Fu Xiuying, a woman from Jilin province, may call herself "just a normal farmer" but she's been attracting quite a bit of attention for her ability to make handicrafts out of ordinary nutshells and leaves.

Fu explains her approach in her micro blog by saying, "I love art. Beauty is everywhere in our lives. What we need is to find it with our eyes."

She turns these simple ingredients into figures such as a rabbit, rooster or a butterfly with her hands and a pair of scissors.

Fu got her creative ideas while cleaning a room this past Spring Festival where her family had eaten a lot of nuts and just left the shells on the floor and their peculiar shape inspired her to construct a painting with the leftovers. Her first nutshell creation was of a monkey.

In fact, Fu got her start much earlier when she became obsessed with drawing at the age of four or five, but she just never got the chance to learn drawing and to take it up. But, in 2010, she did her first painting, using her son's picture as a model. Although he was away studying at a university in Jiangxi province, she missed him.

By now, Fu' name has spread widely thanks to her micro blog displays and a company has even done the mounting for her works for free.

But Fu says she doesn't want to sell any of her paintings and just enjoys the creative process, and concludes, "I have a wish to made more works made of more different materials. Then, more people will see my works when I have enough to open an exhibition."