The supplies from a hobby you’ve moved on from. The vintage treasures ready for a new home. There’s still plenty of possibility in them.

Keeping useful and beautiful things out of the landfill matters to us. Your donations help inspire new projects and give old favourites another chapter.

Give it another life

Please review our accepted items and their condition requirements before donating. Items should be clean, sorted and ready to use or enjoy. Donations are accepted during donation hours only.

Before you bring it in

What we can’t accept

• Items missing essential pieces or parts needed for use
• Items with strong odours, including smoke or mildew
• Moldy, damp, heavily soiled or pest-infested materials
• Broken glass or items with sharp, damaged edges
• Dried-out paints, markers, glues and other unusable supplies
• Broken or non-working machines and equipment
• Dirty containers or items with food residue
• Recycled cardboard boxes and toilet paper rolls
• Large furniture

Please check our accepted items list for size and condition requirements. If you’re unsure, contact us before bringing your donation in.

Small donations
Two boxes or less? No appointment is needed. Bring your items inside during regular shop hours. Pull up front and we can help unload.

Larger donations
For more than two boxes, please arrange an appointment so we have staff and space available. Contact us with photos before bringing furniture.

Business donations
Have surplus materials, samples or displays? Contact us first to discuss what we can accept and explore opportunities for reuse.

Please bring donations inside
Do not leave donations outside or at the door. Weather can ruin useful supplies and items. Items left outside cannot be accepted.

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Creative reuse donations

  • A

    • Adhesives: craft glue, paste, tapes and Mod Podge
    • Adhesive craft vinyl, HTV and transfer tape
    • Alphabet blocks
    • Alphabet magnets
    • Antlers
    • Antique books
    • Artificial greenery
    • Art board
    • Art books
    • Art tools

    B

    • Balloons, unused
    • Baskets
    • Batting
    • Beads
    • Beakers
    • Beanie Boos, 5 inches or smaller, clean and in good condition
    • Beeswax
    • Bias tape
    • Binder clips
    • Bindings and trims
    • Blank cards
    • Block-cutting tools and supplies
    • Blueprints
    • Board games with all or most pieces
    • Bobbins
    • Bottle caps, clean
    • Broken jewelry
    • Brushes, art and paint
    • Bulletin board items: cork, pushpins and magnets
    • Button makers and pinback buttons
    • Buttons

    C

    • Calendar pages
    • Calculators
    • Calligraphy supplies
    • Cameras
    • Canvas boards
    • Canvases: new, gently used or already painted
    • Cardboard precut pieces, no recycled boxes
    • Cardboard tubes, no toilet paper rolls
    • Cards, greeting and blank
    • Cards, vintage
    • Cardstock
    • Cassette tapes
    • Chain
    • Chalk
    • Chalk paint
    • Charms
    • Cigar boxes
    • Clay
    • Clay tools
    • Clipboards
    • Clips
    • Colouring books
    • Comics
    • Containers: clean jars, tins and organizers
    • Copper pipe
    • Cord
    • Cork sheets
    • Corks
    • Craft foam
    • Craft kits, including kids’ craft kits
    • Craft paper
    • Craft tools
    • Craft wood, small pieces
    • Crayons
    • Cricut cutting mats and accessories
    • Cricut machines, working
    • Crochet hooks
    • Crystals
    • Cutting mats
    • Cutting tools

  • D

    • Dice
    • Die-cutting accessories
    • Die-cutting machines: Cricut, Silhouette, Sizzix and similar
    • Dies, metal cutting dies
    • Dinosaurs, toy figures
    • Doll parts
    • Dolls, including Barbies
    • Dowels
    • Drawing pads
    • Drawing tools and supplies

    E

    • Easels
    • Educational tools and manipulatives
    • Elastic
    • Embellishments
    • Embossing folders
    • Embroidery floss
    • Embroidery hoops
    • Embroidery kits, unused
    • Enamel pins
    • Envelopes
    • Ephemera: vintage postcards, ticket stubs, stamps, receipts, theatre programs, letters and brochures
    • Erasers
    • Expired lab plastic, clean only: vials, snap caps and microtubes

    F

    • Fabric, clean and folded, fat-quarter size or larger
    • Fabric dye
    • Fabric paint
    • Fabric sample books
    • Fabric scraps
    • Faux florals
    • Feathers
    • Felt
    • Felting tools
    • Fibre-art tools
    • File folders
    • Film
    • Film reels
    • Fishing line
    • Foam
    • Foamcore
    • Frames, picture and art, no broken glass

  • G

    • Game pieces
    • Gears
    • Glitter
    • Googly eyes

    H

    • Hand tools, small: hammers, pliers, scissors, cutters and glue guns
    • Happy Meal toys
    • Hemp cord
    • Highlighters
    • Hooks
    • Hoops
    • How-to books about arts, crafts and natural dyeing

    I

    • Ink
    • Ink pads
    • Invitations
    • Irons for sewing and fabric use

    J

    • Jars, clean
    • Jewelry boxes
    • Jewelry displays
    • Jewelry findings
    • Jewelry-making tools
    • Journaling supplies
    • Journals

    K

    • Keys
    • Kids’ craft supplies
    • Knitting needles

    L

    • Label makers
    • Labels
    • Lace
    • Large-format paper
    • Leather cording
    • Leather hides
    • Leather pieces and scraps
    • Leatherworking tools
    • LEGO bricks and sets
    • Letraset
    • Letterhead
    • Library and school supplies
    • Little Golden Books
    • Locks
    • Looms

  • M

    • Magazines, craft, design, vintage and specialty
    • Magazines from 1979 or earlier; covers may be missing
    • Magazines, high-quality art and knitting
    • Magnets
    • Maps
    • Marbles
    • Markers
    • Mason jars
    • Mat board
    • Mat cutters
    • Microfiche
    • Misprints
    • Molds and mold-making supplies
    • Mosaic tiles, small only
    • Mosaic tools

    N

    • National Geographic and similar collectible series
    • Needlepoint yarn
    • Needles, sewing, knitting and leathercraft
    • Negatives
    • Notebooks
    • Notepads

    O

    • Office supplies
    • Old photos
    • Organza bags
    • Origami paper
    • Overhead projectors

    P

    • Packaging supplies: zip bags, paper bags and envelopes
    • Paints: oil, acrylic, watercolour, tempera, fabric, latex quarts or sample pots—at least half full and in usable condition
    • Palettes
    • Paper, all types
    • Paper clips
    • Paper craft tools
    • Paper cutters
    • Paper ephemera, antique and vintage
    • Paper punches
    • Party supplies, banners and décor in good condition
    • Pastels
    • Patterns, sewing, quilting and fibre arts
    • Pencils
    • Pens
    • Photo albums
    • Photography equipment
    • Photos
    • Picture frames
    • Pillow forms
    • Pins
    • Pipettes
    • Plastic canvas
    • Plastic gimp
    • Playing cards
    • Playmobil and other building toys
    • Pom-poms
    • Popsicle sticks
    • Postcards
    • Posterboard
    • Posters
    • Projectors
    • Protractors
    • Punches
    • Pushpins
    • Puzzles

  • Q

    • Quilting supplies
    • Quilting tools

    R

    • Reflectors
    • Resin
    • Resin molds
    • Ribbon
    • Rings
    • Rope, cotton and natural fibres only
    • Roving, silk, mohair and wool
    • Rubber bands
    • Rubber stamps
    • Rulers

    S

    • Samples
    • Scissors
    • Scrapbook paper
    • Scrapbooks
    • Scrabble tiles
    • Screen-printing ink and supplies
    • Seasonal décor
    • Sergers, working
    • Sewing machines, working only, with power cord and foot pedal
    • Sewing needles
    • Sewing notions
    • Sheet music
    • Shells
    • Signage letters and numbers
    • Slides
    • Snapshots and Polaroids
    • Soap-making supplies
    • Spice jars
    • Spindles
    • Spinning wheels
    • Sprockets
    • Squishmallows, 5 inches or smaller
    • Stamps and stamp collections
    • Stationery
    • Sticker makers
    • Stickers
    • Stones
    • Storage containers, clean, small craft storage
    • String
    • Stuffing

  • T

    • Tape
    • Telephone wire
    • Thread
    • Tiles, small
    • Tins
    • Toys, small: mini figures, wooden toys and game pieces
    • Trading card protectors
    • Trading cards
    • Trays
    • Trinkets
    • Trophies, small
    • Tubes, test tubes and tennis ball tubes
    • Tubing
    • Twine
    • Typewriters

    V

    • Vases, clean
    • Vials
    • Vintage books
    • Vintage smalls
    • Vinyl records

    W

    • Wallpaper samples
    • Washi paper
    • Washi tape
    • Weaving cones
    • Wind-up toys
    • Wine corks
    • Wire
    • Wood scraps
    • Wooden boxes
    • Wooden toys and figures
    • Wool fleece
    • Wreath frames: grapevine, foam, wire and chipboard

    X

    • X-rays

    Y

    • Yardsticks
    • Yarn, full or partial skeins
    • Yearbooks, vintage

    Z

    • Zippers

Browse our A–Z list to see what we accept and check any size, condition or working-order requirements.

Little materials, big possibilities

From fabric, yarn and buttons to paper, art supplies and wonderfully unexpected bits, we welcome materials with another creative chapter ahead.

Your unused supplies could become someone’s next painting, invention, handmade gift or discovery at The Making Table.

Vintage donations

Good pieces deserve to be enjoyed again. We welcome vintage items that are 20 years or older, with character, charm and plenty of life left in them.

Our shelves bring together different styles and decades. From mid-century and boho to cottagecore and nostalgic grandma-core favourites.

What we accept

• Small furniture
• Picture frames, artwork and mirrors
• Books and vinyl records
• Jewelry, brooches and accessories
• Glassware, pottery and ceramics
• Dishes, teacups and serving pieces

Vintage treasures, another chapter

• Vintage linens, quilts and textiles
• Decorative objects and figurines
• Small collectibles and unusual finds
• Postcards, photographs and paper treasures
• Tins, baskets and wooden boxes
• Seasonal décor

Please contact us with photos before bringing in small furniture or larger collections so we can confirm they’re a fit for our space.

Not sure how old something is? Send us a photo, we’re happy to take a look.

Sorting through an estate or preparing for an estate sale? Contact us about vintage treasures and creative supplies that could find another life at The Nest.

We can arrange a site visit to discuss suitable items and donation options. Whether it’s a collection of sewing supplies, shelves of vintage finds or a mix of both, we’ll help identify what we can welcome.

Estate Donations

Not sure? Let’s take a look

Sometimes the most unexpected things hold the most possibility. Send us a photo or tell us what you have before bringing it in.

Thank you for helping useful materials stay in circulation and giving old favourites another chapter.

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