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Inner Peace: The Great Unwinding

Amor Milagre Interior Design, Unwind for Balance
Amor Milagre Interior Design, Unwind for Balance

Welcome and Happy Early Valentine’s Day!

Today, our focus is on balance and inner peace.

Although our family reserves space and time in our daily routine for meditation and down-time, now is our time of a great unwinding.  Now that the diapers are no longer needed and our renovations are mostly complete, we are relearning how to be….just be.  This calm has been our goal for many years.  We desperately needed it, and now we need to heal the times when we did not have it.

We listen to the snowy silence.  Projects are still going over weekends and afternoons, trying to finish up bits here and there.  It’s nothing like that tightly scheduled, goal-oriented push we had to survive each day.  It’s not easy to juggle so many aspects of life, and the struggle makes one ill for the long term.  If everyone maintained their homes and kept things clean and up to code, buying a new house would be much less stressful.  The prices of every modern thing in our world make no sense.  The priorities of our world are not what they need to be to keep women and children safe.  Everyone needs a safe, healthy home.  Everyone needs a daily routine that they can do and manage well.  Wellness is the priority.

Whole health and wellness have always been my focus.  Now, with a spec of sleep in the well of a sleep deficit, I can more easily work on my sea of beautiful ideas.  I am to release many new books, art series, stationery, and design reveals as I am able to do so.  I am no longer rushing, so they will be slower to release than in previous years, but the more natural flow and quality will show a more finished result.

As a mother, a homeschool teacher, and a company owner, juggling and organising an ever-evolving daily schedule is necessary.  Taking time within the rounds to repeat deep breaths, yoga, dance, and nature walks is the key.  I have even designed various guided journals and storybooks to help you all with these daily tricks to a balanced life.  These tips help our family with time management and emotional awareness.  This new collection will release later on as I am in my unwinding time right now….the great unwinding that we each need after decades of ‘getting by’ and unnecessary stress, illness, and trauma.  Our world is a mess, and is in denial about it.

WHEN we each become aware of ourselves to the point of self-peace then true global feminism can help our world to become a safer, calmer, more enjoyable place to be our true authentic selves.  True feminism means having the best interest of all people, supporting and respecting each other with empathy and non-violence.  Women and children need a safe world.  Peace is possible.  Observe and listen.  Let things come to the surface, sit with them, sort them, and move on.  Meditate on Inner and Outer Peace.  We can choose love every moment.  Wishing you a peaceful, self-loving day.  Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

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Valentine’s Day Sale

Amor Milagre Valentine's Day Sale, Ethereal Romance Notecard Stationery Set
Amor Milagre Valentine’s Day Sale, Ethereal Romance Notecard Stationery Set

 

Valentine’s Day Sale

Save 15% at Checkout with Code: LOVE (Sale Ends 2-14-24)

Shop peacefully romantic books, pretty personalized stationery, and uniquely beautiful artwork.

Express your admiration, appreciation, and growing love for your Self and your Dear Ones every day of the year.  Many new original artwork pieces release this month.  Explore all of my loving collections for all ages and stages of life.  In our world, a message of love can make all the difference.

Share Love, ~Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Valentine's Day Sale
Shop Amor Milagre Valentine’s Day Sale

 

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Happy New Year & Winter Sale

Winter 2024 Amor Milagre atelier
Winter 2024 Amor Milagre Atelier

To a New Year of Peaceful Living with Nature

The Winter Sale Begins Today and Ends on January 12th 2024

Use Checkout Code: WISH to save 15% OFF All Orders

Winter 2024 Amor Milagre atelier
Winter 2024 Amor Milagre Collection

Tales of peace and love, art prints, and stationery (full of artwork from my books) are available as gifts for the self and dear ones of all ages.

I sincerely wish that this new year ahead brings clarity and respect for all.

Wishing you a serene winter full of small daily joys and smiles.  Love, ~Amor Milagre

Winter Sale 2024 Amor Milagre
Winter Sale Ends January 12th 2024 Use Checkout Code: WISH to save 15% OFF All Orders.

 

Music of the Moment:  Auld Lang Syne

 

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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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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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August: Organic Cottage Garden Design

Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  Getting lost in the intricate lace fairyland of the hydrangea blooms…

 

I love how a garden changes every day, season, and year.

Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  One of my writing nooks. We also have lessons and picnics here…in the shade of the cream umbrella.  The lavender and cleomes circle this garden.  We renovated the gardens last year.  Previously a lawn, this space is now full of flowering trees, perennial flowers, and herbs.  Plant seeds of goodness for pollinators.  It heals all.  We even have some tomatoes up here, as it is the sunniest area of the garden.

 

Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  Weeding a bit today, and I got my first ever bee sting, right through my glove!  Not too bad…just put some ice on it.  Bees love me…ever since I was little…they loved to explore my golden curly hair and just hang out… My Nonna used to say it’s because they think I’m a flower.  I love that idea, and I paint flying pollinators into all of my stories.  I always sat calmly with them, and then they’d move onto something with pollen.  I must have tread on a nest. Sorry, little friends!  Nature tells us important things.  Listen.  I usually do leave the ‘weeds’ as they’re a helpful part of the garden, but we do have some rather aggressive imposter vines that take over and under the garden.  I do minimal editing and pruning.  Plants have their own design plans.  It’s fun to learn of their endless stages.  Also, any broken or old pieces are just left in the garden to become a natural compost.  After making the pathways last summer, the cleomes seeded everywhere, which is the intent, but a few had to be moved out of the gravel and back into the soil.  These rhodies were quite ill when we moved in, so we cut them back hard and now they are full up with new green lovely leaves.  They form a nice border hedge and create privacy with a dense leafy depth and height.  Blooms next year, I’d expect.  In pink!

 

Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  I adore these mixed plant tangles… They’d make a gorgeous textile print.  This one is mostly:  Queen Anne’s Lace/Wild Carrot, Thyme, Sage, Salvia, Vinca, Clover, Anise…  Babies love these little fairy nests.

 

Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  The incredible Blazing Stars have just bloomed…grown from scattered seeds.  Easy as tossing them into the bed.  There are hundreds and the wildlife love them.  Such fancy feathery dresses!

 

Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  The front herb patch went wild this year, but we love to watch the pollinators favour this swaying sea of lace in the breeze so I will only tame it back a bit next year.  The new kitchen looks out onto this stone garden that we made a few years ago.  There was a bed of overgrown shrubs, too close to the house, and a paver pathway.  We took everything out, painted the house a warm heavy cream, and made space for more meadow wildflowers and three Japanese boxwoods.  The pathway was removed and recycled into the back pathway.  We made a stone wall, new pathways, and steps.  Soon, a mudroom door will go nearby.  We have the kitchen door here, too.  Little gardeners can pick some fresh sage for dinner!  I am working on some lace-like snowflake/floral design stencils in the front doorway, which I will post about when finished.

 

Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  Many greens…living together.  Permaculture matters.  Everything depends upon the next and the one before.  Replace lawns and pollutive machines with native plants that form a perennial carpet to keep you cool, hydrated, and full of life!
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  Every window has a view of the garden!  Wake up to nature, go out and converse with her, learn how to be peaceful, bid her a good slumber and get ready for bed…  Sustainable life cycles for:  you, wildlife, the anti-pollution layers of fungi in the soil, the air, water, and for all plants who connect in their own language and routines.  Tread softly in nature.  We are the visitors of the earth, be gentle.

 

Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  Grow flowers from seeds to self-seed and spread each year!  I love these large areas of various wildflowers.  In the wind, the whole garden is alive and dancing.  Drought-tolerant is the way to go with climate change, and we have always just let the rain water the garden.  The plants grow stronger this way, and you can enjoy doing other things you love.

 

New blooms are coming soon…

Love to all of the bees who warn us to be more gentle.

Without you, I cannot think what we’d be.  ~ Amor Milagre

 

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Kitchen Design & Simple Pleasures

Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design, New Stove Hood with Lavender Trug and Soft Sconce Lighting
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design, New Stove Hood with Lavender Trug and Soft Sconce Lighting

 

August brings a new kitchen.  What a lovely gift!  We are fiddle-faddling with our favourite pancake flippers and arranging precious teacups in custom-fit drawers, newly handmade by my talented husband.  We measured everything and designed special areas for each collection of kitchen items.  The flow is important to get right.  Ergonomics are vital to prevent pain.  How splendid to unpack decades of patience into a beautiful, clean space!  Everything has a home, and we can easily use everything now.  This room used to be two, with walls missing and old floors, and the upcoming design reveals will show how much work it took to bring this calming, soft kitchen to life.  Our Rose Cottage feels healthier every day.

Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design. Linen & Lavender are natural and calming.
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design. Linen & Lavender are natural and calming.
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design. We love summer days of watermelon and mint!
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design. We love summer days of watermelon and mint!
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design, summer days
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design. New space leaves room for dancing.  Ironing dresses and blouses by the garden door in the evening is cool and crickety.

 

Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design, summer days
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design.  All ready for garden picnics with the teddy bear family!

 

Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design, summer days
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design.  We have little ironing demonstrations (from afar) by the Queen Anne’s Lace flowers.  This door opens out to one of our kitchen gardens, the stone-lined herb patch.  How nice it is to make things nice!  (*Until adding heat to fabrics stops conjuring up clouds of toxic pollution, this is not a pleasure.  It can only be an occasional thing to do with proper ventilation and a mask.  The fabrics, iron-steamer-dryer, detergent and packaging all need to be safe and healthy to use.  Remove the chemical coatings!  The amount of toxins in a fabric is obvious by the instant headache and difficulty breathing. Prevent illness and redesign the world to be a healthy life cycle. Read more here.)

 

Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design, summer days
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design.  Bringing in the kitchen rugs and lamps today!  All is ready…just waiting on the drawer fronts, which are almost finished!  Just need a bit of sanding and painting.  Design reveals are coming up this Autumn.

 

Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design, summer days
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Interior Design.  Summer days are going by quickly.  Little crows love to make echoes into the tarped sitting room, where rows of tiles are being removed.  The new flooring goes in there next week!

 

We hope you are enjoying your summer lightning bugs and petals!  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

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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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Home & Garden: Rainy Design Day

Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Design
Amor Milagre Custom Kitchen Design

Designing the garden to be as soft, natural, and perennial as the interior is something that I love to do.  Outside, we have organic vegetable gardens, cottage flower mazes, and wildflower meadow borders.  It’s as easy as painting with plants.  Choose your colours, textures, seasons, and heights.  Replace lawns with perennial flowering plants.  Creeping thyme is a favourite bridge for plant gaps, and the pollinators love their dusty lilac flowers as much as we love to use it for cooking.  Plant your desired seeds and enjoy all of their stages.  Inside, cosy up by the window on a rainy day and sketch the blooms of the week.  Go out for a dewdrop stroll to explore watery worlds.  Arrange your teacups and dishes on wide heavy cream shelves, and lay down charcoal cacao floors to connect the inside to the garden.  Your flowers and curtains can reflect similar colours and patterns.  This encourages humanity to feel more a part of nature.  By connecting indoor and outdoor spaces with sensitive design, one finds themselves going out more naturally to benefit from the air, blooms, and roots.  Fawns love to wander in the meadows, too.

Meditate inclusivity, harmony, and peace.  Love, ~Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Custom Wildflower Meadow Garden Design
Amor Milagre Custom Wildflower Meadow Garden Design

More than ever, we need nature.  Natural landscaping is sustainable for all.

Plant self-seeders of goodness today!

Amor Milagre Gift Shop Stationery Hoppy Bunny Ink Notecards
Amor Milagre Gift Shop Stationery Hoppy Bunny Ink Notecards, Sustainable Cotton Papers

 

Today, I am working on these upcoming Loves for my Shop:

Pollinator-Loving Flower Seeds

Stationery Notecards & Sets -Featuring Art from my Original Book Illustrations

Affordable Mini Original Watercolour Paintings (Art Collectors get ready…) -Golden & Earthen Collection

 

 

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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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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

Shop the Original Art Collection

 

 

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Cottage Garden: Foxgloves in the Morning

Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning
Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Apricot Foxgloves in the Morning

 

Fairies slumber in the shady bells of the creamy, freckled foxgloves.  We visit them on summer mornings.

Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning
Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning

 

Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning
Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning

 

Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning
Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning.  Just now growing in new beds.  Replace lawns with perennial flowers for pollinators.

 

Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning
Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning

 

Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning
Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning.  Tall as the evergreens…well, almost!

 

Each foxglove plant gives you a garden of seeds.  Plant them, wait patiently, and adore.

Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: English Roses in the Morning
Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: English Roses in the Morning

 

Plant for pollinators.  Stay hydrated.  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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Cottage Garden Flowers: June in Bloom

Amor MilagreCottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Apricot Foxgloves, Planted to Match the Blush of Baby’s Cheek

 

This is the week of the foxglove, buttercup, peony, iris, pollinator-loving wildflowers, lavender, and the first rose bloom.  The soft, pillowy petals are beloved by all wildlife.  It rains, bathing fuzzy stems in shining dew.  We visit each bloom as it unfurls.  The flowers are helped by glistening insect friends and greet the clouded sun,  “Good morning!”  This is an especially magical time to study and write about the poetry of nature… and of the self.  Our lessons are taken into the garden with a cup of tea and an umbrella.

Sense all around your lovely being.  How do you feel?  What kind of messages are whispering to you?

balance in the dance

Happy Last Days of June!  Love, ~The Botanists at Rose Cottage, Amor Milagre

 

Amor MilagreCottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Plant drought-tolerant wildflowers for pollinators

 

With each season, our garden renovation design grows in fuller than the last.  We replaced lawns with perennial flowers and edible organic plant foods.  We made fun pathways to explore under arches of towering stems and sweet blooms.  The low buzzing hum increases, and new winged friends stay a while.

Scatter seeds and wait for your gorgeous surprise!  Life awaits…

Amor MilagreCottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Peonies

 

Let other flowers hold up earlier bloomers…they help as they grow…no prop sticks or twine needed!

Amor MilagreCottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Plant Flowering Trees, Kousa Dogwood

 

Our first sense of the new flowering trees’ beautiful blooms!  Stars!  (Kousa Dogwood)

 

Amor MilagreCottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, David Austin English Rose

 

Sweet as June, an English Rose…heavenly scent…

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Plant for Pollinators

 

Planting beds of flowering, fragrant thyme with many pollinator-loving flowers in between is a sustainable way to replace lawns, enjoy your garden, encourage wildlife, and always have healthy organic herbs for the kitchen!  July blooms are coming soon…but we’ll sit and hum with these first…

 

Visit my nature photography and artwork collections to browse more inspiration from our garden.

 

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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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New Cottage Kitchen: Remember me…

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Getting things moved in a bit…

 

A small way to remember a Dear One is to keep something they adored near you.

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Love, the Grandmothers

 

Teacups and a purple cow creamer are our usable memory keepsakes.  Baci, Nonna.

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Almost time for tea!

 

The new cottage kitchen shelves are happy to be useful.  Unpacking after decades of being boxed up feels like a sigh…  We’re little Mrs. Tiggywinkles today, washing and making things nice…but just need to find…the iron…  We’re still a bit ruffly…which I do like, too.

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New:  Windows, Curtains, Flooring, Paint, and Baseboards.  Now, where is the box marked ‘Steamer’

 

If your keepsake is broken or lost, your sense memory is still there.  The item was a just a symbol.  Recipes are a great keepsake.  You can remember flavours and scents to take you back into that joyful moment.

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Little flowers and berries trail around on the new kitchen shelves.  Bunnies and pumpkins also live here now.

 

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Bringing out little helpers for the new kitchen.  When all is tidy, time for a hot cacao…

 

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Cosy heavy creams, cacaos, greys, and linens…

 

*Hold Sweet Memories Dear.  Love, Amor Milagre

 

 

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Sneak Peek: Custom Cottage Kitchen Shelves

 

Amor Milagre Custom Home Design, Kitchen Closet Storage Shelves
Amor Milagre Custom Home Design, Kitchen Closet Storage Shelves

 

Old World Romance

The tulips and daffodils have fallen back down to sleep.  This is the week of the lily, iris, dame’s rocket, and rhododendron.  We wash and organize teapots and teaspoons.

After decades of roaming and building, we are nesting down and nearing the end of our Rose Cottage kitchen renovation.  Here is a peek at the creamy, plum, moody cafe we made for this house.  All of it was custom designed by Amor Milagre (me) and expertly handmade by my talented husband.  I love these shelves!  Return to sense more of this kitchen as sofas and chairs dance around the corner, through the doors, and rest before new picture windows, framing the gardens in June’s bloom.

Wishing you a peaceful, cosy cup of tea type of summer!  Love, ~Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Custom Home Design, Kitchen. Sconce detail.
Amor Milagre Custom Home Design, Kitchen. Sconce detail.

 

Amor Milagre Custom Home Design, Kitchen
Amor Milagre Custom Home Design, Kitchen. Door detail.

 

Amor Milagre Custom Home Design, Kitchen Closet Storage Shelves
Amor Milagre Custom Home Design, Kitchen Closet Storage Shelves.. From sketch to reality.

 

Amor Milagre Custom Home Design, Kitchen Closet Storage Shelves
Amor Milagre Custom Home Design, Kitchen Closet Storage Shelves.  FSC wood and green paint.  Once the coat closet in the front entry.

 

Amor Milagre Custom Home Design, Kitchen Closet Storage Shelves
Amor Milagre Custom Home Design, Kitchen Closet Storage Shelves. We’ll add tie backs so the lace curtains blouse out in a Belgian-Italian fairytale memory.

 

Now, to finish up a few things and then…add the dishes!

 

 

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3 Tips for Authentic Romance

Amor Milagre Authentic Romantic Life Tips
Amor Milagre Design: Rose Cottage Sitting Room Spring Mantle

 

Good Afternoon.  Did you know that Peace is where Romance lives?  This post is an excerpt from my healthy lifestyle book, A Gentle Life by Amor Milagre.  I sense the world has long been in a tangle.  To unwind and release from this static, each one of us may gently be our true self and connect naturally.  This is how the universe may feel…just right.

1.  Awareness for the Senses

Feel your skin, your body functioning,  your heart exhale, and your electrons buzzing all around you.  Breathe in…and out.  Feel what you love and what you lack.  Listen and give.  Feel again.  Smile with your entire being.  Connect with the trees.  Feel their energy.  Connect with each other.  Send and receive loving energy.  This is you.  You are love.  Love your body, mind, heart, soul, energy, and daily choices.  Heal the past, be in the present, and open to the future.  Love the connections and find pockets of joy in how you can share and grow this love.  It’s infinite…and it’s always there…everywhere…waiting to be kissed up and hugged up and embraced fully with every spec in the universe.  Burst with love!  Let love accompany you during your day.  Consume love.  Breathe love in…and out.  Listen to love as your lullaby.  Dream love.  It feels good.

2.  Date Yourself

Before you can be present and emotionally in tune with anyone else, you can choose to be eternally in love with your inner and outer self.  Try out self dates.  Go to a variety of places (safely) and become aware of what you love.  You may be surprised what you didn’t know you could enjoy!  You can easily date yourself at home, too.  Even ten minutes is enough time to check in.  Explore new experiences.  Exercise in gentle ways.  What kinds of movement feel healthy?  Wander and sense what your soul connects with.  Take your time to know and feel and process.  Sort it all out.  Nourish healthy habits and memories, and let go of all negativity.  It’s too heavy to hold, so let go.  Adore your body and the mysterious and magical things it can do.  You are connected to everything in the universe.  What would you like to adorn your web with?  People, places, and nature that match your true energy will connect with you naturally when you are living as your authentic self.  Connect within.  The confidence, sweetness, and fun that you have when alone is felt everywhere by you being you.  This is attractive to yourself and the world around you.  This is where peace and romance live…within your authentic self.  You are all you need to feel wonderful.  Always stay aware of the messages from your inner self, your soul, and your body.  You can date yourself all your life.  It is important to keep up with this respectful relationship, especially when you have others in your life.  Communicate in a love language within and with others for a peaceful day.  You choose…everything.

3.  Express Yourself

Dancing to music you love, singing in the bath or shower, daydreaming, helping others, laughing and playing, crafting and scrapbooking, drawing and painting, exploring, sewing clothes and toys, acting and reading, inventing and building useful things with natural materials, sailing out with oars to float and unwind, sowing seeds and bulbs, playing instruments, writing creative stories and love letters, decorating, cooking and savouring, simplifying, walking in nature, swimming and climbing, being still, and meditating are just a pocketful of ways to embrace your emotions.  Be aware to not bother or neglect others while you are expressing.  Feel all of the emotions, process, and release.  This positive practice allows air to flow through your energy.  Your senses are set free, and you are open to experience this new moment.  What do your senses tell you?

For more gentle living, read my original book collection and these journal posts.  Listen with your heart.  It may tell you something very different than what you think you feel.  Listen….and love.

Love, Amor Milagre

 

Amor Milagre Authentic Romantic Life Tips

What is in your basket today?  What spills out into your journal?  Examine….and Live Peace.

 

 

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Awareness for All Children’s Education

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 printed book and audiobook.  Braille books are coming up!

 

All children communicate in their own way.  This post is a reminder for parents, caregivers, family, and school staff to be a safe place for children so that they may feel comfortable to express themselves in any way that comes naturally.

If you don’t yet understand their beautifully unique language, it is your responsibility to find out ways to learn their language and how to teach them everything.  Neglect and negativity is unacceptable and so very damaging.  Bridge the communication gap.  It’s all about a translation.  Think of people like countries, if it helps you, to understand that we each live in our own experience of the world.  Begin with love, trust, and a sensitive promise that you will help them always.  Let them know:  You will be there, being supportive, healthy, safe, encouraging, and inspiring.  You will listen with all of your senses.  Empathy is the key to every language.

Everyone learns in their own way.  Everyone deserves attention, patience, love, and a real education. Each child is beautiful and intelligent.  Equality for education in every way is a basic right that needs to become a reality for each child worldwide.  Every person has a lifetime of wonders to live and share with the world.  Be the guide, the helper, the parent.

In our homeschool, we love to learn every language.  We learn with every sense.  We keep our minds open and invite new ideas and connections.  Learning languages is interesting, humbling, and I encourage everyone to learn as much about other cultures as possible to create awareness for world peace.

Every person, no matter the age, can resolve, redesign, and replace ways of living that we know do not work by simply living empathically.  Make it all better, not worse.  Confusion is the beginning of learning something new.  Open your heart and find out what comes next…  I’ll let you know…it’s something very good.  Trust me.  You’ll love it!

Love to all of the children.  You deserve everything positive, respectful, inclusive, and so very kind.  Shine your light!  Love, Amor Milagre

 

The Silent Child by Rachel Shenton is a short film that sheds a profound awareness for one example of a child who needs someone to really listen and help.  Redesign every educational system to help everyone.  Love to all.

 

 

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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.

 

Shop:  A Gentle Life Collection

Books Sizes/Types:  Digital Audio, Hardback Pocket, Digest, Square, (Paperbacks are Coming Soon)

 

My books are cosy to read, or listen to, when at home, on a work break or weekend, and while travelling.  Many of my stories are set in New England, such as my Sage Rose Sorrel children’s books, but here are some others that you might love to tag along with as my characters explore new favourite places.

Amaranthe tells of living in NYC and France.  Leona has lived in two homes in Italy:  one by the mountains and one by the sea.  Ellary Eden grows a helpful, enchanting garden in the Witching World!  I have just finished three fresh novels for you to explore soon.  There is one especially delicious new book that is set in Belgium!  Every time you explore a new place, you learn so much for your life ahead.

Happy, safe travels to you!  Love, Amor Milagre

 

 

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Enchanting Rose Faerie Nursery Mobile

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Enchanted Garden Nursery Decor for a magical childhood faerieland.

 

This morning, an idea came to life.  Magical vines danced in the blossom-scented breeze.  Ribbons twirled around a wooden ring.  Dreamy nappers smile up at the rose garden growing above their sweet, inventive minds.

Love to you, from Rose Cottage

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Different textures, shades, colours, sheens, sizes, and shapes make for an overall pleasing effect just as in Nature.

 

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Old souls love to reconnect to past loved practices such as hand-making lovely things for the dwelling.

 

We replaced our long, white canopy fabric with this airy ribbon mobile.

 *To order your custom mobile, please contact me with size, colour, and theme details.

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Pinks, Greens, Lavenders, & Creams:  Various Flowers, Garlands, Lace, And Soft Ribbons

 

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
These rose wedding decor supplies are also beautiful when viewed from below. We wrapped the wires around the frame snuggly and pointed the rose blooms downward to inspire magical dreams.

 

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
A balanced aesthetic looks natural.

 

Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Pretty view from snuggleland.

 

Leftovers for Decor, Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Leftover decor loves to adorn new spaces in the home.

 

Tippets for Mice, Amor Milagre Romantic Faerie Floral Ribbon Mobile
Don’t Forget!  Tippets for Mice, Dollhouse Pixies, and Borrowers.

 

 

Contact me for all custom orders.  We wish you a magical Spring!

 

 

 

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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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A Gentle Life Collection by Amor Milagre