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Some rather more unusual scrumpings this week folks. Including the above display boards. There are four of them that wiggle very nicely together as they are, but could very easily be redecorated for a new and moveable display. They also have little prism lenses in them, which if backlit, make great peepy holes. They’re bulky (though light) so you’ll need to think about transport, as they won’t squeeze into a car. They measure 185cm high x 130cm wide and are about 20cm deep if you allow for the curves. We’ll sell them as a set for £20 or will happily split them at £5 each.

The rest of our goodies this week include:-

• Willow sticks
• Wooden boxed watercolour sets
• Bargain bundles of canvases
• Thin card squares (20 x 20cmish) shiney cream one side, matt white the other)
• Carpet sample tiles with woven edges
• Give a throne a home. We have a wintery wonderland style throne. Good as it is and good for revamping too.
• Corn starch wotsits. Non cheesey but wet them and they stick together.
• Fantata fabrics including felts and leatherette
• More real leather in variety of colours. We’ll be doing our own production of Joseph and his technicolour dream chaps before long!
• Plenty of paper on the roll in lots of colours

FOUND PROPERTY!!

One of members came across a bracelet whilst rummaging this weekend. it’s got bluey/grey gemstones and is being kept safe here. Please get in touch if you think it’s yours.

That’s all for this week folks. if I’m wittering to you I’m not getting out in that van to get even more goodies, so best get on eh!

See you soon

Mrs G and the Scrapperoodledoos

OOh That Poor Poor Hen!

Just about finished unpacking our marvellous medley of swap scrumpings from our gathering at Leamington earlier this week. Ten scrapstores from across the nation congregated on a school playground (so that’s what happens during half term kids!) and aside from a very quick game of hopskotch, we wheeled and dealed and walked as quickly as we could, without looking like we were running, to grab the best stuff for you lovely lot.

The monumentally gargantuous egg has come from the prop store of Rag Doll Productions and is just waiting to be given a new life elsewhere. it is a biggy (approx 1.4m high and roughly 1m wide, with a circumference of 3m). It’s solid but light for it’s size as it’s made from dense styrofoamy stuff.

Otherstuff occurring in the house this week includes bargain bundles of artist’s canvases. We have a few that we want to shift quick so we’ve bundled them up in 3s, 4s and 5s and knocked off 25% off our already low as we thought we could go price.

And now for… the mammothly massive menu du jour

• 20litre plastic bottles with lids
• Cardboard barrels with lids
• unused nail varnish bottles, no lids
• Brightly coloured hydraulic pipe off cuts (up to 40cm in length)
• Small, clear plastic jars with lids
• Polka dot hat boxes, no lids
• Desk mats
• Big and small bulldog style clips
• Cardboard tubes with base
• brightly coloured giant hair rollers
• Cargo net (hurrah!)
• Small black plastic boxes, roughly cassette size
• Strapping off cuts
• Powder makeup pads
• V thin yoga mat type foam in red, white n blue
• Pain au chocolat (by the time you read this, they may be at risk of going stale… best we don’t let em waste eh…
• Chunky orange closed cell foam off cuts
• Clear plasticky stuff, bit like what a rain cover on a pushchair is made from
• Straw off cuts
• Fine white plasicised mesh, great for sculpting and protecting homegrown goodies in the garden
• Coir off cuts
• Baby bottle teats (out of date but sure someone’ll come up with another use for them)
• Posh decoupage paper for card making craftiness
• Ditsy little plain white pots
• Really cool holey white plastic stuff, fab for weaving projects and trashion fashion
• Shuttlecocks
• Squidgey football keyrings
• And… relax

So, there you go, now you know, see you soon, don’t be too slow!

Bestest wishes

Mrs G and the Scrumptious Scrap squad

Well Hello!

Well we’re glad of an excuse to sit down ere, havin swapped earlier on today and, somehow, managed to get the lot unpacked and out on the shop floor (well not quite on the floor) ready for you lushuss lot to delve into when we open up.

We’ve exchanged surplus to requirement goodies from here for dazzlingly desirable stuff from Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. Plenty of locally sourced produce from earlier in the week collections to add to that too.

This Week’s Copious Compilation:-

• Fake furriness – lots of colours and different fur lengths in genorously sized off cuts
• Wool
• Big sheets of clear acetate
• Huge sheets of graph paper
• Easels
• Artists mannequins (Only 35cm high, the wooden jointed type)
• Beads (loads of gorgeous ones to get your crafty mitts on)
• Tiger Turf in all sorts of grass lengths
• Chunky plastic cable reels
• Swimming pool liner (like v lightweight lino)
• Polystyrene planks (suitable for extreme lightweight scaffolding)
• Large sheets of plain white fabric
• Silver foam padding on roll
• Felt offcuts including v groovey felt netting (what’s left over after they make the fuzzy felts)
• Cream and grey string (Egyptian cotton)
• Yellow sponge (uber absorbent)
• Silver shower hose offcuts
• Yoga mat foam offcuts in orange, yellow, blue and purple
• 10mm thick absorbent foam with white fabric backing, on the roll, which is roughly 5foot wide
• Fluffy stuffing

The rest will remain a mystery to those of you who do not deem us worthy of a visitation this week!

So we’ll see you soon then!

Mrs G and the Scrappy Happy Bunch

G’Day Good People!

We’ve only gone and got ourselves some rather ‘classic’ collections of ‘music’ on vinyl, for your amusement, if nothing else. Strictly Oompah is amongst the faves with plenty of others to get you giggling. They may or may not prove a delight to your ears, but the vinyl itself has plenty of potential and the album coverwork has as much aesthetic as pathetic appeal for those in need of something a bit quirky.

Plenty of goodies this week, having crammed in more collections than usual, as well as having last week’s swap with Gloucester to add to the variety of materials.

This Week’s Lineup:-

• Household paint – Good selection of colours mainly Dulux Trade standard which is as good as it gets for that make
• Snooker table baize off cuts aka green felt
• Silver foam padding – super soft on one side as it’s what’s used for making compact face powder sponge pads.
• Felt squares in mousey colours
• Black plastic pallets with bumpy bits. Great potential for den building or sensory wall. They measure 120 x 120cm so will need a larger than average car to take them away
• Thin strips of silver and gold card.
• Clear plastic pots with screwtops. 100ml capacity.
• Lighting gel offcuts
• Polythene tubing on the roll in clear and black.
• Artograph Designmaster Art projector – this is complete and has been PAT tested, would normally sell for £300plus. We’re selling it for £15 cause we’re good like that.
• Jacquard cards are here at last. Previously promised and now they’re here. They’re like a piece of art already, but have loads of creative potential beyond what they already are, including weaving. Pink, tough card with holes in, pictured above, about 30cm width and as long as you like ’cause we got plenty.

Hello Scrap Fans!

Its Mr G here as the blog lady extraordinaire is away on jollies this week (i’m no relation to the fab Mrs G we just have the good fortune to have the same initial) so I hope I can deliver the goods to the same high standard set by Mrs G!

Right onto the good stuff…whats new this week- well as its just little ole lonesome me doing the collections we perhaps havent got as much in as when Mrs G is here but thats not to say the quality doesnt match! In fact, in my own humble opinion, we may have even surpassed previous weeks but we’ll let you, our fab scrappies, decide. Enough waffling (hmmmm, waffles!) onto the list:

• Canvas stretching frames. When built these are 90cm x 90cm, they are easy to assemble and could even pass as window frames for stage plays etc
• Large, numerous sheets of black & white card
• Paint By Numbers sets galore- we’ve got these popping out of every crevasse in the warehouse so come and get ‘em.
• Various Art/ Crafts Sets- inc drawing sets, packs of paints & tie dye kits
• We’ve 1 or 2 “class” packs of water colour paints- thats 144 paints in 1 box. Bargain!
• Lots and lots of new furnishing fabrics in a wild variety of colours and sizes inc leatherette/ vinyl style fabrics and wool & felt offcuts- these always fly out so if you’re interested make sure to get here soon after we open on Thursday.
• Some CDs & records from a now defunct label- these are good to go!
• Lastly, but not least, we have a number of 2cm thick black toughened glass table tops in 65cm x 65cm & 65cm x 140cm sizes. These are incredibly heavy so make sure to get help with the hauling.

Thats it for the new stuff, but before I go I’ve one final thing to say- we’ll gladly accept any donation of hot belgian waffles, errr, sorry I meant to say that it seems many school children have an assigned homework project (called by the school a “rich task”) running at the moment to build a castle from recycled materials…well without wanting to sound too blatant we are the kings and queens of recycled materials! From mosaic tiles to use as flagstones to corrugated castellated paper and huge sheets of cardboard we’ve got everything needed to build a castle, so COME ON IN!

Mrs G will be back next week with the update, no doubt I’ll be locked back in my cage, so I hope to see in the store this week.
Thanks for listening scrap fans!

Mr G and the Recycling Rangers

Oh what funny stuff we have here from time to time… or is that all the time?!

These cheeky chimps were unearthed amongst many other goodies gotten this week. There’s only a few of them, but they’re good for a giggle, if nothing else!

Other scrumptious scrumpings include:-

• Tiger Turf offcuts
• Electrical cable in many gauges and colours
• Lots of canvases in lots of sizes
• Small (30ml) bottles of woodstain
• Small bottles of acryllics out in main scrapstore again
• Glow in the dark paint by number kits, as well as lots of other ones that are slightly less luminous
• Sketch gift sets that incl mini mannikins, charcoals, pencils etc etc
• Tabletop easels
• Portfolios in a variety of sizes
• Glittery paints
• Cable reels
• Quality chocolates (though don’t be surprised if they’ve gone by the time you get this ; ))
• Strapping off cuts, great for bag handles
• Lots more lovely art and craft materials and mediums to get all experimental with

Well worth a visit if you ask us, not that we’re biased, but we think you’ll agree.

Don’t dilly dally on the way!

Mrs G and the Scrapstastic Squad

Darlings!

Those aren’t our regular pants we’re wearing over our trousers, before you start with that cheekiness. We’ve been having fun unpacking some right smart goodies this week, many very willingly accepted from a local theatre’s wardrobe department. The rest are from our regular ole businesses, but include further glorious goods, so lets get on with it!

La Liste:-

• One severed head
• Fat bottom pants
• Loads of dressing up clothes including vicars collars, chefs hats, french maid pinnies and epaulettes
• All sorts of trimmings incl dressmaking as well as upholstery, really lovely stuff and now all part of your trolley load
• Fab fabrics in all sorts of colours and textures
• Silk parachutey type thing – not sure I’d be jumping out of a plane with this on my back but it’s silk and massive!
• A rather disturbingly scarey devilesque type costume that’s still freaking us out here.
• Lots of lacey trimmings and offcuts (some antique)
• Black Adder style ruffley collars
• 5metres of gorgeous lightweight crushed velvet in brown with an glowing shimmeriness about it
• Big offcuts of black and red perspex
• Huge pieces of Tiger Turf artificial grass
• Disposable adult aprons
• Raffia weaving kit
• Printing blocks
• Card making materials incl lots of lovely papers

Hilarity by the barrel load this week folks. So even if you don’t need any scrap, we all need a good giggle now and then… and then too!

STOP PRESS!

Next week we’re off to Devon for the annual mega swap and meeting up with 25 other scrapstores, so watch this space as there will be more super stuff  to come.

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Mrs G and the Darling Lovies at Scrapville

Hello Lovely Scrapsters!

We have mega scrap joy in the house today! Just when we thought we were due a quiet one… people have started getting into Spring clean mode a bit early and started putting more goodies our way. The list is long this week, but concentrate or you may miss out!

THE BIG CANVAS CLEAR OUT!! I said ‘You buy one, you get one free!’
Yes indeed, for a limited period only, due to space constraints, we have no alternative but to have a sale on our artist’s canvases. We have a huge selection in at the moment, including triangular ones, linen, deep edge and landscape style. So, ’til the end of January 2011, for every canvas you buy, we’ll let you have one of equal value or less… completely free! Aren’t we good?!

The List of Lovely Things:-

• 1 complete female mannequin in sitting position (see photo on our blog for photo)
• Canvases, lots of!
• 2 small plinths
• Loads more art and craft materials
• Paint by numbers kits for those of us who like that sort of thing
• Taffeta…esque fabric. So it’s not actually taffeta but it’s kind of like taffeta
• 2 table top hat stands
• Glass bottles from Harrods
• Small selection of new women’s wear including trousers, skirts and tops
• Cardboard cones
• Linseed oil
• Sticks

Much scrappiness and happiness to you all!

Mrs G and the Scrap Posse

We’ve been cramming so much in this week that we’re liable to bust at the seems if you lovely lot don’t come and save us, by getting at least some of the goodies out of here and elsewhere. In addition to our usual pick ups, we’ve had some rather more exciting ones to keep us on our toes.

Not that I’m ever known to name drop but… we do have some Holby City  and Corrie goodies this week. Oh yes indeedy, we have cleared some leftovers from the setmakers for these TV programmes, which include loads of sparkly clean (germ free) glass bricks from the A and E department of the hospital set.  My favourite blag, though, has to be the fake glass (as in perspex) panels that would have seperated the booths in the Rovers Return.. tres authentique and very nicely frosted!

Have managed to squeeze in a mini multi swap down at Bristol, where we also met up with Dorset’s scrap posse. We’ve brought back some great goodies from that too. THEN just when we thought it couldn’t get any better, the wonderous Worcester Arts Workshop very kindly donated some art materials too. Do I get to sit down now? Oh yeah, I am!

The List… to give you the jist:-

• 8 x 4 ft sheets of wood including thin ply, chunky MDF and hardboard (you will need a van for this lot!)
• Cargo net galore, all gauges and loads of colours
• Rope – industrial dimensions, ten metre lengths and v robust
• Tulle, netting and tutu type meshy stuff
• 50litre tough plastic bottles with lids
• Desk mats
• Envelopes
• Brick wall and a stone wall (fake yet rather realsitic)
• Blue powder paint
• Very thick, off white felt
• Giant, Hilda Ogden style rollers, or plastic tubes with holes in them…
• Easels! Yep, lovely big new ones.
• Cross stitch kits
• Art brushes
• 8 x 4 ft Strong/rigid metal mesh panels. The mesh aperture is 5cm square. Sorry but no idea what the metal is.
• Big A frame stand for displaying posters. at least A1 size and light for its size
• Emulsion paint in huge range of colours. This came from the set builders too, is in good condition and a lot of it is also fire retardant
• A non-rideable but aesthetically appealing old bicycle, that has been sprayed gold!!

Feels like Christmas but better!

Have we lured you in yet? We’ll find out when we open I guess.

Looking forward to it already!