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Amor Milagre Valentine Gift Guide

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Amor Milagre Valentine’s Day Gift Guide 2025 amormilagre.com  Stationery and New Wax Seal Stickers

There are many ways to express your love for yourself, your family and friends, and the universe.  Here are a few ways I encourage peaceful, respectful living:  loving stories, romantic stationery with old world charm, and nature-inspired artwork.  This week, we’re making some Valentine’s Day decorations, and I’ll post about those soon.

All of my books are love letters.  The Hoppy Bunny baby book and my seasonal novels, The Love Letter Diaries, are especially heartwarming.  My beloved family of book characters spans all reading levels, so if your Valentine is new or growing with every year, there is a story for you.

A new collection of beautifully unique wax seal stamp stickers releases this week.  Each design was drawn by hand with love, and every seal is patiently pressed into a growing variety of colours.  The artisan aesthetic and feel of these little collector’s dreams are transformative.  When holding one, or when tracing the raised leaves and curls, one feels swept back to a more natural time of ancient tree root systems and fresh air.  Time travellers, you know, may not agree with many things of old, but they like to keep the most endearing trinkets of each age and hold them dear.  I do not agree with many modern events either, but I put out as much timeless love with my work as the day (and night) will allow.  (I write stories in the moonlight.  I paint by the sunshine.) These collectable stickers seal your letters with a kiss of romance.  I even place them on my book covers sometimes, when special orders come in.  A new custom designed Amor Milagre Bunny sticker, embossed in gold or white, is now being added to the inside page of a wave of first edition books.  These little touches will be fun to find now, and centuries from now, for book collectors of all ages.  Babies absolutely love discovering these kinds of treasures, as do I.

My growing stationery collection greets some new designs this month.  They promote the asking of dates to physical locations again.  Even a friendly game is a fun way to get to know someone.  A candlepin bowling card is on my printer as I type this.  We tried it recently as a family date, and it was a blast!

All of my collections are intertwining and thriving together like a forest of grapevines and moon flowers.  Many new books for babies, children, teens, and adults will be happily released this year.  Each season going forward will boast a new packaging colour design.  This winter was a deep delicious garnet paired with tarnished gold.  Order your spring gifts now to find out which colours I chose for la primavera!

Stay well and warm.  Much love and romantic inspirations for a happy heart, ~Amor Milagre

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Amor Milagre Valentine’s Day Gift Guide 2025 amormilagre.com Loving Novels

The Loving Novels are explorations of the self.  My characters include all love stories.  Some of my favourite characters represent the LGBTQ lovelies.  I am writing a sweet ode-style post about one such darling, releasing soon.  My love stories are about real love.  They are not the usual style of story, I think, because I’ve never read a book style like mine.  Have you?  These people, and their journeys, are from my heart.  Being an empath, I absorb the world.  People effervesce their love stories, silently, as they roam the earth, trying to heal themselves and find small ways to express their joy.  Love means something different to everyone and at different stages of life.  What does love mean to you now?  Much of my characters’ adventurous narratives derive from my own inner world as well.  I write of what I wish for the world, for myself, and for my family.  My philosophy is, “If you design it, you will live it.  Surround yourself with love.”  I design beautiful stories and let their positive inspiration spill out into our home.  What path and feeling do you wish to design in this moment?  Dream, and let it be so!

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Amor Milagre Valentine’s Day Gift Guide 2025 amormilagre.com  Hoppy Bunny Baby Book

My children’s books are sweet and respectful.  They honour the sacredness of childhood, the delicateness and intelligence of children’s innate loving natures, and the preservation of their kind hearts.  My words teach all the basics of language while encouraging imagination, peaceful creative problem solving, and the celebration of individuality and universal connection.  My illustrations are also available as art prints and stationery with many more pieces to come!  In future, I have planned for puzzles, fine china, toys, and other pretty home and nursery gifts.

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Amor Milagre Valentine’s Day Gift Guide 2025 amormilagre.com Hoppy Bunny Baby Book

The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny and Nursery Friends is a baby favourite!  Learn the alphabet and learn about our Rose Cottage nursery toys.  How do your toys inspire you?

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Amor Milagre Valentine’s Day Gift Guide 2025 amormilagre.com Children’s Book Collection

Amor Milagre children’s books are growing every month in number and connection.  Sometimes, characters will wander over into another book’s pages to meet new friends!  A ginormous treasury is in the works…

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Amor Milagre Valentine’s Day Gift Guide 2025 amormilagre.com Leona’s Homecoming, Amaranthe, Stationery

Expressing feelings of love and gratitude is what Valentine’s Day can be all about.  My new upcoming post will show some fun, simple ways to celebrate love with a bit of paper and clay.  Love, love, love, ~Amor Milagre

Fine Art and Photography Prints are included in my Valentine Gift Guide, as well as personalized gift options.

  Flowers to last all year long…how romantic!

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Miniviews in the Garden

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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.

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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.

 

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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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August: Organic Cottage Garden Design

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Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  Getting lost in the intricate lace fairyland of the hydrangea blooms…

 

I love how a garden changes every day, season, and year.

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Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  One of my writing nooks. We also have lessons and picnics here…in the shade of the cream umbrella.  The lavender and cleomes circle this garden.  We renovated the gardens last year.  Previously a lawn, this space is now full of flowering trees, perennial flowers, and herbs.  Plant seeds of goodness for pollinators.  It heals all.  We even have some tomatoes up here, as it is the sunniest area of the garden.

 

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Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  Weeding a bit today, and I got my first ever bee sting, right through my glove!  Not too bad…just put some ice on it.  Bees love me…ever since I was little…they loved to explore my golden curly hair and just hang out… My Nonna used to say it’s because they think I’m a flower.  I love that idea, and I paint flying pollinators into all of my stories.  I always sat calmly with them, and then they’d move onto something with pollen.  I must have tread on a nest. Sorry, little friends!  Nature tells us important things.  Listen.  I usually do leave the ‘weeds’ as they’re a helpful part of the garden, but we do have some rather aggressive imposter vines that take over and under the garden.  I do minimal editing and pruning.  Plants have their own design plans.  It’s fun to learn of their endless stages.  Also, any broken or old pieces are just left in the garden to become a natural compost.  After making the pathways last summer, the cleomes seeded everywhere, which is the intent, but a few had to be moved out of the gravel and back into the soil.  These rhodies were quite ill when we moved in, so we cut them back hard and now they are full up with new green lovely leaves.  They form a nice border hedge and create privacy with a dense leafy depth and height.  Blooms next year, I’d expect.  In pink!

 

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Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  I adore these mixed plant tangles… They’d make a gorgeous textile print.  This one is mostly:  Queen Anne’s Lace/Wild Carrot, Thyme, Sage, Salvia, Vinca, Clover, Anise…  Babies love these little fairy nests.

 

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Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  The incredible Blazing Stars have just bloomed…grown from scattered seeds.  Easy as tossing them into the bed.  There are hundreds and the wildlife love them.  Such fancy feathery dresses!

 

Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  The front herb patch went wild this year, but we love to watch the pollinators favour this swaying sea of lace in the breeze so I will only tame it back a bit next year.  The new kitchen looks out onto this stone garden that we made a few years ago.  There was a bed of overgrown shrubs, too close to the house, and a paver pathway.  We took everything out, painted the house a warm heavy cream, and made space for more meadow wildflowers and three Japanese boxwoods.  The pathway was removed and recycled into the back pathway.  We made a stone wall, new pathways, and steps.  Soon, a mudroom door will go nearby.  We have the kitchen door here, too.  Little gardeners can pick some fresh sage for dinner!  I am working on some lace-like snowflake/floral design stencils in the front doorway, which I will post about when finished.

 

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Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  Many greens…living together.  Permaculture matters.  Everything depends upon the next and the one before.  Replace lawns and pollutive machines with native plants that form a perennial carpet to keep you cool, hydrated, and full of life!
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Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  Every window has a view of the garden!  Wake up to nature, go out and converse with her, learn how to be peaceful, bid her a good slumber and get ready for bed…  Sustainable life cycles for:  you, wildlife, the anti-pollution layers of fungi in the soil, the air, water, and for all plants who connect in their own language and routines.  Tread softly in nature.  We are the visitors of the earth, be gentle.

 

Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design
Amor Milagre Organic Cottage Garden Design.  Grow flowers from seeds to self-seed and spread each year!  I love these large areas of various wildflowers.  In the wind, the whole garden is alive and dancing.  Drought-tolerant is the way to go with climate change, and we have always just let the rain water the garden.  The plants grow stronger this way, and you can enjoy doing other things you love.

 

New blooms are coming soon…

Love to all of the bees who warn us to be more gentle.

Without you, I cannot think what we’d be.  ~ Amor Milagre

 

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Organic Cottage Garden: Lavender Ice

Amor Milagre Organic Garden Lavender Ice
Amor Milagre Organic Garden Lavender Ice

 

On hot summer days, we make simply refreshing flavoured ice.

Sometimes mint or rosemary, often wild berry, and today…lavender!

Amor Milagre Organic Garden Lavender Ice
Amor Milagre Organic Garden Lavender Ice

 

Homeschool is lovely in the summer.  Explore all things botanical in the garden, come in for a cold drink, and let the mind soak up beautiful latin names, fascinating plant uses, and charming origin stories.  Nature is the best teacher.

A few fresh books will be finished this month, and then it’s off to the printers!

Stay cool.  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

A Gentle Life Collection

Coming Up:  New Audiobooks & An Ethical Paperback Option

 

 

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Cottage Garden: Foxgloves in the Morning

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Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Apricot Foxgloves in the Morning

 

Fairies slumber in the shady bells of the creamy, freckled foxgloves.  We visit them on summer mornings.

Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning
Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning

 

Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning
Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning

 

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Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning.  Just now growing in new beds.  Replace lawns with perennial flowers for pollinators.

 

Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning
Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning

 

Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning
Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: Foxgloves in the Morning.  Tall as the evergreens…well, almost!

 

Each foxglove plant gives you a garden of seeds.  Plant them, wait patiently, and adore.

Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: English Roses in the Morning
Cottage Garden Design by Amor Milagre: English Roses in the Morning

 

Plant for pollinators.  Stay hydrated.  Love, ~Amor Milagre