Nicola's No Ordinary World is made from recycled objects and gourds.: Products Used in My Models

Please note this page is still under construction and the links are not working yet.

Below is a list of the materials I have used and what it is I have made out of them. I will continue to add to this list as I go along.

Materials Used

Lights - string of miniature led's:- If you would like to read about them please click here.

Glow in the Dark Paints:- If you would like to read about them please click here.

Jones Tones Foil:- This is amazing stuff. If you would like to read more about it please click here.

Microbeads/Micropsheres:- It is amazing how small these things can be and what you can do with them. If you would like to know more please click here.

Silk flowers:- Images of some of the things I have made out of them. If you would like to know more about them please click here.

Gumnuts:- Images of some of the things I have made out of them and some description of the materials I have added to them to change their appearance. If you would like to know more about them please click here.

Beads:- Images of some of the things I have made out of them. If you would like to view them please click here.

Luffas:- Images of some of the plants I have made using them. If you would like to view them please click here.

Optic fibre:- Images of some of the plants I have made using them. If you would like to view them please click here.

Optic fiber lit by a blue LED.

Moss:- Images of a variety of moss I have made. If you would like to view them please click here.

Gourds:- Images of a variety of ways I have used the gourds in the miniature village. If you would like to view them please click here.

Balsa Wood;- Images of a variety of ways I have used balsa wood in the miniature village. If you would like to view them please click here.

Banana Thread and Silk;- I love this stuff it feels like silk should feel like. If you would like to know more please click here.

Banana Thread

Varieties of silk

Wool - For Moss; -

Here the dark green wool is actually two different wools finger crochet together and the pale wool is a long wool crochet.

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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Products Used in My Models

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Materials Used

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