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B&W Photography, Listening to Ideas

Listening to Ideas, Black and White Photography, Amor Milagre
Listening to Ideas, Black and White Photography, Amor Milagre

Tonight’s story is about a portrait photographer.  I’ll write it, with tea.  Our homeschool photography lessons have reconvened, flooded with location lists.  Photography is magic.  A great love, here.  We love doing family portraits, but haven’t done many.  Too busy for fun?  *Oh, come, let’s do some…  Sometimes, we make short videos into silent films, B&W.  It’s a cute, hilarious result to save and rewatch…with popcorn.  Oh, how we age and grow.  I love laugh lines…crinkle it up!

Cameras are eyes are memories are songs are feathers are tins of papers, with curled edges and splotches of inks of laughter, from that day when we sat on that rock and ate PB sandwiches…

*A gentle reminder:  After you listen to your own idea, and you want to share it, you may need to remind those around you to… “Shh…listen…I want to tell you something.”  (Sometimes, like with dreams, everyone gets too excited and wants to be in on it…the idea…but by pushing yours down into the mud, to be louder, to be heard.  Sillies…why?  Just listen.  Shh…listen.  This idea includes you.  Listen to ideas…to gold..to silver…gelatin…to you.

“Now, I’ll listen to you.  You were saying something lovely about…?”

 

Remember to remember.  Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

 

P.S.  Free idea…really great one…super possible…good-women’s-healthcare.  Let’s do it!  Yesterday…please.  All the world is in a trance.  Despite this designer’s sadness that long ago the fashion industry somehow trapped themselves on top of an old record…spinning on that loop…and the people all drag around in toxic lycra and fleece undergarments…it is imperative that the weary medical world re-awaken, perhaps for the first time.  Work to help, not to widen the gap.  We know you’re tired, but there needs to be a new wave to help you…down to the receptionists.  Every role makes a huge difference.  Make it positive.  Make it work.  Help.  Women and children need help.  Research anything.  Help.  Work.

 

Music of the Moment:  The Calm Before, Matt Elliott

 

 

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Book Illustration: A New Beginning

Amor Milagre Story Illustration Original Books and Art Self-Health Novelettes
Amor Milagre Story Illustration Original Books and Art Self-Health Novelettes

When one book of characters packs up and travels to the printer’s, patient tales then perk up and peek at their faces and trees appearing on new deckled-edge papers on my desk, here in the library at Rose Cottage.

“That’s not what I look like!  I’m a brunette…and I would never wear that!  I’m from twenty years before that style,” they remind me.

“Ah, yes…right.  Sorry.  My hair colour has changed since we bumped into each other that day.”

So bossy, but…correct.  “I’ll look it up.”  They wear me out…

Amor Milagre Story Illustration Original Books and Art Self-Health Novelettes
Amor Milagre Story Illustration Original Books and Art Self-Health Novelettes

For many years now, I’ve been constantly scribbling down stories, day and night.  There are too many to release separately, so several volumes will release as quickly as I can compile them together in the shuffling groups as they were born.  It’s only fair…

Empowering, meandering stories, belonging to my endless Self-Health Novelette book series, will begin to release in the years nearest you now.

I love writing them, then painting them up…but typing?  No!  Anything but typing…so this will take a bit.

Amor Milagre Story Illustration Original Books and Art Self-Health Novelettes
Amor Milagre Story Illustration Original Books and Art Self-Health Novelettes

Not everyone will be displayed, as many of my characters are described in soulful adjectives, allowing the listener to imagine.  I sit and paint with music, my darling husband reading to us…

If I can snag him, he’ll narrate some of my novels and children’s books in future.  At least, I want his voice for roles that he inspired.  After I release the newly illustrated Leona’s Homecoming, I’ll rerecord those four first books.  Some of these watercolours will be available as fine art prints and stationery as well.  Oh, so many joys to enjoy!

Music of the Moment:  The flipping of new-old books from library sales and borrowings.

 

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Unique New Collection: Hand-Stamped Wax Seal Stickers

Amor Milagre Unique Hand-Stamped Wax Seal Stickers
Amor Milagre Unique Hand-Stamped Wax Seal Stickers

I am pleased to introduce a darling new collection that will grow each season with unique designs.   

Art lends magic to our days.  I had a wonderful time making these little jewels and look forward to the next batch! 

Beautiful wax seal stickers in a variety of colours and designs, hand-stamped with love.
Add to an envelope, journal, frame, and even one of my books or paintings!  Express love and old world romance with this growing collection.  The peel and stick self-adhesive seal comes with a charming deckled-edge cotton ‘Thank You’ notecard in soft cream.

The First Designs:

  1. The Loving Home Design also comes in a Notecard and a Stationery Set.  This is one of two Amor Milagre logos.  It is my Amor Milagre company logo design that I emboss into every book.  Creating an empathic loving home within the Self is what I encourage with my collections.  Another Loving Home stationery gift set will be available soon.
  2. The Ethereal Empathic Goddess Design also comes in a Notecard and a Stationery Set.  This is one of two Amor Milagre logos.  It is my self-portrait design that I emboss into every book.  She is a part of Nature who sends Love out to the Universe.  Another Empathic Goddess stationery gift set will be available soon.
  3. Splish Splash!  I love rainy days as they are the perfect excuse to dream and write enchanting letters to Dear Ones.  The Rainy Day Umbrella Design also comes in a Notecard and a Stationery Set.  Another Rainy Day stationery gift set will be available soon.  This design, and this new shimmering blue, was especially made for this Spring 2025.
  4. Initial ‘R’ Antique Garden Design Botanical Letters
Amor Milagre Handmade Unique Wax Seal Stickers amormilagre.com
Amor Milagre Handmade Unique Wax Seal Stickers amormilagre.com

Write a letter to family, friends, or yourself with this darling, timeless stationery!

1 Wax Seal, 1 Deckled Edge Notecard 4.125″ X 5.375″  and  1 Matching Envelope 4.375″ X 5.75″.  Colour:  Cream Elegance printed with Colour Ink.  Acid Free, Lignin Free. Thick, heavy 111 lb. card stock with a matte eggshell finish, easy to write on with calligraphy and writing pens and pencil.

I designed this stationery set to be used without the unnecessary papers that usually accompany wax seal stickers.  This way, the cards are indeed Thank You notes for you to send out in gratitude.  When I shop, I’m always aware of the packaging that comes with the order.  My packaging is sustainably sourced/made, and the materials are as minimal as possible, while keeping items safe for their journey to you.

Collect them all! 

Coming Up Next: Special Summer and Autumn Designs

Explore all Wax Seals

 

Music of the Moment:  Georg Mertens

 

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Healthy Lifestyle: Mood Boards & Scrapbooking ~Winter to Spring

 

Amor Milagre Winter 2024-2025 Mood Board
Amor Milagre Winter 2024-2025 Mood Board

Once upon an autumnal day, I made this wintry mood board with the theme, ‘Nurture’.  It encouraged us during our snowy days, including this morning, to stretch, soften, rest, heal, and dream.

Amor Milagre Winter 2025 Mood Board Scrapbook
Amor Milagre Winter 2025 Mood Board Scrapbook

By noon, this helpful aid had been dismantled and carefully arranged into my personal scrapbook to be remembered with tenderness.

Amor Milagre Winter 2025 Mood Board Scrapbook
Amor Milagre Winter 2025 Mood Board Scrapbook

Each page of cosy slumbering rooms and ladies reminds us to be gentle and hibernate when the air turns cold.

Amor Milagre Winter 2025 Mood Board Scrapbook
Amor Milagre Winter 2025 Mood Board Scrapbook

Looking back at this season, I can reconnect to how much we needed rest, rich velvety imagery, candlelight, and soft lush beds to extend hours of sleep upon each night until balance was restored.

Amor Milagre Spring 2025 Mood Board
Amor Milagre Spring 2025 Mood Board

Now bare, the lavender linen board awaits the freshness of spring’s greens and first petals.  Soft layers of ruffled organic cotton pajamas for cosy family game nights and sunny weekend mornings spill out with newly trimmed edges.  First buds, sprouts, and blossoms thrill me.  Lambs are a favourite darling theme, here at Rose Cottage.

The main theme for our upcoming spring this year is still ‘Nurture’, but I’m adding in ‘Harmony’.  Like a spell, you can add in and design your mood board in any way you like.  Sensing it every day, like studying, affects your decisions in a sweet, natural way.  We strengthen, grow in new directions, find the sun again, unravel illnesses, and root down for a deeper balance.  Fresh air and exercise are at the top of the menu, as we’ve been struggling like bulbs striving for real air under a pile of neighbour air/sound/vibration pollution.  We’re seeking out spaces to breathe and grow in strength and beauty.  This is something our entire world needs, too:  Regrowth of Green Goodness and Clean Air, Scented in Petals and Dancing to Songs of Roaming Brooks, untethered by anything causing harm.  It’s time to Live.

Amor Milagre Spring 2025 Mood Board
Amor Milagre Spring 2025 Mood Board

These first blooms now accompany me at my desk whilst new books are edited and lessons are enjoyed.  Our atelier/homeschool library feels more like the melting snowflakes outside the window, soft and dewy.  Soon, green fuzzy leaves will replace the icicles and unfurl exciting adventures with Nature.

I find it comforting to know what we need and to visualize it.  I use this process for designing homes, fashion, and everything really.  It’s fun, so have a go!  Pinterest is a good place to start: save, print, and cut out.  I prefer this screen-free way of manifesting my goals.  The Law of Attraction, and of energy, is very real.  What are you focusing on this season?

Shop Update: I’ll be releasing some sweet baby animal watercolour Art Prints this March.  These children’s book illustrations are featured in my Green Witch Tales series, which is a part of the series The Bewitching Tales of Ellary Eden.  We love these stories!  I hope your little ones do, too!

Until then…

“Dream and Help It Come True!” ~Love, Amor Milagre

 

 

Music of the Moment:  Baby’s sweet singing of scales  “do re mi…”

 

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Atelier Amor Milagre ~Custom Fashion Design Spring Summer 2025

Atelier Amor Milagre Fashion Design Spring Summer Collection 2025 1
Atelier Amor Milagre Fashion Design Spring Summer Collection 2025

How are you on this late February afternoon?

I am excited about a little stack of cloths and ribbons that spark possibilities, floating in the air.

I do love a brown velvet ribbon…there is something very ‘vintage train ride through Europe’ about these streamers of rich hot chocolate…

Now, that our Rose Cottage home and garden renovations are very nearly finished, and our homeschool routine is running smoothly, I’m making time to design and sew quality, cost-sane, beautiful clothing for my seasonal wardrobe.  For this Spring, I’ve sketched out plans to mend my wardrobe gaps where skirts are lacking, blouses and nightgowns could come in very handy, and a painter’s sweater will be used daily.  A general welcome back to thread and needle has been in great need.

Sewing and music pair well together, and they are woven into our homeschool lessons.  I’m showing my family how not to pay inflated designer, and even non-designer, costs for pieces where quality, style, and sustainability are lacking.  There is really nothing out there that I’d like to buy, and nothing is affordable/durable anyways.  (Fashion industry, remember Linings?  Making things to last?  To fit and flatter the body?)  Now, if only more organic non-toxic fabric was more readily available…

I express my dreams in different mediums.  Sewing was one of my first loves.  It’s fun to return to it with more space to explore now.  Sewing knowledge comes in handy for painting fashionable scenes.  Can you see the lace edges and stitches?  How were the subject’s garments made?   My books include tales of the lives of many designers, artists, and…tailors!  I’ll show my finished pieces later on, as I’m taking my time…

Years of sketchbook scribbles and coloured pencil fill-ins are cheering right now, “We’re coming to life!”

Always give your ideas room and time to bloom. 

Wishing you a lovely end-of-winter and new fresh beginnings!

Many more to come… Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

 

Music of the Moment:  Françoise Hardy