The best day this month

You know that feeling you get when you purchase something new you really, really love? Once every two months I get that warm fuzzy feeling when I purchase the new issue of Frankie magazine from the local newsagent. And for $7.99 it's a completley guilt-free spend!

This issue comes wrapped up with some absolutely adorable greeting cards - made especially for Frankie readers with lovely illustrations from their fave artists - and the cutest envelopes to match. They're almost too cute to use! (I tried to scan them in to show you but the pic doesn't do them justice)

LOVE the cover this month (sorry the scan is a bit chopped off). I always take a moment to appreciate before opening the mag and slowly flick through each page oohing and aahing over the layouts and clever ideas before returning and reading every word from cover to cover. No other magazine gives me this much satisfaction, or so many stories I am genuinely interested in reading.

You can easily spend a lunch hour just reading through the letters to Frankie, and eight pages of "Frank Bits" up the front - always full of cool new products and interesting chats with bands. I've only just done my pre-read flick but features I will be coming back to as I eat my lunch are:

*The Graduates - interviews with successful graduates of NIDA.

*A feature on Rose Byrne - funnily enough she wasn't accepted into NIDA but has become one of the most well-known Australian actresses. I loved her in Marie Antoinette.

* My most embarrassing moment - regular Frankie contributors reveal their most blush-worthy stories with style and wit.

* Poddy McPodcast - mainly becasue I think this is an excellent heading! It also tells you where you can get some really great, and free, podcasts.

* We met online - I love Frankie's real-life features and this month's is another interesting bunch of tales of couples who found love, by chance, in cyberspace.

* A profile of label Shakuhachi - I LOVE this label!

* The war on text - a funny rant from Mia Timpano about ridiculous and unnecessary texts like "I'm waving at you right now".

* Big Lungs - introducing Kate Miller-Heidke. Heard a snippet of her tunes on Video Hits on Saturday and this girl is definitely very quirky and cool. And trained in opera too!

* Bring it back - Frankie writer Benjamin Law reminisces about the good ol' days when we didn't have to organise our own birthday parties.

At first glance, I'm not too keen on the fashion shoots this month, but there's enough reading material to keep me going for days.

Notes on Glossy Paper