while it may seem easy to people who don't have the pleasure of running their own creative business to say "how hard can it be to just stop working for xyz number of hours a week?". honestly, setting things down and taking a little time off can be incredibly difficult.
in their recent interview on poppytalk (a fantastically curated marketplace which i'm super flattered to be part of for the next month!) lucy of berkley illustration really hit the nail on the head in articulating what makes it tough tomaintain enough separation or balance to preserve sanity. you probably know berkley illustration - purveyors of unbelievably quaint portraits of animals in fine garments. i've been impressed that they work together as a husband and wife duo (without strangling one another - to me that seems quite the feat), and, of course, i'm always on the lookout for advice on balancing work and, well, not-work. it's a great interview - go check it out!
on the one-person-amazingness front, i absolutely love the illustrations of kate bingaman-burt (you may recognize the amazing work she's done in her obsessive consumption project, which was a hero blog here not long ago!) here's an interview she did recently with readymade magazine about how effing awesome her job is.
why have i linked these two interviews here today? i guess as a little reminder that no matter how awesome what you do is, work is just work, and there's so much more to life than work. even if you're 200% in love with what you do, keeping work vs. not work straight is completely important.
