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April: Old-Fashioned Loves

Vegan Apple Pie by Amor Milagre, sugar-free desserts
Vegan Apple Pie by Amor Milagre

There are many ways to enjoy the little moments of each day.  Baking a special treat, such as this apple pie, can be shared piece by piece all week in the evenings.  Reading a longer bedtime story, bit by bit each night, is a fun way to connect not only to the reader and the laugher, but to a healthy tradition of togetherness and dependability.  Getting back to private fun phone calls that only two friends can hear is bliss, unless there is someone listening in then you have to play a few jokes on the eavesdropper.  “Gotcha!”  Remember doing things you actually like to do, things just for you.  This is life.  This is living.  These little moments feel natural and good.  They’re real.  And, then you’ll remember that you are real, too!  Unplug, mill around the house, browse a bookshelf, sit in the fresh air, go for a stroll, and draw out something pleasant for you to breathe into.

 

If you won’t get your lovely eyes offline just yet, you can watch some new SHORTS on my video channel about favourite homeschool books and our April garden blooms and evergreens.  These are some unplugged ideas of how to enjoy your days with self-education and nature-loving gardening.  The nurseries are opening now.  Go out and explore that lovely greenhouse air.  Happy Spring!  Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

 

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Recent Reads: Early Spring

Amor Milagre Early Spring Recent Reads 2026
Amor Milagre Early Spring Recent Reads 2026

Welcome to Early Spring at our Rose Cottage.  It’s still snowing every day, and we cuddle up with tea to read.  Here are a few books from our collection and some from the local library.  It’s fun to find out which ones we love and wish to add to our home library.  We use these for homeschool, too.  My own original Amor Milagre artwork and books are also featured.  The piano song is a melody I made up when little to meditate on during transitional times. This month, the flower bulbs are stretching up to the sun and the snow falls in fluffy clouds.  Follow along with the books we explore each season.  More rainy puddle-splashing reads are coming up soon!  Love, ~Amor Milagre

You can also view another new video for the Art History Books we read each week, here.  It’s in the Shorts section.

 

 

 

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Sunday Morning: Floral Wallpaper in Hallway

Amor Milagre Hallway, Sandberg Bloom Teal Wallpaper
Amor Milagre Hallway, Sandberg Bloom Teal Wallpaper

This Sunday morning, we installed a gorgeous airy floral wallpaper from Sandberg.  Enjoy the process as we talk about how easy and delightful this scent-free sticky back paper is to put up!  Check back for new home renovation diary films and updates about my A Gentle Life Collection of gifts for all ages.  Love, ~Amor Milagre

Art. Books. Stationery. Design.

Interior Design, Featured Artwork, and Film  by:  Amor Milagre

Wallpaper:  Bloom, Colour Teal, by Sandberg

 

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New Seasonal Film: Amor Milagre’s Gift Shop & Home Design

Amor Milagre, I wished for Snow! Happy Holidays!
Amor Milagre, I wished for Snow! Happy Holidays!
Amor Milagre, I wished for Snow! Happy Holidays!
Amor Milagre, I wished for Snow! Happy Holidays!
Amor Milagre, I wished for Snow! Happy Holidays!
Amor Milagre, I wished for Snow! Happy Holidays!

Welcome! Cosy up with a warm drink as I meander down the past decade of home renovations and introduce you to my company, Amor Milagre.  A Gentle Life Collection is full of empowering, sweet, unique, and loving books, artwork, stationery, woodworking, design, and gifts for all ages. I am an artist, author, designer, gardener, and homeschool mother. This first video, organized from spring to winter, is an overview of all of the lovely organic living we do. I hope you enjoy it, and I’ll post again on my new youtube channel soon!

Happy Holidays!  Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

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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