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Interior Design: Atelier Library Renovation

Amor Milagre Atelier Library Interior Design Renovation
Amor Milagre Atelier Library Interior Design Renovation

 

Our Rose Cottage library renovation is finished!  We will add some little jewels on this shimmering wall over time.  A home evolves as you live in it.  This newly renovated look will age gracefully as we do.  I will resume painting illustrations and typing up my new books to share with you soon.  This large library is also our homeschool room.  We’ll share more about our custom bookcase designs this season.  We are loving the magic of this garden-inspired space.  Put on a record and dance!  All ready to snuggle up and dream away into beautiful story lands and stretch out with peaceful yoga poses.

The before/after reveals will be posted over the winter.  Our kitchen designs are coming up next.

Happy weekend!  Love, ~Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Atelier Library Interior Design Renovation
Amor Milagre Atelier Library Interior Design Renovation

Designer Tips:  Match your primer to the overall wallpaper colour so it looks seamless.  Use FSC Certified, non-toxic, unscented materials and glues.  This flooring is sustainably and responsibly sourced and made.  When using green materials, your home is healthier for the short and long of it…for you and the earth.  We are all about being healthy and cosy, so if furniture only looks good it will not be a good choice.  Style, comfort, and sustainability matters.  Go for all three!

 

 

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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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Shipping Update & Renovations

Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.
Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.  One piece at a time!

 

Shipping Update: As we are renovating my atelier (and this sitting room) this week, all new custom orders will ship a few weeks later, but all in stock pieces will still ship quickly as per usual.

Thank you for your patience. So excited for these design reveals! ✨ Coming up this autumn…

Love, ~ Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.
Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.  Cork underlayment for joint health.

 

Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.
Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.  Sort first by size and use in a pattern.

 

Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.
Amor Milagre Home Design and Renovation Journal. FSC Certified flooring.

 

 

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Evening Kitchen Dancing

Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.  After/during the dance:  licorice tea.

Do you dance?

I love dancing, playing piano and guitar, and singing…and after you haven’t had them near in ages, it’s all the more beautiful.  Even without the floor and keys, even without a voice, the mind can play any time or place.  Use the air.  Imagine it.  Nothing planned, no steps or sheets to follow, just play.  Hear the notes?  Feel the movement?  Ramble along, wander, get lost in the senses of them entangling together…

Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.  Nightgowns are my favourite dancewear. Never pointe…but a safe balance of ballet and yoga…just dance barefoot.  Our new cosy mats and runner rug all layered up feel cushioned and healthy for plies, cat/cows, and cooking/dishes, too.  Stretch….and feel better…feel the vibration of the piano and violin strings…so alive…

 

Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.  Evening is a glorious moment.  Peace.

 

Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Evening Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.  Getting tomorrow’s cooks ready and dreaming up new oil paintings for large wall spaces in this new cottage kitchen.  Prints of these paintings will be in my shop once made.

 

Now that we have finished our new kitchen, I continue my evenings of dancing there, with a farmhouse sink ledge for a barre, moving towards the soft notes and crickets.

I found some soothing piano by Joep Beving to add to my favourites.  Hope you enjoy it, too!

Stretch, breathe, slowly strengthen, and feel…lovely.  ~Amor Milagre

 

Morning Baby Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre
Morning Baby Kitchen Dancing, Custom Interior Design by Amor Milagre.

And dance again in the morning sunlight with the babies…

 

 

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Miniviews in the Garden

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  It’s snowing…

 

This morning’s Miniview answers a mix of some of your questions.  They were the one-of-a-kinds, so I’ve grouped them together here.  I will post another to answer one specific question soon.

Amor MilagreGarden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  Soft cheeks, so kissable.   Heavenly scented rose blooms…

 

Q:  You mention the word ‘hope’ a lot in your books.  How do you sustain hope during these uncertain times?

A:  Yes, I love the word hope.  To me, it means a possibility that we can choose and allow good energy to live, thrive, and spread.  Hope isn’t a mere wish or just an idea.  Hope indicates that peace is always there.  We just need to choose it.  Awareness and helpfulness are ways that hope blooms into a wonderful daily reality.  Dream it and help it come true.

 

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  Can you reach me?

 

Q:  When will The Love Letter Diaries books be available in audio?  Love the books, but also want to listen in the car on the way to work.  So calming.  Can’t wait for the next volume!!!

A:  Thank you!  All of my books have the audio option so far, except the Leona books as they are the longest.  I am still editing those files, and I will have that series available as a digital download audio option this winter at the latest.  Thank you!  They are my favourites as well.

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  As the blueberries fade out, the blackberries ripen.  Everyone is young once.

 

Q:  Are you still making organic cotton clothes?  I’ve worn out that dress you made for me years ago.  The cream one with the embroidery on the hem.  We have some baby showers coming up and need more of those tiny outfits.  Are you doing custom clothing orders still?  I couldn’t find the option in your shop.

A:  Thanks!  Those were fun to make.  I have sold out of that collection of the little suits and dresses, but a few graphic toddler tees are still available.  I plan on releasing some new organic apparel collections after our atelier renovations are finished.  I do have magical nursery artwork, stationery, and sweet children’s books available.  They’re wonderful as gifts, and I can write a custom inscription, if you like.  Message me!  Thanks, Hannah.  I do remember that dress!

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  Party skirts sway in the breeze…

 

Q:  Who are the artists that work for you?  I like the varied styles, but I cannot find their names.  Can I order a custom size?  I’m interested in the person who does the pastels.

A:  Thank you, but it’s all done by me, Emmanuelle, aka Amor Milagre.  I am the original and authentic maker of my collections and I sign all of my artwork and books for each order.  Depending on my mood, and the medium, the pieces may look a little different.  I don’t believe an artist is limited to one look, style, or medium.  Charcoal drawings have a different energy than landscape oils.  You move differently with a special posture and time for each, but they all build on one another.  The same goes for books, music, sewing, home design, dance, and photographs.  I like to explore different forms of expression.  It’s just what comes out in that moment.  What does your soul need?  How?  They are all connected though, by me.  Yes, please message me for your specific custom sizes.  Over the years, I’ve made tiny to gigantic pieces.  I have many new pieces coming up!  Thank you.

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  A sea of fern waves…

 

Q:  How can I apply to work for your company?  I am an art teacher, and I’m interested in what you are doing.  Are you still holding classes?  If so, I’m interested.  I’m a bit rusty.

A:  Thank you, but at this time, it’s just me.  I have postponed all Amor Milagre classes and clubs until the pandemic is actually over.  I might do a collection of video classes later on that customers can purchase in my shop.   I was the only teacher when I held my classes, and I’m the only person in my company.  I do all of the different stages of work for my company.  I have plans for expanding my online shop to include a local New England shop later on.  I’ll email you then.

As for the rusty part:  Practice drawing every day.  Begin again…as if you didn’t know any techniques or any art history.  Use big, sweeping gestures to loosen up.  Relax your wrist.  Don’t think.  Feel it, use your senses and intuition, let go of all expectations, and express… Use nature as your forever model and meditate there.  (These are some of the things that I teach in my classes for all ages/levels.)

I encourage you to explore what you could offer in your own potential business.  You can also teach online, make process/demo videos, sell your art, and teach/volunteer locally.  Community centers and children/adults everywhere need good safe teachers.  Building up a community of inspiring teachers and thriving students is important.  Get involved in community projects…or start new ones.  Support the arts.  Thanks for your interest!

*This answer is also meant for any college students who asked if they could intern with me.  We’ve been self-isolating to stay healthy, sorry!  Hope you find that right fit for your credits.  I know it’s not always easy to find.  Stay safe!

Amor Milagre Garden Design
Amor Milagre Garden Design.  Dancers point toes to the sky!

 

I will answer more of your thoughtful questions later on in another one of my Miniviews (Mini Interviews).

In the meantime…

*Express yourself, paint with plants, and adore all of yourself.  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

 

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Café Amor Milagre: Sensitive Kitchen & Recipe Design

Cafe Amor Milagre Writing Spot Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Cafe Amor Milagre Writing Spot Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation

A story as delicious as a good dinner…  In my original plans for my company, I designed Café Amor Milagre.  The idea is a plant-based, vegan, organic, European peasant-style, garden-fresh café to accompany my shop.  As my store is online, my upcoming cookbooks will teach how to bring our kitchen to yours with simply delicious recipes.  We adore this custom home café that we have nearly finished building at our Rose Cottage.  I’ll keep my original company plans, perhaps to open up later on down the road.  The world can really use more of this type of dining.  We never eat out, so we made our own restaurant at home, growing plants in the garden for our daily food.

I love to lounge by our grand new windows that look onto the morning’s dewy flowers and herbs, write a new story, share a funny teatime with my family, and dream in the evening sconce lamplight.  Simple peaceful pleasures build up a beautiful life…and story.  I’ve written so many books this summer, and every day there are three more.  Now, I just have to catch up on printing them all so you can enjoy them, too!  I’m out of ink and journals, and my poor hand needs a break.  But then, oh!

I will publish more treasury compilation-style books going forward as printing costs are high.  My shop uses sustainable materials, which do cost more for me, but the preservation of nature is vital.  In general, the cost of everything now is quite high.  I design my products to be as affordable as possible.  I don’t believe that high prices elevate works of art.  I believe in equality.  In making affordable collections, everyone is invited.  With treasury books, my readers can enjoy many stories within one book.  Quick, connected readers will really appreciate this type of book.  Reread these new classics over again.  This will be the new format for some of the children’s book collections and the Self-Health Novelettes.  I do have some books that I’ll release on their own as they have specific illustration designs that need a certain book shape or size.  Some novels, like The Love Letter Diaries, already contain four seasonal books within one volume.  I will keep that style for the second year/volume of that series.

As our renovations wind down, I will release many new artwork and stationery pieces and collections.  If only the computers could keep up with my brain, I’d be all caught up.  That is my process though…true thought and handmade creative works, inspired by nature.  Cherish the real, the natural, yourself.

Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Kitchen
Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Kitchen

 

Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Kitchen
Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Kitchen

Children’s meals are easy to assemble and beautiful with whole foods, such as these nuts.  I love how the walnuts look like owls.  The senses relish in the shapes, scents, textures, flavours, and colours of natural plant foods.  Let children design their own lunch and flavour combinations.  Little chefs always come up with something we haven’t tried yet!

Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Whole Foods Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation

Design Tip for A Calming Space:  If you group ‘like’ items, or items that you use together, on a tray then the visual clutter goes away and you have a sensually pleasing atmosphere.  Store unneeded items out of sight.  Have a focal point, and let it be useful.  Try it in any room.  Do you feel more relaxed?

Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation

What is a soup?  Easy.  Add fresh vegetables to a pot, add some spices, add water.  Cook.  Enjoy!  (My cookbooks include a few more details, but try it!)  Last evening, I wrote a story near a simmering tomato fennel soup.  Our custom kitchen design was intended for just this moment.  For this one, I will puree it.  For our regular weekly recipe, we don’t.  These simply nourishing soups are versatile and help sustain your week.  Delicious recipes, such as these, are featured in my upcoming vegan, organic, sugar-free cookbook.  Enjoy soup every day of the year to boost health and relax, knowing that you always have a good dinner waiting for you!

Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation.  A New Kitchen-Warming Gift from my husband!  This pot has locking safety handles and a strainer lid option.  It’s just the right size for most of our recipes, but it uses more storage space with the handles.  Overall it’s a great green design, but next time remove the click handle sound.  We understand how to use it.  Cooking designs can be made much quieter.

 

I love gentle rain showers and slow cooks.  If a recipe is going to take a while, it can do it on its own.  We’re quite busy, so minimal steps and a house filled with a gorgeous subtle scent is my design.  The buzzing machines that I do not love do not live in our kitchen.  They live on the other side of the door, in the pantry.  We also made sure to research the quietest ones.  The pantry, mudroom, and a full bath/laundry room are our next renovation projects to finish this fall/winter.  Yes, every inch of the house and gardens…  Sensitive design considers your whole health and how the senses work.  I design to keep and boost energy, not zap it away.  Even our clocks don’t tick, and why should they?  Check back to see how we have done this to our entire Rose Cottage.

I’m happy that we are finishing up our last rooms.  We deserve a break to watch the flowers grow and have little dates in our cosy café.  Last night, we had a half-date half-measuring party.  Just us two…and I do love it when my husband says…”I have a design question for you.”  Get out the pencil and paper…let’s figure it out.  Can you tell that we like a bit of a puzzle?

If your children need something to do this weekend, consider a little scavenger hunt with clues on notepaper leading to a surprise..or even just to breakfast!  Our family loves to do things like this.  The mind loves to learn and be useful.  Recipes are a versatile way to keep your senses moving.  Growing and preparing organic food is a wonderful puzzle to practice.

Love, ~ Amor Milagre

Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation
Tomato Fennel Soup Amor Milagre Organic Vegan Cooking & Kitchen Interior Design Renovation

 

 

 

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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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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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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…

Amor Milagre Home Design
Getting things moved in a bit…

 

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

Amor Milagre Home Design
Love, the Grandmothers

 

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

Amor Milagre Home Design
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.

Amor Milagre Home Design
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.

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

 

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

 

Amor Milagre Home Design
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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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.

 

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A balanced aesthetic looks natural.

 

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Pretty view from snuggleland.

 

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Leftover decor loves to adorn new spaces in the home.

 

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Don’t Forget!  Tippets for Mice, Dollhouse Pixies, and Borrowers.

 

 

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Home Renovation Design Diaries: Choosing Empowering & Healing Artwork

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At home, at Christmas Rose Cottage, I love richly romantic art, empowering for all genders, depicting gentle, natural scenes to encourage self reflection and a very personal relationship with the higher Self, the inner and true self.  Be it my own loving artwork or prints of passions from long ago, little higher selves can live around these positive images, choose their own, and always look within for whole health Love to feel their bright light of love shining out into the universe, forever glowing for their true hearts to be in their world with clear senses.

Change your artwork with the season if you like to infuse your days with cozy, natural inspiration.  Wander a museum, art gallery, online art history research, or your pencil and paper.  What kind of artwork imagery are you drawn to?  Where do our connections come from?  What, or who, we connect to from forever ago, yes it may be familiar, but we can still choose, now in this moment, is this helpful or harmful?  What feelings does an image, or soul, invoke?  Familiar doesn’t have to mean positive…or negative…we have a choice.  Peace and love this day, holiday, and all days ahead. Design is powerful and so are all of our choices, which imagery is peaceful and calming for you?  Surround yourself in what you Love, XOXO ~ Amor Milagre

New Home & Garden Renovation Design Diaries & Tips:  More from this new series is coming up, including the rest of this living room transformation!

For Custom Paint Colours, Artwork, & Interior Design, please send your messages and details here.

Music of the Moment:  Pale Blue Eyes, The Velvet Underground

 

 

 

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Home Renovation Design Diaries: Living Room Fireplace Makeover

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Just in time for cuddling up for the holidays, this fireplace renovation design is now bright, light, clean, and cozy.  Slowly and steadily, smoothly and patiently, we are renovating our entire new-old house.  An earthy deep plum hugs the walls of this darling sitting room.  Cream linen parge kissed the dusty bricks a million times to form a protective, clean, and chic cloak.  I design by instinct, to soothe the senses for maximum energy, using sustainable, healthy materials.  This shadowy sitting room design keeps to it’s natural moody tendency, but instead of looking dingy or dirty, the darker walls and the lightened fireplace are a crisp, delicious focus.  The room is now centered, and we feel more balanced being there.  This colour combination is uncluttered and very fun to decorate and accessorize.  Deep red wreaths and blacksmith pieces complement winter holiday decor of sweet stockings, Christmas tree ornaments, table runners, mini glitter houses, golden gift boxes, tartan plaid gift bags, all chosen to match and to be reused each year in this loving, celebratory room.  This is the old fashioned children’s toy playroom as well.  Wooden trains, an antique puppet theater, musical instruments, and a rocking bear all love to be here.  Berry rich velvet pillows and fluffy cream throws lounge on the new caramel sofa, to be revealed soon!  Happy Holidays!  XOXO ~Amor Milagre

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New Home & Garden Renovation Design Diaries & Tips:  More from this new series is coming up, including the rest of this living room transformation!

For Custom Paint Colours & Interior Design, please send your messages and details here.

Music of the Moment:  Hallelujah, Kaylee Rodgers & Killard House School Choir (We love these kids!)

 

 

 

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Home Renovation Design Diaries & Tips: Yoga Painting

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 Flocks of W’s and V’s wrap up the walls of our new home at Rose Cottage.  Patch, sand, prime, paint, repeat.  Stretch and bend, over, under, on tiptoes, and balanced on ladders.  How tall are you, what is your reach, and how tall are the ceilings?  Which tools could help you ergonomically paint your darling home? 

I’ve received some questions about renovating.  Here are some painting tips.  Your best friend is practice, nothing fancy, but your home will look fancy!

  • Rollers & Extenders:  I find an extender useful with a roller for the middle to top in one position, then stretch to bend for the bottom.  With so much to do, the body needs care and caution.  For high ceilings, steady ladders and a good extender help your back.  This also helps to finish the job much faster and smoother.
  • Angled paint brushes are great for striking out ceilings, woodwork, and corners.  Go slow and steady.  You can always touch up ceilings later if a bristle flecks paint.
  • Use No VOC paint and open windows.  Towels under closed doors help other rooms stay unscented.
  • Tiny art brushes are great for narrow window grid trim.  Painting tape keeps trim and window glass clean.  Use the tape like a straight edge.  Pull it to bend, and press to seal.  This reminded me of my 2D foundation design class for colour theory.  We taped boards to layer shapes and colours with paint and matte medium.  Once you get the trick of it, by practicing, you’ll never scrape paint off glass again.
  • Stretch like in yoga.  Bend, balance, strengthen, but don’t breathe in the paint. 🙂
  • Reuse rollers and brushes by keeping in airtight bag during a project.  Wash when done with a colour, and let dry.  If painting many areas, a rotating routine helps by having several brushes and rollers to use.  Label colours on each bag and set with matching paint can.
  • *Don’t spray the paint as it’s unhealthy for your breathing air.
  • Playing music, for whichever mood you’re ready for, helps you sway with the brushstrokes.  Take your time to save time.
  • I like to paint the trim and doors the same as the wall for a serene aesthetic.
  • Taking breaks is good for muscles, drying times, and an energy boost.  Eating well and sleeping early helps complete renovations faster with less frustrating accidents.  I like to map out a painting routine for the week with room goals.  It helps keep track of what is done, and what is ready to do next.
  • Supportive shoes, ones you don’t mind getting a bit painty, lend strength and longevity to painting sessions.
  • Tarps help keep splatters off floors and walls.  Burlap ones rattle less than plastic ones when windows are open.
  • Temperature is important.  Is the humidity right?  Is it warm enough to paint?  Stir paint before using.
  • Check and clean up as you go.  Check for drips, and smooth out overlap marks.
  • Remove hardware when possible and reattached later.  Tape and cover permanent hardware to keep it unpainted and useful.
  • Use the right paint for each surface.  All your work is worth the energy if the paint stays nice and doesn’t chip due to the wrong paint choice.  Look at the labels.  Trim paint for wood trim.  Wall paint and often paint/primer all in one for walls.  Anything metal, plastic, or other, find the matching paint type.  Ask the shop for advice.
  • Check the paint colour on the chip to see if it was mixed properly before leaving the store.  Check the colour with a sample before ordering large gallon quantities.  Paint a spot on each wall to check how light and shadow change your colour.
  • Surface preparation is key for smooth walls.  Fill in cracks, holes, and dents.  Sand smooth and prime.  Check before painting.

When choosing paint colours, the natural light and room purpose are important to consider.  Look for healthy no-VOC paint options.  Find the family of colours you like, then choose one with enough earthiness for a soothing countenance.  Try it on every wall to see the shadows at all times of day.  What feels comforting to you?

Any more reno questions, I’ll be here painting, and I’ll get back to you once I wash my painty hands.  Happy Colours!  XOXO ~Amor Milagre

Coming Up:  A Custom Colour Service

New Home & Garden Renovation Design Diaries & Tips:  More from this new series is coming up!

Music of the Moment:  Ace of Spades, Link Wray

 

 

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Q & A Miniview with Amor Milagre: A Scrumptious Trio

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Thank you for all your lovely questions, comments, shares, and stories this past year.  In this Miniview (Mini Q & A Interview Series), I’ll answer one question at a time.

Q:  What are your favorite food combinations for cooking family dinners?

A:  I have many, but for Winter, I really love organic ginger root, garlic, and shallots together…in everything!  It works gently in sauces, soups, appetizers, on vegetables, in dips, and with fruit to create a softness.  The scent fills the house with a warm, cozy cloud of sweet ginger.  Our bodies love it because it really helps boost the immune system and keep us healthy with all the germs about in town.  I like to sauté these three, minced, in olive oil, salt, and pepper, on low heat.  When tender, add in other things or add it on top of others.  We’ll be growing these in our new garden, here at Christmas Rose Cottage, this Spring -Summer -Autumn.  This healthy superfood grouping is soothing for the senses and for stomachs, little and big.  Ginger was very helpful for maternity illness.  I find natural foods so beautiful.  The garlic’s airy winged shells, the ginger’s aromatic colour, and my tearful shallotful eyes try to admire their lilac and russet hues fading into one another. 

I have included this trio in my new Cookbooks, releasing in 2020.  A new Film Series that involves some organic vegan recipe ‘How To’s’ is also on the menu.  More Q & A’s are coming up!  Please message your questions here.  Happy Holiday Cooking!  XOXO ~Amor Milagre

 

Music of the Moment:  Vent Frais, Cécile Corbel

 

 

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Planting Spring Flower Bulbs & Seeds in Autumn, Soil Health

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After long rains, we ventured out into puddly soil and fresh morning air in wellies and our ‘Monty Don blues’ (a favourite before we knew of him and that he adores blues for gardening, too.)  Dear little plants nestled into their newly raked flower beds.  Many deep roots and overgrown misplaced plants were moved and removed from beds near the house to allow for lower evergreen perennial gardens.  This design plan helps the house look grander, cozier, visible, and darling.  It also allows for more plants, wildlife, and pollinators.  A symphony of beautiful plants, timed to the rhythms of the seasons.  Whites, creams, apricots, plums, and pinks are on the planting menu this month.  Tulips, alliums, and daffodils of varying textures and hues pair well with an old bulb digger shovel.  A faerie garden for white and apricot foxglove and other English cottage garden flowers is carefully being planted, each wonderfully beautiful seed at a time, in between delicate moss and mushrooms and under a carpet of golden leaves.  We’re careful not to tread on anyone sleeping under leaf tents while planting magic for Spring.

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For a natural planting, think of the wind and soil!  How does the wind carry crisp Autumn flower seeds to new homes?  How do bulbs expand their homes naturally under the soil and how do animals help?  How does a magical underground world of fungi reduce the world’s pollution?  It is truly inspiring!  Plant in small groups, here and there.  Not lined up, but in cozy organic clusters, with the recommended spacing and planting depth.  Think of how plants look in Nature, huddled in little families by a river bank or dotted and spread across a field of infinite plant species.  Think of the heights of each plant, the colours, the textures, bloom times, sun exposure, wind, temperature, soil, and drainage.  For many bulbs and seeds, Winter’s cold temperatures activate the plant to grow in the Spring & Summer.  It’s important to learn which ones needs this and which need immediate planting in warm soil, like tomato seeds in early Summer.  After lots of planting, stretching the legs with a walk about the garden is good before washing up.  How simply luxurious it feels to get your hands ‘dirty’ while planting exciting colours for Spring!  

Have fun, too!  If you’re upset or rushed when planting, it may show when time comes for blooms.  Singing or humming to your plants is positive energy that will help them grow and please yourself as you plant.  Researching your plants and taking pleasure in learning about them will help create an ease before planting time.  No need to mark everything while mixing your bulbs and seeds, as the whole garden would be covered in markers.  Developing a memory of plants is a good practice, and a journal helps keep track of plants between seasons (Coming Soon to My Shop!), as well as video diaries and pictures.  Add in other perennials amongst them.  How beautiful it is to have a mixture of unique beings all together in one garden bed!  What a joy it is to express through the living medium of gardening.  No painting is as delicate and breath-giving as a shimmering velvety translucent flower petal, thought of by the ever impressive Mamma Nature.  An idea, first mapped out through paints on paper, then come to life in the Earth, breathing fresh air and swaying in the wind!

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Remember the magic from centuries and eons ago.  It’s in the soil!  Everything grows from the soil.  Once upon a time, soil health was at the forefront of all minds because, as it still is today, it is vital for our existence and daily life.  It is also the source of great imagination!  Stop pollution and take great care of our past, present, and future.  (Paving is a type of pollution).  Healthy soil decreases pollution.  Organic composting and caring for our garden soil is of great importance for all.  Soil health is a big resource, priority, and responsibility.  Think of all who live in the soil.  Worms are a great resource, as are all wildlife.  Grow your own organic foods for optimal health and great enjoyment.  Gardening is helpful exercise for body, mind, heart, and soul.  Growing plants from seeds and bulbs encourages strength and hardiness for the plants.  It aids in a positive personal character and growing lasting patience for the gardener.  It teaches us which plants like to grow where.  There is a relationship there, if gardeners listen to the Earth.  So many answers speak to us.  What colours, textures, shapes, scents, and senses would you like to encourage to grow in your garden?  Think long term.  Take care and time.  A garden can grow in any size space from pot to field.  Everyone is a gardener.

More gardening posts are coming up, and stay tuned to see these darlings bloom next Spring & Summer.  Little voices whisper to each bulb and seed as they’re planted, “Sleep well in your Winter bed, see you soon, sweet dreams, I love you!”  Happy Autumn Gardening!  XOXO ~Amor MilagreAmor Milagre Home & Garden Renovation Design Diaries & Tips Planting Spring Flower Bulbs & Seeds in Autumn Trees Golden Leaves Ethical Gift Shop amormilagre.com

Many of our beautiful garden plants and this text will appear in my upcoming children’s books, artwork, and stationery collections.

New Home & Garden Renovation Design Diaries & Tips:  More from this new series is coming up!

 

Music of the Moment:  Celtic Winter Folksongs

 

 

 

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Home & Garden Renovation Design Diaries & Tips: Right Plant Right Place

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‘The right plant in the right place’ gardening principle is all about choosing the right plant, that you love, and placing it in the right conditions (soil, wind, air, water, sun, temperature, etc), but also in the right place in the garden. 

Our house renovations extend into the garden as the overgrown shrubs and trees were placed too near the house walls, windows, and doors years ago.  Choosing the right plant for the expected mature growth is also very important.  Yes, all the baby plants look tiny and darling when you first tuck them into their new beds, but oh how they will grow!  The plants in our garden here are over 30 years old and many look lovely as a hedge border, but too many are sick because they are too near manmade structures and are not getting the proper amount of light and air circulation.  House foundation and siding issues are common for old houses that have large, deeply rooted, plants too near the house walls.  This week, we’ve been busy removing such large plants, but it’s sad to cut any living plant.  For empaths, it hurts.  It’s very important to choose and place your plants in a well-planned spot because they spend their whole lives striving, growing, and surviving the conditions you place them in, only to be cut down at their beautiful peak.

Everyone can design their gardens with the knowledge of plants so that we may look out the windows to admire them, sit amongst them with a cup of tea, take care of them over a long loving lifetime, and so they may proudly grow in beauty and age undisturbed.  Research your plants before you add them into the Earth, move them, prune, or remove them.

*All ages enjoy Nature, gardening, and plants.  Nature calms the nerves, solves problems, and restores us to our real Selves.  This state opens our ‘Light of Love’ up to the knowledge of the Universe, and this helps us, here, in our daily lives.  Be kind to your plants and they will continue to take great care of you, too.  Live in Nature, where life makes sense…Shop Amor Milagre Garden Redesign Home & Garden Renovation Right Plant Right Place Autumn 2019 Ethical Romantic Gift Collections amormilagre.com

Plants provide beautiful sound barriers as well as creating fresh oxygen for us all.  They are dependable homes for all living animals and insects, and inspire us to live outside more.  If you do have to cut branches, place them in the woods or in a spot in your garden to make a nice organic compost pile.  This also makes a nice home for your garden dwelling wildlife.  Today, we made a kind of burrow stack in the side woods and invited all of the animals and faeries to nestle in before Winter.  Back into the Earth to renew and provide nutrients for a most precious gift, Soil.

How difficult are the roots to remove?  Probably very as that is their beautiful design.  Will everyone like the plants you’re adding?  Yes, at some point, we all move on and new gardeners come in.  It’s tricky to please everyone as plants keep our connections and memories, but if we let go and sense the plants as they truly are, we can appreciate them as they are, connected in Nature.  We couldn’t help but notice that rhododendrons are tricky ones.  Roots spreading sideways like walking trees…so many roots and shoots.  These plants need space, so next to a house is not a good place for them, especially if left to grow into a hedge.

Our new garden plans are coming up so please stay tuned!  In the meantime, take a wander outside into the botanical world and browse your library.  Experience the marvels of Nature.  You can save seeds and spread Nature everywhere again, while keeping in mind to preserve our silly manmade structures, so we use less of Nature’s resources to rebuild our neglected, non-living contraptions.  Exploring how Nature grows proves human invention nonsensical.  How truly smart Nature is…how she weaves all her creations together in such a harmonious world of inclusiveness.  We are the ones who are getting in her way.  Oh, how I wish I were the wind, a snail, a fox, or a more natural human…perhaps I once was and will be again…but for now, I’ll take care of her and us.  Happy Nature Explorations!  XOXO ~Amor Milagre

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Many of our beautiful garden plants will appear in my upcoming children’s books, artwork, and stationery collections.

Coming Up:  New Garden Beds and Planting Spring Bulbs and Seeds

New Home & Garden Renovation Design Diaries & Tips:  More from this new series is coming up!

 

Music of the Moment:  Scarborough Fair, Simon & Garfunkel

 

 

 

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Home Renovation Design Diaries: Good Morning, Rose Cottage

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For months prior to moving, I planned the designs for our new home.  Only after removing the layers of days lived before could I recognize this house as our home.  Good Morning, Rose Cottage!  We’ll help you to be a cozy reverie before the winter holidays visit.

The dusty & dysfunctional:  curtains, carpets, plumbing, fixtures, cabinets, windows, doors, and heating system need removing, updating, and fixing.

This month’s renovations include:

  • New flooring (cork underlay and FSC Certified sustainable engineered wood flooring)
  • Editing the gardens to allow for Spring bulbs and new garden designs
  • Updating bathrooms
  • Washing Windows
  • Begin to Replace the Entire Heating System
  • Parging textured walls and fireplace
  • Paint swatches everywhere including the exterior, patching, and painting
  • Measuring for new furniture, designs to build, and lighting
  • A general unpacking of our things and tidying/selling of things left behind

There is much to do and little time, but the breeze is lovely and Autumn is letting her hair down in golden leaves.  More renovation inspiration to come.  Happy Autumn Leaf Enjoying Days and Happy Renovating to those walking in our dusty shoes!  XOXO ~Amor Milagre

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New Home & Garden Renovation Design Diaries & Tips:  More from this new series is coming up!

Music of the Moment:  The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”

 

 

 

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Custom Built Home Design Moments: Goodnight, Dove Cottage

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Here are just a few images and snippets of the home we built with loving hearts and hands.

Goodnight, Dove Cottage

We have moved from this house near the beach, and we now live in the mountains.

Our new house renovation will begin soon!

XOXO ~Amor Milagre

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The new house designs are planned and will be excitedly shared here as each room is updated.  Good designs take time to grow just as a garden evolves in time.  A house is not finished and full all at once.  Over the years, we can make and stumble upon things to adorn the walls and sketchbooks.  Renovations will be appearing in this Amor Milagre journal and design books in the coming seasons.  Our new home will provide more time for me to release many collections, as well as a quieter lifestyle for our family.  We hope no one pollutes our new reverie as they did our darling Dove Cottage.  All the good memories we do have from this house are layered with the stress of the sound pollution.  We look forward to truly wonderful and healthy memories.

My book characters were born in our first house, inspiring silly dreams at bedtime, many of which are still waiting to jump into the Shop.  My husband hand-cleared the land for the house, made paths in the woods by walking his adored daily stroll in the trees years before we met.  Later, we married in our wooded haven.  We watched a family of deer cross the snowy yard every twilight.  Toys danced on the new FSC Certified flooring and little hands circled their first crayon masterpiece, making first storybooks.  New vegan recipes shined in the organic no-dig garden and were enjoyed at the table.  Illustrations graced the walls, beautifully papered with non-toxic, unscented materials.  Radiant heat kept us cozy in the cold months, and mini-split heat pumps cooled us on hot days.  All would have been more enjoyable if we could feel the breeze through our new rooms, but the sound pollution from machines, highways, deforestation, and disrespectful new neighbours increased to a level so hard to exist in, our beautiful new large windows that brought Nature in, had to stay closed.  No open fresh air means ill health, even with a mechanical ventilation system.  Where is common curtesy?  Where is compassion?  Where are manners and human dignity?  Where is Love for all living things?  We’re hopefully moving there…or at least we will continue to encourage these loving practices wherever we go…

‘Dove Cottage’ is only now ‘finished’ because we are leaving it.  A home is never ‘done’, but rather it changes over time and when in new hands.  We only just now finished the interior projects in order to move, some varying from our plans, and after all of our work, we haven’t even been able to live in the finished spaces due to our hastened move caused by sound pollution.  Though we did carve out some lovely exterior gardens, we haven’t had time to finish the garden plans around the house to share.  Our sacrifice, work, money, muscle, patience, and every second from the past several years was dedicated to Dove Cottage.  All was done by our loving hands and imagination with good health in mind for each choice.  It has been an unnecessary struggle. We didn’t even get to try the new shower or kitchen that we have only just finished.  We told the house to share the Loving Energy we gave her to the new owners and visitors.

***Amor Milagre, and our family, is in no way associated with any new owners, but our original designs of this house are copyrighted:  All Rights Reserved © 2011-2019 Amor Milagre.  I will finish and release some projects that include imagery from this house, but if any images of our house are shared online that are not by myself, Amor Milagre, then please remember that it is not us and we are not responsible for them or any messages or actions they put out into the Universe.  The internet sometimes connects images, but the sources are often lost, so please do not confuse Amor Milagre with anyone else.  The house will look similar to how it does now, as fixtures, wallpaper, paint colours, curtains, and other items are staying.  Of course, any changes to the designs going forward are not done by us and we are not associated with or responsible for new or changed designs after we move.  We are not them, and they are not us.  We designed and made this house.  Our new house will be our home and the new place of Atelier Amor Milagre (Design Studio & Office).

*Humans need to realize what they are doing to their own lives and everything all over.  Deforestation destroys ecosystems and sound barriers.  Machines (and neighbours even after speaking to them and then reporting them) need to stop polluting in every way.  We hope to regain our hearing that was lost and to recover from illnesses and stress made by constant sound pollution.  It is very serious and needs awareness to be made for it in order for healthy long-term changes to be made worldwide.  We hope to build a new home to last many lifetimes in a peaceful place for good health, and not suffer anymore from the selfishness of others.  That was what our Dove Cottage was supposed to be and why every second was pushed for it so that at some point we could settle in and truly live.  The nomadic life is exhausting and upsetting.  Everyone craves ‘home’, wherever that is for them.  We simply want to go home.

Leaving our home was made worse by the current system for selling and buying.  The real estate system is dysfunctional and massively problematic to endure.  It has failed us since Spring.  It is completely unorganized, out of order, and one late email or misplaced paper from any one of the many people involved can cause an entire deal to fall apart after the last second is up.  The incredibly hectic, unrealistic way it operates is unacceptable.  Everyone who speaks of it has their own terrible tale.  We have informed the ‘people in charge’ of this system of healthy ideas for a complete redesign of this industry.  You can use your voice to change this system.  Find your state board of realtors to let them know how troubling this system is.  They are aware of the issues, but don’t even apologize for it.  “That’s the way it is…” they say.  For everyone’s sake, they need to change it.  It’s not a nice work day for them either.  For us, it’s been yet another challenge to untangle.  We don’t want to just get through it, forget it, and move on to more positive things because, if there is an issue that affects everyone, we must try to change it to be positive for everyone.  It is still our problem even after we move.  What if we have to move again, or our friend needs to move, or anyone needs to move?  We don’t want the same system to impair our children’s life later on..or now.  There is no steadiness for planning.  Everything is last minute and you can’t count on it.  It causes you to tell your children unreliable information and that is confusing and distressing to your daily life, memories, and planning.  Every detail of life is on hold and disturbed for who knows how long.  The fees are too high, and not affected by poor performance; there is no pay reduction consequence for missing deadlines or poor communication.  We had to do most of the work ourselves to get anything done.  Another industry that needs more care, healthier options, and to charge less is the construction business.  We build our houses ourselves because we have to, even though we have very little time with both of us working full time jobs and parenting.  The local contractors overcharge and don’t provide healthy practices or good craftsmanship.  They also pollute your home, as does the real estate system, even when scent/pollution rules are set for showings and appointments.

*We really care about what we do, whether that is making a family dinner, designing our home, or painting up collections for the Amor Milagre Shop.  What we all do matters greatly to everyone and our Selves.

Each industry needs a re-design with Good Health for All as the focus.  What industries have you been involved in or have experience with?  How can you make healthy choices and changes?  Let’s not ignore problems.  Let’s resolve them.

We dearly hope to at long last be settled and sleep well, even though we have to start over once again, rebuilding an old house, after building an efficient lovely new one with amazing healthy features and non-toxic sustainable beautiful materials.  It’s amazing how truly hard it has been, having a baby, being ill, working, building, enduring and rebuilding our life every day just because the people around us do not care about their effect on the world.  All with little to no sleep due to neighbours and highways (deforestation).  Not being able to open the windows due to sound pollution causes so many illnesses and all can be prevented.  Fresh air is vital.  The nervous system and immune system need to feel safe, quiet, calm, and nurtured for good whole health.  Trusting your instincts is important, but exhausting if all you hear is threatening sound pollution.  Life does not need to be so difficult, complex, and painful.  Life, by Nature, is absolutely beautiful, if we let it be beautiful for all of us, every day connecting with Nature.  Be aware, be kind, be sensical, be gentle, be loving, be purely you!  XOXO  ~Amor Milagre

We Moved! All New Orders Will Ship Upon Reopening Oct 8th.

Thank you for your Patience.

 

Coming Up:

New Home Renovations!

New Book:  The Art of Packing & Moving

More Sustainable Home Design journal posts and Design Book Collections, including content from this post and my website. 

 

A Few Related Posts:

Sound Pollution: Quiet the Machines of Humans. Connect to a Sense of Nature.

“The Art of Packing & Moving” New Home Health Tips

10 Helpful Tips For Healthy New Beginnings

New Home Shopping Tips: House & Land Search

New Home Design Series & Books, Interior Design & Sustainable Building

10 Quick Tips for Building a Sustainable House, Organic Home Design

 

Music of the Moment:  Farewell and Goodnight, The Smashing Pumpkins

 

 

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Colour Mood: Thank you Summer, Late Summer Days

Amor Milagre Colour Mood Late Summer Days Thank you, Summer 2019 Ethical Organic Gift Shop Handmade Gift Shop Art Baby & Child beach picnic wild tea rose ocean amormilagre.comCarpets of moss stretch over stones and trees.  Foxglove sway in the dewdrop morning breeze.  Sweet roses scent the air at home and beach.  Thank you, Summer for your glorious, loving kiss.  Nature is where I find inspiration for my gentle life & my A Gentle Life Collections.  What inspires you?  Happy Late Summer!  XOXO ~Amor Milagre

Coming Up:  More from The Colour Mood Series.

Amor Milagre Colour Mood Late Summer Days Thank you, Summer 2019 Ethical Organic Gift Shop Handmade Gift Shop Art Baby & Child creeping thyme cottage garden amormilagre.com

Amor Milagre Colour Mood Late Summer Days Thank you, Summer 2019 Ethical Organic Gift Shop Handmade Gift Shop Art Baby & Child foxglove flower moss cottage garden amormilagre.com

Amor Milagre Colour Mood Late Summer Days Thank you, Summer 2019 Ethical Organic Gift Shop Handmade Gift Shop Art Baby & Child grass beach stone wall ocean amormilagre.com

Amor Milagre Colour Mood Late Summer Days Thank you, Summer 2019 Ethical Organic Gift Shop Handmade Gift Shop Art Baby & Child grass beach ocean basket purse letter bookshelf amormilagre.com

Amor Milagre Colour Mood Late Summer Days Thank you, Summer 2019 Ethical Organic Gift Shop Handmade Gift Shop Art Baby & Child beach ocean surfing amormilagre.com

Welcome Home, Autumn…

Coming Up in Winter 2020:  Loving Collections I made this Summer

 

Music of the Moment:  Gypsy Hymn, Johnny Flynn

 

 

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La Mer, Oceanic Ethical Art & Design Collection 2021

Amor Milagre La Mer Ocean Inspired Collection Winter Nursery Ethical Handmade Gift Shop Art Design Organic Baby & Child Woman Mermaid seaweed Summer Autumn sea amormilagre.com

La Mer

Once upon an ocean, there was air to breathe and love for all…

An Original Oceanic Collection by Amor Milagre

Ethically Handmade Art, Photography, Stationery, Organic Apparel, Books, and More for All Ages!

Coming 2021 (Delayed a year until 2021)

A Gentle Life Collection

Amor Milagre La Mer Ocean Inspired Collection Winter Nursery Ethical Handmade Gift Shop Art Design Organic Baby & Child Woman Mermaid sand seashell sea amormilagre.com

Amor Milagre La Mer Ocean Inspired Collection Summer Autumn Winter Nursery Ethical Handmade Gift Shop Art Organic Baby & Child Woman Mermaid amormilagre.com

Music of the Moment:  La Mer, Charles Trenet