Archive for Products Made From Scrap category

A Blue Peter Badge for the Cone Exchange

On June 22, 2018 in Events, Products Made From Scrap, Schools

We were thrilled to be invited to appear on Blue Peter alongside a group of crafty children from Hookstone Chase Primary School. Our very own Chris Powell was interviewed by presenters Radzi and Lindsey and explained about the Cone Exchange and how we reuse items that are destined for landfill. Chris was thrilled to be presented with his very own Green Blue Peter badge which will take pride of place with his MBE!

We were on CBBC on Thursday 21st June at 5.30pm and its available on BBC I-Player now if you want to check it out.

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Love is in the air, part four: Mother of the Bride

On February 27, 2017 in Customers, Products Made From Scrap, The Cone Exchange, Weddings

One of our most regular customers wanted her daughter to have something extra special to carry down the aisle that she could keep to pass on to future generations. Using a variety of materials and embellishments from her own stash topped up with some extras from the Cone Exchange she created this beautiful horseshoe with her daughter’s name and the wedding date on the back. A truly beautiful and unique wedding gift.

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Love is in the air. Part 3: bridesmaid duties

On February 27, 2017 in Customers, Products Made From Scrap, Weddings

With the role of being a bridesmaid can come many different tasks – helping the bride pick her dress, organising the hen-do or even being asked to help with the decorations. This is where local blogger The Harrogate Girl, aka Vix Turner, found herself last year. Here she tells us how she solved her decorating conundrum!

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Love is in the air. Part two: Jo and Kevin

On February 27, 2017 in Customers, Products Made From Scrap, Weddings

Jo is one of our best customers so it seems very fitting that her wedding to Kevin was a homemade vintage style celebration with lots of finishing touches from the Cone Exchange.

Jo says: ‘So much of this handmade wedding was made possible because of inspiration from The Cone Exchange. All the personal touches we could add because of it being handmade will be treasured forever – and also our family and friends got involved with the makes and that made it even more special. Below are just a few of the examples of what we made.’

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Love is in the air. Part one: Anna & Colin

On February 20, 2017 in Customers, Events, Products Made From Scrap, Weddings

Over the past few weeks we have had a number of customers visit the shop looking for inspiration for their weddings. Some are getting married soon, others have only just got engaged but all are looking for ideas and themes for their big day. If you are looking for something different or are a keen recycler then we might just have some ideas for you. Look out for the next few installments all showing how you can recycle and repurpose Cone Exchange materials as part of your celebrations.

As you may remember from last Summer Anna shared snaps of her wedding planning using recycled materials from the Cone Exchange including beautiful handmade wedding invitations. Here are just a few of the lovely pictures she shared with us of her wedding day.

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Well Done Monty

On February 20, 2017 in Customers, Products Made From Scrap, Schools

We were thrilled to be part of one of our younger customers efforts in successfully applying for a Blue Peter ‘Green’ Badge. Monty had visited the Cone Exchange with his mum and took inspiration from the items that our volunteers had made from recycled materials. Taking away material and felt offcuts Monty created this lovely Blue Peter cushion and wrote a letter explaining where he had got the idea from.

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Last call for Christmas

On December 12, 2016 in Cone Exchange, Customers, Products Made From Scrap

With only 12 sleeps to go till Christmas it’s almost time for the Cone Exchange to close for the school holidays. There is just one week for you to stock up on junk modelling materials for the kids or gift boxes for wrapping up your goodies. You may even have time for some last minute Christmas crafting like one of our crafty customers, Emma, who created this lovely festive wreath over the weekend.

The Cone Exchange will be closed from Thursday 15th December until Tuesday 3rd January 2017.

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Christmas cheer

On December 12, 2016 in Cone Exchange, Customers, Products Made From Scrap, Schools

Christmas came early for Year 9 pupils at King James School, Knaresborough as they created their entry into the Christmas tree festival at St John’s church This year’s tree came with an unusual mesasage – recycling! Made with Cone Exchange materials the Christmas tree was to raise awareness of recycling at a time of year when so much packaging, wrapping paper and food is wasted.

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Knitting & Stitching Show Heaven!

On December 5, 2016 in Crafting For Charity, Customers, Events, Products Made From Scrap

Here at the Cone Exchange we love all things crafty and to be part of the Knitting & Stitching Show is a huge event in our calendar. It’s such a privilege to be part of such a landmark event in the Harrogate year and it is with great pride that we set up our stand to show what can be made with waste materials from the fabric industry.

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Summer is here

On July 25, 2016 in Customers, Products Made From Scrap

The summer holidays are finally here and with them has arrived the new Bettys seaside themed window displays. Centre stage in the windows are beautiful Bettys sailing boats with sails made from recycled window blinds courtesy of the Cone Exchange.

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Horticap video

On June 20, 2016 in Cone Exchange, Products Made From Scrap

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A wedding is announced

On June 20, 2016 in Customers, Products Made From Scrap, Weddings

Anna, one of our regular customers, is busy planning her September wedding and is making as much as possible from scratch, with a little help from the Cone Exchange.

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Flower power

On June 10, 2016 in Crafting For Charity, Customers, Products Made From Scrap, Work Experience Placements

Cath Pollard, a regular Cone Exchange customer, recently shared some of the pieces that she had created with our felt flowers. Cath has created a range of broaches, slides and headbands from the flowers to sell in aid of Martin House Children’s Hospice and Friends of Harrogate Hospital.

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New friends

On June 10, 2016 in Cone Exchange, Customers, Products Made From Scrap

Sharon Naylor visited the Cone Exchange for the first time recently. She was looking for wool and yarn that she could use for her latest project, making ‘Roomies’, these friendly little knitted critters.

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Twinkle, twinkle

On December 20, 2015 in Cone Exchange, Customers, Products Made From Scrap

Karen Evans shared this picture of Ripley Church ready for Christmas 2015. CDs that had been given away with newspapers or magazines can’t be sold by charity shops, so frequently end up in landfill. The Cone Exchange takes these CDs and finds new uses for them such as clocks or bird scarers for allotments. CDs were also turned into twinkling stars and formed part of this ‘Stars of Bethlehem’ installation.

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