June marks eleven months of doing Monday Inspiration. For me it’s been a huge personal goal to be accomplishing week after week – I’ve always been horrible at scheduling blog posts. (I have a feeling everyone can relate…life has this tendency to interfere with so many things! ;)) I started this back in August because it was a day on which I needed to blog – but I really didn’t know what to blog about. So I took a handful of images from Pinterest, created a kind of collage of them, and posted it as some inspiration for the day….

Another simple one for today. {all images via pinterest. clockwise, from top left: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4}

I haven’t been posting much lately – there’s been a lot going on, and I’ve unintentionally taken a little bit of a break from the online world. But I’m coming back this week – going full-force into this summer’s work and growing as much as I can. I’ll have more coming later. {all images via pinterest. clockwise, from top left: 1 // 2 // 3 // 4}

“…Mr. Rokesmith not only passed the window, but came into the counting-house. And not only came into the counting-house, but finding himself alone there with Bella and her father, rushed at Bella and caught her in his arms, with the rapturous words, ‘My dear, dear girl; my gallant, generous, disinterested, courageous, noble girl!’ And not only that even (which one might have thought astonishment enough for one dose), but Bella, after hanging her head for a moment, lifted it up and laid it on his breast, as if that were her head’s chosen and lasting resting-place! ‘I knew you would…