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Healthy Lifestyle: Mood Boards & Scrapbooking ~Winter to Spring

 

Amor Milagre Winter 2024-2025 Mood Board
Amor Milagre Winter 2024-2025 Mood Board

Once upon an autumnal day, I made this wintry mood board with the theme, ‘Nurture’.  It encouraged us during our snowy days, including this morning, to stretch, soften, rest, heal, and dream.

Amor Milagre Winter 2025 Mood Board Scrapbook
Amor Milagre Winter 2025 Mood Board Scrapbook

By noon, this helpful aid had been dismantled and carefully arranged into my personal scrapbook to be remembered with tenderness.

Amor Milagre Winter 2025 Mood Board Scrapbook
Amor Milagre Winter 2025 Mood Board Scrapbook

Each page of cosy slumbering rooms and ladies reminds us to be gentle and hibernate when the air turns cold.

Amor Milagre Winter 2025 Mood Board Scrapbook
Amor Milagre Winter 2025 Mood Board Scrapbook

Looking back at this season, I can reconnect to how much we needed rest, rich velvety imagery, candlelight, and soft lush beds to extend hours of sleep upon each night until balance was restored.

Amor Milagre Spring 2025 Mood Board
Amor Milagre Spring 2025 Mood Board

Now bare, the lavender linen board awaits the freshness of spring’s greens and first petals.  Soft layers of ruffled organic cotton pajamas for cosy family game nights and sunny weekend mornings spill out with newly trimmed edges.  First buds, sprouts, and blossoms thrill me.  Lambs are a favourite darling theme, here at Rose Cottage.

The main theme for our upcoming spring this year is still ‘Nurture’, but I’m adding in ‘Harmony’.  Like a spell, you can add in and design your mood board in any way you like.  Sensing it every day, like studying, affects your decisions in a sweet, natural way.  We strengthen, grow in new directions, find the sun again, unravel illnesses, and root down for a deeper balance.  Fresh air and exercise are at the top of the menu, as we’ve been struggling like bulbs striving for real air under a pile of neighbour air/sound/vibration pollution.  We’re seeking out spaces to breathe and grow in strength and beauty.  This is something our entire world needs, too:  Regrowth of Green Goodness and Clean Air, Scented in Petals and Dancing to Songs of Roaming Brooks, untethered by anything causing harm.  It’s time to Live.

Amor Milagre Spring 2025 Mood Board
Amor Milagre Spring 2025 Mood Board

These first blooms now accompany me at my desk whilst new books are edited and lessons are enjoyed.  Our atelier/homeschool library feels more like the melting snowflakes outside the window, soft and dewy.  Soon, green fuzzy leaves will replace the icicles and unfurl exciting adventures with Nature.

I find it comforting to know what we need and to visualize it.  I use this process for designing homes, fashion, and everything really.  It’s fun, so have a go!  Pinterest is a good place to start: save, print, and cut out.  I prefer this screen-free way of manifesting my goals.  The Law of Attraction, and of energy, is very real.  What are you focusing on this season?

Shop Update: I’ll be releasing some sweet baby animal watercolour Art Prints this March.  These children’s book illustrations are featured in my Green Witch Tales series, which is a part of the series The Bewitching Tales of Ellary Eden.  We love these stories!  I hope your little ones do, too!

Until then…

“Dream and Help It Come True!” ~Love, Amor Milagre

 

 

Music of the Moment:  Baby’s sweet singing of scales  “do re mi…”

 

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Healthy Lifestyle: Daily Journalling

Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice
Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice

Once I reserve time to sit down and write in my journal, more than one page is filled in no time.  The soul, body, and entire Self desires to be heard, to feel appreciated, and to suggest plans for future days.

Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice
Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice

I love adding seasonal stickers to the blank page, lending a bit of fun and magic to tomorrow’s expressions.

Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice
Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice

Knowing your inner world makes all the difference in your outer world.

Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice
Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice

Snuggling up with tea and my journal helps me to feel safe, cosy, loved, and adored. All ideas are welcome.  All complaints are allowed, and they are considered clues.  I listen.  I reread.  I learn.  I change.  I plan positive ideas to try out tomorrow, next week, month, and year.  Journalling, I find, is key for positive parenting.  I also leave breadcrumbs in these books for older babies to follow and understand younger days.  Sharing your feelings matters, not only to you, but to those who are trying to support and love you.  Answering all of those questions you have is a valuable use of time.  There is time in the day, if reserved.  Unplug.  Write life down.  I love being surprised by what falls out onto the page.

Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice
Amor Milagre Journalling Self Care Daily/Weekly Practice

In future seasons, I will release a collection of guided journals.  I find this practice simply helpful and want to share it with you.  Taking time to get to know your days and inner self makes all the positive difference for a lifetime of peace, healing, and self-love.

We teach little ones to journal, too.  And, of course, they love the stickers!  What fun it is to play journal-ist of the self… (Sorry, I made a Papa joke.)

Make sure to set aside time to rest, heal, and recharge.  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

Music of the Moment:  Chopin