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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.

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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.

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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Cosy heavy creams, cacaos, greys, and linens…

 

*Hold Sweet Memories Dear.  Love, Amor Milagre

 

 

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Sneak Peek: Custom Cottage Kitchen Shelves

 

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

 

Old World Romance

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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