Express your admiration, appreciation, and growing love for your Self and your Dear Ones every day of the year. Many new original artwork pieces release this month. Explore all of my loving collections for all ages and stages of life. In our world, a message of love can make all the difference.
Our Rose Cottage sitting room and library renovations are finishing up. As my atelier is now all set up again, all orders will ship quickly as usual. I’ll be painting up new seasonal artwork for our home, and the art prints and stationery for these paintings will be in my shop once finished. We’re loving our rooms and happy to have the new FSC Certified flooring throughout the house as it decreases dust and allergies. It also looks beautiful and is wonderful for dancing. More is coming up. We wish you a lovely Autumn!
New stationery sets will release this September.
The before/after design reveals for our room renovations from the past four years will be posted here over the winter. The house really feels like ours now. Soon, there will be some new reindeer, roses, and landscapes on these plum walls.
My books will soon be featured in many bookshops and libraries nationwide. I will make a stockist page for these venues when ready. You’ll be able to read my books in libraries and purchase them in bookshops all over the USA. I am beginning locally in Maine and New England, and then I’ll branch out. I might do some book signings and readings at local Maine libraries and bookshops. I’ll post about it here if I decide to do public events again. In future seasons, I’ll translate my books into several other languages and braille to sell in worldwide shops. Hardbacks, paperbacks, and audiobooks are available in my shop, as well as matching artwork and stationery. As always, I ship internationally from my online shop. I offer quick shipping options and use responsible materials. All products are ethically made in the USA. In the coming seasons, many new books will be released. I’m very excited to share these new loves! Check back for new treasuries, series, novels, and children’s books.
New: Instagram Shopping Account & Etsy Shop
In the Spring, I deleted my company Instagram account as it wasn’t serving me, but I’ve come up with a plan for my new shop account. It will help you to view and purchase my collections easily. My Instagram name is amormilagre. I am also working on a new Etsy Shop. I started off with Etsy many years ago, and it did well in that creative community. My new Etsy shop will feature a special collection of my art, books, and stationery. Once ready, the link to the new shop will be added to this site.
Today, I’m introducing Hoppy’s New Paperback Option, which is ethically and responsibly Made in the USA. Many more paperbacks will join the hardbacks and audiobooks in my Book Collection each season.
Hoppy Bunny gently teaches little readers how to use alphabet letters to invent nursery games and tell loving, kind stories with friends. Enjoy these sweet watercolour illustrations for a cozy feeling every time you snuggle up to read. Each letter of the alphabet is highlighted in a custom colour for that page.
A classic tale of the beloved toy friends in our Rose Cottage nursery makes for a favourite bedtime comfort. One of the infinite lovely things about children is the way they leave hilarious and darling scenes and surprises around the home. These pages capture a few of those precious moments when I happened upon a nursery story unfolding.
Hoppy Bunny practices mindfulness and shows how to take respectful care of all you have and love. This book was designed for all children, and it is especially inspiring for homeschool students who can use their surroundings and imagination to invent a story land of peaceful messages. Positive self-care practices are included as a loving guide to lead the self on a healthy path for a beautiful life.
A Gentle Life Book Collection: Peaceful, beautiful, healthy inspiration for a Gentle Life. Give the gift of Love & Peace by being Purely You.
Hoppy Bunny Tales #1 Choose printed hardback, paperback, digital audiobook, or add all to read and listen together.
Shop the Hoppy Bunny Collection for Nursery Art Prints & Greeting Cards of these cuddly children’s book illustrations!
Hoppy Bunny Tales #2 is coming up next! Love, ~ Amor Milagre
A cooler week reminds me of my favourites: cosy sweaters, blankets, sitting with the garden, and the little romantic things we love. Here are three ideas to try:
Lasting Impression: When we were first dating, I gave my husband a little card with a unique pink lipstick kiss on it as a valentine. He has kept the card in his wallet ever since…it’s been about a decade. (My Kiss stationery is based on that valentine.)
Kind Gestures: Last night, I looked out of the window and saw my husband with a handful of weeds on his way to the compost area of the garden. Clearing a pathway, doing laundry or dishes, and little helpful things are very sweet gestures that show you care. Giving your beloved the gift of some down time is wonderful!
Little Offerings: Hugs, massages, gentle touches, a delicious lunch, a cup of favourite tea, and loving words are simple, yet impactful, ways to say ‘I adore you.’ We also write out love notes on the bottom of market shopping lists, on corners of the To Do chalkboard, and on my Ethereal Romance Notecards. It is lovely to find an ‘I love you’ at the breakfast table.
Romantic, cosy choices for our home are fun to design. This is a week of new floors and wall painting for two living spaces and the last hook ups for the new kitchen. It will be wallpaper time soon!
Coming in Autumn: Rose Cottage Renovation Home & Garden Design Reveals
The Mini Watercolour Paintings are trickling into the shop. Snap yours up today!
I am of Earth and Air. Trees and stars together. Everything is on one plane, floating, flying…forever moving and evolving. Threads of memory and wind connect all together for all times. These colours are a part of a wide wall of three large paintings that I am making for our sparkling green library. This is where our homeschool and atelier live. Learning one thing opens you up to understand another. Being aware of the endless sea of universes gives you peace, knowing you are a loving part of everything. Respecting the Earth & Air means respecting your own soul. You are a drop of water, you are a wisp of cloud, and you are everywhere. Love to All, ~ Amor Milagre
Visit us again to view the next two pieces for this project, as well as the garden library renovation.
*Art prints for these oil paintings will soon be available to shop.
My newest oil paintings are trickling into the shop. Here is such a one from this past winter-spring. It is a soothing abstract landscape of the wintry beach scene down the lane. Some pieces will have an art print & stationery card option, but some will not. The originals always sell out first. Snap them up quickly as they are affordably priced and one of a kind! Many more original pieces of various sizes and mediums are to come! As our garden grows, so does my art gallery. Each piece is featured in one of my books. New details are coming soon.
Peaceful Art for All Ages and Spaces! Quick International Shipping.
In the evenings, scenes spill out and characters breathe life. Brushes sway and paint glistens in lamplight. A word can change your direction. An image can inspire a change in the wind. A voice can help the universe.
Fellow Authors, your work is powerful. Make it positive. Let’s turn this around and let it all be wonderful and safe. End the violence. Communicate love.
If you can spare any amount, please donate to helpful causes. The women and lost children of the world needed help yesterday. Use your empathy to help others survive. Save lives, prevent trauma and illness, and heal the world’s next generation of people, plants, animals, energy, water, earth, and air for a positive future.
A table of earthy lavender feels real and full. So much of our modern world is fake, in denial, distressing, and all about the intended facade, but plants are usually pretty honest. I relish in the green air of my garden. The buds, the stems, the scents, the textures, and the flavours…
Bundles of twine-tied and dried bedroom bouquets, petals for dollhouse and wardrobe sachets, and savoured preserves for kitchen teatime potions adorn our Rose Cottage rooms this last week of June. Many blooms are left growing for the pollinators.
This spell is a simple one…scatter some seeds…rain…wait…and enjoy as your plants grow more lush every year! New blooms will come back soon after this trim. Our flowers bolted early from spring’s heat waves caused by climate change, and I am learning their new rhythms. Weeks of rain follow none at all, and I am glad we designed a drought-tolerant garden. The wildlife and pollinators adore the various intermingling plants. Glistening wings hover over large patches of colourful petals in a sparkling, humming cloud. Bliss! This is the ‘reality’ we love the most.
Roaming our rambling minty hills, we find inspiration. A handful of mint makes for a refreshing vegan shake. You can also mix the lavender and mint together in a fresh tea infusion to brew up a calming enchantment. Sit in the moment…feel that you are real and full of life! Grow goodness!
*New Green Witch books are coming soon. Check out my Lavender art pieces and books for more fresh air. Be truly you! Love, ~Amor Milagre
Synesthesia often feels painful due to our polluted world. When there is a rare, open, quiet moment I can add some low music to the air and paint the sound energy. This is a truly beautiful release of expression! Let go….. and smile…
The homeschool portfolio has been sent in. The kitchen renovation is wrapping up. This coming year allows for more painting time. New artwork and prints will flow into my shop in the coming seasons. Many new books feature fresh pastel and oil painting illustrations. The oil originals need some drying time before they ship. There are many new ideas and sensations to blend, scrape, and brush onto the patient blank canvases. I’ve been dreaming up stacks of paintings for decades…and now I have my little seasonal painting studio!
How do you love to enjoy your minutes?
*Health Tip for Painters: Don’t just stretch your canvas…stretch yourself! Music also helps to remind you to stretch before and after painting. Dance-painting is needed to reach the span of my larger canvases…and it’s fun! Sing, release, and have a blast connecting with your soul.
Grateful for these few rainy June days to help clear the wild, smokey air. Love to all who are affected by the wildfires.
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.
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.
Silky pink tulips are lovely, romantic, and cheerful for all ages and spaces. Ever so softly, the petals were beginning to fall as I painted them. This spring-inspired piece is a part of the Tulip Series and the Fine Art Flowers Collection. Gorgeous anywhere, especially in a nursery. I priced them to be very affordable for relaxed decorating. Happy Spring! Love, Amor Milagre
Choose: Original Art Piece, Art Print 8X10″, and Greeting Cards
This week, I’m re-introducing my Nursery Animal Art Collection as many new darlings will join these beauties this year. I am selling original watercolour paintings, art prints, and stationery greeting cards. Matching stationery card sets and children’s books will be released, too. I paint the animals’ essence and energy. The animals’ unique traits are clear and can be easily learned by little nature lovers. It is very important to raise awareness for preserving and respecting nature from an early age. Pollution is preventable and so is unnecessary extinction. The awe-inspiring patterns and characters of animals are forever inspiring. Many new little friends will run, hop, and splash into my shop each season. The papers are recycled and FSC Certified. I love to grow my animal family each year. I hope you will enjoy exploring my collections to mix and match the art to create your own unique art gallery and to give as special gifts for dear ones. All ages can enjoy my work, but they are especially sweet in a nursery.
Here are a few of the Best Sellers. One lady framed the leopard for her dining room. Another family bought most of the originals for their baby’s nursery. Many art prints and cards sell individually or grouped with my IllustratedGarden Alphabet Letters. New originals are coming up! Snap them up quickly, but if you don’t it’s ok…the 8X10″ prints are very clear and the ink is quite close to the original colours. I did many tests to make sure the prints were accurate. I prefer originals in our nursery. The Tiger, you see above, I reserved for our home. You may even frame the cards before or after sending to a friend. This week, these loves will run into my book file to join their connective story. Hope you have a good weekend with peaceful rest and wild daydreams.
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
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Shop for All Ages at amormilagre.com
Music of the Moment: Our Love is Here to Stay, Gene Kelly
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.
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.
Cosy up with old world deckled cream notecards & envelopes for rainy days of letter writing to loved ones. Inky cross-hatched imagery of an umbrella, raincoat & hat, rain boots, and a puddle duck encourage the writer and the reader to snuggle in or splash about on rainy days.
A matching children’s book is coming soon!
The feathered, deckled edges are sweet and romantic, the creamy colour is soft and timeless, allowing your messages to be the focus.
Print Books, Audiobook, Nursery Illustration Art Prints, & Greeting Cards
Hoppy Bunny gently teaches little readers how to use alphabet letters to invent nursery games and tell loving, kind stories with friends.Enjoy these sweet watercolour illustrations for a cozy feeling every time you snuggle up to read.Each letter of the alphabet is highlighted in a custom colour for that page.
A classic tale of the beloved toy friends in our Rose Cottage nursery makes for a favourite bedtime comfort.One of the infinite lovely things about children is the way they leave hilarious and darling scenes and surprises around the home.These pages capture a few of those precious moments when I happened upon a nursery story unfolding.
Hoppy Bunny practices mindfulness and shows how to take respectful care of all you have and love.This book was designed for all children, and it is especially inspiring for homeschool students who can use their surroundings and imagination to invent a story land of peaceful messages.Positive self-care practices are included as a loving guide to lead the self on a healthy path for a beautiful life.
I wrote and illustrated this sweet book earlier this year to promote peace for all and to help our empathic family cope with the preventable tragedies in the world. Life is precious and all need to be respected. I hope these pages grow sweetness for you, too.
*A special thank you to my Baby Bunny author/illustrator who helped brainstorm fun ideas, stage, and dress these lovely friends as you see them in the illustrations.
All of my books are for you, my Heart.
Choose Peace. Give Peace. Love, Amor Milagre
Music of the Moment: Baby Lullabies for Toy Friends
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.
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Music of the Moment: Reflecting Light, Sam Phillips