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...

We Love Scrap!

Mongo isn't the only Scrap Exchanger who needs love! The front of the store is looking great as well. You may not be able to tell by these blurry, tiny, badly lit, cellphone photos, but the store is chock full of totally in focus goodies. If you look closely you may find Ruth being super helpful as usual...

The Everchanging World Of Mongo

Here are some more recent photos of our infamous MONGO room. In an ever changing environment like the Scrap it's hard to truly express the varied nature of our beloved scraps with simple twenty-first century technology (i.e. photos taken with a cellphone). One day we get and old sign, the next scalpel blades (those are safely put away for now.) Maybe we get 10 boxes of vintage fabric, or 1 box of 10,000 tiny plastic... uh... thingamawhatsits.

The point is this, as fun as it is to take photos of the store every now and then, it's even more fun to be surrounded by it every day.









Make sure to visit our flikr page to see all the (new and old) photos. And yes, that is a copy of "A chorus line" on vinyl. You're thinking "I Hope I Get It, I Hope I Get It!"

p.s. this post by Daniel not Ann

Now listing...

We’ve started selling on Ebay! We’ve sold a few items in the past, but now we’re going full steam ahead with our fabulous Ebay expert Ruth. So check it out! Our user name is scrapexchange.

And we put out a bunch of kids plastic beads recently in the store. Great for those cold rainy day projects with the munchkins!

Button, button, who's got the button?

We do! We just put out bunches of buttons, including some glass vintage cuties! Stop by and get some before our button hungry customers buy them all up.
Coming soon… beads!

Victor and the Fire Engine

My friend Cathy has a 2-year-old named Victor. Victor is adorable and generally sweet, but he’s in that phase of life where he likes to say “No.” Sometimes he gets in a mood where he’ll say “no” to pretty much anything. “Do you want to ride in your stroller?” “No.” “Do you want to walk?” “No.” “Do you want to eat ice cream?” “No.” He balls up his little fists and sticks out his lip. “I don’t want to, I don’t want to.” Then two seconds later he’s smiling again.

Cathy and Victor came down for a little visit over the holidays, and despite the fact that he’s never been here before, one of the big selling points to get him excited about the trip was that they were going to come to The Scrap Exchange. “We’re going to go see Becky and go to The Scrap Exchange and make a fire engine. Doesn’t that sound like fun?”

They got here Wednesday afternoon, New Year’s Eve, and after a bit of hanging out and catching up, we decided to head over to the store. Cathy said, “Victor, do you want to go to The Scrap Exchange?” Victor said, “Yes.” Our friend Jenny, who had made the trip with them, said, “That’s funny, that’s the only thing he’s said ‘yes’ to all day.”

Apparently the advance preparation had paid off.

So we made our way over to the Scrap and looked around the store (Cath and Jen hadn’t been here in a few years and commented on how clean and organized everything is, they were very impressed) and then moved on to the Make-N-Take room to see what we could come up with, fire engine-wise.

Cathy was an engineer for a semester in college, so I think she has some special talents in this area, and I’ve been working at events for enough years that I can usually figure out what’s going to work and what isn’t.

Knowing that masking tape would be no match for a 2-year-old, we used string and wire to hold things together. Our first effort was woefully inadequate—we gave the truck to Victor for a test drive and he went “Vrooom” and ran it across the floor and 3 of the 4 wheels fell off. So a little more engineering and we got the wheels on better and everything shored up and had Victor take it for another spin and it seemed like it would hold up.

Victor loves his fire truck and proceeded to play with it more or less continuously for the rest of the day and most of the following day. We went to Elmo’s for brunch and he brought the truck in with him. (I didn’t notice, but apparently it got a lot of looks, we should have put a little “Made at The Scrap Exchange” sign on it.)

Victor graciously agreed to pose with me to commemorate the event, but he wasn’t willing to give up his snacks.

So here we are, me with Victor’s fire truck, and Victor with his Pirate Booty.

Wallpaper and Patsy Aiken trim!

Ooh! We got some good stuff in! A huge stack of wallpaper books and oodles of Patsy Aiken seam binding and trim. My dilemma? What to make first! It’s perfect for all those holiday cards and gifts you need to make. Or makes a great gift for your favorite crafter.