Nicola's No Ordinary World is made from recycled objects and gourds.: 2019

Thursday, 5 September 2019

Saturday, 27 July 2019

FANATASY HOUSE of Mice at Exhibit Do You BEE-lieve 2019

Friday, 26 July 2019

FANTASY HOUSES on Channel 7 Gold Coast News

Wednesday, 10 July 2019

I am just SO excited. I have just had Alex and the camerman come around from Chanel 7 and do an interview with about my models and my book The Gribble's Gift.

This is just so brilliant! Thank you Alex and Channel 7.

So excited that Alex from Channel 7 and the camerman came to see my models

Sunday, 23 June 2019

CRAFT SUPPLIES FOR SALE

I will be at the Mudgeerba Show this weekend (28th - 30th June 2019) to display my miniature models made from gourds and re-cycled objects. I shall be presenting a house I have only once before displayed. http://www.mudgeerabashow.org.au/information.html

I shall also be SELLING CHEAP CRAFT SUPPLIES to help RAISE MONEY to PUBLISH my book the fantasy story The Gribble's Gift.

I shall be selling items such as BEADS, jeweler findings, FELT, silk flowers (small),

GLASS and PLASTIC TEST TUBES, the special micobeads I use on in my models,

HANDMADE PAPER, tapestry threads, EMBROIDERY THREADS, mini bottles,

FUR FABRIC, lace, RIBBONS, trimmings, RIVETS, split pins (decorative), WOODEN BEADS,

ear rings, MINIATURE DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE, feathers and many more items.

A past display of my miniature models at the Mudgeeraba Show

Thursday, 25 April 2019

I HAVE A FRONT COVER

LOOK! I am soo pleased.

Andrew McIntosh kindly produced the following front cover for my soon to be released novel

The Gribble's Gift

No Ordinary World

The world is awash with the refuse of the human race, but what if some of it could be reused?

In years gone by a place of sanctuary was required to hide from the fears infesting the mind. A world of fantasy grew all around comforting the spirit. Then imagination was not enough. It was necessary to touch what was once thought, tread the paths woven in the mind, to feel the essence of one's dreams, to walk through what was no ordinary world.

But how?

With gourds in one hand and decades of casts off from a life of hording in another, order grew. With plastic, string, balloons and more, plants, fungi and creatures appeared beneath the fingers that wove them into existence. Homes appeared, small, delicate and secretive, filled with the waste thrown away by human beings. Layers of life surrounded them. A touch of nature was added. The earthiness of the gourd embodied them with an essence that made one believe that this could all be real.

As stories began to be told through the written word, the models, entwined within, both grew in size, width and depth.

Strangers looked upon a world that was like no other. It was tactile, full of layers, it drew them in and, with their imaginations ablaze they too now wandered the paths that lay before them lost in the innocence of a childhood long since gone.

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