After we tidy our Rose Cottage gardens, we like to snuggle up with tea and bakes with spooky shows and funny games. October is play time!
Early October Days, Amor Milagre
In our Atelier
Homeschool art class this week hints at an upcoming collection for my shop: Hand-painted clay ornaments for each season. These ones are just for our own seasonal tree, but the next batch I make will form a limited series of unique holiday decor gifts. Bats, pumpkins, witch’s hats, and ghosts are at play here. Coming soon!
Early October Days, Amor Milagre
Little witches love to giggle over silly games.
This new spirit haunting our game closet, Stupid Deaths, is both interesting and hilarious!
Early October Days, Amor Milagre
Happy guessing…did that really happen?
Early October Days, Amor Milagre
As always, I’ve been writing into the night…new books are under wing. Tomato soup is simmering…
Love to all of the October Babies! ~ Amor Milagre
Shows of the Moment: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954), Sherlock & Daughter, (Agnes Moorehead & Vincent Price in) The Bat, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Nancy Drew, The Munsters, Sabrina the Teenage Witch (90s series and movie), A Discovery of Witches
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.
September Days, Amor Milagre, pumpkin time- meet our first Henry of the season!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.
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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.)
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.
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.
