Why I started this blog

Now that I've stopped to think about it, I haven't actually explained why I'm doing this blog or why it's called My Box of Inspiration. A box is something I associate with treasure, like a chest of gold, something that you keep close to your heart. Everyone has a reason to keep moving forward in life, goals they want to achieve on that shadowy road lying ahead. Some wish to travel the world, others for the time to learn an instrument, and yet others for spiritual fulfillment.  Everyone has a different dream, and sometimes we discover different ones on the path that leads us there.

My goal in life is hard to put into words, it is the journey I am most interested in after all. I believe in seeing the beauty in the little things that inspire you to stay on that road. More than anything in the world, I love making things - food, jewellery, stories, poems, decorating, drawing ...
So this blog will be my personal box of inspiration right here.
And the first item I am placing inside it is:

 Have you ever dreamed of adventures in the Amazon Rainforest? I know I definitely have! This is the story of young orphan Maia, who journeys across the ocean from her home England to live with her relatives in Manaus. But her vision of a wonderfully exotic life is turned upside down when Maia meets the Carters and their twin daughters. Instead of greeting her with open arms, the twins are venemous, and Mr. and Mrs. Carter only interested in Maia's inheritance. Suddenly the lush green rainforest and the rushing river turn into a prison that isonly made bearable by Maia's governess Miss Minton and the kind Indian servants.
When Maia meets Finn, a mysterious boy who lives in the jungle, she discovers that life in the Amazon Rainforest, after all, is not a horrible as it may seem ...

I really, really adored this book when we read it for the first time in school. It's full of magic and love and Eva Ibbotson's wit and colourful descriptions really make the Amazon Rainforest come alive. Maia is a courageous and kind-heartedheroine, and the friends she makes throughout the novel are no less likeable.
Couldn't recommend this more! It proves that the greatest journey can also be made on the pages of a book.

Love, x