I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

In the bedroom time I have generated thoughts, and then in the studio I take those thoughts and try to shape them into something.

I do like to be surprised.

I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not.

It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.

A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.