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Health Awareness: End Clothing Chemical & Scent Pollution

Amor Milagre: Health Awareness: End Clothing Chemical & Scent Pollution
Amor Milagre: Health Awareness: End Clothing Chemical & Scent Pollution

Did you know that clothing companies are making the world sick?  There are hazardous, toxic chemicals in most clothing.  Research products before you buy.  Even the chemical safety certified clothes will often arrive heavily scented.  Look at all aspects of their system to truly know if the garments are non-toxic.

We have given up on clothing companies, even the ones who claim to be organic.  Everyone: We encourage you to tell clothing companies who send perfumed items to stop.  Ask before you buy for clear answers.    Ask:  “Are there harmful chemicals in your products?”  Research the best fabrics for the body.  Demand real transparency and respect for the consumer.  Return items, delete accounts, and send detailed messages requesting process and policy changes.  Prevent illness and chemical run off into nature.  Positive change is needed.  It is dire.  Illness is prevalent.  Illness is preventable.

Most clothing is polluted with PFAS, formaldehyde, pesticides, and other damaging forever chemicals.  Items are then sprayed with perfume to distract you from those chemicals.  It is a toxic mess.  Set boundaries.  We cannot even open the box.  We cannot even try it on to see that the designers are still not doing fit tests or proper colour matches.  Suitable clothing is hard enough to find without adding dangerous chemicals into the mix.  Yes, I worked briefly in fashion as a designer and did everything I could to make sure my designs would be healthy and fit real humans, but the big wigs wouldn’t adapt to my changes so I quit.  They wouldn’t even do one organic fabric!  They dare not order a single swatch.  They feared a health-conscious revolution, and that would cost them.  One must be proud of their work.  The toxic office sensory environment issues and constant sexual harassment also made up my obvious decision to leave.  The inhumane conditions and lack of pay/benefits for those making the products is a crime.  Children should not be the work force behind our daily outfits.  All of the industries need to be examined, held internationally accountable, and redesigned to benefit all involved.

The fashion industry is a foe.  They are quite terrible.  Research it.  The messages are unhealthy.  The warehouses are a dump.  The waste is expansive.  The lack of care is disgusting.  The human form, and how we move and live, is rarely taken into account.  The off-gassing from a roomful of unboxed shoes or outerwear is instantly damaging to the body.  Even the poison exuding from one box of shoes or one coat causes immediate issues.  Health is not usually even mentioned.  They take no pride in their products.  Department store shopping is like wading in a cheaply made sea of strings and tags.  Boutiques and designer shops overcharge for the same bad quality sewing and continue to pollute their items.  French companies lash out when you ask them to simply not perfume the items before sending, claiming that everyone loves their signature scent.   We don’t.  They don’t care.  We don’t count in their view of everyone.  They only count positive feedback and imaginary ideal customers.  Even the well known organic companies pollute their clothes.  They have sold out and have lost control.  Fast or slow fashion, it’s all the same junk if you don’t take care to not pollute your designs.  Storage is key as well.  What scents and toxins do products absorb in storage?  Every step in the process is important.  The packaging materials also need to be non-toxic and unscented.  Think of a shirt like a pear.  Are they grown organically?  How does it get from here to there?  Is it intact?  Is it still good when it reaches the customer?  We are absorbing our surroundings…and we do not want to ingest pollution.

Until adding heat to fabrics stops conjuring up clouds of toxic pollution, this is not a pleasure to help your clothes look and feel smooth.  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.  The iron itself emits toxins.  The production of these machines is toxic as well.  Remove the chemical coatings and replace plastic pollution with earth-friendly simple routines.  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.

This poison and poisonous mindset does not listen to those of us who sense danger immediately.  Personal safety is attacked by merely ordering a sweater.  Chemical and perfume allergies are real and painful.  Their products instantly cause sharp blinding migraines, an inability to breathe, and various painful long-term illnesses solely caused by air and chemical pollution.  Asthma, cancer, baby issues, and skin conditions are directly caused by these chemicals.  Highly sensitive people benefit the world.  We are the truth tellers.  Listen to us to prevent catastrophes.  The stores won’t change anything and do not tell the vendors of the customer’s concerns or returns.  Reviews online are false.  The truth is deleted.  You are wearing toxins.  It’s back to sewing for us, but really…where do we get the fabric, as all of this is true of the textiles industry as well?  They go hand in hand…spreading pollution as they ship poison around the world.

Redesign the world to be healthy.  We deserve clean unpolluted fabrics and clothing.

Dare to Care.  Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

 

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Grow Air: Rainforest Garden

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When every day feels like a century, and every lifetime is quite a painful one, an old soul in their 30’s remembers youthful plans to move to the rainforest.  There were too many years scraped by and deprived of my green family, The Trees.  I had a list of what to pack for the journey.  I planned for some sandwiches and water.  I wouldn’t need shoes, just instincts.  I do remember a lifetime when I did live there, long before they cut it down.  Full of life, it was!  Beautiful animals and fascinating plants.  Colours and shapes and senses…everywhere!  The jungle was alive itself, and her soul breathed for all of us.

The Jungle Book and The Baron in the Trees suited this long-limbed tree-climbing child.  Travel photography was on my list of daydreams, and I practiced every day.  My first tree dwellings were a success with tools and supplies tied to the higher branches, and me, safe and dry under the pine curtain designing my tree house.  After a while, they noticed I was missing and I was yanked back into the airless box of dust and heavily-scented cleaners.  A baby may be born healthy and strong, but modern homes, schools, and offices crumble our lungs and we reluctantly join the league of wheezing, sleepless dust bunnies.

New systems and ways of building need to include real air, but this means we need the basic right and resource of unpolluted air everywhere.  What kind of air purifier could safely tackle the century of toxins hovering above and around us?  You can’t merely vacuum up the clouds, seal them into the earth, and call it a day.  The poison is engrained in the soil, water, air, and in us.  Our cells are affected by pollution.  It keeps moving in a loop.  Many steps are needed.  The termination of polluting systems and objects is vital.  Plants are the enduring solution.  Years ago, my thesis to preserve the rainforest cultures and wildlife through awareness was presented, but the coffee-in-hand crowd wasn’t listening, as they were too busy pondering more ways to sexually harass me.  (A college review is coming up.)  The answers are obvious, but they need to be implemented and nature preserved.  Redesign the world to be healthy and sustainable.  Get back to nature.

 Although the ways of travelling are so much easier now (albeit stupidly pollutive), I haven’t been able to get there…to the land of leaves and green.  Too much illness, caused by the pavement crowd, delayed me.  And now…are there any leaves left?  Humans, pollution must stop.  Let the trees grow older than a hundred lifetimes.  There are other ways of doing all of the silly things you like without harming the entire world’s ecosystems and life cycles.  But, leave out the harmful things you think you need.  You don’t need them; that was just your fear talking.  Humans have forgotten that they are a small part of the puzzle.  When a tree is cut down, the whole world feels it.  You may not realize it like empaths do, but the loss is felt from the roots to the air, and we are less without it.

On mornings like these, when the rain soaks up the garden in a heavy hug, turning all in it a deep green, I remember my rainforest dreams…and I plant more seeds.

If I cannot move to the most natural places, I can make our place the most natural haven for wildlife and plants to live and grow, organic and unpolluted, and living all together.  I draw the branches.  I paint the trees.  I collect and spread more seeds.

Grow green goodness all around you…and let the babies breathe…

Love, ~ Amor Milagre

 

 

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New Children’s Book “The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends”

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New Children’s Book “The ABC’s of Hoppy Bunny & Nursery Friends”

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Print Books, Audiobook, Nursery Illustration Art Prints, & Greeting Cards

Hoppy Bunny gently teaches little readers how to use alphabet letters to invent nursery games and tell loving, kind stories with friends.  Enjoy these sweet watercolour illustrations for a cozy feeling every time you snuggle up to read.  Each letter of the alphabet is highlighted in a custom colour for that page.

A classic tale of the beloved toy friends in our Rose Cottage nursery makes for a favourite bedtime comfort.  One of the infinite lovely things about children is the way they leave hilarious and darling scenes and surprises around the home.  These pages capture a few of those precious moments when I happened upon a nursery story unfolding. 

Hoppy Bunny practices mindfulness and shows how to take respectful care of all you have and love.  This book was designed for all children, and it is especially inspiring for homeschool students who can use their surroundings and imagination to invent a story land of peaceful messages.  Positive self-care practices are included as a loving guide to lead the self on a healthy path for a beautiful life.

 

I wrote and illustrated this sweet book earlier this year to promote peace for all and to help our empathic family cope with the preventable tragedies in the world.  Life is precious and all need to be respected.  I hope these pages grow sweetness for you, too.

 

*A special thank you to my Baby Bunny author/illustrator who helped brainstorm fun ideas, stage, and dress these lovely friends as you see them in the illustrations.

All of my books are for you, my Heart.

Choose Peace.  Give Peace.  Love,  Amor Milagre

 

 

Music of the Moment:  Baby Lullabies for Toy Friends

 

 

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Be My Valentine Sale

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I adore Valentine’s Day because it is one more day to celebrate all of the many and wonderful kinds of love from the self and out into the universe.

New nature-loving collections are in the works…to share with you soon!  Happy Loving, darlings!  xo ~ Amor Milagre

 

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Music of the Moment:  Nice to Come Home, Julie Doiron

 

 

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Summer Sale!

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Sending Sweet Summer Wishes to You!  Stay well, xo ~ Amor Milagre

A Gentle Life Collection

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Loving Ethically Handmade Gifts for All Ages!

Art, Books, Stationery, Apparel, Custom Gifts

Summer Sale! Enjoy 15% Off All Orders at Checkout with Code:  SUMMER

Sale Ends 8-16-20

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Music of the Moment:  Porz Goret, Yann Tiersen

 

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Stay Sweet Sale!

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More than ever, it’s vitally important for each of us to stay as sweet as we were born.  We need to listen to our true Selves, be compassionate, be helpful, and be positive.  In a time, where life away from the norm has awakened many to the light that was always there, negative systems and ideas are being challenged and changed.  This is good and much more needs to improve, but it’s only positive if done in peaceful ways that don’t add to the spread of illness and suffering.  Please, remember to Stay Sweet!  I have designed a growing collection for A Gentle Life to help all ages come back to their true, sweet Selves.  This is a way to live peacefully for healthy futures.  I hope you enjoy the beautiful stories, design, and imagery I have made for our universe in need of love, love, love!

Give the Gift of Love & Peace by being Purely You!  xo ~ Amor Milagre

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(Sale Ends 7-1-20)

 

Music of the Moment:  Somewhere Over the Rainbow

 

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Everyone Can Learn to Be Sensitively Aware to Heal the World

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Awareness of every minute detail, environment, emotion, thought, connection, and area of our world is desperately necessary by all because it will not only heal highly sensitive people and empaths, but it will heal all people, while preventing futures of negativity for all children. 

Once upon a time…I dreamed of what I love…and I made it my every day.

If you are having trouble being a sensitive person in this world that purposely harms sensitive people by willfully refusing to understand, appreciate, and accommodate them in every aspect of life, please read my books that are specifically designed to help you by supporting and boosting your loving sense of Self.  Aware people are a great asset to the universe.  There is infinite positive value in sensing everything as it is, and in being able to quickly surmise positive solutions to age old conflicts.  Audiobooks and braille books are coming up to include everyone in these loving messages.

Everyone and everything is Loving Light!  We are all sensitive, but many are not aware of it.  Come back to being your real Sensitive Self.

I love everyone and everything in this Universe, including those who are not aware of the wonderful beautiful sensitivity of their Self and All! 

Choose positivity for your Self and All!  XO ~Amor Milagre

 

 

Coming Up:  A new positive original children’s book, adoring Nature, inspiring you to preserve Nature by loving your Self.

 

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Music of the Moment:  Under a Blanket of Blue, Ella Fitzgerald

 

 

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Loving Late Winter Days

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I adore the quiet still of the winter, the mountains, and all hibernating…

so I can hear my brush on the paper…

Love to the true: aware, empaths, highly sensitive people, synesthetes, and All! 

Learn awareness energy of all…XO ~Amor Milagre

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Teaching children positivity is of the utmost importance:  Teach them how to Love their instincts, how to express, how to ask for help, and how to give and accept Love.

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Nature teaches us how to communicate lovingly…sensitive awareness is everything…humans seldom truly hear, so let’s listen with open hearts, full of compassion…for a less frustrating world…where we all have our own place…full of loving simple pleasures.

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Care for your body and soul with beautiful fresh green soup…organic vegan cookbooks are coming up!

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Coming Up:  A new positive original children’s book, adoring Nature, inspiring you to preserve Nature by loving your Self.

 

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Music of the Moment:  Fever, Peggy Lee

 

 

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Winter Garden: Birch Bark & Ice Crystals

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Glorious, fluffy, sparkling snow falls as intricate tree lace on our paws and everything that grows!  This morning, we happily play in these delicate crystals.  How endlessly inspiring Nature’s beautifully unique darlings are…just like you!  Happy Winter Nature Explorations!  XOXO ~Amor Milagre

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Coming Up:  More from this New Winter Garden Series, and in 2020 I’ll release my photography collections!

December Holiday Sale!

Happy Gift-Giving!  Save 20% Storewide on All Products with Checkout Code: CELEBRATE

(Now through January 1st 2020)

 

Music of the Moment:  The winter wind in the trees and the light dusting of snow that falls on our eyelashes…

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Happy Autumn Sale! Shop Ethical Loving Unique Holiday Gifts for All

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Happy Autumn Sale!

Save 15% Storewide on All Products with Checkout Code: FALL19 (Now through Nov. 30th)

This is my favourite season!  It is also my favourite time to stock up on holiday gifts to inspire a lovely, relaxing holiday.  I’ve enjoyed my shopping, and now I can have fun in other ways like: cooking, decorating, painting, and rustling through leafy seas.  Here is a helpful sale for you to find unique, personalized gifts for your Dear Ones.  All collections are ethically handmade with positive energy and the greatest care.  For books, message your inscription details.  For custom orders, message your ideas.  For you, I hope your Autumn and Winter are dear and loving!  I love being a part of your gift giving surprises!  XOXO ~Amor Milagre

Music of the Moment:  This Will Be (An Everlasting Love), Natalie Cole

 

 

 

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La Mer, Oceanic Ethical Art & Design Collection 2021

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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

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Music of the Moment:  La Mer, Charles Trenet