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What I see as a daydream image on the left was rejected by a child.  The moon came from a photocopy I took of a piece of paper a child brought into a school for an India altered book project.  The stamp arrived on an envelope from my US lawyer.  It's always back to tea.

The book that I finished laying out for the printer this morning, after little sleep last night - hate deadlines - was called 'River Stoury'.  The child whose work I have added to recorded the actual places he knew along the river.  My river is for memories and these are the first few that came to me.

The cattails were covered in a hoar frost when we took the kids for a walk along the river.  Back in school many chose the iconic form to put in their journals.  I finished laying out their book this morning and have lots of scraps to delight me when I feel as if I have nothing in my head. My mum is on a trip to Guatamala and I think a landscape I don't know as in my mind as I was inspired by this young artist.

Pictographs 1 and 3 were found scraps from children.  I noticed that the cricket was an 'm' and the swan an 's'. The first word that came into my head once I understood the code was music.  The final character was a 'c' but I dyslexically drew it backwards so had to add a bit of fruit.

My mum lives on a lake in Orlando and when I visited her she had these 'pet' swans that she fed regularly and had named.  She is swan crazy.  I have been doing a project with kids about rivers and when we went for a walk along the river there were swans.  The swans inspired many, many swan images.  The quote was overheard and found again in a journal. Where do they hear/learn/get these things?

Am gathering images and words and putting together  a little book for a school from children's journal pages.  They always inspire me. I think I will make a little series of 'inspired by young artists' this week as I have lots more to do and will surely be inspired again. This is going to my friend Anna who works with me using journals to teach teachers.