Amor Milagre Wax Seal Stickers- Empathic Goddess Logo-Red Light Gold
World, admit all mistakes honestly and feel all the pain they caused in order to learn from them. Decide on expressing truth from now on. You cannot continue and move forward otherwise. Every person must stop all violence, greed, and denial. Peace is possible. Redesign our systems to allow peace for everyone. Every home, town, and up needs peaceful empathic leaders who care about everyone, the earth, and the entire universe. All of this static and pollution can end. Breathe. Heal now. Work on healing this chaos every day. Choose peace. Stand up for it. Require respect and peace as the standard for harmonious living. Use your air and words for peace. Write your stories. Share truth. No one can do this solely on their own, but if everyone helps, peace can live everywhere daily. A united connection, that is already engrained within every person, can bring peace, healing, and a positive healthy future.
Sow seeds of peace into everything you do. You can do it. Spit-spot…and off we go…
Preserve books, especially peaceful books, as they are being scrubbed now. Express freedom peacefully.
*This evil, unacceptable, violent moment in history needs to cease immediately. Stand up to prevent more chaos. Care. This affects everyone and everything.
Amor Milagre Organic Gardening, Evergreens: Green Velvet Japanese Boxwood
Beautiful plants, tucked into earth with love, is our family’s favourite pleasure for spring weekends. Bring out the toys to help, too! This week, we are taking advantage of the pre-bug moment and doing up the gardens here at Rose Cottage. The snow melts a little more each day, with rain and snow flurrying over everything each night. Spring always feels soft and patient to me, and then it lends this gift to us. Doing what you love feels good, so we do it often. I wake up writing stories, and tuck in bed after painting the illustrations. Many many many…..new books are on their way, dear world. What do you love today?
Amor Milagre Organic Gardening, Spring Hats
Cloudy days are our favourite time to explore neighbouring towns in search of green treasures and fun new spots to revisit. We have been renovating and building houses for the past decade, so it’s refreshing to have a day off. Today, we found a lovely family-run nursery and farm where a very affordable juniper greeted us at the door of one of several massive greenhouses. We found a cute craft shop where people can learn how to felt and embroider. There were some ‘out to lunch’ signs so we’ll have to return to roam the bookshop. Some lovely women told us about fun annual holiday events…and we’re marking them down in our family calendar. Maine is not an easy place to find town things we like to do, so we really appreciate their time and sharing.
We support family/small businesses as we have one and know how much depends on every sale. Support your local talent and efforts whenever available. Today, I remembered the days of watering plants at a farm when I was a teenager. I baked pies and hauled in corn. The owners took everything seriously, as do I with my Amor Milagre. You have to. You want to. It just makes sense. Support creative ideas that help the world bloom, laugh, and heal.
Amor Milagre Organic Gardening, Evergreens
The front view is not the only one to consider. This line of evergreens is beautiful to gaze upon as we do laundry from the side of the house. Explore every windowscape and make the most of them. We love waking up to flowers, leaves, doves, and robins. I do space these low plants away from the windows so birds don’t become too exuberant at nap/bed times. We removed huge overgrown dead shrubs and trees from every side of our Rose Cottage years ago, and now we add in green structures each year to build it up. Remember, right plant right place to grow well.
Amor Milagre Organic Gardening, Evergreens
Planting in layers, repeating patterns of odd numbers, and varying the greens creates a lush effect over time. They even look so sweet now. Leave proper spacing for your purpose and plant type. Bulbs look even more elegant when surrounded by green friends. Leave leaves alone. Allow the wind to stir and blow your leaves about quietly. They become soil and nutrients that block unwanted plants.
Amor Milagre Organic Gardening, Evergreens
By slightly layering the evergreens, the result is a spaced out line with room to grow. This gives the plant its own air to thrive in while providing a privacy screen from the road and house. This used to be just a lawn. We planted hundreds of plants to replace most of our grass, added pathways, reduced the need for mowing, increased our pollinator count massively, and provided homes for wildlife. We use a push or electric mower for the bit of lawn left, only necessary once or twice a year. Thyme beds are low and self-sufficient. Neighbourhoods can be quiet enough to enjoy bird songs. Choices matter and can make a huge positive difference for everyone’s peace and health. Plant for pollinators. Shall we all have a beautiful year?
Amor Milagre Organic Gardening, Evergreens
Periwinkle alba and creeping thyme is our garden floor. It took a few years to grow the carpet, but the bees love it! This replaces lawn and prevents other plants from taking over. The flowers are gorgeous! We only plant perennials as we’re into building up our natural investments. Save your seeds and spread them!
We hope to find some healthy, affordable Italian cypress and green giant thujas to layer in as a privacy screen near our fence. More garden updates soon!
Ah, yes…thank you rain for watering in our baby plants…
This snowy, rainy, hailing week of spring, we added some structure to our newly hand-renovated organic garden. A line of five baby Dwarf Mugo Pines was spaced out into the front border. They will grow up with three Japanese boxwoods, daffodils, tulips, and a spreading carpet of bee-loving thyme and alba periwinkle flowers. More lavender will dot in here later. These candle cone cuties are slow growing and can be annually shaped or left wild to sprawl. We’re excited for these pretty pines to be a layered part of our cosy winter garden. They will bolster up summer blooms as well. After the snow melts down, enhancing the soil, we’ll be doing our big spring garden tidy up, editing, pruning, and more planting. I’ll add some archival garden-themed fine art photography prints to my shop this year, too!
A plan for more drought-tolerant evergreens is on our list of homey to do’s for our sustainably re-designed Rose Cottage. I will post about all the changes we’ve made to the gardens. It was a massively overgrown mess before we enacted the ‘right plant right place’ practice here, taking it all down first. Always do your research before planting. What is your zone? What is the expected size the plant could grow to? Colours? Textures? Number? Layers? Pollinators & wildlife? There are many things to consider. How far from the house is a good distance? You want to be able to age gracefully with your garden, making it as effortless as possible to care for, while enjoying the biggest amount of relaxation from your patch of healing earth.
Amor Milagre Organic Gardening, Evergreens
These are mad expensive times, so it will take more time to build up privacy screening with taller plants, such as junipers, Italian cypress, thujas, and more spruce trees. These more deer-resistant types reduce the gamble of plant care. There is so much less green in the world for wildlife to roam through now. We love animals to visit us, but we also care for our plants and don’t wish for branches to be nibbled right up come springtime. We have been covering our new shrubs in burlap, which helps to protect them as they grow. The long drive home from the nearest nursery is odd when one is seeing so many trees, just there…and our pockets feel skint. We understand the care and cost involved with growing, but still…it’s mad times for buying plants, or anything really. We recently divided up our house plants and more than doubled the potted plant amounts. We plan to take lots of cuttings to get started on growing more green air for our property, especially with our Mediterranean plants. Lavender and pollinators everywhere, please!
Happy Spring Gardening whether on your windowsill, balcony, yard, or field. Love, ~ Amor Milagre
Amor Milagre Organic Gardening, Evergreens. This row will layer up soon with more boxwood, thyme, and lavender.
Pollution Awareness:
We added three of the Dwarf Mugo Pines to this little front stone bed, recently designed to be a mini potager, a kitchen herb garden, as we have just finished our new kitchen in this area of the house. The new terribly smokey/loud unrelenting pollutive neighbours have poisoned this possibility. We’ll soon have to move the herbs, such as a thriving rocky row of sage, into the less sunny back garden soon. It is most upsetting not to be able to fully finish, work on, sit with, study in, paint, muse over, and enjoy the massive scale garden renovation we began five years ago when we moved in (whilst also renovating our entire Rose Cottage interior).
*Give everyone peace, especially on their own property. This easily preventable pollution needs to be illegal. If you smoke and listen to music, do it inside your own house. Our food in the front garden is polluted and now inedible. Organic gardening, and farming, only works if what is neighbouring you is not polluting your plants, soil, air, and water. We cannot go out, open windows, breathe, run, be…or even have peace inside. How…is this allowed? We need exercise and air. Their pollution has directly caused devastating health issues for our family. Change laws to save lives. Make sense. Care. Be kind. Keep your own life in your own house. Dreaming and working towards a home and garden of one’s own needs to be allowed to be enjoyed. It’s hard work and expensive, every year. I’ll post our garden before and after photos soon. The changes have been great indeed. We fight for our right to live every day, just as our neglectful world must. Protest pollution on every scale. Our earth needs protection and freedom to be.
We’re trying to grow healing peace for us…and for the bees here. When in the garden, one desires to think of nothing, no one, but only nature. That is healing, instantly. Let go of what controls and pollutes you and everyone. Live peace. Preserve & grow goodness for all…this is true equality.
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
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
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
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
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
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 seriesThe 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…”
