I am so excited to release more of my ever-growing Leona Collection today. These two greeting card/fine art print sets feature a selection of original illlustrations from my darling novel, Leona’s Homecoming from The Love Letter Diaries series.
1st Set: ‘Cosy Day’ homey watercolour illustrations on flat fine art cards come with envelopes so you may easily mail artwork to dear ones, pin on mood boards, and add to 5″ x 7″ frames. Set of 4 Designs: Cosy Red Velvet Reading Chair, Sweet Red Pear, Festive Green Leaf Wreath, and a cup of velvety rich Hot Chocolate. Write a message on the back if you like! Happy Holidays and…every day!
2nd Set: Ink book character illustrations. Set of 5 Designs: Leona, Brahams, Antoinette, Lucca & Hugh, and the Cotton Cottage. Fall in love with the characters and carry them in your heart to inspire cosy days.
Set of 8 Designs featuring: Botiza, Baby Evelyn, Bear, James, John, and their Snowy Home & Orchards.
*This Novelette will soon release in a compilation book called Self-Health Novelettes, a collection of life-loving stories. I love these stories and I hope you do, too!
Many more print/card sets like these are coming up. Get ready for bunnies and mountains and seasonal magic!
Good afternoon. Here is an excerpt from my upcoming life & design book. I hope you find it helpful for creating moody goals each month.
Transitioning from season to season, I’ve learned that one’s needs and focus can change so drastically, and so I make mood boards when I sense the time has come to turn over to something new, or usually old again. Step one is to freely allow yourself to be drawn to imagery, sounds, words, and ideas that you’d like to be surrounded with for the upcoming season. Step two is to assemble your goals and textures as you like, however it feels right to you. Step three is to step back and gaze upon your mood. You can speak to your board and journal about your observations. What have you included? How many of each idea have you emphasized? What is the overall feeling you’d like to exude each day? What adventures and plans can you make based on what you’ve compiled? Mood boards also work in any type of medium, be it audio, visual, or textural, so this exercise is inclusive of the senses and every person’s experience of their own world.
Amor Milagre Winter 2024-2025 Mood Board
I started this year with a calm, sleepy winter full of softness and restful places to dream and heal and be. I also encouraged myself to illustrate and write endless novels and children’s books…letting my days be full of teaching our homeschool lessons, balancing my company, and finding a soft, slow, delicious rhythm for each of our daily routines. The theme here was Nurture.
Amor Milagre Life Spring-Summer Mood Board and Scrapbook 2025
Then, in the spring-summer, I craved fresh green salads and blooming walks and tenderness in the trees and garden, feeling akin to all the wild animals and plants, while replacing all that was messy with pretty items and habits. It is always a coming back to oneself, and it does take time after so long of being rushed and polluted. The theme here wasHarmony.
Amor Milagre Life Autumn Mood Board and Scrapbook 2025
This autumn board was overwhelmingly excited. The boards go through various quantities of photos and ideas. Sometimes, there are few. Sometimes, there are too many and spill into the journal a little early. Autumn was like that this year. So many feelings, ideas, and adventues to remember to try again. Wearing those old effortless boots that make the pen and brush fly around unfraid was the mood there. After clearing space in the mind, and in our daily life, there was room to invite new/old loves back in. At this time, it felt good to be snuggled in between rolling pears and candlelight. The theme here was Layers.
Amor Milagre: Reading My Year in Mood Boards 2025-Time to put the autumn board into my scrapbook where the imagery takes on new life to keep and look back through for renewed inspiration.Amor Milagre: Reading My Year in Mood Boards 2025-AutumnAmor Milagre: Reading My Year in Mood Boards 2025-AutumnAmor Milagre: Reading My Year in Mood Boards 2025-AutumnAmor Milagre: Reading My Year in Mood Boards 2025-AutumnAmor Milagre: Reading My Year in Mood Boards 2025-AutumnAmor Milagre: Reading My Year in Mood Boards 2025-Early Winter, Late Autumn
Now, as I can smell the snow on the mountain caps in the west, I’ve been simplifying down to only a few once again. So much has been wrapped up this year. The mood now is centered on the trees and snowflakes. That is the real, essential goal for me, to be immersed in nature’s beauty. It heals. It prevents burnout. It inspires. It mesmerizes. It laughs and cuddles. It’s endless fun. Untangling so much static and unfinished piles creates room and space to breathe. This winter’s theme is Air.
Amor Milagre: Reading My Year in Mood Boards 2025-winter
Amor Milagre Mini is waiting for the snow before they redo their board. It’s all about what you feel and when you feel the changes. That is why I meditate on peace and celebrate every day, not waiting for the calendar to tell us when to get up and dance.
Amor Milagre: Reading My Year in Mood Boards 2025-winter. I love how different the boards look as the sun shifts between clouds.
I don’t wonder about what the next board will reveal to me, and I cannot, as it’s not time for it yet. Accumulating a season’s worth of accomplishments and future goals cannot be predicted. I don’t try. It’s time to focus on today. I cook. We eat. We do the dishes. We place them back on the pretty shelf that we made together. I sip cocoa in the petrichor-soaked garden of puddles and golden leaves, smile, and patiently await our first snow of the season. It’s time for that beautiful quiet to blanket all, and then the senses exhale. I adore Autumn, while she’s here. She is my favourite and my best. This is why her boards are so full. It reflects all we wish to do in that short time. Then, we unwind and enjoy the winter through. Now, I cosy up and watch the turkeys, deer, and yes, Papa Porcupine who loves our apple trees.
What pulls you to your board today? Love, ~Amor Milagre
Amor Milagre: Carving jack-o-lanterns in our Rose Cottage garden.Amor Milagre-Wild turkeys in our autumnal Rose Cottage gardens.
Our trees are just beginning to golden up. The air is mellowing. We adore and name pumpkins. I listen to cosy songs as I write autumnal novels. Here are a few of my annual favourites. Love, ~Amor Milagre
Bela Babai: Haunting Gypsy Melodies (We have the original record, and it sounds extra romantic-spooky with the snap, crackle, pops.)
I am pleased to introduce the illustrated Vol. I of The Love Letter Diaries, Leona’s Homecoming. These darling books are my favourite. They are my heart. I hope they become a part of yours, too. So, if you like romance, peaceful living, gardening, art, seasonal holidays, delicious foods, love, mer-mysteries, and sweet families, then allow these life-long friends to invite you into their beautiful world. Hold them dear, and they will whisper amusing ideas for you to try as you write your own days.
Unfold mysteries of past, present, and future lives and loves through the empathic souls of Leona’s town of friends as they invent and enjoy simple pleasures and Nature’s joy during the first year of seasonal festivals. The illustrations reflect the memory-based scrapbook evolution of the story. This is an ongoing tale of real love, healing, connection, and the endless benefits of growing an ever-expanding web of kind hearts. Adoration lives in each character of this Italian seaside town, guided in love by one lovely woman. Her granddaughter, and her friends, continue sharing this positive energy together.
This ethically made book series allows the reader to explore the four seasons of Leona’s beautifully sensitive world. The books are a delight and a chance for planting and growing seeds of positive change for all. The festivals are full of delicious foods and exciting events where every person’s gifts are celebrated. (Printed on cream FSC Certified Paper in the USA.)
I have written these books in love and gratitude in the hope that these pages will blend peacefully into my readers’ lives. These loving novels are wonderful gifts for the Self and Dear Ones to explore your own passions, while appreciating each season of nature’s gifts. Read these books in order for a sense of how simple pleasures and small acts of kindness can add up to connective positive changes that benefit all for ages.
