With spirits and autumnal tales of love and exploration whirling plum golden leaves in the forefront of my imagination, I’ve decided to make my autumn mood board a sprig early this year. The spooky season is short here in the north, so we try to prolong it, as it is our favourite stretch. Winter is our slumbering cosy time, and I’m glad there is plenty of it here in the mountains as empaths need so much healing. Because there are too many biters and no cool unpolluted water to dive into on these upcoming hot days, I celebrate how this place’s summer rainstorms give off a warm early autumnal mist that I’m used to.
Today, as our mood board photos print, we’re sewing to The Secret of Roan Inish, one of our dears, our most watched film by the in-tune with nature-John Sayles. The score is amazing, and we listen to it on our travels. Our natural mer-clan loves the waves, the myths, the beautiful compositions wet and earthy and full of seaweed, the sweater-pinny combinations, and the work that goes into a handmade and hand-grown life.
Overall, my mood for this autumn is: cosy, magical, quiet, soulful, connected, restful, restorative, herbal, fresh crisp frosty apple spice salty sea air, sensual, empowering, softening, encrusted in fractals, warmth, mischief, sweetness, velvety richness, cool pumpkin hollows, internal gratitude, and reflective healing.
These springspirations were put to good use, and now we’re living in soft cream cottons enjoying our pale pink blooms and baking at the coolest hours. Whilst listening to a bewitching audiobook, we remove these lovelies and tape them into our scrapbook, making space for autumnal pleasures and textures to remind us to keep that season when she arrives.
View the Winter to Spring-Summer board post here. Our year’s ongoing theme is ‘Nurture’, and in Spring we added in ‘Harmony’. Now, with this autumn board, we’re stirring in ‘Layers’ of encrusted, embroidered, adjectives folded in details that taste homey and fulfilling.
We’ve been healing and making space so that new adventures have room to walk. What kinds of shoelaces do they wear? How often do they become untied? Where do they rest their feet after wandering the trees all day? It’s time to describe. It’s time to type up all of my books..and let you enjoy them, too!
Amor Milagre mini replaced the homeschool desk’s spring board with autumnal magic! These babies snuggled into our spell book.
New ideas spark wonderful original stories, witchy fashion designs, and book covers and illustrations. Endless sketchbooks and notebooks pile up in the baby bookshelves, many to be published with mine! Free expression is a daily practice at our Rose Cottage School. Stay tuned…
Cut and pin…arrange…fun!
Autumn is my old beloved, so I was a bit overzealous and happy to have a new printer after being picture-starved for years, and the extras went right into the book. Years ago, I did have a wall-sized board which would have accommodated everyone, but that’s ok. I like packed-full little boards, too. It’s a shame that moving pods and trucks are allowed to be so smokey…they ruined many of our favourite things. Cough, cough. When younger and living in NYC, I made portable boards, printed oh so tiny on 4×6 cards, and I would flip through the little album on buses and subway rides, focusing on my dreams, and not on the vultures circling around me. I don’t get distracted by the outside world. I don’t even let it in really because it’s not allowing sensitive people to be a part of it. All that static has nothing to do with me. Only in this way, it can visit us, to serve us well.
This quarterly exercise is the only time I use online pictures, pinterest especially, as their addition of ads and videos creates a strobe light effect which induces migraines. When young, I used my own drawings and words, magazine tears, and copies of book pages, careful not to fall into the toxic representations that harm young minds. So, this is why real mood boards are so important. One may add hand-written notes, poems, drawings, and scribbles. No charging station needed to change or remove a paper. No screens, just daily visual reminders to do what you like.
And, remember if anyone says that you’re a visual learner, and if you are, then clarify, “Yes, it is ONE of the ways that help me to absorb information, but not the only way.” Let’s not be so ridiculous anymore, please. These limiting labels, that people are so fond of, do more harm than good. This is why I record audiobooks for each of my stories. I’m looking into Braille and foreign translations as well to include all of our senses.
Live your dreams…every day. The law of attraction is a very real energy. I often tell my family and readers, “Dream and help it come true!” These symbols work. They are more than what they appear. They are doors…open them to explore days and days…memories…moods and emotions….a dream life conjured into real hugs and kisses, laughs and giggles.
As I print new stationery and art prints for my shop, as well as homeschool projects for the portfolio, these autumnal goals represented in these gorgeous pinterest images seep into my subconscious which truly works for me. *I save my original Amor Milagre imagery for my work, designs, etc on pinterest so maybe they’ll inspire you! Check out my boards with the ‘P’ link at the bottom of this site’s page.
Fresh pear scents, French braids, and cosy crisp breezes… Love, ~Amor Milagre