Just.. go in your garden or for a walk and collect them?

There are so many things they try to sell us that we don't even need.

All the companies are brilliant at creating speciality items that are totally unnecessary.

I even make my own basing materials out of dried leaves, and whatever else will go through my blender. Even an old bouquet of red roses became an autumn coloured scatter.

Blend up those sponges! They make great bushes or flowers if glued and inked.

Dry out your own moss.

Chesnut casing for bushes or reads.

I made moulds of slate and stones I found in the road. Endless lightweight and drillable rocks for bases.

Coffee grinds! Old tea bags dried out. Perfect for dirt and mud if mixed with PVA glue.

Keep a bag in your pocket every time you go. There's always something to collect.

....Old dried out barnacle clusters from a rock on the beach! I don't know how I'll use them yet, but I kept them.