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 Balloon Pumpkin Patch, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor
Early crisp breezes, and that certain quieting in the leaves outside my morning window, tell me Autumn is joining us for tea. Out come the cosy blankets and sweaters. I paint up some new notecard designs. We reread old favourites and open the game cupboard. I wrap up Summer in family albums. Lessons tuck into homeschool portfolio pages. The necessary slowing of souls is stirring up comfort as the new daily rain trickles away the whirling of summer. Hang scarves and knit berets on the hook, for we await thy sweet calm. Love, ~ Amor Milagre
Amor Milagre Photo Album Catch Up, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor
We refresh our year-round homeschool supplies with pretty rainbow pencils, earthy clays and paints, sweet folders, encouraging stickers, and lovely blank notebooks. A few vintage textbooks make their way to our shelves, in French and Swedish. We sell clothes that have grown too adorably tiny, keeping some favourites, and wash new gangly organic pajamas full of ghosts and pumpkins.
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*I missed some decorating, and huge parts of our life, due to being stuck in bed for two weeks + a lifetime. Note to smokers: If you must pollute yourselves, do it alone in your home (and don’t move), not in public, and certainly not at non-smoking public beaches where families think they finally have a refuge. Not in doorways, outside doctor’s offices and hospitals, schools…no smoking anywhere. We shouldn’t have to survive you, if we even can. Smoking is highly dangerous to everyone. Think about it. What is in the air moves with the wind. It doesn’t disappear, but it goes directly into our lungs. We have no control over this, but you do, so stop it. Ban smoking forever. It is a crime to harm people and the environment. The ducks and fish eat your pollution left behind. It is in the water and soil, too. Homes, vehicles, gardens, etc are ruined. Childhoods and days of our life are tragically altered, and in place of joy all is left is fear and illness that never fades but spreads and limits. It’s not unserious or fleeting. It is permanently destructive to the lining of our world. I live in infinite coughs and struggles to breathe. My family becomes so as well, as they make tea. Tea? Tea cannot battle you. We shouldn’t have to survive you…or not survive you. Be aware that respiratory issues are, and always have been, a main concern. End pollution now. We deserve life.
Amor Milagre Natural Dried Wreath, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor
Caring about one thing means caring about everything. Dare to care. You will see immense improvements.
Amor Milagre Autumn-Halloween Tablescape and Dining Decor
The air has changed overnight, and Autumn has reached us here at our Rose Cottage. In addition to giving my family various gifts from my own shop, especially copies of my first editions with wax seals and adoring inscriptions, we do seasonal decorating days and four gifts a year. These are some of our autumn gifts. We set the table with new bewitching Lenox plates (well made) and a black crochet tablecloth. There are spooky books, a cosy trick-or-treat nightgown, a spirited library tote bag, and a sweet little pumpkin that will hop about the house. Our coloured pencils get a work out sketching up new paper ornaments for our seasonal library tree. My own new autumn gifts for my shop will release soon. Happy early autumnal days! Love, ~Amor Milagre
Amor Milagre Autumn-Halloween Tablescape and Dining Decor
Kids love putting these sweeties away…simple pleasures around the house.
Autumn decor at Rose Cottage, Amor Milagre
Clearing space for new autumnal adventures.
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A sweet evening surprise to celebrate the beginning of autumn. We love cosy reading time in cute pajamas…
I found this cute scene in the nursery yesterday: Kids Spooky Haunted Pumpkin Patch, Tissue GhostsAutumn decor at Rose Cottage, Amor MilagreAutumn decor and toys at Rose Cottage, Amor MilagreAutumn decor at Rose Cottage, Amor MilagreAutumn Pastina Soup, Stay Well, Amor MilagreAmor Milagre Autumn-Halloween Tablescape and Dining Decor
Loving these Lenox plates. I prefer table jewelry.
Amor Milagre Autumn-Halloween Tablescape and Dining Decor
Happy cosy days to you!
My new sweet Halloween stationery sets are coming up next…Trick-or-Treat
I am pleased to introduce the illustrated Vol. I of The Love Letter Diaries, Leona’s Homecoming. These darling books are my favourite. They are my heart. I hope they become a part of yours, too. So, if you like romance, peaceful living, gardening, art, seasonal holidays, delicious foods, love, mer-mysteries, and sweet families, then allow these life-long friends to invite you into their beautiful world. Hold them dear, and they will whisper amusing ideas for you to try as you write your own days.
Unfold mysteries of past, present, and future lives and loves through the empathic souls of Leona’s town of friends as they invent and enjoy simple pleasures and Nature’s joy during the first year of seasonal festivals. The illustrations reflect the memory-based scrapbook evolution of the story. This is an ongoing tale of real love, healing, connection, and the endless benefits of growing an ever-expanding web of kind hearts. Adoration lives in each character of this Italian seaside town, guided in love by one lovely woman. Her granddaughter, and her friends, continue sharing this positive energy together.
This ethically made book series allows the reader to explore the four seasons of Leona’s beautifully sensitive world. The books are a delight and a chance for planting and growing seeds of positive change for all. The festivals are full of delicious foods and exciting events where every person’s gifts are celebrated. (Printed on cream FSC Certified Paper in the USA.)
I have written these books in love and gratitude in the hope that these pages will blend peacefully into my readers’ lives. These loving novels are wonderful gifts for the Self and Dear Ones to explore your own passions, while appreciating each season of nature’s gifts. Read these books in order for a sense of how simple pleasures and small acts of kindness can add up to connective positive changes that benefit all for ages.
A summer rose wax seal sticker, from our Rose Cottage, is something sweet to send to friends, to press onto a book or journal, or to keep near and dear. This unique Amor Milagre design comes in an Old World Gold, Pearl White, and A Mix of the Two leaning towards Pearl White.
Beautiful unique wax seal stickers in a variety of colours and designs, hand-stamped with love.
Add to an envelope, journal, frame, and even one of my books or paintings! Express love and old world romance with this growing collection. The peel and stick seal comes with a charming deckled-edge cotton ‘Thank You’ notecard-envelope set in soft cream.
