Amor Milagre Summer Pink Garden Flowers, Plant Shopping, Young’s Greenhouse South Paris, ME
In the humid mountain-lake mist, a baby gardener chose pink for our front stone garden. A humorous family-joking drive over to Young’s Greenhouse in South Paris, ME is always a fun outting. The people are so lovely there, and so are their endless rows of fashionably displayed plants. There are floral gowns everywhere! We brought home eight different flowers to adore each morning over breakfast and to tuck us in when the stars shine down clouds of hope to us every evening. This place has good deals, and the healthy junipers we adopted from them in the spring are doing very well. It’s fun to explore all of the greenhouses, and they have family-friendly seasonal events. They were even so generous as to give out kiddie gift baskets at the spring Easter egg hunt. Can’t wait to see what the autumn-winter events are like! We’ll revisit to explore again.
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The sunset is a foggy gold sepia-glow tonight… Happy Bloom Season! Love, ~Amor Milagre
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Later on, I’ll add more flower photos in here after the plants settle into their new bed.
Amor Milagre Journal, Our Summer family gifts from The Bees Knees British Imports, Paddington, Peter Rabbit, Pretty Mugs, Sewing Thread Tin
I love gift shops so much that it was my dream to have my own, but full of my original art, books, stationery, and home goods. While we do use and decorate our home with my lovely seasonal gifts for special occasions, we also like to shop once a year at The Bees Knees British Imports shop. These women exude happiness. It’s so fun to visit their online shop, and we hope to one day visit their MA store.
The British Store, Bridgham & Cook shop in Freeport Maine, is a local (to us) place to choose our annual themed ornament. I used to love exploring every UK-sourced shop in whichever city I was living. I’m a collector of newsboy hats, tartan scarves, and cable knit jumpers, but only the rare organic cotton ones. (As always, not a sponsored post, just like this co.)
Then for some extra flavour, we bake and snuggle up with our favourite BBC programs like Gardener’s World and Agatha Raisin, Miss Scarlet, Jane Austen movies, old stop-motion Paddington episodes, Beatrix Potter’s friends, Mr. Bean (not while eating), and our silly old Pooh Bear movies. Recently, we found an odd but funny little show called, Five Children and It. Very odd, but fun to see what the kids wish for. Many of our books are by British authors, so it’s a cosy day of tea and reading in the sitting room nook, curled up in bed, or in the sun of the library. We hope the Brambly Hedge fine china designs come back! We love the puzzles.
This week, we’re organising our sewing supplies. This little thread tin will help to keep our current threads in one place…and not rolling off the table. The prettily threaded tote bags will hop along with us on outtings in town. We’re very much a family of library owls. And, the mugs…we just use daily so it’s fun to catch up on certain ones. Love the flora-fauna one. It has a good feel, and when we find some each year, it builds up a nice collection in our custom-made tea drawer. Ours is a home of artists and writers, so having these classic illustrations about is another fun way to celebrate the imagination. I’ve been waiting years to see these lovelies in shops again, and done very well. Quality matters a lot to me. We only buy special things that will last lifetimes. We only make special things that will last for ages. It’s fun to take care of your treasures.
When I was a teen, there was a beautiful online French gift shop where I got some lovely tablecloths and some amazing rainbow striped high-top espadrilles. There is just something about wanting to find a gift for yourself, or a Dear One, and being surrounded with a curated array of gorgeous options to wander and choose as you like. As a child, there was a local gift shop that was absolutely bewitching to explore. I recall a very elegant (expertly handmade) winged frog fae on a shelf that really sparked a new kind of magic in me. I have many plans to add to A Gentle Life Collection…coming up, my Darlings.
Well, we’re away laughing on a fast camel…bringing strawberry vegan icecream cones down to the beach. Happy summer birthdays! Love, ~Amor Milagre
On this cosy rainy Saturday, we: praise the clouds, stir up our weekly cooks and bakes, organize a new homeschool bookcase-locker tree, work on installing our handmade custom-designed kitchen pantry cabinets and mutter puzzle-figures for three other woodworking projects, and try to unglue our exhausted senses from the various terrible news sites. While we all protest the injustices attacking our world, we also need to nourish and appreciate all the goodness that is in our control. A weekly soup to sustain our immune systems, an effortless annual routine in the way of a handy rotating locker to easily find weekly lesson resources, a fresh uncluttered storage space to walk in, and a cosy preciousness of our own making are all easy ways that we take care of ourselves. Pineapples for luck, Love~ Amor Milagre
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Airy soft dough relaxes me…
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I’ve been sewing up some pretty, breezy clothes that can also be layered up on snowy days. Here is a recent women’s design in a French black floral. I prefer high-waisted A-line vintage silhouettes as they are the most flattering, comfortable, and easy to wear with a variety of top styles.
Amor Milagre, Handmade Organic Italian Pasta
My early comfort food is homemade pasta. I rolled these delicious little squiggles up for lunch a few days ago. Chef’s kiss…mmmm.
I designed three new pieces for the kitchen and bathroom, and my talented husband is already counting up boards. I like to keep things off of the floor for easy cleaning, and in the case of our endlessly dividing houseplants, they will be closer to the sun this way, too. A little narrow kitchen linen sideboard will go sleekly by the door to house aprons, napkins, and tablecloths. We can place a sweet selection of seasonal decor on top! In our art class, we are making some autumnal pieces now with clay and fabric.
By separating the fridge from the main kitchen area with a glass door, we have extended the kitchen into the back mudroom and this keeps that certain wearing buzz away from us as we enjoy our cooks. All of my designs are for sensitive people. Soon, there will be a counter and upper cabinets for dried foods in here. The base stores bigger pans, pots, pie plates, and glass storage containers. The counter will be where the blender and toaster live, freeing up our main counters in the kitchen for rolling out dough and just a general uncluttered clarity. The fruit bowls will lounge on a bistro table in here as well. We changed this design a bit back here to finish these spaces sooner and to allow for other types of storage to live here, too. It will be so lovely to be finished with our complete kitchen renovation, and I will post the before and after’s soon.
It’s hard to believe that ten years ago we only had a few shelves-worth of books, some of which had to be discarded after a leak. Now, we have so many school books that we chose this carousel case to organize our weekly lesson books. Each area is designated for a specific class. They are in order of the days of the week, from top to bottom, with extras to pull from when one is finished. Our lessons cover everything, so it’s fun and easier to set out a small collection to take over to the library each day, no harmful back packs needed. Later on, we will place this piece in the library and spiral our most beautiful smaller novels all around. It is a bit tricky to get the taller school books to fit, but they can be tipped sideways. Less visual clutter eases the senses, so this will stay in the back room for now. We designed and made beautiful ceiling height bookcases for the library which are now full and need reorganizing. Moving the current school books over frees up a few shelves. We’ll put on an audiobook and shift things around. We love to be surrounded by loving stories. It feels like we have a bookshop in our home. I’m excited to share that my Amor Milagre bookshop will greet a few new novels this year! I’ll be working on the treasuries over the winter, all cosy with my paints and cup of tea. Note to self- Don’t dip your brush in the teacup!
Wishing all the love to those who need it most.
Music of the Moment: The Very Thought of You, Ray Noble, Al Bowlly
I’ve noticed that the children’s apparel pieces that I hand-design last several years, size-wise, rather than just six months to a few years. These heirloom items also don’t stretch out and are saved in our archival baby box to perhaps use later on if wanted. Etiquette lessons, and using napkins, keep clothing from being spoiled. Mostly, we keep our special pieces as a memory portal back to a certain stage of precious giggles and sparkling eyes.
Also, if fabric can be sewn, it can be easily edited if needed as babies grow to extend wear. We love styling up our outfits with light layers. Historical silhouettes influence more comfortable designs here at Rose Cottage.
We enjoy connecting to all of the beautiful techniques left for us by past nimble fingers and minds. Fashion and costume design are a weekly course in our homeschool Fine Arts & History lessons. Art is in everything we do, and we’re never done learning and experimenting. The dolls acquire most of our finery. Every button is saved to use for something extraordinary.
Amor Milagre Summer Journal, Hand-sewn Children’s Clothing- A new Pinny Dress
Babies grow so quickly…time for new clothing. This evening, pleats are on the menu for a new little pinny overdress. Custom clothing is special and fits well. It is a joy to add little meaningful hearts and embroideries into our unique design.
Can’t forget pockets so that little dolls may easily explore garden blooms…
Amor Milagre Summer Journal, Hand-sewn Children’s Clothing- A new Pinny Dress
A beautiful mess of toys, new fabrics, and magic…in our cosy book nook. New tales are being typed up every evening, many of which include tailors and designers!
Amor Milagre: Storyteller, New Book Releases Soon!
Here are some stories that I wrote this spring…now to type them is a different story. I’m recording all of their titles so I can check them off! So many darlings…
One of our weekly projects is the Poetree! It is full of seasonal vocabulary words to inspire nature-loving poems and artwork. Paint an atmosphere with gorgeous words…
Ah….that feeling once the homeschool portfolio has been sent… Now, to continue our daily lessons! Year-round school makes much more sense, especially as curious minds are happiest when learning and using their beautiful senses.
June is just around the corner… Love to the Fireflies, ~Amor Milagre
