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Autumn Adventures: October Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival

Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival. Nature Photography
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival. Nature Photography

Nature guides us, connects us, and frees us.  Our most meaningful adventures are our own.  We prefer our wanderings as the annual festivals are too loud, pollutive, uninteresting, and exhausting.  This autumn, we ramble out with the long waves and tumbling orchards, low tide beaches, hollow cold pumpkin patches, and our own cosy Rose Cottage bakes.  Our Sunday mornings are for jack-o-lantern carvings and fall-themed word puzzles.  We still have much to do, but it’s far less than before, so we’re enjoying our slow moments under quilted clouds and October breezes.  Fun is easily found by accident!

*Shop:  NEW Nature Photography (Fine Art Prints and Stationery) are coming up, featuring our past Summer-Autumn film archives. (Not shown here yet.)  New pastels are dusting in, too.

A magical autumn to you!  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival. Nature Photography
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival. Nature Photography
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival. Nature Photography
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival. Nature Photography
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival. Nature Photography
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival. Nature Photography
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival. Custom Kitchen Design
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival. Custom Kitchen Design
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival. Nature Photography
Amor Milagre Autumn Adventures October Baby Pumpkin Patch, Beach, Farm, & Festival. Nature Photography

 

Music of the Moment:  Hermetism album by Joep Beving (perfect car ride piano)

 

Amor Milagre Autumn Lake Pastel Drawing 2025
Amor Milagre Autumn Lake Pastel Drawing 2025 SHOP New Pastels

*Shop Art  Gallery:  I’ll be drawing up some lakescape pastels this month.  I love the autumn light…

 

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Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen & Autumn Books

Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking
Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking

It’s raining… and so we bake up some Halloweeny birthday treats.  This week, I’m shipping out my seasonal books, wax seals, art prints, and stationery to lovely customers, hand-pressing a new autumn wax seal sticker collection, writing out fresh vegan organic recipes for my upcoming cookbook, and illustrating my latest novel pages.

The leaves have goldened. They fall lightly down our windows as we learn about cell walls and French verbs.  How do you classify living organisms these days?  Peaceful or non-peaceful?  The light jackets are out and waiting to go explore leaf-crunching gardens, library stacks, and haunted mansions.  We stroll graveyards, reading inscriptions of eternal love.

Evenings are full of new stories and paintings, soon to be shared with you, Dear Ones.

Love, ~Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking
Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking

When I designed these rooms, writing/reading nooks were at the top of the piority list.  When you work from home, it’s important to move about in the house.  Our Rose Cottage kitchen is our very own cafe where we watch rain drip down our pumpkins, write to the season, and enjoy every changing moment.

Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking
Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking

Last week, our foods were either made of pumpkin or shaped like pumpkins.

Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking
Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking

Hot, buttery biscuits are a fun way to greet loved ones at the end of a long day.  Just plate them, don’t throw them!

Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking
Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking

Mini pumpkin pies (just pumpkin and spices) are a baby favourite here.  We also made very trick-or-treat night rice krispy treats with PB and chocolate and then watched spooky movies.

Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking
Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking

Our house plants are noticing the change in the skies and reach up to grab the last summer sun rays.

Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking
Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking

Last evening was all about homemade pasta, a baked dish, that was cosy cosy cosy!

Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking
Amor Milagre Rainy September Days in our Rose Cottage Kitchen, Autumnal Vegan Organic Baking and Cooking

Birthday celebrations include all of the senses.  Go for a bicycle ride!

Amor Milagre Handmade Autumn Pumpkin Wax Seal Stamp Sticker Collection- Coming this Week!
Amor Milagre Handmade Autumn Pumpkin Wax Seal Stamp Sticker Collection- Coming this Week!

Releasing this Week:  Autumn Pumpkin Wax Seals!

This new design matches the pumpkin featured in my Leona’s Homecoming novel series.  It’s right on the spine.  It is also included in the matching illustrated book chapter icon notecard set.   View this growing collection.  Vol.II is in the works!  This series is all about the unique beauty of each season.

Amor Milagre Leona's Homecoming #1-4 Vol. I The Love Letter Diaries Novel Series
Amor Milagre Leona’s Homecoming #1-4 Vol. I The Love Letter Diaries Novel Series

 

My Best Selling Books this Week:

Ellary’s Sick Witch Soup

Sage’s Year in Nature

Ellary's Sick Witch Soup Children's Book Amor Milagre amormilagre.com
Ellary’s Sick Witch Soup Children’s Book Amor Milagre

Have a ball, and stay well, with this bewitching sweet children’s book.  Try out the healthy soup recipe in the back.

Ellary's Sick Witch Soup Children's Book Amor Milagre amormilagre.com
Ellary’s Sick Witch Soup Children’s Book Amor Milagre

 

Amor Milagre Sage's Year in Nature Children's Book, 12 Months and 4 Seasons
Amor Milagre Sage’s Year in Nature Children’s Book, 12 Months and 4 Seasons

The autumn month pages tell about what Sage loves to do when the leaves begin to fall.

Amor Milagre Sage's Year in Nature Children's Book, 12 Months and 4 Seasons
Amor Milagre Sage’s Year in Nature Children’s Book, 12 Months and 4 Seasons

Sage preserves food from her garden and embraces each time of year.

Amor Milagre Sage's Year in Nature Children's Book, 12 Months and 4 Seasons
Amor Milagre Sage’s Year in Nature Children’s Book, 12 Months and 4 Seasons

 

Amor Milagre Rainy Day Umbrella Wax Seal Deckled Edge Notecard Stationery Set
Amor Milagre Rainy Day Umbrella Wax Seal Deckled Edge Notecard Stationery Set

All year round it rains, and I love using this Rainy Day Notecard & Wax Seal Set to send to Dear Ones.  I design what I love, and I hope you love it, too!

 

Movies of the Moment:

Hocus Pocus (Annual), My Boyfriend’s Back (Bad-Hilarious 1st time viewing), I Married a Witch (Love)

 

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Cosy Holiday Sitting Room Design

Amor Milagre Sitting Room Design, Cosy Holidays
Amor Milagre Sitting Room Design, Cosy Holidays

The toys in our Rose Cottage are sewing up gifts and wrapping them with bows in preparation for the holiday season.  We are, too!  It’s time for puzzles, games, wellie woodsy walks, writing leafy novels, pumpkin patches, spices, and auburn lake en plein air paintings.  New fall wax seal stamp stickers are coming up, along with oil paint waterscapes and some adorable trick-or-treat stationery.

A cosy autumn to you!  Love,  ~Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Sitting Room Design, Cosy Holidays
Amor Milagre Sitting Room Design, Cosy Holidays
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Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry

Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry

Today, we stocked up our custom hand-made pantry to finish our Rose Cottage Kitchen Renovation.  All pieces were thoughtfully designed by me and expertly crafted by my very talented husband.  We matched the countertop stain, a mix of a few eco-stains, to a pair of kitchen chairs we have.  The eco-paint is a heavy cream to match the rest of the kitchen which is separated by sound-sensitive door placement designs.  This keeps the refrigerator in the back and out of earshot to reduce sound/vibration pollution for the nervous system.  The counter allows for less trips back and forth from the fridge.  This is also where we store our dry foods, fresh fruit, glass storage containers, and cookware.  It’s like a charming seasonal market to shop at meal times.  We can decorate this space for each season.  This back room, which used to be the full kitchen before we began from scratch opening up the dining room, is dark and safe to store things like potatoes with easy drop off unloading access after weekly grocery runs.  I am very pleased with how peaceful and strong the design is and how much storage we now have without an imposing kitchen full of floor to ceiling cabinets.  The wooden berry-cream colours are soothing and naturally rich which excites me to bake up cosy autumnal pies, soups, and breads.  Now, to pastel up a velvety fruit still life to frame over this space to the right.  More beautiful cabinetry reveals are coming up!  Love, ~Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
Amor Milagre Kitchen Design: Custom Pantry Cabinetry
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Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor

Amor Milagre Balloon Pumpkin Patch, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor
Amor Milagre Balloon Pumpkin Patch, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor

Early crisp breezes, and that certain quieting in the leaves outside my morning window, tell me Autumn is joining us for tea.  Out come the cosy blankets and sweaters.  I paint up some new notecard designs.  We reread old favourites and open the game cupboard.  I wrap up Summer in family albums.  Lessons tuck into homeschool portfolio pages.  The necessary slowing of souls is stirring up comfort as the new daily rain trickles away the whirling of summer.  Hang scarves and knit berets on the hook, for we await thy sweet calm.  Love, ~ Amor Milagre

Amor Milagre Photo Album Catch Up, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor
Amor Milagre Photo Album Catch Up, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor

We refresh our year-round homeschool supplies with pretty rainbow pencils, earthy clays and paints, sweet folders, encouraging stickers, and lovely blank notebooks.  A few vintage textbooks make their way to our shelves, in French and Swedish.  We sell clothes that have grown too adorably tiny, keeping some favourites, and wash new gangly organic pajamas full of ghosts and pumpkins.

Amor Milagre Cosy Kitchen Cafe Interior Design, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor
Amor Milagre Cosy Kitchen Cafe Interior Design, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor
Amor Milagre Floating Witch Hats Outdoor Halloween Decorations, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor
Amor Milagre Floating Witch Hats Outdoor Halloween Decorations, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor

*I missed some decorating, and huge parts of our life, due to being stuck in bed for two weeks + a lifetime.  Note to smokers:  If you must pollute yourselves, do it alone in your home (and don’t move), not in public, and certainly not at non-smoking public beaches where families think they finally have a refuge.  Not in doorways, outside doctor’s offices and hospitals, schools…no smoking anywhere.  We shouldn’t have to survive you, if we even can.  Smoking is highly dangerous to everyone.  Think about it.  What is in the air moves with the wind.  It doesn’t disappear, but it goes directly into our lungs.  We have no control over this, but you do, so stop it.  Ban smoking forever.  It is a crime to harm people and the environment.  The ducks and fish eat your pollution left behind.  It is in the water and soil, too.  Homes, vehicles, gardens, etc are ruined.  Childhoods and days of our life are tragically altered, and in place of joy all is left is fear and illness that never fades but spreads and limits.  It’s not unserious or fleeting.  It is permanently destructive to the lining of our world.  I live in infinite coughs and struggles to breathe.  My family becomes so as well, as they make tea.  Tea?  Tea cannot battle you.  We shouldn’t have to survive you…or not survive you.  Be aware that respiratory issues are, and always have been, a main concern.  End pollution now.  We deserve life.

Amor Milagre Natural Dried Wreath, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor
Amor Milagre Natural Dried Wreath, Early Autumn & End of Summer Days & Decor

Caring about one thing means caring about everything.  Dare to care.  You will see immense improvements.