Peppermint!

I know I've been kind of a downer lately, but things are finally looking up--I got medicine for my sickness (it's nothing serious and I'm not going to die, like I half-thought I would!)  and was in a much better mood yesterday and actually felt motivated again.  Then today I took all my Ebay packages to our super nice mail lady and she handed me a package from Australia in return, and it turned out to be the new issue of Peppermint Magazine!

I've been wanting to get my hands on an issue of Peppermint ever since I first saw the beautiful Bec Winnel-designed cover of their last issue, so when their editor Kelley asked me if I'd like to have a style feature in their new issue of course I said yes, and then a little while later when she asked if I'd like to be on the cover I said . . . yes, maybe??  It's just that their last cover was so pretty that I was afraid of jinxing it with my photo  . . .  But I think they did a great job of it, and the lovely lettering on the cover takes some of the attention away from my scraggly Christmas morning hair.

I scanned in the feature here if you'd like to read it  . . .  The rest of the magazine is extra lovely--it's always refreshing to read magazines that are written for real people who don't happen to have endless amounts of cash to spend on clothes (or who don't aspire to dress just like Alexander Wang-wearing hipster socialites, but that's another post that I probably shouldn't write).  Peppermint is more pretty than edgy (I mean that in the best way possible!), and being an eco-focused magazine it dedicates plenty of space to vintage and d.i.y. clothing.  Honestly, why does Australia have to have all the best magazines?