Join The Scrap Exchange for a Free Movie on Friday July 9th

Looking for something to do this Friday? Enjoy a FREE outdoor movie and show your support for the Scrap Exchange! Come out to American Tobacco Campus on July 9th and enjoy a free screening of Wasteland, the winner of the Full Frame Festival's 2010 audience award. Wasteland is an inspiring documentary about artist Vic Muniz, who creates art from recycled materials that most people consider garbage. The screening starts at 9 pm on AmericanTobacco's main lawn. And while you're there, please wear GREEN to show support for the Scrap Exchange! The Scrap Exchange will be raising awareness and recruiting volunteers for a future community arts event and fundraiser. Let's show the crowd that creative recycling is happening right here at home!

More information on the documentary Wasteland can be found at http://www.fullframefest.org/events.php .

See you at the movies on Friday night!

Swap-O-Rama Rama in Raleigh!

September 5, 11am to 4pm
in the Zanzibar Room at Marbles Kids Museum

Hey Swap fans in Raleigh -- here's your chance to experience a Swap-O-Rama Rama without having to drive to Durham!

As a follow-up to our spring Swap, we're heading over to Raleigh in September to give the folks over there their very own Swap.

If you haven't been to one of these before, it's an amazing, low-cost way to completely overhaul your wardrobe and promote creativity over consumerism.

Just show up at the door with $10 (suggested donation) and any size bag of any type of clothing (men's, women's, children's, shoes, accessories, etc.) and take whatever you like from items that other swappers have brought in.

We’ll have DIY stations for sewing, painting, screenprinting, and embellishing your finds along with other fun activities throughout the day. (We'll be posting more details here as we get everything finalized.)

Our events are part of a national network of Swap-O-Ramas created by artist Wendy Tremayne. You can visit the Swap-o-Rama Rama website for a great overview of the Swap-O-Rama phenomenon and more information about it.

Special thanks to the Singer Sewing Company for providing sewing machines for use at the Swap. Thank you, Singer!!

Save the date!

We’ve just set the date for our spring warehouse fabric sale. Saturday March 28th from 10-1. If you’ve never been to one of our fabric sales before (or even if you have) you don’t want to miss it! We already have low prices in our store, but the prices for our warehouse sale are crazy low. ‘Cause when we have a sale, we have a SALE!
Thanks to Daniel for the phone pics from the warehouse...

Poker Night this Saturday!

Come join us this Saturday!

5th Annual Charity Poker Night for The Scrap Exchange
Mission - Promote creativity, environmental awareness and community through creative reuse of industrial discards.

Date: Saturday, November 8
Time: 7pm-10pm
Location: The Scrap Exchange Store, 548 Foster Street, Durham, NC

—Beginner and veteran poker players welcome.
—For every $20 donated to The Scrap Exchange, players will receive $200 in poker chips and a tax deductible receipt.
—No-limit Texas Hold-em is the game of choice.
—No need to pre-register but reserve your space by emailing Kelley at kdennings [at] gmail [dot] com
—The player at each table with the most chips at the break and end of the night will receive a prize.
—Wine, beer and snacks provided.

Current prizes include gift certificates from: Carolina Rollergirls, Barnes & Noble, JJill, Drag Bingo, Phydeaux Dog Supplies, Frankie's, Consolidated Theaters, Galaxy Theater, Red Lobster, Nice Price Books, Sarla licensed massage therapist and more added daily.

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Dear Diary, first entry

I’ve been staring at this empty blog page wondering what my first post should be. I am reminded of the diary I received for Christmas when I was 10. This, of course, was back in the ancient times of paper and pen. I stared at the first blank page for what seemed like an eternity. I think I managed to write the words “Dear Diary…” before I gave it up as a lost cause. Now, faced with writing something that could potentially be read by thousands of people (instead of just my older brother), I have been intimidated into a case of severe writer’s block which has lasted for months. What is so special about me that would make people want to read anything I have to say? What makes me so great? My mother could give you a laundry list of my good qualities, but that doesn’t seem to tame my raging insecurities about blogging.

So what was it that finally enabled me to start? I remembered that this blog is not about me and how great I may or may not be. It’s about The Scrap Exchange, which is one of the greatest places in the world and by far my favorite place in Durham, NC. I really think that if I didn’t work here, I would still be in at least once a week to check out the new fabrics, yarns, and crazy weird lab stuff that comes in all the time. And I would definitely be here for Saturday’s WAREHOUSE FABRIC SALE from 10-2. Because when we have a sale we don’t mess around—we have a SALE.

I hope to see you there… and I promise that this blog will not be shoved to the back of my dresser drawer like that sad forsaken little diary.