CLOSED July 18

We have to CLOSE on Saturday, July 18 due to volunteer sickness and availability! 🤧

We are also closed July 25 and August 1. 

Sorry for the inconvenience! We will see you again in August.

RASE Summer 2026 Open Days

🌞 Our summer open days have arrived! 🌞

We will be closed on May 16, July 11, July 25, and August 1. Even though the shop at 1761 Wallace Street will be closed on May 23, you will still be able to find us at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival Street Fair from 10:00am-6:00pm! We will just have our fabrics available for the Street Fair using our usual fill-a-bag system. We hope to see you in the shop and along 13th Avenue at the Street Fair!

UPDATE to RASE Open Dates

An update to our winter schedule! None of our primary shop volunteers are available to open up the shop on March 28. We will now be closed both March 7 and 28. Sorry for any inconvenience.

RASE Winter 2026 Open Days

Hi Reusers! Below are our open days for January - April 2026. We will typically be closed once a month, except for February where we are going to try to be open every week. We will be CLOSED: January 3, March 7, and April 4. All other Saturdays we will do our best to be open, but as a reminder we are completely volunteer run and people get sick or emergencies happen. If we need to close for any reason, we will do our best to post on social media and our website here for unexpected closures. 

Stay warm and we will see you in our shop on Saturdays!

Help Us Name our New Mascot!

Are you a naming wizard? Do you have a compulsion to name cute little animals? Do you want to offer your expertise at naming characters? We need your help!

The wonderfully talented Terri Lemire designed us a raccoon character for our 10th anniversary but this character is currently nameless. At our 10th Anniversary Craft Social & Party, we will have a name suggestion station, but you can also give us your name suggestions here anytime before Saturday, October 18! We will post an official name for the character once we take all the suggestions to our volunteers to vote. 

Come Make a Journal at our 10th Anniversary Craft Social & Party!

Join our volunteer Emily for a journal activity station at our 10th Anniversary Craft Social & Party! 

Emily Taillefer was born and raised in Regina, and is the artist and owner of Papered Fragments. Emily’s specialty is creating handmade, one-of-a-kind journals, and curating ephemera sets from repurposed and vintage materials. She enjoys hosting journal-making workshops and teaching people the ease and simplicity of book binding. You can follow her work on Instagram and Facebook @paperedfragments. 

Come celebrate with Emily's activity and other fun social crafty things on Saturday, October 18th from 7-10pm at our usual location of 1761 Wallace Street (use our rear door). You can RSVP now. We hope you can join us to celebrate turning 10 years old!

Donation Reminders & Guidelines

We have been getting an unusually high volume of donations in September. We want to thank the generosity of our community - your supplies are going to many people who wouldn't be able to afford them! However, we did want to put out some reminders as we have been getting a lot of donations of items we don't accept. Please make sure to always look over our List of Accepted Items before donating. Some key items we have been noticing that have been regularly donated from items we don't accept include:

• Home decor, collectibles, and game pieces - even though you think an artist may be able to use parts, we don't have the storage space for these items and people are not coming to our shop to find these items. These are better suited at other thrift stores in the city.
• Holiday decor or holiday related items, especially items related to Christmas - since we are a small shop we don't have space to hang on to seasonal items for most of the year and would prefer to leave shelf space for year round products like general art supplies.
• Substances that don't have any product labels - this one is especially harmful to our volunteer, as we don't know if powders/liquids are toxic or dangerous! These items have to go straight in the trash for the health and safety of our volunteers.
• Broken clothing and jewelry - our volunteer team does not have the capacity to tear down supplies for usable parts. If you want to donate fabric from clothing or jewelry pieces, please take the time to break those down into usable parts before you donate them.

As well, we have instituted new Donation Guidelines on our List of Accepted Items page:

• Donations should be limited to no more than ONE banker's box per household per Saturday. You can still contact us for any larger donations, but response times may vary as we are volunteer run.
• Volunteers have the right to refuse any donations for any reason.

We would appreciate smaller quantities of donations coming in, as lately we have been getting multiple people donating five or more large boxes of items every Saturday. Some Saturdays when we have a lot of volunteer force we can sometimes manage, but some Saturdays we have a small team. If you have never visited our shop, we highly encourage visiting the shop FIRST before making any donations. 

Thanks to your attention to our donation policies and guidelines.