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Greetings of a Rather Seasonal Nature!

Yep, it’s here at last (for those of you eager to get on with all things Christmassy), we can avoid it no longer (for those of you not in the zone yet). Oh what fine festive scrumpings we have gathered and stashed for you over the last year. We’ve got a huge variety of gatherings this year and really hope you’ll find inspiration for some fab festive projects as well as saving yourselves some precious pennies ‘n’ pounds.

Last week, some of the gang attended the Scrapstores Uk Make Time To Play Conference and at the end of the day there was a mega multi swap between loads of scrapstores from far and wide. We did pretty well at grabbing the good stuff whilst doing the comedy ‘I’m not running’ walk to speedily stash the best stuff in our van, before anyone else got their mitts on it.

The List is… Long!

• Quality lino and rollers – for printing, not flooring
• Watercolour sets
• Sketch books
• Resin blocks (good for building blocks)
• Reels galore
• More sugar paper in A4,3 and 2
• Hologram card (big sheets)
• Jewellery boxes
• Organ pipes (We kid you not!)
• Continuous computer printing paper
• Poster paints
• Silk (or fake silk) flowers
• Rope
• Sheepskin
• Mini jam jars with lids
• Teeney weeney milk bottles
• A crib waiting for peg dolly sized characters
• Christmas cards
• Tinsel
• Baubles bigger than grapefruits (and not that we’d recommend eating them, but they probably taste nicer too…not that I’m bitter… ho ho)
• Wreaths, garlands and tree branches
• Gift boxes (including some v dinky gingerbread house ones that are intended for colouring in, if you’re after keeping anyone out of mischief)
• Red and gold netting ribbon
• White felt

STOP PRESS!!
We’ve just unearthed this decorative sleigh. It’s gorgeous, needs the tiniest bit of fixing up and is perfect for a crimbo display, though not sturdy enough to clamber on. NB Sleigh driver not included! Bargain at £12.50

Enough excitement for you? There’s plenty more here, so come on over and share in the scrap joy!

Hope you’ve had yourselves a good week and are braced, ready ‘n’ waiting ‘n’ raring to come have a ganders at this week’s list of scrumpings. Yet another eclectic mix for you to have a good ole mooch about. Plus a mega multi swap, late this Friday, should hopefully mean even more goodies on their way for next week too. Meanwhile, we’re having fun sorting through all the dollies we’ve aquired this week. There are a few kiddies’ action figures but the majority of them are porcelain ‘collectibles’ (though not neccesarily Antique’s Roadshow collectibles) or traditional costume dolls which could serve as great teaching aids, though aren’t suitable for playing with.

This Week’s Montage:

• Dozens of dollies
• Vinyl records galore. These could make for the world’s worst disco having had a quick flick through them. There are, however, some really quirky covers and loads of laughs to be had amongst them.
• Blue water pipe. If you can’t hula, this stuff is the way forward. Having failed to hula for forty years, have now found the way… the bigger the hula, the easier it is, and this stuff is just the job.
• Lego head hair. How else could we describe the above photo? (Answers on a postcard…)
• Plastic pots with lids. Used but clean, though still smell of Lush, which is where we scrumped them)
• Woolen felt offcuts in loadsa lovely colours
• Leatherette in wide colour range
• Plenty of bright coloured, plain upholstery fabrics
• Green plastic discs with hole in the middle (15cm diam)
• Big rolls of corrugated paper (45″ wide and 25′ long). We have 3 designs:- White with party streamers plus plain green and orange
• A veritable rainbow’s worth of sugar paper in 50p bargain packs
• Freshly coppiced hazel sticks and poles

We’re full of scrap swap joy here and hoppin and skippin in a healthy, safe way around the scrapstore, filling barrels with more goodies for you to do your thing with. Many thanks to Gloucester for surrendering stuff surplus to requirements and helping us keep things fresh here for you. We’ve been poking about more locally too and have got a lovely list together this week that will hopefully tickle your fancy.

Goodies Gathered:

• Sheets of aluminium foil
• Silver foam with super snuggly underside
• Black corrugated plastic offcuts
• Tubes for lotions and potions
• Slender, plastic orange cones (about 50cm long)
• Silver holographic card to keep things sparkly
• 4mm Hardboard off cuts (All 25cm wide then between 1 and 2metres long)
• Glass milk bottles (All sparkly clean and free of any offputting milkiness)
• Round metal lids 10cm diameter
• Small collection of gardening tools in need of some TLC
• More paper on the roll
• Plastic cable reels for substitute wheels
• A4 Box files
• Big selection of corrugated cardboard offcuts
• Mirrors with gorgeousness confirmation facility (you’ll need to look in them to see what we mean)
• Framed wooden drawer fronts like the ones pictured above

A couple more jollies out and about in the van, later this week, could mean more marvellousness. Oh how we love a good scrump!
So here’s to a good mooching , yes, that’s mooching not smooching. Soon!

G’Day from Scrapville!

Good to be giggling while gathering the goodies for you lovely lot. Have had a great selection of pipes in recently and thought a picci may help inspire some of you. Though don’t go calling us if you get your head or yorkshire terrier stuck (just send us a photo and we’ll promise not to laugh… at least not when you’re in the vicinity).

It’s the week of swaps too! Milton Keynes today and Gloucester on Friday. We’ll list what we have here and guess the majority of Friday’s haul will not get out onto the shop floor till next week anyway, as we’ll be busy taking care of you, while we’re open.

Got a super duper donation of a doll’s house this week. It’s in great nic and just needs a bit of a Sixty Minute Makeover to tart it up in time for Christmas. It would make such a good pressie and is perfect for putting your own mark on it.  It’s a steal at £7.50, don’t dilly dally if you fancy giving it a go.

List of Lushussness

• Clear cellophane
• All sorts of pipes in all sorts of dimensions
• Black fabric with a spooky feel (i.e. Big enough for a witch’s cape)
• Last of the belisha beacons (they have a halloweeny feel to them too)
• Terracotta tiles
• Chunky wooden circles, 25cm in diameter (They’re the holes from Marshall amplifiers, and they rock!)
• White paper on the roll
• Meat trays (just the job for paint pallettes)
• Light weight fabric in good selection of colours (Huge pieces, like 30metres plus huge, formerly used for ‘society weddings’ and such like. Get us, we are such a classy bunch!)
• Gigantic cardboard circles
• Baby’s first calendars (So they can keep on schedule with sleeping and eating etc etc)
• Sheepskin off cuts in selection of colours
• 5mm nylon rope
• 2 core electrical wire

So that’s all for now folks, but with more to come, things can actually get better.

See you here soon!

Mrs G and the Fabulous Scrap Squad

Greetings Fellow Scrap Fans!

All is fine and dandy and filling up nicely, as you can see here in the picci, this week. We’ve had many a chuckle at our special delivery of 100 plus discontinued belisha beacon tops, that arrived since we last got in touch. Highways maintenance firms are currently rerplacing the old school yellow, plastic spheres with LED ones. Lucky us to have a contact where it’s needed eh! They’re a little bit mucky, having been exposed to the elements for some time, but we reckon, like our good selves, they’ll scrub up well!

We couldn’t bear to see any more pouting from those of you who didn’t make it in time for the cargo netting we scrumped on our swap last week, so we have squeezed in a trip down to Bristol and managed to bring loads back. Hurrah! So bring those bottom lips back in and bring your smiley faces on over. We have loads of colours and different gauges as well as some more waterproof netting for those of you needing it to last outside for a good while.

This week we have also been scrumping:-

• Big sheets of corrugated card
• Leatherette covered padded rectangles, could be headboards but could be something else
• Big cable (wanna be table) reels
• Thin white ultra soft n snuggly foam on the roll
• Mirrors (full length)
• Bicycle wheels aka wind turbines in the making
• Bicycle computers (all brand spankin new too)
• Wicker hoop substitutes for morris dancing but also good for giant croquet (some things you just have to see to understand). They’re actually the hooped bit of a dining chair back, but are intended for greater things now…
• Selection of retro fabrics
• More bright orange card. We’re seeing halloween pumpkins and bonfire night flames potential… as well as oranges.
• Sticky back plastic in lots of bright colours

So there you go, now you know. Plenty more stuff to pick up on thursday morning and keeping em crossed for more Tiger Turf.

Garden gurus, don’t forget we are now selling compost bins on behalf of the council at just £11. You could always throw a Dr Who themed fancy dress party and get best dressed dalek, before putting it to use in the garden. You know how we love reuse round these parts!

See you soon!

Mrs G and the Pixies of Scrapville

Ello One and All!

Are you loving our lattice that we scrumped this week? Another great  business has joined the club and we are definately delighted to welcome them aboard seeing as they have such coool scrap. We are also really grateful to our member Jo who was kind enough to put the business in touch with us. We’ve got heart lattice, as pictured here, as well as butterflies and lounging ladies… Plenty more loveliness to be had, even though we say so ourselves.  Feels like a harvest festival with all the fine pickings we’ve got for you. How very seasonal of us!

This week’s pickings:-

• Card making goodies galore
• Craft kits for kids
• Paint sets in wooden box incl desk easel,water colours,acrylics and oils amongst other goodies
• Firm foam with peel off sticky back
• Bungee offcuts. Some decent lengths, though perhaps not enough to bounce off bridges with
• Spiderman promo posters in poster tubes with cap ends
• Fabric including sari off cuts and some retro upholstery
• Lots of lengths of pressure treated timber
• Electrical cable trunking, suitable for elephants as well as cable

Out and about tomorrow for more. Life is good!

See you soon

Mrs G and the Happy Scrap Crew

Yikes!

Fair play to the woman who so patiently allowed our donating artist to wrap her up in plastercast and  make these most excellent body casts. Well, they are now up for grabs and have great potential for further reuse. At £12 each, they’re a steal, so we don’t reckon they’ll hang around much. In fact, they’re kinda scaring us in ‘ere so the sooner they go the better. It’ll be Halloween before you know it.

That’s not all folks! We grabbed a whole load of great stuff this week. So much, that we had to squeeze in a couple of extra trips to get it all here.

This week we have mostly been scrumping:-

• Carpet tiles with bound edges in natural, muted colours
• Upholstery foam in plethora of thicknesses
• Felt – high grade, quality, wool felt in lots of colours..woo hoo!
• A plentiful supply of upholstery fabrics in even more colours
• Leatherette… the rainbow’s pallette extends further with this lovely lot
• One solid wheelchair ramp that’d be equally good for bmx and skaters (although bear in mind it’s pretty heavy, so not so good if you’re after something that needs moving frequently). It’s 92cm wide, 165cm long and slope will take you up by 27cm. Made with 25mm ply and coated with non slip paint, it’s built to last. Just check those dimensions before coming to fetch it in your mini…
• Card making paper plus few extra lil bits for makey doers
• Pom poms for cheerleading guinea pigs and hamsters
• Even more coloured backing paper for jazzing up those display boards for the new term ahead

And finally… we are now an outlet for Worcestershire County Council’s compost bins scheme. We are selling big bins at a bargain price of £11 and if you’re a Worcestershire or Herefordshire Resident you may buy two.  We’re even lucky enough to be featured in a fabulous window display, advertising The Let’s Waste Less campaign. If you’re in town and fancy a peek, it’s in the Crowngate Shopping Centre, above the bus station opposite..ish Superdrug. Check us out! We’re looking good!

Enough waffle for the week. We got goodies to unpack before opening time!

See you soon

Mrs G and the Pixies of Scrap

G’day Good People!

Well we were laughing all the way back from Plymouth this week, following a supremely successful bit of swapsies with fellow scrapsters down there.

It’s really helped us clear out a bit of surplus stuff from here and make way for more unusual items of scrap from industry further afield, including the quirky items pictured above.  They were also kind enough to offer us a limited number of items from Cornwall scrapstore. Somewhere we’d love to get to but can’t really justify the journey costs.

The Lovely List

• Flip off lids (These tiddlywinkesque lids come in loadsa colours and say… ‘Flip off’ on them. How cheeky!). Brilliant for counters, mosaic work etc etc.
• Suede off cuts in red, blue and grey
• Army surplus! Camo clothing for woodland adventures. Includes trousers, jackets and shirts in many sizes
• Yellow gas pipe off cuts
• Ribbed yellow piping
• Large, heavy weight orange rolos… well that’s what they look like, sadly they’re not for munching on, but’d make great doorstops and plinths.  Anyone in need of us saving the last one for them?
• Plastic clam shells. Bubble gum packaging. Brightly coloured, round containers with hinged mouth. Often seen impersonating pac man
• Clear, black and orange plastic ‘gel’. A malleable plastic, very much like the material used to make caravan awning windows
• Very chunky and rather funky black foam ‘tree trunks’/posts. They’re very robust and measure approx 25cm diam x 130cm length. Raft building potential for the braver scrap fans amongst you
• Polystyrene blocks (23x66x110 cm)
• Grey foam sticks (5cm diam 130 cm long)
• Foam pipe insulation for drainpipe sized pipes
• Grey yoga matting on the roll
• Quilted off cuts. Samples of upholstery fabric that have been quilted. Some would make for a good decorative dining table protector/runner
• Dinky silvery photo frames. They come with a magnetic back as well as the usual mantelpiece stand. perfect for rogues galleries
• Watercolour box sets
• Face paints
• Fabric sample books
• Coloured wool/yarn

Plenty more loveliness for you to check out this week, including some v quirky springy thingies as pictured above.

List of Lurverliness:

• Holographic card and paper
• Seat belt off cuts in v decent lengths
• Super tough webbing/strapping on the roll
• Household paint including lots of bright colours
• Face paints just in time for festival season
• One hat former for felting hats
• Good sized offcuts of card in white, lilac and baby blue n pink
• Coloured paper in A4 and A3
• Padded envelopes
• Acetate
• Treasury tags
• Ring binders
• In trays
• Blue water pipe
• Upholstery foam

Don’t forget we’re open throughout the summer hols at the usual times.

See you soon!

Mrs G and the Scrap Pixies