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September Days: Autumn Adventures

September Days, Amor Milagre, NH white mountain adventures
September Days, Amor Milagre, NH white mountain adventures

We are savouring this early autumnal weather by exploring new towns, collecting pumpkins, lifting a chin up to the leafy breeze, admiring mountain & lake views whilst sharing a picnic, airing out the house, listening to vintage Halloween songs, writing serene novels, reading nature-loving quest-style books aloud as a family, baking cosy treats for spooky movie nights, and wrapping winter holiday gifts.  Fall is such a magical, comfortable, and comforting time for us.  Ready to snuggle up, venture out, and return home again with pockets full of smiles.

Happy Autumn to You!  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

Next up in my shop will be…Autumn-themed Wax Seal Stamp Stickers!

September Days, Amor Milagre, pumpkin time
September Days, Amor Milagre, pumpkin time- meet our first Henry of the season!
Amor Milagre Winter Holiday Gift Wrapping Days
Amor Milagre Winter Holiday Gift Wrapping Days

I find it relaxing to gather, and wrap, our gifts for the winter holiday season over the summer and fall.  Then, we can focus on the festive activities like playing games.  We reuse red shiny bags for bigger gifts each year, but this season we added in some silvery sparkle, too.  We save the paper, tissue, ribbons, and bags.  All new cards are added to a memory box so that we may look back on messages and artwork as more birthdays happily come to us!

Other gifts that are too big to wrap, such as snowy walks and tickets to sense a holiday show, are captured in photo albums and in our special holiday record book.  I am precious about our memories.  Every day is a time to celebrate and treasure our miracles.

 

Please let me know of any personal book inscriptions for your holiday gift orders using my Contact Page.

Amor Milagre Winter Holiday Gift Wrapping Days
Amor Milagre Winter Holiday Gift Wrapping Days

Happy Birthday Autumn Babies!

Let the Holidays Begin!

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2. Favourite Songs: Autumn ~ Halloween Playlist

Amor Milagre Leona's Wish 1st Autumn Festival The Love Letter Diaries #2 original book series, Leona's Homecoming Novel
Amor Milagre Leona’s Wish 1st Autumn Festival The Love Letter Diaries #2 original book series, Leona’s Homecoming Novel

Here is the second autumn song list.  It’ll get moodier and more earthy as the leaves entrench us and wind grows frostbitten.  Ready for leafy swings and carving pumpkins now…

Bobby Pickett:  Monster Mash

Polaris:  Hey Sandy (Pete n Pete)

Louis Armstrong:  Skeleton in the Closet

Howlin’ Wolf:  Howlin’ for my Darlin’

Alan Stivell:  King of the Fairies

The Cramps:  Goo Goo Muck

Link Wray & The Wray Men:  Rumble

Oingo Boingo:  Dead Man’s Party

Fleetwood Mac:  Gypsy

Lhasa de Sela:  Lonely Spider

Nina Simone:  I Put a Spell on You

Rosemary Clooney:  The Wobblin Goblin

Elliott Smith:  Waltz #2 (XO)

The Munsters

Fiona Apple:  Pale September  Slow Like Honey

Third Eye Foundation:  When I Dance

Ramones:  Judy is a Punk

Matt Elliott:  Berlin & Bisenthal

Truett & George:  Ghost Dance

The Doors:  Riders on the Storm

Peggy Lee:  Fever

The Animals:  It’s My Life

Warren Zevon:  Werewolves of London

Yann Tiersen:  La Dispute

~Vincent’s Laugh

 

yeah..I do miss myspace…I liked it…fun to talk about & listen to music, old and new…put up your current top songs…what musical mood are you in today?

Off to figure out our family costumes now!

More Playlists Here

 

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1. Favourite Songs: Early Autumn Playlist

Amor Milagre Autumn Mudroom Design & Style, Favourite Fall Songs Playlist
Amor Milagre Autumn Mudroom Design & Style, Favourite Fall Songs Playlist

Our trees are just beginning to golden up.  The air is mellowing.  We adore and name pumpkins.  I listen to cosy songs as I write autumnal novels.  Here are a few of my annual favourites.  Love, ~Amor Milagre

Bela Babai:  Haunting Gypsy Melodies (We have the original record, and it sounds extra romantic-spooky with the snap, crackle, pops.)

Nico:  These Days

Matt Elliott:  Something about Ghosts     Our Weight in Oil    I name this ship the tragedy, bless her, and all who sail with her

Hope Sandoval:  Down the Steps

Lhasa de Sela:  De Cara a la Pared  (and all of her songs)

The Kinks:   Strangers   Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Louis Armstrong:  Basin Street Blues

Supergrass:  We’re Not Supposed To    Time

Paco de Lucia:  Malaguena

The Microphones:  I Want Wind to Blow   The Moon    I Felt Your Shape    III Universe   (bus songs)

Francoise Hardy:    Le Temps de l’Amour

Elmore James:  Dust my Broom

Radiohead:  There, There

Al Bowlly:  Midnight, the Stars, and You

Faust:  Jennifer

Doc Boggs:  Oh Death

Super Furry Animals:  Something for the Weekend

Sam Phillips:  Reflecting Light

Big Star:  Thirteen

Nick Drake:  Place to Be

Blur:  Tender

Mason Daring:  The Secret of Roan Inish

Nina Nastasia:  Ugly Face

Italian Folk Lullaby:  Ninna Nanna by a Sardinian singer and guitarist

 

more songs later

oooh…the synesthetic textures…haven’t heard these in a while but…I carry them to listen in memory any old time…

 

The first leaves are falling!

More Playlists Here

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Cosy Holiday Sitting Room Design

Amor Milagre Sitting Room Design, Cosy Holidays
Amor Milagre Sitting Room Design, Cosy Holidays

The toys in our Rose Cottage are sewing up gifts and wrapping them with bows in preparation for the holiday season.  We are, too!  It’s time for puzzles, games, wellie woodsy walks, writing leafy novels, pumpkin patches, spices, and auburn lake en plein air paintings.  New fall wax seal stamp stickers are coming up, along with oil paint waterscapes and some adorable trick-or-treat stationery.

A cosy autumn to you!  Love,  ~Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Sitting Room Design, Cosy Holidays
Amor Milagre Sitting Room Design, Cosy Holidays
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Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry

Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry

Today, we stocked up our custom hand-made pantry to finish our Rose Cottage Kitchen Renovation.  All pieces were thoughtfully designed by me and expertly crafted by my very talented husband.  We matched the countertop stain, a mix of a few eco-stains, to a pair of kitchen chairs we have.  The eco-paint is a heavy cream to match the rest of the kitchen which is separated by sound-sensitive door placement designs.  This keeps the refrigerator in the back and out of earshot to reduce sound/vibration pollution for the nervous system.  The counter allows for less trips back and forth from the fridge.  This is also where we store our dry foods, fresh fruit, glass storage containers, and cookware.  It’s like a charming seasonal market to shop at meal times.  We can decorate this space for each season.  This back room, which used to be the full kitchen before we began from scratch opening up the dining room, is dark and safe to store things like potatoes with easy drop off unloading access after weekly grocery runs.  I am very pleased with how peaceful and strong the design is and how much storage we now have without an imposing kitchen full of floor to ceiling cabinets.  The wooden berry-cream colours are soothing and naturally rich which excites me to bake up cosy autumnal pies, soups, and breads.  Now, to pastel up a velvety fruit still life to frame over this space to the right.  More beautiful cabinetry reveals are coming up!  Love, ~Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry