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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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Live Peace: Healthy Boundaries

Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design. Respect your neighbours and their property.

 

Setting, and keeping, healthy boundaries is a vital way to survive this strange modern world.  Boundaries have always been important to realize for every individual.  This is especially so in transitional times when war, violence, illness, AI, climate change, pollution, mental health neglect, and random storms of negative energy spin across the world causing devastation.  In the heat of all of this, it’s crucial to teach children about perspective and peace as you go about your daily life lessons.

Only yesterday, we had such a lesson thrown at us as young neighbours were presented with a choice of becoming ‘hoodlums’ or being creative people who can peacefully entertain themselves on their own property.  I was folding laundry and looked out at our flowers.  Watching the group of children choose to be negative was disheartening and created more unsafe conditions for the world.  The eldest was the leader and responsible for the care of several young ones.  This is why being a follower is not a good idea.  Think for yourself.  (Ironically, their family runs a daycare.)  Vandalism and rule breaking are misguided ways of asking for external acceptance.  Why seek it at all, in any form, if you lovingly accept yourself?  There are positive ways to be a part of a community if you feel excluded in your life.  Helping others by volunteering is one way.

Children thrive in a gentle structure.  Saying a simple ‘no’ to dangerous ideas shows that you care about their safety, their effects, and their evolving character.  Although illegal, the neighbour children’s mistake was the least of the day’s stress, and their source of inspiration was obvious.  What is that strange phrase, “Like father, like son”?  Children absorb.  Be careful what you send out.  Talk with children calmly about issues instead of yelling.  Suggesting alternative scenarios helps to prevent similar  issues.  Emotional health requires daily attention.  Boredom is often the thing that comes before trouble.  The only thing I’m ever bored of is violence.  I wish it wasn’t so predictable.  I don’t know how anyone can be truly bored for want of fun.  Use your endless imagination.  At the very least, be neutral.  The word ‘sorry’ has lost all meaning from a history of insincere use.  Live peace.  Prevent ripples of negativity by not sending them out.  Plant seeds of goodness instead.

Where does it all begin?  It is often said that everything is generational, but you don’t have to be the product of your environment.  Babies are not born violent.  They are love energy.  Every generation is responsible for replacing ‘inherited’ negativity with healthy, peaceful lifestyles.  Even if those who surround you are violent, you can choose not to be.  Hate breeds hate.  Violence creates more.  Wars ensue.  But if you choose peace each moment, and teach peace, you can inspire more positive mindsets and actions with yours.  It’s sad to watch young ones follow engrained paths of negativity.  Hop off of that path.  Everyone can choose for themselves, at any point.  Be free of other people’s cloaks of anger and denial.  They are not yours.

You were born from the universe.  You are love.  Think big.  Zoom out.  How do your thoughts, words, and actions affect your entire life?  How do they affect your family and neighbours?  Your children?  How do you affect the earth?  Track the patterns.  Respond, don’t react.  You have the choice of setting healthy boundaries to keep yourself safe.  Don’t be threatened.  Say no.  Stand up for yourself.  Report abuse.  The world needs to be a bully-free zone.  Peace is possible through self-exploration, health education, and the teachings and practices of neutral communication.  Respect and empathy are a relief to our world, an often cowardly world who lashes out before thinking.  Be brave and confront reality.  Inspect your mind.  Trace the threads of negativity.  Where are they coming from?  Cut the cords of violence.  Communicate new paths for your brain to learn and use first…and always.

You choose.  You are responsible for yourself.  Heal.  Let go.  Be free.

 

It’s been a week, and a lifetime, of forming healthy boundaries.  Making exceptions doesn’t put you in a place that you want to be.  Explore your development of healthy boundaries, and let them keep you safe.

Live Peace.  Imagine a respectful world.  We can use our time and energy for goodness.

We choose…Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

(These journal posts are excerpts from my self-health books.)

 

 

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Organic Cottage Garden: Lavender Ice

Amor Milagre Organic Garden Lavender Ice
Amor Milagre Organic Garden Lavender Ice

 

On hot summer days, we make simply refreshing flavoured ice.

Sometimes mint or rosemary, often wild berry, and today…lavender!

Amor Milagre Organic Garden Lavender Ice
Amor Milagre Organic Garden Lavender Ice

 

Homeschool is lovely in the summer.  Explore all things botanical in the garden, come in for a cold drink, and let the mind soak up beautiful latin names, fascinating plant uses, and charming origin stories.  Nature is the best teacher.

A few fresh books will be finished this month, and then it’s off to the printers!

Stay cool.  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

A Gentle Life Collection

Coming Up:  New Audiobooks & An Ethical Paperback Option

 

 

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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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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)

 

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, David Austin English Rose

 

Sweet as June, an English Rose…heavenly scent…

Amor MilagreCottage Garden Design
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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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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Quiet the World

Amor Milagre Cottage Garden End Pollution and Violence

Lay down your weapons and melt them to make bridges

Prevent your threats…..listen

No more pollution

Let seeds wander and grow

Respect women and children

Equality and safety for all

Kind empathic leaders are in and the rest are done

Redesign it all to be healing and proactive

Be honest with therapists and journals before you reenter the world, now with positive habits

Unplug the machines and grow organic edible plants

Plant perennials for pollinators in place of lawns

Quiet the world and listen

Listen to bees humming, birds nesting, babies sleeping, your own energy pulsing, and peace sighing

 

Peace is Possible…so easily possible

Love, Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Cottage Garden End Pollution and Violence

Amor Milagre Cottage Garden End Pollution and Violence

Amor Milagre Cottage Garden End Pollution and Violence

Amor Milagre Cottage Garden End Pollution and Violence

 

 

 

 

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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