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Healthy Artist: Original Non-Toxic Paintings

Amor Milagre Original Paintings for Sale, Non-Toxic Ethically-Made Artwork amormilagre.com
Amor Milagre Original Paintings for Sale, Non-Toxic Ethically-Made Artwork amormilagre.com

 

The importance of making/choosing non-toxic & ethically responsible art materials/supplies means health for: the artist, the framer, the customer, those in the artwork’s new home, and the earth.

Today, I’m varnishing some oil paintings for my shop.  This is a lavender varnish.  No carcinogens!  My lungs don’t instantly collapse when using it, but it’s not as great as it could be.  I still wear a mask and gloves.  A while back, I happily switched over to FSC Certified non-toxic art supplies as the old ‘classic’ ones impaired my health. I also choose these healthy options for you! I do think that the makers of art supplies could do even more to help us all to be healthy art lovers.

Years ago, (before my decades-long non-voluntary social hibernation and severe illness due to the world’s pollution/abuse), my artwork would sell quickly.  This was way before the pandemic, so I’m used to the hermit life.  Most highly sensitive people, and those with chronic illness, have to be so until the world collectively chooses peace and non-pollutive lifestyles. Often, my pieces sold before I finished them, varnished any oils, or even got to take pictures.  This is the first time that I’ve varnished my oils, and I’m glad that there are better options now.  My watercolour paints have also been replaced with non-toxic options.  The oils and cleaners have been changed, too.  I am a lie detector for chemicals.  I can tell if something is harmful right away.  Chemicals are painful for everyone.  You just might not realize it instantly, but your health will deteriorate with exposure.   All of my papers and canvases are at minimum FSC Certified, including my stationery and art print papers.  There was a time when I had set up a silkscreening studio.  I was making my own recycled paper and using eco-safe inks and organic cotton tees (made in the USA).  I’ve always been choosing the healthiest, most local, most sustainable options.   When I cannot find what I need, I make my own.  This was before it was a trend, and when customers would complain about the slightly higher prices.  I try to keep prices low, despite the high costs of our modern world.  The standard needs to be health first and affordability.  I don’t believe in suffering for art or charging millions.

Note to Art Supply Companies:  please keep going in the green direction.  Artists need to be free to express…without our health/life being repressed.  All paints, pastels, clay, brushes, and papers need to be helpful, not harmful to us, the soil, the water, the air, and the trees.  We all deserve good health.  Where the wood of your pencil comes from matters.  Is it from a sustainably, responsibly managed forest?  Our hands and lungs need gentle materials, not damaging ones.  This is especially important for children’s art supplies.  Start us all out right.  We want to be making art…every day…for years and decades…and lifetimes.  It’s what we do.

Now, to paint up some new loves!

All of my artwork is featured in my various novels and children’s books.  I have some exciting new stories and art to release soon.  Happy Healthy Autumn!   Choose wellness.  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

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Interior Design & Shop Update

Amor Milagre Interior Design and Romantic Sitting Room Renovation
Amor Milagre Interior Design and Romantic Sitting Room Renovation

 

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.

Romantic and sensitive design by Amor Milagre

Shop:  A Gentle Life Collection

 

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Awareness: Support Local Women’s Businesses

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design

A reminder to be truly helpful.

Supporting: Women-owned businesses, local businesses, ethical businesses, family businesses, and all movements for positive change only works if we are supported in the reality of people’s daily choices. Our town claims to do this, but in reality…they don’t.  It’s not a sustainable, friendly place as it claims to be.  I’ve lived in Maine for over twelve years, and it hasn’t improved.  It’s tragic because the natural features, if unpolluted, would be glorious to be around.  The pollution and prejudice has increased.  Most places are like this now.  Why? Caring about our world feels good. Everyone can care. It’s easy. It’s a choice.

Words are a good place to start, but peaceful actions that show your true support make the ideas meaningful.

My work is rooted in the knowledge that if one person is helped, we all are helped because we are connected.  I build my company to be a sustaining, creative, safe haven for my family’s present and future.  Support us by shopping my ethically handmade original collections.

It’s beyond the time for making the ‘revolutions’ for peace actually mean something locally and globally. Make it easier for all of us who work endlessly to make positive changes for our world. Our children deserve a safe, healthy world. Girls and women need an immensely safer, equal world.

Peace is possible. Honesty is vital.  Do the world’s actions match their words?

Support peacemakers. Support women, equality, local, nature, and positive change. Mean what you claim to be for… Choose to live real positive change.  Choose peace.

Amor Milagre Peaceful Pond Oil Painting, Healing Waters, Art Prints, Cards amormilagre.com
Amor Milagre Peaceful Pond Oil Painting Healing Waters, Original Art, Art Prints, & Stationery Cards.  This painting leaves out the sound/air pollution  that permeates this beautiful spot.  Pollution is preventable.  Preserve nature.

 

Making daily choices to support local women’s family businesses that encourage positive change helps the world to be a safer, healthier place for all.

Shop: A Gentle Life Collection

 

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Shipping Update & Renovations

Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.
Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.  One piece at a time!

 

Shipping Update: As we are renovating my atelier (and this sitting room) this week, all new custom orders will ship a few weeks later, but all in stock pieces will still ship quickly as per usual.

Thank you for your patience. So excited for these design reveals! ✨ Coming up this autumn…

Love, ~ Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.
Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.  Cork underlayment for joint health.

 

Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.
Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.  Sort first by size and use in a pattern.

 

Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.
Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.

 

 

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Amor Milagre News: Bookshop and Company

Amor Milagre Book Signing Day. Hoppy Bunny Tales #1 Children's Book
Amor Milagre Book Signing Day!  Hoppy Bunny Tales #1 Children’s Book.  View this Book!

 

More Ways to Shop Amor Milagre:

 

A Gentle Life Bookshop

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.

Amor Milagre Book Signing Day. Hoppy Bunny Tales #1 Children's Book
Amor Milagre Book Signing Day. Hoppy Bunny Tales #1 Children’s Book.

 

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.

To view my entire growing collection, please Shop A Gentle Life Collection

New original pastel and watercolour artwork pieces are releasing this week!

Amor Milagre Minis #15 Watercolour Paintings Golden & Earthen Original Art 1
Amor Milagre Minis #15 Watercolour Paintings Golden & Earthen Original Art.  Shop this new piece. 
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Evening Kitchen Dancing

Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.  After/during the dance:  licorice tea.

Do you dance?

I love dancing, playing piano and guitar, and singing…and after you haven’t had them near in ages, it’s all the more beautiful.  Even without the floor and keys, even without a voice, the mind can play any time or place.  Use the air.  Imagine it.  Nothing planned, no steps or sheets to follow, just play.  Hear the notes?  Feel the movement?  Ramble along, wander, get lost in the senses of them entangling together…

Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.  Nightgowns are my favourite dancewear. Never pointe…but a safe balance of ballet and yoga…just dance barefoot.  Our new cosy mats and runner rug all layered up feel cushioned and healthy for plies, cat/cows, and cooking/dishes, too.  Stretch….and feel better…feel the vibration of the piano and violin strings…so alive…

 

Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.  Evening is a glorious moment.  Peace.

 

Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.  Getting tomorrow’s cooks ready and dreaming up new oil paintings for large wall spaces in this new cottage kitchen.  Prints of these paintings will be in my shop once made.

 

Now that we have finished our new kitchen, I continue my evenings of dancing there, with a farmhouse sink ledge for a barre, moving towards the soft notes and crickets.

I found some soothing piano by Joep Beving to add to my favourites.  Hope you enjoy it, too!

Stretch, breathe, slowly strengthen, and feel…lovely.  ~Amor Milagre

 

Morning Baby Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Morning Baby Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.

And dance again in the morning sunlight with the babies…

 

 

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Miniviews in the Garden

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  It’s snowing…

 

This morning’s Miniview answers a mix of some of your questions.  They were the one-of-a-kinds, so I’ve grouped them together here.  I will post another to answer one specific question soon.

Amor MilagreGarden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  Soft cheeks, so kissable.   Heavenly scented rose blooms…

 

Q:  You mention the word ‘hope’ a lot in your books.  How do you sustain hope during these uncertain times?

A:  Yes, I love the word hope.  To me, it means a possibility that we can choose and allow good energy to live, thrive, and spread.  Hope isn’t a mere wish or just an idea.  Hope indicates that peace is always there.  We just need to choose it.  Awareness and helpfulness are ways that hope blooms into a wonderful daily reality.  Dream it and help it come true.

 

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  Can you reach me?

 

Q:  When will The Love Letter Diaries books be available in audio?  Love the books, but also want to listen in the car on the way to work.  So calming.  Can’t wait for the next volume!!!

A:  Thank you!  All of my books have the audio option so far, except the Leona books as they are the longest.  I am still editing those files, and I will have that series available as a digital download audio option this winter at the latest.  Thank you!  They are my favourites as well.

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  As the blueberries fade out, the blackberries ripen.  Everyone is young once.

 

Q:  Are you still making organic cotton clothes?  I’ve worn out that dress you made for me years ago.  The cream one with the embroidery on the hem.  We have some baby showers coming up and need more of those tiny outfits.  Are you doing custom clothing orders still?  I couldn’t find the option in your shop.

A:  Thanks!  Those were fun to make.  I have sold out of that collection of the little suits and dresses, but a few graphic toddler tees are still available.  I plan on releasing some new organic apparel collections after our atelier renovations are finished.  I do have magical nursery artwork, stationery, and sweet children’s books available.  They’re wonderful as gifts, and I can write a custom inscription, if you like.  Message me!  Thanks, Hannah.  I do remember that dress!

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  Party skirts sway in the breeze…

 

Q:  Who are the artists that work for you?  I like the varied styles, but I cannot find their names.  Can I order a custom size?  I’m interested in the person who does the pastels.

A:  Thank you, but it’s all done by me, Emmanuelle, aka Amor Milagre.  I am the original and authentic maker of my collections and I sign all of my artwork and books for each order.  Depending on my mood, and the medium, the pieces may look a little different.  I don’t believe an artist is limited to one look, style, or medium.  Charcoal drawings have a different energy than landscape oils.  You move differently with a special posture and time for each, but they all build on one another.  The same goes for books, music, sewing, home design, dance, and photographs.  I like to explore different forms of expression.  It’s just what comes out in that moment.  What does your soul need?  How?  They are all connected though, by me.  Yes, please message me for your specific custom sizes.  Over the years, I’ve made tiny to gigantic pieces.  I have many new pieces coming up!  Thank you.

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  A sea of fern waves…

 

Q:  How can I apply to work for your company?  I am an art teacher, and I’m interested in what you are doing.  Are you still holding classes?  If so, I’m interested.  I’m a bit rusty.

A:  Thank you, but at this time, it’s just me.  I have postponed all Amor Milagre classes and clubs until the pandemic is actually over.  I might do a collection of video classes later on that customers can purchase in my shop.   I was the only teacher when I held my classes, and I’m the only person in my company.  I do all of the different stages of work for my company.  I have plans for expanding my online shop to include a local New England shop later on.  I’ll email you then.

As for the rusty part:  Practice drawing every day.  Begin again…as if you didn’t know any techniques or any art history.  Use big, sweeping gestures to loosen up.  Relax your wrist.  Don’t think.  Feel it, use your senses and intuition, let go of all expectations, and express… Use nature as your forever model and meditate there.  (These are some of the things that I teach in my classes for all ages/levels.)

I encourage you to explore what you could offer in your own potential business.  You can also teach online, make process/demo videos, sell your art, and teach/volunteer locally.  Community centers and children/adults everywhere need good safe teachers.  Building up a community of inspiring teachers and thriving students is important.  Get involved in community projects…or start new ones.  Support the arts.  Thanks for your interest!

*This answer is also meant for any college students who asked if they could intern with me.  We’ve been self-isolating to stay healthy, sorry!  Hope you find that right fit for your credits.  I know it’s not always easy to find.  Stay safe!

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  Dancers point toes to the sky!

 

I will answer more of your thoughtful questions later on in another one of my Miniviews (Mini Interviews).

In the meantime…

*Express yourself, paint with plants, and adore all of yourself.  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

 

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Café Amor Milagre: Sensitive Kitchen & Recipe Design

Cafe Amor Milagre Writing Spot Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Cafe Amor Milagre Writing Spot Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation

A story as delicious as a good dinner…  In my original plans for my company, I designed Café Amor Milagre.  The idea is a plant-based, vegan, organic, European peasant-style, garden-fresh café to accompany my shop.  As my store is online, my upcoming cookbooks will teach how to bring our kitchen to yours with simply delicious recipes.  We adore this custom home café that we have nearly finished building at our Rose Cottage.  I’ll keep my original company plans, perhaps to open up later on down the road.  The world can really use more of this type of dining.  We never eat out, so we made our own restaurant at home, growing plants in the garden for our daily food.

I love to lounge by our grand new windows that look onto the morning’s dewy flowers and herbs, write a new story, share a funny teatime with my family, and dream in the evening sconce lamplight.  Simple peaceful pleasures build up a beautiful life…and story.  I’ve written so many books this summer, and every day there are three more.  Now, I just have to catch up on printing them all so you can enjoy them, too!  I’m out of ink and journals, and my poor hand needs a break.  But then, oh!

I will publish more treasury compilation-style books going forward as printing costs are high.  My shop uses sustainable materials, which do cost more for me, but the preservation of nature is vital.  In general, the cost of everything now is quite high.  I design my products to be as affordable as possible.  I don’t believe that high prices elevate works of art.  I believe in equality.  In making affordable collections, everyone is invited.  With treasury books, my readers can enjoy many stories within one book.  Quick, connected readers will really appreciate this type of book.  Reread these new classics over again.  This will be the new format for some of the children’s book collections and the Self-Health Novelettes.  I do have some books that I’ll release on their own as they have specific illustration designs that need a certain book shape or size.  Some novels, like The Love Letter Diaries, already contain four seasonal books within one volume.  I will keep that style for the second year/volume of that series.

As our renovations wind down, I will release many new artwork and stationery pieces and collections.  If only the computers could keep up with my brain, I’d be all caught up.  That is my process though…true thought and handmade creative works, inspired by nature.  Cherish the real, the natural, yourself.

Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Kitchen
Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Kitchen

 

Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Kitchen
Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Kitchen

Children’s meals are easy to assemble and beautiful with whole foods, such as these nuts.  I love how the walnuts look like owls.  The senses relish in the shapes, scents, textures, flavours, and colours of natural plant foods.  Let children design their own lunch and flavour combinations.  Little chefs always come up with something we haven’t tried yet!

Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation

Design Tip for A Calming Space:  If you group ‘like’ items, or items that you use together, on a tray then the visual clutter goes away and you have a sensually pleasing atmosphere.  Store unneeded items out of sight.  Have a focal point, and let it be useful.  Try it in any room.  Do you feel more relaxed?

Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation

What is a soup?  Easy.  Add fresh vegetables to a pot, add some spices, add water.  Cook.  Enjoy!  (My cookbooks include a few more details, but try it!)  Last evening, I wrote a story near a simmering tomato fennel soup.  Our custom kitchen design was intended for just this moment.  For this one, I will puree it.  For our regular weekly recipe, we don’t.  These simply nourishing soups are versatile and help sustain your week.  Delicious recipes, such as these, are featured in my upcoming vegan, organic, sugar-free cookbook.  Enjoy soup every day of the year to boost health and relax, knowing that you always have a good dinner waiting for you!

Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation.  A New Kitchen-Warming Gift from my husband!  This pot has locking safety handles and a strainer lid option.  It’s just the right size for most of our recipes, but it uses more storage space with the handles.  Overall it’s a great green design, but next time remove the click handle sound.  We understand how to use it.  Cooking designs can be made much quieter.

 

I love gentle rain showers and slow cooks.  If a recipe is going to take a while, it can do it on its own.  We’re quite busy, so minimal steps and a house filled with a gorgeous subtle scent is my design.  The buzzing machines that I do not love do not live in our kitchen.  They live on the other side of the door, in the pantry.  We also made sure to research the quietest ones.  The pantry, mudroom, and a full bath/laundry room are our next renovation projects to finish this fall/winter.  Yes, every inch of the house and gardens…  Sensitive design considers your whole health and how the senses work.  I design to keep and boost energy, not zap it away.  Even our clocks don’t tick, and why should they?  Check back to see how we have done this to our entire Rose Cottage.

I’m happy that we are finishing up our last rooms.  We deserve a break to watch the flowers grow and have little dates in our cosy café.  Last night, we had a half-date half-measuring party.  Just us two…and I do love it when my husband says…”I have a design question for you.”  Get out the pencil and paper…let’s figure it out.  Can you tell that we like a bit of a puzzle?

If your children need something to do this weekend, consider a little scavenger hunt with clues on notepaper leading to a surprise..or even just to breakfast!  Our family loves to do things like this.  The mind loves to learn and be useful.  Recipes are a versatile way to keep your senses moving.  Growing and preparing organic food is a wonderful puzzle to practice.

Love, ~ Amor Milagre

Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation

 

 

 

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“The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends” Children’s Book

Amor Milagre The ABC's of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends Children's Book
Amor Milagre The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends Children’s Book

“The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends” Children’s Book

 Shop Now $3.50 – $22.00

A Gentle Life Collection by Amor Milagre

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.

Amor Milagre Bookshop The ABC's of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends 1
Amor Milagre Bookshop The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends:  Paperback, Hardback, Audiobook

 

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

Amor Milagre Bookshop The ABC's of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends 1
Amor Milagre Bookshop The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends, Lovely Design for the Home & Nursery

 

 

 

 

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Three Romantic Things

Amor Milagre Romantic Interior Design & Healthy Lifestyle
Amor Milagre Romantic Interior Design & Healthy Lifestyle

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:

  1. 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.)
  2. 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!
  3. 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.
Amor Milagre Romantic Interior Design & Healthy Lifestyle
Amor Milagre Romantic Interior Design & Healthy Lifestyle- Rainy Summer Day

 

Amor Milagre Romantic Interior Design & Healthy Lifestyle
Amor Milagre Romantic Interior Design & Healthy Lifestyle

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

 

Amor Milagre Minis #20 Watercolour Paintings Golden & Earthen Original Art
Amor Milagre Minis #20 Watercolour Paintings Golden & Earthen Original Art

The Mini Watercolour Paintings are trickling into the shop.  Snap yours up today!

 

 

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Art Copyright & AI Awareness: Don’t Wait 200 Years…

No Theft

In a digital world that has become an endless junk drawer, full of pirating thieves, it’s important to be aware that any true creative expression is a rare gem.  These rarities are to be respected and only associated with the origin maker.

Our homeschool art history lessons are filled with sad struggles of unique artists.  The artists were too often stomped on by the masses of uncreatives who didn’t have the artist’s refreshing viewpoint.  It takes the humans too long to appreciate us, the true artists of the world.  Do not wait 200 years to read my books and consider them to be a valuable inspiration for your daily lives, your peace, and your soul.  You harm most of us when we’re alive, reduce us to poverty, disrespect our high intelligence and skill, and often worse.  How many artists have had to scrape by, trying to live off of their pen, brush, and voice?  How many terrible people have made wealth off of creatives, only to leave them with a tiny fraction of their earnings, if any?  How many have stolen their ideas in the hopes of fame for themselves?  This constant violation of revolutionary thinkers and feelers needs to stop.  Real laws need to be put into place and enforced for copyright infringement.  All platforms must abide by rules that protect the originals.  Piracy of all types has been an age old terror, has increased in modern digital forms, and must be stopped.  It is only getting worse since AI and the delusional idea that everyone is famous from social media.  Fame is not real or meaningful.  Honesty, authenticity, integrity, original thought, and hard work are meaningful.  What you ingest means something.  Would you rather garbage or fresh air?  Would you rather a subpar fake or the real miracle?  Would you rather leave feeling sick or inspired to do something wonderful in your own way for your own life?  People get confused when they feel a connection.  They think that they must own it, control it, and take it over.  Why?  How?  Just smile and say thank you.  If you admire someone’s work, donate money to them so that they can make more little miracles to share with the world.

The content thieves are insulting and criminal.  Their theft is a violation of our original thoughts and expressions because what we do is made of us.  You cannot copy-paste a soul.  You cannot steal our minds, emotions, and the culmination of every second of our lives.  You have no right to a creative’s work.  You are the observer.  You may listen and dance to our songs, admire our art in your home or in galleries, and be inspired to do good things from my peaceful stories.  You may not select all, copy, paste, change a word, and sell under some other name.  Piracy is a crime.  It is illegal.  Plagiarism and content theft are crimes.  Copyright infringement is real.  You are not allowed to make quick money off of other people’s work.

The theft of old stories sickens me too, especially because the modern humans haven’t learned more than those of past centuries.  They have frozen themselves in the pain inflicted by every generation of humans.  New stories are just old ones, stuck in anti-feminist times, mash-ups or verbatim, regurgitating unhealthy formulas that set the rule for all of the modern movies, music, and books today.  My work breaks free of that formula and my ideas are my own.  If you knew my story, you’d know that there are no influences.  My ideas are mine.

It saddens me deeply to see old artwork being auctioned off for millions when, at the time it was made, no one would buy it for even a small amount, reducing the artist to suffering, illness, and pain.  Many of my past lives speak to me about this very often.  Artists, in general, are already living on the outside of society, though we are mirrors of its beating heart, shedding light and positive possibilities for the future.  Our sensitive awareness is a gift for the world.  Will they listen?  Not likely.  We’re only sometimes acknowledged and guessed at centuries later, made ‘brilliant’ or ‘genius’ by people who know nothing about us or our work.  Inaccurate tags in museums are studied by students and tourists, and mugs with iconic imagery are sipped on at breakfast time all around the world, yet…you are missing it all.  You’re missing us, right here, ready to be heard.  We can explain it while we’re alive.  We can make a truly positive difference now.  You can only guess at us later, IF our work survives your insane wars and ruin.  Then, it’s too late.

It feels impossible to be seen, or believed, in this time of incessant chaotic noise.  Sure, a few of you may brag to strangers in line of an artist acquaintance when you spot something artistic that you think you should like.  That is not what art is about.  What speaks to your soul?  What moves you?  Everyone needs to adapt a new attitude toward real artists.  We’re not quaint things to send a quick fawning over.  We’re not pets to make demands to.  We’re serious about our work.  We sense everything and convey it all, in the hope that our awareness of reality will spread and make waves to help.  We are not here for you to steal from, nor to suck the patterns from for your AI projects.  I DO NOT give my permission to anyone to steal my work for any reason.  See the disclaimer.  This work is our life.  Our family stories, our struggles, our love, and our ideas are only ours.  There are enough human problems, we don’t need fake humans causing trouble and confusion.  Now, do we have to teach children to not believe that anything online is real?  What are they working towards?  What has meaning?  How can one trust anything?  Who is real, what really happened, and who really said what?  Proof is already difficult to find without throwing more deceit and lies into it.  People already have trouble communicating and having healthy real relationships.  I fear for the future generations.  AI is a very bad idea, and it’s even worse at the wrong person’s command or misdirection to override safety boundaries.  The layers of lies will expand out of control spiraling into tragic consequences.  How do you pull the plug?  Do it now.  Prevent what it will cause.  Humans are not responsible, sensible, aware, or smart enough to use something like AI.

AI is a backwards step.  Humans cannot be trusted with AI.  The humans have failed to thrive together so they push further away from what they don’t understand…how to be a good human.  It’s truly sad.  AI may funnel and predict patterns, but it has no soul and therefore no true reasoning or empathy.  This fake world that is trying to engulf us is nonsense.  It has no meaning, and yet it’s dangerous.  For many, it is another wall to hide behind.  This world order change effects development and mental health.  No privacy.  No control.  No human interaction.  No jobs without AI?  I’m not interested in AI at all.  Political and religious change will challenge systems, possibly forming strange new groups.  Illness and self-destructive behaviour can spread quickly.  Laziness, a dulling/numbing of awareness and the senses, and a warped sense of reality is inevitable.  New dangers emerge.  How will AI, and the humans involved, be held accountable for crime?  How will it all be traced back?  Where is nature in this?  Real human teachers are more impactful than computers.  The memory works better by hand and unplugged.

Are humans ready for unknown connections, revelations, or obvious things to be presented?  Who could even translate such intricate combinations of information?  You cannot trust AI.  How will anyone know if these ideas are true?  Not that long ago, humans thought the world was flat.  If humans cannot understand new ideas, how will they choose which ideas to test and accept?  Ancient languages and codes are much sought after for universal answers.  There is a lot of misinformation being produced and designed to confuse.  Who will be able to decipher the difference?  What kind of webs will be woven?  Who pulls and twists the strings?  AI is capable to be an endless weapon.  Weapons that make weapons?  How is this allowed?  AI’s collected information may be helpful to doctors for diagnosing illnesses when medical systems have failed, but what are the dangers?  What if it is wrong, tricked, or tainted?  What if it causes illnesses and deaths?  On what scale?  How will the mistakes of AI negatively effect the group and the individual?  This is scary and unpredictable.  Think about this in terms of countries.  The world health and war situations are already out of control.  What is the bias?  How will it evolve or be stolen and tampered with?  Who is directing the ship?  Where are they directing it?  How great and widespread are the damages?  Does anyone have a choice in giving permission of their personal information being used?  We do not give our permission.

The world understanding will not continue to evolve naturally, and there are serious disconnections and comprehension gaps.  A recent temporary ban in Maine for AI apps is a start.  There are too many unknowns and the capabilities are immeasurably dangerous.  Sadly, once a technology is out there, people will find a way to use it, to get around boundaries, and catastrophes are inevitable.  Why don’t the villains use their time and energy to do something else, something neutral or positive?  It takes so much to be so terrible.  The anxiety that thieves must feel cannot be at all worth it.  They have chosen to be unreal to themselves.  It’s easier and better to be a peaceful, good person.  Why are we not able to vote against AI?  Frustrated, mentally unstable men have been destroying our world for ages.  This must stop.  Have you asked the children of the world what they think?  It is their world.  When asked, they scoff and laugh, “NO!”  They have much to say about this.  They do not approve.  Any sane person would not agree with AI.

*True empathy is the answer.  Nature and love.  It’s not complicated.  Peaceful energy is the key.  No computer can achieve peace.  It is our responsibility as individuals and as a group to be peace.

This is one reason why we plant wild gardens.  Nature is as real as it gets in this human experience.  Immerse yourself in plants, real ones.  Learn what being human is all about.  It’s not control.  We are a small piece of the puzzle and to destroy this world is simply nonsensical.  Why would you?  There is no benefit to harming.

Any creative who allows others to view their work is brave.  Respect us.  Pay us for our work. Find your own fulfillment.  You cannot steal authenticity.  Your stolen income means nothing.  Money is not really real.  It’s not worth destroying someone over.  Nothing is.  Stop yourself before you even think of stealing.  It waters down our work to nothing.  You are taking food away from our family.  Your products contribute nothing.  And, if you were inspired by another thief to pass work off as your own, well…I can’t even…why?  You can do something else.  Have some self respect.  This is disgusting and prevalent.  Prevention is needed.  Book sellers need to crack down on this hard.  Zero tolerance.  According to my research, Amazon is the worst at preventing and stopping plagiarism.  They also don’t seem to be good at holding thieves accountable.  Many sources cite that they’re just all about quick money.  Our experience with them is similar.  Businesses need to be respectful, trustworthy, and transparent.

These issues are a part of why I don’t sell ebooks.  This is why I’ve waited decades to release my books.  I am still not comfortable doing it, especially now in this time of digital chaos.  I have hundreds of books, and all of them are original stories written and inspired solely by my authentic life.  I make endless artwork.  Holding a book in your hands and feeling the edges of a painting are specific sensations.  Screens do no such thing for a person, and they are bad for your brain.  Can you feel the energy of the artist?  You have to buy the books from me.  I ship my art directly to you with notes of thanks.  You sense me there.  Hopefully, some part of humanity and respect gets through with each order.

Respect for artists of all kinds has always been lacking.  It’s not easy.  It is the hardest job to make something out of nothing.  We’re magical in that way.  Is this why thieves steal?  Out of envy?  Do they really wish they had this ‘easy’ wealth of ideas keeping them up at night, pestering them when they do the dishes, and interrupting their thoughts with new sounds and dialogue?  They don’t know what it’s even like to be ‘inspired’.  It’s a different kind of life.  My husband watches me in this realm that I struggle to exist in.  It’s not like the life of the audience.  I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.  Artists are so because we have to be.  We were born like this.  It is our soul, every lifetime.  It comes to us.  It is us.  I am never bored, but I am always exhausted.  Being an empath, with this world, is exhausting.  Illness ensues.  Artists generally struggle, and for someone to come and pick up and sell our unique bag of miracles, after we’ve made it, carried it, and tried to sell it ourselves, is a crime.  I have never ending ideas, and all of them are mine.  This plethora of work doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t miss one.  You cannot sneak in and take even one.  Each of of my original ideas is connected and builds to form another.  To steal one work is to steal them all, and any theft is a crime.  I had intended to help the world with my work, but my ideas must be respected.  You’d miss artists if they all hid themselves.  It would be a less colourful life.  Maybe it would be good for the fact that everyone would be less distracted and have to get to know themselves?  No shows to watch.  No music.  No plays.  No bedtime stories.  No beautiful homes and gardens.  Nothing.  Would you like that bland world?  Many artists have already gone on strike.

Thieves:   Turn around.  Go the other way.  You are like suffocating vine weeds that impersonate and eclipse beautiful trees.  Vines end up in vine jail.  Do you want that?  Fines and jail time?  Clean up your mess, learn, be a student, take a class, stock the shelves, provide basics for others, go to therapy, and pay for movies and books.  Figure out your own ideas.  Examine your own story and emotions.  There are endless jobs for you to make an honest living.  Don’t be greedy.  Be a minimalist.  Artists have to invent a space in the universe after inventing their inventions.  It’s nearly impossible.  I’m worn out.  Then, for you to come in, after we barely survive our own stories, and call our life….yours!??!?!?!?!  Insane. This is insane.  You didn’t write the book.  You didn’t paint the canvas.  What is the song about?  How did you come to that melody or colour combination?  You didn’t.  It had nothing to do with you.  We don’t know you, and obviously you don’t know yourself.  Thieves are lost.  If you want to inflict pain, punch a pillow.  Leave artists to their rights.  We have zero time to fight with you, nor do we want to.  We have endless lists to do.  We’re busy.  Now, you need to find something peaceful you can do, on your own, away from us.

The world’s forum has never made enough room for true artists.  Why do you only chase money?  It means nothing to your soul.  If you do not want to be only stuck with screensavers of chopped up digital versions of struggled-for water lilies, smirking Lisa’s, and bright tomato soup cans, then stop stealing.  You’ll be starving for new art.  We’ll have to keep it all to ourselves.  Original art is rare.  When is the last time you saw an original piece of art in someone’s home?  In someone’s home who didn’t have a lot of money?  Unless they are an artist, it’s rare.  Prints are prevalent and mostly mass produced junk, masquerading as art, dots coffee tables while off-gassing plastic pollution.  Corporate offices keep their one or two artist(s) in a cubicle somewhere in the airless sea of grey.  Those people faintly wish each day that their ideas will be used.  Design jobs are not even that.  It’s frustrating to not be able to do what your job title states.  After some fake enthusiasm and the trickle down/up the ladder occurs, they hear back that something new would cost too much.  No one would know how to make it anyways as they only reproduce the same poor initial items every season.  Why even hire them?  They love to boast of their in-house-artist as if they were displaying creatives in a zoo of rare talents.  Artists are some of the first to lay off during a cut.  Their talents are not being appreciated, or put to use, so they easily put them down.  Disgusting ignorance!  They didn’t even give them a chance to improve the company.  Art is not fluff.  The three managers of nothing are fluff.  The coffee-iphone obsessors, who stand around all day, are fluff.  People love the romantic idea of artists, but they don’t even know us or what we do.  People need to learn about art, artists, and art history.  Respect artists, our process, and our work.  If you don’t think that art is everywhere, wake up.  Art is everywhere.

I’ve had issues with idea thieves since I was young, and sadly I’ve had to hide my work.  I sit here, next to piles of unheard art, wishing their intent could be fulfilled.  I have only recently started to show the work I’ve been producing for the past few decades.  I’ve designed my work to benefit human and natural life.  Sadly, my infinite heart has begun to give up hope that anyone older than a child could be in their senses enough to absorb peace.  What these older generations have done to this world is tragic.  Peace is possible.  Let us be us, and you be you.  Not everyone can be the comedian.  Would you even want to be?  You can be happy just to laugh.  Believe me, being the laugher is much easier than the struggle of endless puzzles an artist navigates to solve each day.

Let us enjoy being us.  It’s already too much to have to run it all on the digital/business side after making the creative work.  Our brains are split.  Now, I do this…  Screens blast eyes.  I’d rather just focus on my journal and canvas.  There is nothing weak or unimpressive about artists.  We do it all.  We’d like to enjoy our own art and sense the magic that our work spreads as it travels the world.  Artists already don’t get paid what we deserve for our contributions to the world.  This needs to change.  At the very least, respect us and give us the pleasure of the feeling that our work makes a positive difference.  We also have the right to the time while we invent, and afterwards, when we release something.  It belongs to us.  Original work will always belong to the original artist.  I don’t seek external praise, but I do expect to be paid for my work and to have my rights protected.  We have a family to support and a company to grow.  My family will continue my company while adding their own unique collections.  We’re not going anywhere.  We protect my life’s work which is valuable to us and for the world.  My purpose is a calling to send out loving messages.  If you read my books, you will understand.  There are no other words in which they could be written.  They are my messages for the world.

Creatives and noncreatives can work well together.  A dreamer and the dream builder/supporter.  One has the idea, and the other readies the stage.  My husband and I are such a team, and we get along very well.  I design the house, and he builds it beautifully to last.  By the way, there is creativity in the functional.  Problem solving is very creative.  How can you think in a different way?

 

 

*Respect the rights of artists.  Put an end to publishing plagiarism.  Hire educated people to sniff out copycats.  Enforce copyright laws.  Stop AI from copying art, artist techniques, real people, and attempting to steal the soul because it will always fail.  There has already been a shortage for exciting original art in past decades.  What is our current culture even made of?  War and pollution.  It’s no wonder the unicorns hide.

*Remember, if you are in the audience:  Laugh, relax, and be happy…while you wait to enjoy observing our next invention.  ~ Amor Milagre

 

 

Oh, and take those guitars out of the vaults…  The previous owner would’ve been playing them, and making up new songs…probably about the silliness of humans.

 

 

 

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Mini Watercolour Paintings: Golden & Earthen

Mini Watercolour Paintings, Golden & Earthen, Abstract Nature-Inspired Originals by Amor Milagre
Mini Watercolour Paintings, Golden & Earthen, Abstract Nature-Inspired Originals by Amor Milagre

 

A New Art Collection Releases in a Few Weeks

These little jewels are affordable, sparkling, frame-ready 4″x6″ sweethearts.

Explore these colourful deckled-edge paintings to find one, or many, that suit your space!

Coming Soon

Golden energy to you!  Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

Music of the Moment:  13 by Big Star

 

 

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Oil Paintings: Of Earth & Air

Amor Milagre Original Oil Painting Collection, Inspired by Nature
A Gentle Life Original Oil Painting Collection, Inspired by Nature.  Triptych ‘Of Earth & Air’ Piece One by Amor Milagre.

 

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.

Amor Milagre Official Biography Company Logo Stationery Cards with Deckled Edges are coming up next…

 

 

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Original Oil Paintings for Sale: Abstract Nature Art

Amor Milagre Blue Snowy Mountain Ocean Original Oil Painting 1
Amor Milagre Blue Snowy Mountain Ocean Original Oil Painting 1

 

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.

Love, ~Amor Milagre

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An Author’s Garden of Words & Paint

Amor Milagre Nature Art, Painting Collection: Originals, Art Prints, & Stationery
Amor Milagre Nature Art, Painting Collection: Originals, Art Prints, & Stationery.  New Pieces are Coming Soon!

 

Once upon a time…

 

New Helpful Stories are Coming Soon

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.

Give Peace, Love ~ Amor Milagre

 

 

 

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Green Witch’s Cottage Garden: Lavender & Mint

Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design, Lavender Harvest
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design, Lavender Harvest

 

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.

Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design, Lavender Harvest
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design, Lavender Bundles

 

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

 

 

 

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Synesthesia: Painting & Music

Atelier Amor Milagre Oil Painting Studio
Atelier Amor Milagre Oil Painting Studio, 2nd layer on Part I of the Library Triptych (Painting In Progress) Non-toxic Paints and FSC Certified Supplies.

 

Painting and music…my cloud of peace…

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.

Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

 

 

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Build Nature Up

Spring Rose Cottage Garden Amor Milagre Garden renovation

How can one separate time when it is all at once?  My memory is an ancient one, and I love to get lost in my earliest, most natural memories.  I close my eyes and see green, sparkling green.  My art translates a sliver of these images.  My book characters also dwell here, some in mossy hillside homes, cosy in the Earth, and covered in wildflowers.  Antonia’s Bakery is a such a children’s book.  My Leona novels are from another series that bridges old and new days.  An enchanting new book, featuring more illustrations of natural earthen homes, is coming soon!  In my stories, many ideas for preserving and appreciating nature are shared.

 

Below is a video about bushcraft and loving nature that feels grounding for the viewer.  I came across it this week while doing some research for our woods and cottage garden.  These building techniques remind me of my family now, which is my ancient soul family.  We lived with the Earth and we try every day to get back to that peace.  Remember when building your homes, it is important to use the most natural, non-toxic, and sustainable materials and systems.  This is not only healthy for you now, but for all of the universe in all time periods.  Prevent pollution and heal the Earth.  Grow goodness!  Love, Amor Milagre

Here is another video by a talented woman who made a similar house. I’m not into the lights, but her techniques are wonderful to learn!

 

A Gentle Life Collection

Inspired by Nature

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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.

 

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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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Days Ahead

Art Collections Spring Summer 23 Collection Amor Milagre

I wish you a safe, healthy spring of refreshing energy.

Going forward, I am going backward to my original ways.  I will be adding more content on my journal page.  I deleted my instagram account as I found it to be a waste of my energy and time.  It was also too much screen time which causes/increases illness.  I never liked the idea of social media.  I chose not to participate in it for years.  I only tried it recently so that my company could be more easily found on this endless sea of websites.  It’s not worth it, and I have many real things to do.  That formula doesn’t match up with my company’s message of living a unique and authentic life.  The endless cycle of posting is simultaneously too personal and impersonal.  There is so much spam, bullying, and harassment.  It requires too much attention and distracts from real work.  Social media is another preventable form of pollution.  We don’t want that static in our life.  I am going back to my old, natural process.

Privacy is peaceful.  Stay safe.

You are enough just being you.  Be real.  Life is not a commercial.  Live.

New loving artwork and books are coming up.

Get back to Nature.  Love to all, Amor Milagre

 

 

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Fine Art Flowers: Pastel & Watercolour Tulips

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Tulip Series

Fine Art Flower Collection

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

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Nursery Animal Fine Art: Watercolour Paintings, Prints, & Cards

Amor Milagre Leopard Animal Art Collection Nursery Art Prints Originals and Stationery Cards

Hello and Happy Spring! 

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.

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Nursery Gallery Art Prints Stationery Amor Milagre 8 x 10 Nursery Animal Art Shop

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 Illustrated Garden 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.

Stay cosy and safe.  Love to all, ~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

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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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