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Colour Mood: Summer Fruit, Organic Home & Garden Design

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This morning, we relished in our first peach of the Summer Season.  Apricots, plums, peaches, and nectarines kiss sandy tapestry prints as I choose new colours and healthy materials for our new organic home.  This year, I’ll be posting ‘before and after’ designs, tips for non-toxic material choices, fresh colour moods, and new art collections so you can follow along with our renovation adventures.  We’re saying goodnight soon to this beautiful organic home that we designed and hand built with Love.  Design highlights are coming up!  Today, we’re happy to have a fresh fruit salad and new ideas breezing around blank pages.  Inspired by Nature and the Senses.  Happy Summer!  XOXO ~Amor Milagre

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There are increasingly more ethical materials to choose from when you’re buying furniture, bedding, plants, and more for your home.  Looking for the organic, healthy options will boost your health in the moment and in the long run.  Ask questions to find what options are best for your specific needs and design desires.  This comes in handy when registering for wedding gifts, new baby presents, holidays, birthdays, and gifts to celebrate your Self and Dear Ones.  These new dining chairs are custom designed by me and ethically made by a local company.  They’re so comfy and built to last.  We’ll be releasing ethically handmade (completely by us) furniture collections here at the Amor Milagre Shop in upcoming seasons, including children’s toys like dollhouses and customizable gifts for all ages.  It’s so much fun to design these collections for you.  You can choose goodness for yourself in every thing you do!  Breathe deeply, knowing your home is a healthy one.  For design advice and custom projects, please message me here.

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Coming Up:

~New Colour Moods & Pleasures for the Weekend

~Fresh New Designs for Home, Garden, Food, Art, & Organic Apparel

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The Sweet Flavours of Summer…

Which colours do you Love to eat, wear, adorn your home in, and plant in your garden?

Gift Guide by Colour Mood

Below is a gallery full of fruit infused inspirations

for your home and personal, customizable gifts for your Dear Ones.

Visit My Shop to view each item’s product page.

To me these colours are:  Sweet, juicy, soft, fuzzy, adored, and creamy.

XOXO ~Amor Milagre

 

 

Music of the Moment:  Mio Cuore, Vanessa Paradis

 

 

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Ethical Gift Shop Art Collection: Illustrated Garden Alphabet Letters

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Cast a spell of enchantment!  Spell a special name, favourite word, elegant initials, or a beautiful letter to accompany other pieces in my collections and your existing artwork gallery.

Many more new unique letters will be added to this growing collection.  All of my collections live with us in our home.  They are my first choice for interior design because they are soft, sweet, and natural.  This is a soothing atmosphere for a nature-loving empathic family and all!  Atelier Amor Milagre is an ethical design studio for every collection created and in every direction expressed for a healthy lifestyle.  Personal, delicate designs like this collection grow well with historical artwork and my other collections.  Pair these letters with sweet animals and colour abstracts from my shop for a darling New Baby Nursery Gallery Wall.  Children love these little darlings.  They are gentle teachers and inspiration for A Gentle Life.  Give a newly married couple a gift of their initials for a unique wedding shower present!  More still, a very special  gift for a long-married couple’s very tender anniversary.  Spell a word to inspire your daily life to be how you Love to be!  This fun collection has endless possibilities for your gift-giving enjoyment.  XOXO ~Amor Milagre

little film to celebrate my evergrowing Original Illustrated Garden Alphabet Letter Collection.

A Gentle Life Collections by Amor Milagre.

Romantic Ethically Handmade Gifts for All Ages!

 

New products and collections release each week, please check back for your custom, unique gifts!

Custom order your very own originals by sending your design & colour ideas to me here.

 

Lovely Gifts for Spring-Summer Weddings, New Babies, Graduations, Birthdays, and Everyday Love!

Happy Spring Sale!  Enjoy 10% off All Orders with Code: SPRING19

 

Ethical stationery sets and children’s books

will be added to the purchasing options for this collection very soon!

 

Music of the Moment:  Love is Here to Stay, Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron in the film, An American in Paris, Song Written by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin

 

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Favourite Baskets: Ethical Fashion Handbag, Market Shopping, Home Design, & Garden

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A-tisket, a-tasket, we love our favourite baskets.  A different basket for each task-et.  To continue growing the ‘Favourite Series’, I’m sharing tips and info about our favourite gathering of baskets for:  home, personal style, organic cooking & gardening, and chic Spring-Summer handbags.

Some of our uses for these baskets are:  daily handbag, dry produce, fresh garden produce, mail, kitchen & dining linens, garden planters, books, laundry, food shopping in town, picnics, office/wardrobe/mudroom storage, special supplies, baby & doll bassinet, organic beauty products, and storage for family outtings.

One positive choice influences another.  Perhaps a market basket will inspire you to support your local organic farmers, taking healthy walks to gather your food. A natural home inspires us to go out and balance in Nature.  What do you use baskets for?

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Using well made baskets is ethical, economical, and texturally pleasing.  To maximize your sustainability, you can learn to make your own baskets.  This really comes in handy when a repair is needed.  This journal text appears in my upcoming Design Book, so check back for more!

Designer Tip of the Day:

When choosing a basket, it’s helpful to think about:

~The main use and other possible purposes.  What are you storing or carrying in it?

~Colours, textures, sizes, smoothness, and weights.  A balance of differences creates a peaceful design.

~Where will the basket live and how will it be used?

~Who made it?  Were they paid fairly?  What is it made of?  Is it non-toxic so it doesn’t off-gas in your home or cause illness to those making the products?

~How much joy will it bring you to use a hand-crafted piece?

~Is there a local basket weaver in your area?

~Are the handles and straps comfortable to use and securely attached?

~How can you keep it in good shape to last many lifetimes?

For Design Projects & Help for Interiors, Gardens, Fashion, and more, message Atelier Amor Milagre here.

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We love picnics, so a special picnic basket was on our holiday wishlist.  We’re excited to use it this Spring!

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Keeping the home calm with natural materials and colours helps our family keep a healthy balance, while organizing things, like laundry, for easy routines.

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Gathering fresh food feels even better in a sweet little basket at the shops and in the garden.  Little Dear Ones sneak off with the basket and fill with toys.  Now, it’s a bed or house for a little bear.  Natural materials inspire shopping for fresh, organic food with no packaging.  Bring everything home in your basket and place on the table, ready to enjoy!  Maybe a flower will hop into your basket, ready to plant in the garden?  Special stones, shells, or leaves.  Basket handles feel good to hold.  The senses need Nature.  Sweet and humble, a basket inspires me so.  For more A Gentle Life Collections, news & sales, and healthy lifestyle inspiration, please subscribe at the bottom of this page.

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Yes, there is a thing as too many baskets, so choose mindfully with the above tips and your beautiful lifestyle in mind.  Store baskets simply to avoid collecting dust/allergies.  Vinegar-water is an easy way to keep baskets clean.

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This week, our baskets led us to the ocean for fresh air and beautiful views.

Check back here to view an upcoming journal post for

The Amor Milagre Spring 2019 Gift Guide

to help you fill your lovely Easter Baskets this April!

Shop Spring!

NEW! Spring Sale 10% off All Orders with Code: SPRING19

Happy Spring!  XOXO ~Amor Milagre

 

Music of the Moment:  A-Tisket, A-Tasket, Ella Fitzgerald

 

 

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Pleasures for the Weekend: Spring Cleaning 2019

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Visit the Shop to bring these originals and art prints home with you!

We freshen the house each week during the year, but in the Autumn and Spring, it feels especially healthy to reorganize, sort, and reset plans for good, useful household routines.  Each item has a home and a purpose.  I always adore the last part of my favourite show, Gardener’s World, when they give “Jobs for the Weekend.”  You can apply this list idea not only for gardening, but for housekeeping, business, and outtings!  Instead of Jobs for the Weekend, we call it Pleasures or Ideas for the Weekend.  Set up pleasures for yourself.  Like Mary Poppins says, “In every task that must be done, there is an element of fun!”  Here are a few ideas that we’re doing this season.  Happy Spring!  Please visit my Shop for fresh inspiration for your home and a healthy lifestyle.  I’ll share a few ‘Pleasures for the Weekend’ each season, and you can read more in A Gentle Life Book Collection. What kind of pleasures will you plan for this weekend?  XOXO ~Amor Milagre

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~Sort and review items.  Keep the useful for the every day, used lately, and useful for this season.  Organize one area a day/week so you take your time mindfully.  Sell, donate, gift, recycle, or reuse unwanted items in another way.  Gently and lovingly organize useful items with tidy, beautiful aesthetics.  Repair any items that need mending.  Crack the windows and clean your home with non-toxic cleaners.  (We use vinegar for most things.  It works wonderfully for organic beauty routines, too!  A post for this is coming up.)

~Wash windows, inside and out, for a clear view and mindful perspective.

~Go on outtings to seasonal local places that are now open for Spring.  We enjoy strolling plant nurseries for fresh inspiration.  (Remember to look for sustainable packaging when plant shopping.  Bring reusable shopping bags with you when doing any kind of shopping!  A post about this is coming up.)

~Cook with seasonal, farm-ready vegetables and fruits.  Revel in the beautiful shapes, flavours, and colours of Mamma Nature!

~Browse your library and request specific books.  Read stories and poems about the current time of year.  (A favourite book list post is coming up!)  Notice in your daily surroundings what is revealed in the book illustrations.  What wonders are around you that you may have overlooked?  How refreshing it is to be aware of life regrowing this month!

 

Coming Up:

The Organic Vegan Cookbook Collection

Photography Art Print Collections, featuring a Botanical Series that includes flowers from these posts.

More romantic, healthy lifestyle tips are coming up in my new book collections.  Inspiration is written into the books already in the shop.

A New Film Collection

Check back often this Spring as I’m releasing many new adventures here.

Live in the Light with Amor Milagre!

 

Music of the Moment:  For the Glory of the Earth, hymn

 

 

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Amor Milagre: Reuse Ethical Packaging


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A Gift for you!  Wrapped in respect for Nature, Amor Milagre packages are freshly wrapped this Spring so that you may reuse the boxes within for gifts and storage.  This prolongs the life of the box as a box.  The boxes can hold your dearest treasures or supplies waiting to become your dearest treasures.  Helpful on an office shelf, in a nursery, a bookshelf, or a storage room, these clean recycled brown boxes are a beautiful neutral for your home and office.  The packages are wrapped in a reusable, recycled brown kraft paper.  The name of the recipient is handwritten on the top of the package for a special personalized feeling upon arrival.  All packaging is responsibly sourced, made of recycled material, and FSC Certified.  I’ve always been in Love with the realm of trees and Nature.  It’s important to source responsible materials.  I use minimal packaging, and with this process, the box is able to be reused, Loved, and adored.  Use the paper for anything you can, and recycle or compost if too messy from shipping.  Use for packing when you move or ship another package.  Fold in half and use the clean sides to cover books for school or to soothe your bookshelf.  Paint a mural!  If clean, use both sides for a large blank canvas to draw on.  Kids will love this adventure!  Tidying up your home is very rewarding.  When all of your things have a special place, you can easily find what you crave, and save your energy for the next passion to enjoy in life.  Love to the trees!  XOXO  ~Amor Milagre

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I adore calligraphy and classic bakery style boxes.  My packaging doesn’t use string, but I love the feeling of a parcel wrapped in brown paper with your name on it!  This is especially exciting when someone else has bought this surprise for you.  A little box on your doorstep!  What is inside?  A gift for me!

Another way to keep your order’s packaging in good shape for reuse is to instruct your mail carrier, (we use USPS for all orders), to deliver your packages to a specific spot.  One that is nice, dry, and easy for you to see and bring in.  You can also ask to pick up your parcels at the post office so they stay very dry and clean. 

 

It’s a lovely and vital idea for everyone to cut down on using excessive amounts of packaging and packaging that is wasted or only used once.  We can grow more Love for the initial materials and energy used to make even one simple box.  How many uses can you find for a box?  Children love to play with boxes.  These boxes make wonderful beds for dolls, puppet stages, houses for tiny mice toys, treasure chests for letters from Dear Ones, and beaches for my upcoming organic cotton toy collection!  They are also perfect for storing artwork, holiday cards, and art & craft supplies.  The labels help children learn to spell and read.  Amor Milagre is an inclusive company.  I not only try to include all people when making the product collections, choosing packaging, and mindfully writing new book characters, but how is everything cherished?  How can a product live throughout time?  How can we share Love and responsibly choose ‘A Gentle Life?’

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This way of packing my products also saves you time and space, while being very helpful around the house.

No trip to the recycling center on our account.  Less energy to recycle materials. 

A new, fun tool for you to keep your belongings happy and in good condition! 

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As an artist and designer, it really helps to organize my belongings into labeled boxes. 

Everything is there at your fingertips!  All of the boxes live on a storage shelf, easy to find. 

Ready to play?

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Explore Amor Milagre’s ‘A Gentle Life’ Collections to find what speaks to you or reminds you of a Dear One!

Quick shipping during every season.

 

Coming Up:  Dear Sweet Funny Audiobooks!

 

Music of the Moment:  Butterfly Mornings, Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions