News And Events

It must be that Spring air that’s got to us, cause we’re feeling more generous than we already are! It’s about time we started showing our appreciation to those of you who make the effort to ‘big us up’ out there and encourage new people to join the Scrapstore.

So let us introduce the Introduce a Friend scheme!

• Members who introduce, persuade or bribe a friend into becoming a member of WRE will be rewarded with a 50% discount on their trolley of scrap. This discount will only apply on the day you bring in and join up your friend. That way we make sure you do actually introduce us, we’re such a shy retiring bunch after all! However,  we can only cope with you introducing us to one new member per day.
• You need to have up to date membership to enjoy this reward and the new member does need to be new to us, as opposed to having an expired membership.
• This reward programme will initially run until the end of April and if proves successful may continue to run from there.

So get those recruiting boots on and find us a friend.  We like  meeting new people!

Members Only Exclusive!

At last at last we can present you all with this fabulous opportunity to make a decent man of our one and only mannequin. The demand for mannequins has been so high and having only managed to scrump the one, we feel the fairest thing to do is compete for him! This gives everyone a chance to get their hands on him.

The competition is open to members only at the cost of £1 per entry. All you need to do is present us with your idea for how you will make use of him. A rough sketch and paragraph outlining your project idea is all we ask.

Entries need to be handed in at WRE with your entry fee, name, membership number and contact information by 1st April 2010.  There is no limit to the number of entries you can make.

Entries will be judged on originality, inventiveness and creativity (so panic not if you’re not much of a drawer, it’s the idea that matters). The winner will be announced on April 14th.

We look forward to seeing your ideas. Keep em coming and… Good Luck!

Yes indeedy!

We have holes galore! We’re all over excitable here today after our most lucrative mega swap ever! Dins is still getting over our early start yesterday to the annual multi swap in Exeter. We met up with over 20 other scrap stores and have bagged you soooo many faberoo things. I’ll list some of the goodies but it’s those of you who come in for a mooch who will make the most of it.

• Silicone tubing off cuts
• Big brown glass bottles
• Purple and turquoise voile off cuts
• Blue netting
• Velcro
• Every type of holeyness and dottiness you can think of
• Pink dolls houses (Hmmm…)
• Pink, blue, green and red pac man type clammy shell thingies
• Larger than usual plastic cones
• Felt pads
• Big pipettes
• Takki tape
• Plastic bowls and big tubs with lids

All of these items are in fairly limited quantities so they’re unlikely to hang about here for long.

So don’t dilly dally on the way!

Hot off the back of our van, these fabulous fans are now up for grabs! The biggest ones are 1.45m diameter, and whilst you could fold them away… it would be a whole lot lot easier, not to. trust me on this one before you make your vehicle choice!

They start at £3 and max out at £5.

Let your dramarama departments know, they’d be fan tastic for a big stage set!

The Council are looking for volunteers to join their team of enthusiastic Master Composters, to promote home composting to the residents of Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

This could be by assisting on a stand at a local event or show, giving a talk, writing magazine articles or providing composting demonstrations.

Full training will be given and volunteers are expected to contribute a minimum of 30 hours per year.  Travel expenses are paid and Master Composters enjoy free membership of Garden Organic.

Please contact Chris Atkinson on 01905 768227 or email cnatkinson@worcestershire.gov.uk

for more information.

At the risk of boring you, we’re still getting loads of fab new stuff in. Same old marvellousness, day in day out, hope you don’t find it too tedious!

Glorious Gloucester scrapstore, escaped the snow yesterday and visited us with a van full of goodies for swapping. Our chaps have also been out and about blaggin it and baggin it and bringin it back for you. So have a good squiz of the list, there are some real corkers this week.

These are a few of my favourite things…

• Snooker loopy nut are we! We have snooker table baize on the roll and it’s only £1 metre. There is more than enough to do a few tables.
• Sporty week we’s havin! We also have tennis ball fabric on the roll. Yep we do! It’s the fluro lemmony green stuff and very tough!
• Nylon/plastic tubing – About 10mm bore, various lengths.
• Corex type stuff. It’s black, plasticky and very much like corex and comes in pieces roughly 40cm x 90cm. Will stick a picci on our blog when I get the chance.
• Gorgeous upholstery fabrics are us this week! On the roll, cheap as chips and classy as!
• Paint by numbers may not be your bag but the canvasses may be. We have sooo many PBN kits now that we’re putting them out as part of your trolley. The canvasses can be painted over so easily. Need I say more?
• I will say more! Acryllic paints are all now in the main scrapstore! We need the space, so want to get them shifting. I could’ve said it’s cause we’re such a generous lot couldn’t I?
• Geotextile in big sheets aka weed suppressant!
• Bright coloured paper – smells lush! Cause it’s from Lush!
• Loads of bikes.
• Icecream tubs with lids.

Looking forward to your next visit already!

Mrs G and the Dream Team

Check out our big baubles!

WRE is in need of a mascot!

Design and make a mascot for WRE that promotes reuse, creativity and is fun! The mascot can be 2D or 3D and must be made from materials that would normally be thrown away. The mascot also needs to fit into a shoebox.

Entries can be submitted by email, post or dropped off with us instore.

Deadline: Saturday 27th february 2010

Prize: One year of membership for the school to WRE plus a voucher towards scrap materials.

Competition entries will be posted on our website so please let us know if you don’t want yours to be shown.

Don’t forget to include your contact information.

Good Luck!

Hey there Scrapfans!

Yet another fab week of blagging!

The donkey is actually an easel, however, it is more commonly known as a donkey (see pic of Dins riding it!) and would retail at £175 – £264 and we’re selling it perfect at £30.

The other easel we have is a quality double sided ‘Devon’ one  that just needs someone a bit handy to make feet for it (there’s a pic on the box and it looks fairly simple, we just don’t have the time). It would normally retail at £165 -£239 and we’ll let it go for £25. Quality product for the right person! Pic of Beth at work on it so you can get an idea.

Holey green spongey stuff (Long thin strips of green foam with holes innit),

White sticky back dots (millions of them),

Pretty pink boxes (very very good…shoebox size and smaller)

Tea bag fabric in huge sheets,

Big white plastic tubes larger than your above average drainpipe,

Tiger turf in red blue and green,

Cone shaped cones with lots of festive potential

Ceramic beads used to be in Quality St, now part of your trolley,

2 incomplete drum kits but still worth a look,

BIKES BIKES N MORE BIKES!

We have 25 in stock including: -

6 ickle ones with 10″ frame or less. good mix of girly and man colours for the persistant ken n barbie fans out there. 2 v cute mini BMXs

4 x 12-14″ frame bikes for bigger kids and smaller teen/adults

10 ladies/gents bikes including mountain and road bikes and for the daddy long legged amongst us there’s one with a 23.5″ frame

Just back from gurt lush Bristol with some reet good scrumpings for you. They are a lovely lot down there and have happily taken a load of surplus goodies from us goody goodies in exchange for some faberoodle bits n bobs for you guys.

Cargo net – various gauges, humunguss amounts

Wooden dowling

Lacey like ribbon in black and white (Witches hair springs to mind)

Big bits of white tuille (netting)

Sugar paper in lots of colours

Greetings cards

Brown glass bottles in different sizes

Pork pies (Free range AND organic obviously)

Did i tell a pork pie?

Unused empty paint tins (2 & 5litre)

Silver shower hose (miles n miles of it)

Black ribbed hose

Mini clear plastic brief cases

AND AND AND

HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA!

It’s really all an ickle bit tacky but we have absolutely stacks of halloweenesque items, all at just 20p so perfect for trick n treaters or party prizes:-

Hair bands

Glow in dark jewellry

Sweat bands

Hair extensions

Candles

And the rest!