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Ban Fireworks

Ban Fireworks, Redesign Holidays to be Healthy, Amor Milagre Journal
Ban Fireworks, Redesign Holidays to be Healthy, Amor Milagre Journal

 

We suffer through more sleepless nights…all throughout the summer, especially around the dreaded day, the Fourth of July.  Something akin to the inescapable, unnecessary sounds and sensation of war, cannons and gun shots boom and shake our house for hours every night and without warning or an end.  Could it even be so, in this uncertain time?  This simulation of a bombing needs to be banned.  Anyone who has survived any kind of war needs calm healing, not more sense experiences of threats and danger.  Fireworks are highly insensitive and painful on many fronts.

There are more than ten thousand injuries caused by fireworks each year in the US.  Some people even die. Such was the case at last night’s firework show in Michigan.  Property damage occurs as well.  Increased painful hearing issues, migraines, buzzing nerves, PTSD, and no sleep (which causes more illnesses) are our common effects from fireworks, and that is from inside our home with the windows closed. Babies and children are crying in their beds, and their routines are disturbed instantly and for the long-term.  Pollution negatively shapes a baby’s entire lifetime. Sleep-deprived parents, with very early work times, are endlessly working more over time to calm the alarmed little ones while writing emails to town to ban fireworks.  The town never answers us.  They think it is their American right to pollute everyone whenever and however they like, no matter the effects.  Spin-off sound/vibration pollution from random neighbours goes on until early morning with no signs of stopping, despite the curfew.  This, as well as the horrible local gun shots, sound off all year.  Why is this allowed?  Why was this adopted?  Who can change it?  Who will?  When?  We needed it to never happen.  Loud, intense sounds and vibration trigger PTSD, deepen a sense of unsafe conditions, cause illness, prolong insomnia, and prevent healing.  As a young child, I was put on a river boat at night and had to endure being right under the fireworks for a long period of time.  They thought it was a luxury, but it was abuse.  This annual crippling nightmare caused permanent hearing conditions and chronic illness.  All of this is preventable pollution.  Stop the suffering.  Stop endangering whole cities.  Repay our sleep deficit.

To truly celebrate freedom means giving everyone the freedom of quiet peace to sleep and to do as they need, without harming others.  This annual toxic terror needs to stop.  It allows people who already behave disrespectfully to feel free to worsen and cause more havoc.  Give us freedom from pollution instead.  End war and remove symbols of glorifying war.  Free us from your violent mistakes.  Fireworks are also a terrible fire and safety risk, especially during these hot months when wildfires rage and pollute everywhere.  Air pollution is already at a dangerous high.  We don’t need more smoke.

Prevent illness and pain.  Fireworks are cruel to highly sensitive people, all people (whether they are aware or not), and anyone with hyperacusis, migraines, autism, empathic senses, synesthesia, any illness, sleep issues, and hearing or nervous system issues.  Everyone deserves quiet for sleep and personal sense of safety.

STOP!  Just flat out STOP.  Stop assuming people love fireworks.  We don’t.  Pollution is a hate crime against sensitive people, all people, and the Earth.  Positive change is needed.  There are already too many layers of pollution that need to be dismantled and discontinued.  Fireworks need to be extinct.  If you don’t think fireworks are loud, you may be deaf as many people unknowingly are.  The vibration does affect you negatively whether you notice or not.  The make and use of fireworks was never a good idea, and they are not even American.  Research how to safely dispose of fireworks as they are toxic and can cause toxic run off pollution for land/water.  Be considerate and respectful.  Let everyone sleep and heal.

Alternatives to Celebrating Holidays with Fireworks :  Listen to loud heavy metal with headphones for hours-make popcorn-and watch your screen saver explode in spirals (have fun healing that blinding headache, no don’t do that)….or….help someone who needs basic things.  Which one will fill you with a sense of love?  Also, a simple thank you to a person who has worked to do something positive for your country would be a good small way to appreciate how they made a big difference.  Having a quiet day of silence is also a wonderful practice to celebrate holidays.  Meditate peace.  More joy and excitement can come from meditating and resting than from overwhelming the senses with senseless blasts of fire in the air.  Let the birds rest.  Let yourself heal.

I make awareness in my books for replacing toxic traditions with healthy positive ideas.  Sage’s July calendar book page is mostly about this post.  Leona’s town has a lot of seasonal fun, but only in healthy ways.  What else could we enjoy during July?  So many summery things….  What can you think of?  There are endless imaginative ways to spend your holidays without harming others.

Give Peace Today. Make amends for harming the world.  Redesign your calendar to help, not harm.  Wake up to peace, because we’ve been awake for eons…

Wishing for Rain.  Love, Amor Milagre

 

Update:  After years of messaging various towns in Maine about the damages of continued pollution here, we have finally received a response.  No apologies or sign of humanity.  It was an automated response directing us to a page that we had already read.  It briefly shows the town rules and says a town vote would be needed to ban fireworks.  We have written back to them, and all levels of government, about the negative effects of fireworks and have requested a ban.  We’ve also pointed out that the voters would need to be educated on the facts.  As is it now, the vote would not be accurate as the voters are uneducated on this topic and are, like many people, de-sensitized and/or deaf from pollution.  This kind of broken useless loop system, designed to deter anyone in need of change, is in denial and only provides a dead end.

Governments need to wake up to reality before it’s too late for everyone and more large scale damage ensues.  Why isn’t the suffering of an individual enough to stop pollution?  It is a warning that can save others from suffering, too.  Look at reality.  All of the little choices effect the entire world.  It has been happening since the beginning of time.  The damage to us is terrible enough, but they won’t listen.  They hide from responsibility and no matter the issue, they refuse to change.  They have stolen the energy we would need to fight this and many other issues, and that is their plan.  We don’t want to fight anything.  We want to live quietly.  I don’t understand why humans make life as horrific as possible.  After surviving so much, where can one rest?  Where?  We asked the town to change the rules so we’re not being polluted because it’s their job to protect the people in the town.  We already have jobs.  We’re not asking for anything new.  Just stop.  Don’t add more.  Subtract.  Stop doing negative things.  Stop.

Maine is a state that I moved to hoping for peace and quiet, but instead I have had the most shocking danger and illness of my life due to the toxic, dangerous, sexist, stubborn old rules of the people who live here.  And…that is saying something as I have survived many impossibles before coming here.  They don’t care, and certainly not about women.  Now, we are stuck…again.  Does anyone other than us care…anywhere?  What the townspeople, who are our disrespectful pollutive neighbours, don’t grasp is that we haven’t slept due to their pollution.  They don’t even realize the damage it has done to themselves either, such as hearing loss.  We haven’t been able to do our regular routines as we need to, let alone rally an effective peaceful protest that could sway this town’s way of thinking to care about other people.  I send the town information, like this, but we are sick at home and cannot go perform speeches at town meetings.  We support our town by paying taxes, following the rules, buying things, and starting positive community programs for free.  Why can’t they support us by respecting our safety and health boundaries?  Why are fireworks, leaf blowers, gas-powered machines, guns, motorcycles and trucks, chainsaws, and many other pollutive practices not considered a public nuisance that can be reported and fined?  If someone broke into your home and banged pans together over you while you tried to sleep, that would be considered a viable issue.  This is the same, if not much more invasive and damaging.  To have to explain to children that they have no control over pollution and that we have to invent endless creative ways to get by is not right.  The fact that these are the laws of humans is revolting and disparaging.  This contradicts what we teach.  So…we write letters and emails.  This separates us from the town.  We moved here because it seemed like a good family community.  Nope.  Well, at least we have our beloved Nature.  No again.  Not allowed to be in it or enjoy it.  Too much constant pollution.  The humans have devastated our world.  Change it now.  It can be good.  We need nature to heal ourselves from the damage of pollution.  Preserve nature and all in, around, through, and under it.

America wants fighting.  They make you have to fight for your life every day and at every stage.  It is disgusting and damaging, especially when you need dire help.  We are just surviving every day’s endless and layered pollution caused by the town and it’s mismanagement of how people are allowed to behave.  They have taken the beautiful gift of nature and ruined it to the point that sitting in your own home is too painful to bear.  We planted flowers everywhere and cannot sit with them.  It’s too polluted.  Town outtings are rare, brief, and damaging due to pollution that prompts us to have to retreat home.  This is one of the least polluted places.  Think about that.  This pollution occurs every day of the year.  We’ve had to move many times because of this unnecessary pollution to our extreme detriment.  Where can we go?  It has cost us in every way.

*My message to you is:  What you choose to do affects everyone.  Are you helping or harming?  At the very least, be neutral.  No more fighting.  Listen and help everyone to have what they need.  Respect all kinds of people’s needs.  They may be different to yours, but they are equally important.  We need options and the freedom to make our own choices.  Stop forcing pollution into our homes, surrounding us everywhere, and making us ill for the short and long term.  If you think that you’re not affected by pollution, then you are simply in denial and are not aware of the effects.  It is not that you are not sensitive enough to feel it.  You need to wake up to reality and make changes for the better.  Our outer and inner ecosystems need repairing. Prevention, preservation, life cycle redesign, and healing are vitally important for our future.

Now, after another night of fireworks, baby cries, and no sleep, I am even more ill.  Getting everyone back to sleep will take months.  PTSD is quite difficult to counter.  I will leave you to examine the world’s continuation of negative choices and how you can make instant positive changes to improve daily systems and stop dangerous traditions for every neighbourhood and for all people.  We have noticed that just this week a few US towns have banned fireworks for this year due to the threat of wildfires, which is good, but can they be permanently banned everywhere based on all of their negative effects?

What you do matters to everyone around you.  Stop smoking.  Stop sexual violence.  Stop abuse.  Stop fighting, killing, and damaging.  Stop.  Learn how to deal with your mental and physical health in positive, neutral, and peaceful ways.  You can do this.  The world can easily be a safe, wonderful, natural place for everyone…if you can realize it in your choices.

 

 

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Books that Travel Beautifully

Amor Milagre Books that Travel Beautifully
Leona’s Homecoming:  The Love Letter Diaries, The First Year of Seasonal Festivals, 4 Novels Vol. I by Amor Milagre

 

In the pocket of a trusty travel bag fits a delicious novel and a sweet children’s book to savour on a train or plane, in a lamplit inn with the summer breeze kissing your robed cheeks, or swaying on a hammock in your back garden.  ‘Il dolce far niente’ means the sweetness of doing nothing in Italian.  Letting yourself find what you love nourishes and rejuvenates the soul.  My books are for all ages and encourage authentic, kind, peaceful practices and ideas to try.  I love rereading them with our family as I hope you do, too.

In this often chaotic world, I write ways to live beautifully and naturally.  My characters help instead of harm.  They are funny, sweet, thoughtful, and very real.  I send love to anyone who must travel due to emergencies in their homeland.  As I know too well, this kind of travel is not at all relaxing as a vacation would be.  People leave to save their lives.  They are trying to escape danger.  All they had built is left behind, and they have to start over, usually with nothing.  This is heartbreaking and incredibly dangerous.  Precautions and safe help are urgently needed during times of war, natural disasters, and abuse.  Every country must protect the rights of women and children.  Re-abolish slavery for good.  Replace the history of negativity with positive growth that benefits everyone.  New beginnings are a chance to redesign for a better life.  Although we all may miss precious things that were lost due to trauma, we can heal and rebuild a healthy future to keep all of the babies of the world safe.  Peace is possible if we all choose it.

I include tragic misfortunes and terrible struggles in my books, but I paint up characters who help those in need of a positive solution to solve troubles that seem out of their control.  There are too many large and small scale problems on every street and hill in the world.  I write peaceful ideas in the hope that positivity will spread down those streets and over those hills to reach anyone who needs help the most.  Any little bit of help can make the most important difference for one or many.  I wish you a peaceful summer, and I urge everyone to do something that helps someone in the coming months. *Ask how you may help, and then listen.  Work with people to solve and prevent problems.  Ask if you did help, and listen again.  Repeat forever.

I am working on a way for a percentage of each sale to be donated to an organization that directly aids those in need of help while searching for a safe, new home.  Being forced to live a nomadic, uncertain life is cruel, dangerous, and terrifying.  We all need a steady, safe home.  We all can work together to help everyone have this basic need.  Our world must get out of this constant survival mode and change into a deep, lasting time of healing.  Equality and safety is needed worldwide.

Amor Milagre Books that Travel Beautifully

In my gift shop, I also feature artwork and photography inspired by my travels.  Nature adores us always…trailing all the way from a rose wall in Tuscany back home to a sweet rose blooming in our New England cottage garden.  Help, don’t harm.  Preserve nature.  Enjoy your unique senses of nature.

 

Shop:  A Gentle Life Collection

Books Sizes/Types:  Digital Audio, Hardback Pocket, Digest, Square, (Paperbacks are Coming Soon)

 

My books are cosy to read, or listen to, when at home, on a work break or weekend, and while travelling.  Many of my stories are set in New England, such as my Sage Rose Sorrel children’s books, but here are some others that you might love to tag along with as my characters explore new favourite places.

Amaranthe tells of living in NYC and France.  Leona has lived in two homes in Italy:  one by the mountains and one by the sea.  Ellary Eden grows a helpful, enchanting garden in the Witching World!  I have just finished three fresh novels for you to explore soon.  There is one especially delicious new book that is set in Belgium!  Every time you explore a new place, you learn so much for your life ahead.

Happy, safe travels to you!  Love, Amor Milagre

 

 

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Spring Gift Basket Sale! Art, Books, Stationery

Amor Milagre A Gentle Life Collection Art Books Stationery Design

I write book characters that you will simply adore forever…and a day…

To help you fall in love with all of these wonderful people, and to write your own love story, I’m having a Spring Sale!

Save 15% on all collections with code: NATURELOVER (Sale Ends March 20, 2023)

We love gardening and planting seeds. My books, art, and stationery sparkle in the light of my muse, Nature. Children and parents love these sweet, imaginative stories of nature. Order your special gifts now so they may be ready for your spring baskets. Let’s plant seeds of wonderful energy.

Love to all, ~ Amor Milagre

A Gentle Life Collection
Art  Books  Stationery  Design

Shop for All Ages at amormilagre.com

 

Music of the Moment:  Our Love is Here to Stay, Gene Kelly

 

 

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Holiday Sale! Unique Gifts of Love & Peace

Amor Milagre Holiday Sale! Save 20% off total order with checkout code: PEACE. amormilagre.com

Happy Holiday Sale

Shop my entire collection of unique, loving gifts for all ages.

Save 20% off total order with checkout code: PEACE
at amormilagre.com (Offer expires 12-15-22)

A Gentle Life Collection
Original Books, Art, Stationery, Flower Seeds,

and more empathic gifts to inspire love and positivity.

Quick shipping from New England, USA.

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Dancing Queen Chess Lovers Deckled Edge Notecard

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Shop this New Notecard

Our little family loves to play games…especially chess!  Do you love games, too?

Years ago, I made a drawing of a chess piece whilst on a train to Paris.  Recently, I wandered back in time through my travelling pink pocket sketchbook, and when I gently turned the page, a little dancer leaped out onto a sweet deckled notecard for you to send to a friend.  This cheeky, yet empowering, Queen inspires a joyful energy for improving the mind.  She reminds us that games are a wonderful way to spend time together.  Happy Playtime!  Love, Amor Milagre

The feathered, deckled edges are sweet and romantic, the creamy colour is soft and timeless, allowing your messages to be the focus.

Dancing Queen Chess Lovers Deckled Edge Notecard

 

 

 

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Cosy Winter Days Stationery Set

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Cosy Winter Days Deckled Edge Notecard Set

$16.50 amormilagre.com

Snuggle up with old world deckled cream notecards & envelopes for cosy winter days of letter writing to loved ones.  Inky cross-hatched imagery of a velvety fluffy reindeer, a snow laden evergreen tree, Santa’s sleigh with a hot cocoa, Nordic style knit hat and mittens, and a garland of wintry natural foliage with a shining candle inspires a loving holiday spirit for all to warm by.

The feathered, deckled edges are sweet and romantic, the creamy colour is soft and timeless, allowing your messages to be the focus.

This set includes 5 notecards & 5 envelopes.   A matching novel is coming soon.

Happy Holidays! Love, Amor Milagre

Cosy Winter Days Deckled Edge Notecard Set

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Bewitching Autumn Gifts of Art, Books, & Stationery

Happy Autumn, my Darlings!

Here are a few of the items in my shop that I know you will just fall in love with

during this magical time of the year… including a new bewitching notecard set.

Stay well and cosy,

Love Amor Milagre

Autumn Witch Deckled Edge Notecard Set

 

“Ellary’s Sick Witch Soup” Children’s Book

 

Leona’s Homecoming, The Love Letter Diaries #1-4 Vol.I

 

Kabira Bunny “Hoppy Halloween” Greeting Card

Custom Golden Illustrated Garden Alphabet Letter Art

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New Book Sizes: Sage’s Year in Nature

Amor Milagre Sage's Year in Nature Children's Book Square Size Release 20

Sage’s Year in Nature

A nature-inspired children’s book by Amor Milagre now comes in a new size!

Choose: Small Square and/or Mini Pocket.
Both Hardback sizes are now available in my shop and on Amazon.

Audiobooks are also available in my shop.  

Calendars featuring this book’s illustrations are coming up next…

Enjoy every season with Nature!

Love, Amor Milagre

 

Music of the Moment:  Mazzy Star

 

 

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Valentine: Romance is Awareness

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Romance is Awareness

Knowing yourself and knowing your Dear Ones is true romance!  You can feel it in a smile, a laugh, and in all of your senses!  Happy Love Day!  Practice peace, choose peace, give peace.  Help don’t harm.  Love,  ~ Amor Milagre

Leona’s Homecoming is a beautiful growing story.  Vol. II will release soon with a new year of seasonal love for all!  Natural beauty is a joy forever.  We love these garden memories for the home. Mix and match lovely photography and art collections for your own unique gallery wall! Nature inside and out.

A Gentle Life Bookshop and Art Gallery

Happy Valentine’s Day!

 

Music of the Moment:  Reflecting Light, Sam Phillips

 

 

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Be My Valentine Sale

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I adore Valentine’s Day because it is one more day to celebrate all of the many and wonderful kinds of love from the self and out into the universe.

New nature-loving collections are in the works…to share with you soon!  Happy Loving, darlings!  xo ~ Amor Milagre

 

Spread the Love Sale! Save 15% at Checkout with Code: VALENTINE

A Gift Guide for All Ages!

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Music of the Moment:  Nice to Come Home, Julie Doiron

 

 

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Apple Orchard Collection Nature Photography

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Orchard Collection

A wander in this dreamy New England apple orchard inspires a fresh natural day!
Choose from a variety of moods and hues to complement any space for all ages.

A Gentle Life Photography Collection by Amor Milagre

45 pieces are now available.

This original series will venture out each season, and your dwelling will grow in a natural beauty and awareness to adore, encourage, nurture, and preserve nature.

Frame Ready Art Prints & Charming Greeting Cards

 

 

Music of the Moment:  The Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra of Bela Babai Violin Solo

 

 

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Peaceful Holiday Gift Sale

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Happy Holiday Sale!

Give the gift of healing and peace this holiday season by being purely and lovingly you!

Shop Amor Milagre for unique gifts that are ethically made with positive energy and inspiration for a healthy, gentle life!

Original Books, Art, Stationery, Design, Nature Photography, and more!

Save 15% at Checkout with Code: PEACE

 

 

Music of the Moment:  Our Homemade Holiday Songs

 

 

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Early Bird Holiday Autumn Sale!

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I love making & buying gifts early so I can relax into the new season of fun traditions and nature’s adventures.  Autumn is slowly turning our garden to gold, and we begin our celebrations.

Most of my ethically made collection is handmade/printed to order and ready to ship right over to you.

The FSC Certified books are ordered in small batches as a part of a zero-waste process.  When stock runs low for the books during this time of year, it takes ~3 weeks to restock, so please try to order your books now to ensure enough time.  *Please email all personalized inscription messages (with correct spelling) at the time of your order.

To help out with your darling gift giving:

Save 15% off All Orders with Checkout Code: EARLYBIRD for Sweet Gifts in time for the Holidays!  Sale Ends 9-20-21

Shop for Unique, Peaceful Gifts:  A Gentle Life Collection

Keep the Season with my Empathic, Nature-Inspired:  Books, Art, Stationery, and Design! 

 

Music of the Moment:  Come On A My House, Della Reese

 

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“Sage’s Year in Nature” Children’s Book

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Sage’s Year in Nature

Shop this Children’s Book

A sweet nature-loving children’s book about growing healthy seasonal memories and routines, organic plant-based foods from the garden, and parent & child harmony.

“What do we do all year?” Sage asks Mamma one morning over breakfast.  Snapshots and poems from each month are shared to inspire all to get out and explore Nature’s beautiful and peaceful seasons, senses, and delights!

Helpful Homeschool & Pandemic Stay Home Ideas for a safe, healthy, natural lifestyle.  Live in the moment & keep the season!

The story begins with Sage as a 5 year old and ends with her turning six.  Find out which month is her birthday!  Read along with the other books in this original series as she grows in love.  Enjoy the fresh, beautiful watercolour illustrations for a cozy feeling each time you snuggle up to read.

A Gentle Life Book Collection: Peaceful, beautiful, healthy inspiration for a Gentle Life.  Take our books with you everywhere you go.  Give the gift of Love & Peace by being Purely You.

The Chronicles of Sage Rose Sorrel #5.  Choose printed hardback, digital audiobook, or add both to read and listen together.  (A larger, digest size hardback will be also available to purchase soon.)

 

Music of the Moment:  Linden Lea, Johnny Flynn

 

 

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Happy Mother’s Day Sale!

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Happy Mother’s Day!

  Give gifts of love for all of the mothers in your life!  Save 15% at checkout with code: MAMMA

All collections are designed to encourage harmony and soul connection for Mother & Child and Mother Nature.

From decorating your interiors with art and design to decorating your mindful thoughts with new love stories, my shop is ready to hug you up and translate Nature’s love into your daily life.

New children’s books & novels will be released soon!  My stories inspire love for all ages.  A love that is always there, ready to be embraced.  Reading is a wonderful way to spend time together, and to open your soul to new beginnings.  Being a mother is the most amazing gift.

Be kind to your Self and be good to all!   Love, Amor Milagre

Shop A Gentle Life Collection

 

Music of the Moment:  My Blue Heaven, The Smashing Pumpkins

 

 

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Enchanted Garden: Amor Milagre Spring Collection 2021

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Enchanted Garden

Spring Collection 2021

Each wave and petal connect with the soul, every breeze and bird song are adored.

Inspired by Nature, my ever-growing collections share love for all!  

Plant seeds of goodness all around you!

Original artwork, photography, books, stationery, and many more unique gifts are expressed with empathy and positive energy.

New gifts for your Darling Self & for Dear Ones are added in weekly!

Spring Gifts for: Birthdays, Easter, Spring, Anniversaries, Wedding, New Baby, May Day, Whole Health & Wellness, Spring Refresh, New Home & Garden, and every day!

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A Gentle Life Collection

 

 

Music of the Moment:  Dirty Three, Ocean Songs

 

 

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Happy New Year 2021

Illustrated Garden Alphabet Letters Custom Golden Amor Milagre amormilagre.com

Let us paint peace for 2021 with a kind brush and sweet golden paint that kisses and hugs each soul’s energy as we dance across the page of each day.  

Happy New Year, Dear 2021, for you are full of possible positive changes and peaceful dreams for all.

xo,

Amor Milagre

 

Music of the Moment:  A Kiss to Build A Dream On, Louis Armstrong