Summer Vacation

Hi Lovies!

When you were a child in school,

did your teacher ever ask you

what you did on your summer vacation?

If a teacher should ask me today

what I PLANNED to do

on my upcoming summer vacation,

I'd have the answer.

I could pretty much hold up

my Summer Girl illustration above!

So, I thought I'd take today to announce

Ooh La Frou Frou's

upcoming summer schedule

so you'll have a little head's up!

I've mentioned a few times recently

how full my custom illustration schedule

has been since the beginning of the year.

More and more new and exciting requests

are coming in every week.

It's all so wonderful ... but a bit exhausting!

Also ...

before I even knew my illustration schedule would

be going from BUSY to SUPER BUSY this year,

I decided to take the blog

from one day a week to three

for the first time ever.
Crazeeeee girl.

My
SUPER BUSY

schedule then zoomed up to

 EXTREMELY SUPER BUSY.

Now I know why television shows

show run reruns in the summer.

A fellow blogger friend and fabulous hat designer

 with a blog named

"Couture Milinery Atelier"

takes each summer off in order to plan and create

for the next season.

With my current schedule,

that sounds like a perfect plan to me.

SO ...

here's what I'm going to do:

Beginning next week through the end of May,

this illustrated blog will go back to
one day per week, on Mondays.

Then, from June through August

I'll be taking the summer off from the blog.
I may pop in now and again throughout the summer to say hey
with a photo of something I've been doing
but no "real" posts will be happening for the summer.

This much needed time will not only:

(1) give me time to enjoy this precious summer before it's gone

(I really am a summer girl, you know, and as an artist
I'm normally inside in the studio A LOT); and,

(2) have time to take a deep breath in the sunshine

which equals inspiration.  Inspiration to create
future illustrations for YOU.
You see, along with all of the custom work,

I also have a zillion ideas floating around

every day and night ...
ideas of illustrations I want to create

to place on items for purchase.
But with my current schedule ...
I. just. haven't. had. the. time.
This will let me come back after the summer,
in September, with a bang.

During the summer, I will still be taking

custom illustration commissions ...

drop me a line here

if you're interested in getting on my calendar.
And I ALWAYS read all comments
my fabulous readers leave for me here.

So that's it, guys!

Does that make you want to take the summer off too?
Believe me, if it wasn't necessary, I wouldn't be doing it.
But great work requires time for inspiration.

So, I'll be back this Friday with a post,
and next week and through May it will be Mondays only
and then I'll be on:
Summer Vacation.
You'll be able keep up with me during the summer months
of June through August
and see what I'm up to via Instagram ...
(if you don't follow, please do so before then ...
I post photos of what I'm doing daily there)
You'll will also be able to
 keep up with me on Twitter and Facebook.

See you Friday, everyone!

OOH LA FROU FROU

is the blog of illustrator

SANDY M

Summer Girl illustration by SANDY M

Photos via my Pinterest "Summer" board.