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Top 3 Tips for Thrift Lovemaking

Whole post here: http://thriftview.blogspot.com/2010/05/top-3-tips-for-thrift-lovemaking.html

You can’t force or fake it when you make Thrift love. You have to set the mood. Thrift stores are equipped with everything your body desires, so do Sexy Lady Thrift a favor and get warmed up so you both leave the thrift store satisfied.

1. Salivate over Thrift Porn

Thrift porn is whatever inspires you to thrift, it helps you think outside the box and unlock the potential in the midst of the dusty thrift store or flea market. Try these popular seductive examples: Apartment Therapy, Ready Made, & Dwell. They’ll make you hot and heavy for thrifting.

The best thrift porn features collections and eclectic mixes. Our thrifty souls thrive on the jumbled stimulation our erotic Lady Thrift gives us. All of the thrift blogs I’ve linked to the left will also provide excellent thrifty stimulation.

2. Scribe the Sexy Thrift List

Take inventory of what inspires you while you rifle through thrift porn and make a Thrift List. Write down the supplies you’ll need to achieve your thrift dreams, write the household goodies your need to pick up, write everything. The Thrift List will keep your search hot and eager so you’ll keep thrifting hard until you’re spent and satisfied. 

3. Make Sweet, Slow Thrift Love

Once you’re warmed up and ready you need to take your time and savor the thrift adventure. Take it easy, take it slow. Enjoy it. Your mind is brimming with thrift-spiration, so don’t end the adventure prematurely. Start at one corner of the thrift store or flea market and slowly work your way to the next. Leave no crevice unexplored to find the sexiest items and the best deals.

These thrift tips will ignite the thrift passion and activate the flow of excitement that thrifting brings. Pop in a Prince Record and start ogling some succulent thrift porn, you know you want to. Thrifting: if loving you is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.

Does anyone have other thrift-spiration sources to share? I’m trying to lift my thrift mojo, Lady Thrift and I are having a dry spell.

How Thrift Shopping Makes You More Creatively Productive

I was introduced to “The Artists Way” yesterday, referenced as “Writing the Artist’s Way”. What Marketing Writer and budding Art Collector could resist?

Last night’s “Artist Date,” at the Sinclaire. This should be solo, but who could resist “Dr. Sketchy’s” and my favorite style of drawing/photography- the pin-up.

After reading “The Basics Tools” .pdf available on the website while sipping warm Earl Grey tea I felt inspired and revitalized. This bit of writing reaffirmed something I’d suspected for a while now, Thrifting and Junk Collecting is extremely creatively productive. Thrifting inspires you and provides creativity.

Inspirational Books Scooped up at the Thrift Store this weekend

The “Basic Tools” in creative recovery, according to Julia Cameron’s teachings are “The Morning Pages” and “The Artist Date”.

Most bloggers and writer’s already engage in a form of The Morning Pages. To write “Morning Pages” open your notebook soon after you wake up and write three pages in stream of consciousness fashion. This helps remove negative thoughts so you can focus on being creative later in the day. This makes your “Morning Pages” journal a great piece to reference for an understanding of your ideas and frustrations- and how to nurture or fix them. I’ve been doing this for years, but I’ll take it up a notch and start writing three pages instead of just one.

I dug out this dollar-store faux anime Engrish notepad to use as for my Morning Pages

The Artist Date is where thrifting and junk hunting comes in. According to “Insert her name here”, your artistic side is your “artist child” and like any child it needs to be nurtured. You have to spend one-on-one quality time with your Artist Child once a week, you have to do something, anything, that inspires and nurtures it, or you’ll lose it. An “Artist Date” to the Thrift Store or your favorite Junk Heap is the perfect way to inspire artsy thrifters and junkers. You’re on the prowl, searching for an item, being bombarded with different sights, textures, and colors. All of this is very artistically stimulating and inspirational.

My unfinished drawing from Dr. Sketchy’s, I didn’t get to finish coloring- but we still won a lolly pop, limited edition beer, and pies for a week!

Dedicated thrift addicts, you now have yet another reason to enjoy your weekly (daily?) thrifting excursions. It’s good for the artist inside all of us.

Venture here http://bit.ly/7Sg1nH for the original post.

Make Your Own Twitter Beer Koozie

Social Network nerds rejoice, now you can protect your hands from the condensation of a cold beer while being reminded of the Glory of Twitter. Cut up those old, itchy sweaters and make a Twitter Beer Koozie.

1. Print the pattern above. I quickly drew a bird with a ball point pen, I’m sure you can feign something better than that with little effort.

2. Pin the pattern to your fabric of choice, cut out your bird.

3. Cut a strip of sweater to the desired width (perhaps using a beer bottle for measurement) and sew the ends to close it.

4. Glue or sew your bird to the fabric.

5. If you have small dogs, force them to wear the Koozie. Cut two holes in the side and you have a dog sweater on the cheap.

Take that, itchy sweaters! I hate you and your kind!

If you’d like me to make you a fancy Beer Koozie engraved with Twitter’s image or even your initials, I’ll make one and send it out to your for $7- just don’t tell Twitter because they could be the litigious types and I live on a writer’s salary.

Special Thanks for the Koozie idea goes to Emily- the Queen of Crafty. She had the Koozie idea, I just sewed a bird to it.

My original Blog Post: http://thriftview.blogspot.com/2009/11/make-your-own-twitter-beer-koozie.html