtion. Haven't been through this year but you've put me in the notion to go... :)