Frankie Magazine are kindly offering a chance to win one of their brand spanking new 2012 Calenders & Diaries! The Frankie Calender has been an ongoing favourite of ours, and we’re always excited to adorn our walls with some lovely art from the calenders. Last year they also brought out a journal version of the popular Calender as well! A little bit of Frankie to use everyday..
The 2012 Daily Journal
Featuring super-sweet illustrations from Melbourne artist Amy Borrell, the Frankie 2012 diary is full of goodness 365 days a year.
With week-to-a-page lay outs, monthly planners and spaces to jot down your best thoughts and ideas, it’s a pretty, cloth-bound pal to carry by your side all year long. This year’s diary also features calling cards to hand out to friends new and old, as well as a secret little pouch so you can stash away those needful bits of paper and other essential goodies.
The Diary is 148 x 190 mm and 152 pages. You can order your copy at www.frankie.com.au/shop
The 2012 Frankie calendar
Printed on top-quality, large format stock and beautifully crafted by the Frankie team, this year’s calendar features works from artists near and far: Elisabeth Dunker, Ashley G and Drew, Pin Pals, Donna Wilson, Catherine Campbell, Amanda Blake, Anke Weckmann, Nancy Mungcal, Ana Albero, Marjorie Liucci, The Black Apple and Sarah McNeil.
It’s a little bit of Frankie to hang on your wall and help make 2012 a tad more special. The calendar is 260 x 370 mm. You can order your copy at www.frankie.com.au/shop
How to enter?
Simply comment on this blog with an answer to ‘why you need a little bit of Frankie in your life in 2012?’
Make sure you include your email address when you comment (it doesn’t have to be published – we are the only ones that will see it)
Competition closes next Thursday 6th October. We’ll then choose the best (most creative) answer and the winner will be announced next Friday 7th October.
Psst – we also sell these Frankie goodies at our shop Follow in Surry Hills too!
I live in the sweaty, sticky top end of Australia and up here all things Frankie are beautiful reminders of a southern world where people sip tea and work with wool. Our Lazy Crafternoons collective tried crochet last weekend and it all ended rather ‘soggily’ in the pool! Please oh please…all things Frankie…we need you to stay sane during the build up!
Would love to be an organized and all together kind of person, and with this beautiful and very cool diary I might become just that!! It would make it so cool to be organinized. Here’s hoping 🙂
X Stine
I love Frankie! I’d love to have Frankie with me every day of the year, to inspire me, to remind me, to brighten my day, to provide a little bit of quirky, crafty, colourful fun xxx
It will help me procrastinate as I pencil in my dreamy lover’s initials surrounded by cartoon hearts. Its a win win!
My 15 year old daughter has a little bit of Frankie all over her walls. She even asks boutique owners to share their Frankie posters when they’ve finished with them. She is your biggest fan. Imagine what a Frankie calendar would do for my popularity stakes!!!
ok. omg. i’ve been procrastinating about this diary for weeks now! i’m getting married in august 2012, and i REALLY want this diary to jot down and keep track of all my wedding stuff! you know the important info. omigod please can i have one!!!!! ♥
My clients love to read Frankie in the waiting room, look at Frankie on the wall and have their names written in Frankie as appointments. So many of them are now buying Frankie themselves. My little Yorkshire terrier therapy dog is also called Frankie so we have a Frankie day every day at my psychology rooms. I will post a pic of Frankie (if I can). I so often have conversations with clients about creativity and about ways they might find helpful to reconnect with it to help them stand up to depression and anxiety and the other problems that threaten to dominate them and their lives. These conversations often result in them taking an armful of Frankie mags home with them – after a big cuddle with Frankie my co-therapist – to help them with their path to reconnecting to creativity and to hope and to life and living. Thank you Frankie – from me and from so many others.
I am a new mummy and as I grow up (im 24). I am starting to appreciate more finer things in life. Having to be the only woman in my house I dont have ‘nice things’… So a little Frankie in my life will add a touch of sophistication and ‘woman’ back into my days…
With five children, a business being developed and two renovations underway, I always need organization in my life. BUT, the artwork is the real draw here. It would be so nice to look at this throughout the day!
I’m somewhat disorganised and a new diary or calendar is probably just what the Organising Doctor ordered!
We are moving to France next year, it will keep us company, in schedule and remind me of the beauty of home.
I have made the choice to become a PhD nerd as of this year, so I need a bit of Frankie to keep me on track so I can make it through the year and the next 3 so I can be Dr Amy (plus having a Frankie diary would make me slightly less nerdy!)
i love frankie magazine 🙂 i have been searching everywhere for a diary which i feel has a personal meaning the illustrations in the frankie diary are sweet and quriky which is how my friends discribe me i would love to have one of the diaries to organise my hectic life
thanks
annice
I love the illustrations on your diary/calendar! Pls pick me to be yr lucky winner so that I dont do what i do each year! Wait till March & buy calenders when they go on sale at 75% off! That’s a quarter of my yea lived in disorganization!!
Like most women here I live a hectic life: I am a freelance photographer, designer and children’s books illustrator. Only one problem: Frankie Magazine is not available in my country (the Netherlands). Not even in the biggest English bookshop in Amsterdam! I even searched bookstores in Germany but I couldn’t find it there eitehr. A diary or calendar would be the best thing ever, so I can mark down my appointments and dates and still have a bit of Frankie in my daily life.
Seeing wonderful Frankie illustrations every day would brighten up anyone’s world…we all could use a bit of ‘bright’ in todays world. A little bit of inspiration spread around (…my house)!
I love both of these, I work two jobs and go to uni and am in deep need of a new diary and calendar for next year! Please pick me! x
I must have a little bit of Frankie in 2012 ’cause it keeps me inspired. I put the calendar (from Frankie Mag) up in my grey office & everyone around loves it. Seeing Frankie images makes me feel that I’m part of the ‘creative people’ even if I’m not working in my ideal creative job. Sometimes I make my own collage of images & stick over the pattern on the mag calendar! So Frankie inspires me to be creative even in a little way and that makes a huge difference to me & those around me. Thanks Frankie you brighten my life.
2012
1st Januray – New Years Day
3rd January – Tahl’s Birthday
12th Januray – Our Anniversary
16th January – Grandads Birthday
21st January – Oh Oh I know there is something happening on this day, is it Grandmas Birthday? Is it first day back at work? Is it a spotlight sale? This wouldn’t happen if I had a frankie diary……
My gorgeous 16 year old niece in the UK just adores anything Frankie and I’m spending a fortune mailing her copies of the magazine as there isn’t a stockist of the magazine within a 50km radius of her. A calendar or diary would be the icing on the cake. She’s an extremely talented artist and photographer and the calendar artwork would not only inspire her but would also brighten up some very dreary days that lay ahead over a long english winter!
Because life is too short not to be surrounded by beautiful things.
Who doesn’t need some frankie love in their life! This sort of beauty on our walls will add a little wonder to the days. xx
My windowless office is drab, boring and uninspiring! I need a little bit of frankie in my life next year to brighten my days, spark my creativity, fire up my emotions and motivate me to keep working towards my dreams! Sounds like alot to ask from one calender but I think it can deliver! 🙂
I have a Frankie the dog lying on my couch, but as she cant help me plan a fabulous 2012 I need a Frankie the calendar in my life as well!
If what they say about 2012 is true, I would like to be caught dead with a Frankie calendar or diary.
Because everyone needs a little bit of Frankie in their lives! xx
It will be the best calender and dairy to colour my life with the chaos of trouble! 🙂
Actually, I think frankie needs a bit of me in their life. I’m just offering to help them out, by using their beautiful and inspiring diary and calendar in 2012.
I think it’s a good deal, they should take it up 🙂
Leis
I need a little bit of Frankie love in 2012 because I lost my beautiful old 2 storey brick studio in the central city of Christchurch during the February earthquake and have been working from home ever since! A pretty Frankie calendar or diary would keep me company whilst I fritter away hours on the computer in my bedroom…
I love the whole concept of Frankie and at 59 I just love each time I get the latest edition. It covers all things that are important to me from recipes, fashion to somebody’s story. I always feel inspired after reading it and I still revisit past publications.
I am a student doing actuarial studies in uni and I need some Frankie to remind me that I am not just a nerd
Because it makes me really really happy. x
I forever get my frankie fix from my local council library. Having a piece of frankie-ness to finally call my own would be something special. Thank you for holding this competition!
There is nothing like a little piece of inspiration to carry with you! A diary is the place to jot down ideas, reminders and collect importants bits & bobs through out your day. I always have my diary with me and love choosing the right one each yr! Being a design and marketing student in my final yr, this would be the perfect gift to get me through… Frankie is the perfect way to start, journey through and finish 2012! <3 xo
There once was a time I would sleep-in all day
As a university student this was the usual way.
You would find me amidst mountains of clothes,
In my bedroom with walls filled with paintings and prose.
My mirror was covered with pretty delights,
Inspirational cut outs, and colourful sights.
I would doodle and draw, and paint as I liked,
And rocked out to great bands and watched movies all night.
Now married and older, with a child of 2,
Another on the way, with a big belly in view.
I wake in the morning to the homely demands,
And a child who always need me always at hand.
As I work on a Friday, my wandering mind,
Casts back to the days of a more colourful kind.
My days could start out just that little more swell,
With a bit of Frankie each day in 2012.
As I while away the days in my workshop I need reminding of the world that is out there.
In this time, of this generation, it’s easy to get caught up in messy schedules and lose sight of the important things in life.
Frankie’s Diary would be the beneficial element to keep my life in order and on track (whilst being uber stylish of course).
Not only is Frankie a valuable source of reading material (that far exceeds the common magazine publications these days in my opinion), Frankie also provides craft/photography/cook books, diaries, calendars and influential and entertaining articles by the wittiest writers I’ve come across (and end up bragging about these articles to my friends). Honestly, most of their articles stay with me for days.
It seems like most magazines are far too concerned about the lives of such boring mediocre celebrities and “how to be just like them” articles of no substance.
Thank you Frankie for reassuring us that we should always be ourselves and not get caught up in the mainstream hype. My world is that much brighter knowing you’ll always be around.
I desire no earthly thing but Frankie 🙂
Why I need a bit more Frankie in 2012.
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I need more Frankie in my life as it always makes me smile & a diary & calendar of Frankie would make me smile everyday.
I love Frankie!! However, since committing myself to a campaign of buy nothing new for 12 months (been at it since 1/7/11)…..there would be nothing better than winning a Frankie diary!!
i need a little bit of frankie in my life in 2012 because i’ll be in year 12 at school, which means i need to be super dooper organized + i need a little bit of artsy happiness to help me get a little bit distracted from my schoolwork! also, i need to pin a cute little frankie poster on my corkboard next to my frankie world map poster! 🙂
i would like to give the calendar to my daughter Frankie and the diary will be essential to me.
pregnant with N#3, it is Babybrain time for me! Thanks!
Frankie = amour & créativité.
thanks for this lovely giveaway!
♥
katy
I hate my job and it would make my day bearable to be able to open up my pretty frankie diary each morning to see what nasty appointments I have but then smile because they are written in such a lovely diary.
Without a daily Frankie
I will cry into my hankie!
Pretty things make me happy! I love frankie
I only just bought my first issue of frankie – a friend introduced me – and I’ve fallen in love! I’m trying to get as many back issues as possible … must have more frankie in my life!
Because quite frankly, frankie is swankie!
AND that girl with the looooong braid has my geranium on her head!
AND because my freind moved OS this year and I know she would love some frankie with her in cold and dreary London town!
I need to keep track of my schedule and for that I need a diary and calendar that are beautiful and will encourage me to use them!