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Yes, it has been a superscrappersparkliscious week on the blagging front. All sorts of goodies crammed in for you to cast your eyes upon. See above and below for more info.

The craft shop is looking lush, thanks to Lush and the scrap gang for putting it all our way and making it look and smell oh so very good.

This week we have mostly been scrumping:-

• Double sided easels rrp £199 wre £25. They’re the Winsor Newton Devon models and only have tincey wincey faults.
• Paint! Yes we’ve had another delivery of the good stuff. Lots of colours a plenty for household use. Hoorah!
• A3 hardback sketch pads
• Neoprene off cuts
• Big sheets of thin black rubbery foam (kind of like a camping mat that has had a gigantic rolling pin taken to it)
• Heart shaped mouse mats for the romantic geeks amongst us
• Off cuts of wood that look rather like giant peg dolly pegs, great for making… drum roll… giant peg dollies!
• Gold foil on the roll
• Gold foil ribbony trimmings
• Very thin sheets of A3 sized MDF with white laminate one side, great for mini whiteboards or doing clay work on.
• Diddy white wheels about 3cm diameter
• 5 litre icecream tubs with lids (boy did it taste good ; )
• 20cm long metal tubes (5cm diam) With a bar one end, perfect for fixing or dangling them for clinkety clonk type music making
• Bed knobs
• No broomsticks (though Dins would have you believe they’re now my favourite mode of transport)
• Beach and pine veneer shelves (aka really clean bevelled strips of wood). 15cm  depth and either 95cm or 140cm long) and 20-30p each!
• Decent lengths of chipboard, perfect for garage and workshop shelving (46 x 188 x 2cm)
• Skirting board, picture rails and a few more strips of pine

Not the usual sort of stuff we’d take in but part of a job lot and too good to turn down. These solid, wall mounting shelving units are ready for the picking and start at as little as £7.50. Each one comes with it’s own mounting bracket too.

Check out these chaps! They are tandemtastic! As is our latest aquisition, thanks to the guys at Motov8. New in today is this 10 speed racer tandem, get their twice as fast or half as enegetically, it’s up tp you (or the person on the backseat as they’re really the ones in control/skiving!)

This superduper bicycle for two can be yours for £95. Opportunities like this don’t happen too often on the second hand market, so don’t dilly dally on the way!

Of course life would be perfect if we were open 24/7. We are good but not quite that good! We are, however, good enough to need a little time off to refresh ourselves, so…

We will be closed on Good Friday and Saturday.

We look forward to seeing you some other time!

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