July is the month when we have a mini winter holiday, snuggle up to read frosty stories, wrap up gifts for December, and edit & illustrate sweet snowy tales in our finished library.
❄️ Teacups and quiet moments… Love, ~Amor Milagre
The Illustrated Self-Health Novelette Series will begin to release in 2026, one love-packed volume at a time.
Atelier Amor Milagre, Novel Illustrating Day, Office Interior Design, Library Renovation, Book Character Watercolour Paintings
My growing book illustration collection (stationery and fine art prints) for each novelette will be available to shop ahead of the paperback volumes & audiobook releases. As there are so many, I prefer to list them as they are completed. These will soon join the Leona novel and children’s book artwork. I’m painting with watercolours on aged deckled-edge papers and with oil on canvas. (FSC) There are also charcoal and fine nib ink renderings, too. I go with what the character tells me they’re most like.
Amor Milagre Nature Waterscape Photography Lake Maine New England Painting Spot
Our mer-family is on a quest to find an unpolluted swimming spot for the spring through autumn time. Water is a healing way to connect with the soul. In our last town, we enjoyed two private, yet open to the public, waterscapes. It is still an unsavoury thought that where there is pollution in one place that it flows into everything else, including us. We urge everyone to end this pollutive madness and begin to repair our planet. Here, there are many small areas with too many people and boats. At first, this spot seemed alright for painting on cool days when no one else comes, but the boat fuel pollution renders it unsafe for a swim. I also wouldn’t be able to go now due to the road traffic and town renovation sound/vibration pollution. We, of course, will not reveal our findings…but you may still wish us luck! We’ll need it.
In the meantime, care about your footsteps…leave only love behind. Nature is worth preserving. We are a small part of her, and we depend on her. Love Nature, for she loves us.
After finishing a book series, several years in the making, I celebrate this thrilling liberation with some cosy bakes and cooks: a weekly vegetable soup, some demi biscuits, baby tarts, and spiced apples.
Amor Milagre July Garden, English Roses, & Summer Novel Writing, author process
July has arrived, whether we like it or not, complete with sky-waking fire hazards, biters, and boiling suns. We happily chill and work through the heated months in our newly renovated Rose Cottage. I have much to list! My shop will soon refill with new photography, stationery, artwork, and darling books. In the coolest hours, the last bit of exterior boards swiftly change from dirty old blue to cosy fresh heavy cream. Cabinets assemble in the evenings. Sweet tiny bird families build thyme refuges in the shade. We redo old gardens, spreading anise hyssop seeds all along the pathways. My imagination scribbles away all day, all night. It is such a relief to have a new writing tool, see below, to translate my loving stories into printed books with less strife and pain. There are worlds in the hearth of every soul. Express love and peace. There and then, roses bloom ever so sweetly.
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I am so happy to finally have a piece of technology that serves me, at least in the recording stage of my stories. Aptly named, reMarkable reduces my arthritis pain and migraine aura, and it quickens my writing process. I write nearly 24/7 so this little lovely, unlighted, non-screen screen helps me out. (Unsponsored review, as always.)
It’s not yet ideal because I still have to transfer this wonky text and edit it fully on a computer in two separate programs to make the lines into books. This step does help more than the inept vocal recording systems out there or just plain notebook copy-typing myself into a blind state of exhaustion. It is pretty good at getting most of my handwriting into text. I do have a lot of spaces to erase and quotes to redirect, a bug for them to work out for the next version. We do love the note pages and being able to practice our calligraphy without having to borrow back our blotting paper from our Borrowers.
After a week of use, I’m grateful for how it allows me to work more naturally and in my own handwriting. Not having to look back and forth whilst typing makes me less dizzy. I write more neatly again because there is no ink and less pressure on the hand to push onto the page. Also, one really does want to get it right the first time so there is less to decipher/edit. I never had to charge my pen or notebook, but I can buy way less ink refills and bulk sets of notebooks, which are two of my biggest expenses. This item wasn’t inexpensive either, so I hope it will last a very long time. It feels good to be once again in the proofreading stages. I predict that I will be able to publish more books in the next year. Too bad the cost of printing hasn’t gone down, though. In the meantime, I’m thinking about self-printing again to solve this issue. We’ll see. Printers are highly irritating creatures. Please fix those bugs soon, Techies.
This new process gives me less mass to physically store, which is good in a way, but I’m not sure if I like not having the first books. I will still keep printed copies of both the originals and the last proofread drafts to look back on as the archival rough drafts for each story. I feel like I can’t truly count on paper or digital files. They’re too fragile. If only I could store my words and pictures under the bark of a tree. Never in some organized, no-so-private, faux cloud. Even my own mind’s translation is muffled from its original spark. And, with so many new stories coming in, my best bet is to hurry up and get all of the books made. Translating ideas is an odd one. Illustration is even trickier for me. At least with writing, I just record the lines in my head. It’s hard to keep up. Painting depends more on my physical arm, back, tailbone… and how long they will be in the right frame of mind to try. The image is more specific, elusive, and more difficult to capture. It’s fleeting. So are the words, though. A steady home set up with a dependable timed-out routine helps allow both aspects of my storytelling to be themselves. I can listen well in the silence. This isn’t easy to balance with a family, homeschool, or exterior pollution, but I’ve just now been able to set a pretty good schedule. Stories ramble out. They speak to me just as people can stroll down many routes. Images are more strict on me. I let them be free to emerge and show themselves. I don’t feel that being a human makes sense for translating the senses. It’s difficult to find that one moment of alignment where things hurt less and you can breathe it out. Any tool, or made-up process, that I find to help me is a gift to the creative process. I like to keep things going…because ideas never stop…
Author Process Note: All illustrations will still be done by hand. Also, the next ~400 books to release were all hand-written. I’ve written about 4 this week on this tablet. It’s not as organic or free, but the editing stage is less consuming. It feels ever so good to move on and to add more Amor Milagre tales to my bookshop! Revisit my shop soon for all kinds of love stories.
*Update about ReMarkable 9-7-25. I’ve experienced a lot of restarting and dysfunctional non-operating moments with this device. It doesn’t send emails as it says, it doesn’t convert text consistently, it needs too many factory resets to even function or turn on as it stops working and goes to sleep often now. The company is not helpful. They have many bugs to sort out, and after system updates more issues occur. It’s frustrating because this would be helpful to my process if it worked well. Ugh…
Amor Milagre July Garden, English Roses, & Summer Novel Writing, author process
Like a writing or painting process, our new rose-clematis trellis is a good structure to hold strong, allowing beauty to sprawl about as naturally as it buds and blooms up to be adored.
Amor Milagre July Garden, English Roses, & Summer Novel Writing, author process
New nature photography, books, oil paintings, notecard-wax seal sticker sets,
and artwork will release this season.
A happy, safe summer to you and your Dear Ones! Love, ~Amor Milagre
This morning, we scrolled out our new set of golden vocabulary for the approaching autumnal season. We study these gorgeous words and then write them into imaginative stories and poems. View our summer Poetree. By absorbing these glimmering jewels as we go about our daily rounds, just as we do with the mood boards, we inherit a wealth of expression and connection to nature’s phases.
At the end of the story, the cards go into a special spot in our word box. The next wave of osmosis then begins! I am compiling these beauties into a little illustrated book of seasons to publish soon.
Happy connecting and growing! Love, ~ Amor Milagre
Amor Milagre Early Autumn Life Inspiration Mood Board, Sitting Room Interior Design
With spirits and autumnal tales of love and exploration whirling plum golden leaves in the forefront of my imagination, I’ve decided to make my autumn mood board a sprig early this year. The spooky season is short here in the north, so we try to prolong it, as it is our favourite stretch. Winter is our slumbering cosy time, and I’m glad there is plenty of it here in the mountains as empaths need so much healing. Because there are too many biters and no cool unpolluted water to dive into on these upcoming hot days, I celebrate how this place’s summer rainstorms give off a warm early autumnal mist that I’m used to.
Today, as our mood board photos print, we’re sewing to The Secret of Roan Inish, one of our dears, our most watched film by the in-tune with nature-John Sayles. The score is amazing, and we listen to it on our travels. Our natural mer-clan loves the waves, the myths, the beautiful compositions wet and earthy and full of seaweed, the sweater-pinny combinations, and the work that goes into a handmade and hand-grown life.
Overall, my mood for this autumn is: cosy, magical, quiet, soulful, connected, restful, restorative, herbal, fresh crisp frosty apple spice salty sea air, sensual, empowering, softening, encrusted in fractals, warmth, mischief, sweetness, velvety richness, cool pumpkin hollows, internal gratitude, and reflective healing.
Amor Milagre Life Spring-Summer Mood Board and Scrapbook 2025
These springspirations were put to good use, and now we’re living in soft cream cottons enjoying our pale pink blooms and baking at the coolest hours. Whilst listening to a bewitching audiobook, we remove these lovelies and tape them into our scrapbook, making space for autumnal pleasures and textures to remind us to keep that season when she arrives.
View the Winter to Spring-Summer board post here. Our year’s ongoing theme is ‘Nurture’, and in Spring we added in ‘Harmony’. Now, with this autumn board, we’re stirring in ‘Layers’ of encrusted, embroidered, adjectives folded in details that taste homey and fulfilling.
We’ve been healing and making space so that new adventures have room to walk. What kinds of shoelaces do they wear? How often do they become untied? Where do they rest their feet after wandering the trees all day? It’s time to describe. It’s time to type up all of my books..and let you enjoy them, too!
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Amor Milagre mini replaced the homeschool desk’s spring board with autumnal magic! These babies snuggled into our spell book.
Amor Milagre mini, Children’s Life Autumn Mood Board 2025
New ideas spark wonderful original stories, witchy fashion designs, and book covers and illustrations. Endless sketchbooks and notebooks pile up in the baby bookshelves, many to be published with mine! Free expression is a daily practice at our Rose Cottage School. Stay tuned…
Amor Milagre Life Autumn Mood Board and Scrapbook 2025
Cut and pin…arrange…fun!
Amor Milagre Life Autumn Mood Board and Scrapbook 2025
Autumn is my old beloved, so I was a bit overzealous and happy to have a new printer after being picture-starved for years, and the extras went right into the book. Years ago, I did have a wall-sized board which would have accommodated everyone, but that’s ok. I like packed-full little boards, too. It’s a shame that moving pods and trucks are allowed to be so smokey…they ruined many of our favourite things. Cough, cough. When younger and living in NYC, I made portable boards, printed oh so tiny on 4×6 cards, and I would flip through the little album on buses and subway rides, focusing on my dreams, and not on the vultures circling around me. I don’t get distracted by the outside world. I don’t even let it in really because it’s not allowing sensitive people to be a part of it. All that static has nothing to do with me. Only in this way, it can visit us, to serve us well.
This quarterly exercise is the only time I use online pictures, pinterest especially, as their addition of ads and videos creates a strobe light effect which induces migraines. When young, I used my own drawings and words, magazine tears, and copies of book pages, careful not to fall into the toxic representations that harm young minds. So, this is why real mood boards are so important. One may add hand-written notes, poems, drawings, and scribbles. No charging station needed to change or remove a paper. No screens, just daily visual reminders to do what you like.
And, remember if anyone says that you’re a visual learner, and if you are, then clarify, “Yes, it is ONE of the ways that help me to absorb information, but not the only way.” Let’s not be so ridiculous anymore, please. These limiting labels, that people are so fond of, do more harm than good. This is why I record audiobooks for each of my stories. I’m looking into Braille and foreign translations as well to include all of our senses.
Live your dreams…every day. The law of attraction is a very real energy. I often tell my family and readers, “Dream and help it come true!” These symbols work. They are more than what they appear. They are doors…open them to explore days and days…memories…moods and emotions….a dream life conjured into real hugs and kisses, laughs and giggles.
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As I print new stationery and art prints for my shop, as well as homeschool projects for the portfolio, these autumnal goals represented in these gorgeous pinterest images seep into my subconscious which truly works for me. *I save my original Amor Milagre imagery for my work, designs, etc on pinterest so maybe they’ll inspire you! Check out my boards with the ‘P’ link at the bottom of this site’s page.
Amor Milagre Life Autumn Mood Board and Scrapbook 2025
Fresh pear scents, French braids, and cosy crisp breezes… Love, ~Amor Milagre
