Amor Milagre Pink Peony Oil Painting, June Flowers Rose Cottage Garden
It’s June. The peonies, salvia, lavender, irises, clovers, lupines, foxgloves, dogwood, and daisies are blooming. This morning, I bunny-hopped out to catch a pink peony. I’d rather she stay snug in her bed, but due to neighbour pollution I cannot paint her out there, so in she came before her petals fell in the afternoon rainfall. Her portrait will now live forever in my shop. The original painting, archival art prints, and stationery cards are available today! A matching Flower Photography art print will accompany this piece soon. Remember, we all share this air, and we can all enjoy nature’s ever-art.
Happy Summer! Love, Amor Milagre
Amor Milagre Pink Peony Oil Painting, June Flowers Rose Cottage Garden
My favourite way to paint is with plants because the scene keeps refreshing itself each moment.
Atelier Amor Milagre: Art, Books, Stationery, Interior Design, Organic Gardening & Kitchen. This interior is our library-atelier-office-homeschool room. We love painting with watercolours in here.
Now that our Rose Cottage renovations are winding down, I am able to catch up on finishing endless books, illustrations, interior design before & afters, stationery, and other fun projects to add to my shop.
A summer wax seal sticker and notecard set will release soon. New warm-weather inspired packaging will be dressing your orders beginning this month. I am excited about my new Autumn-Halloween stationery collection! The cookbook will probably release next winter. The newly illustrated Vol.I of The Love Letter Diaries, Leona’s Homecoming novels 1-4 will release this summer. I am mulling over a fresh film series to begin over the winter, but first the novelettes and children’s books draw my attention.
At the moment, we’re enduring that certain sting of updating the computers and printers. If you could just design them to last, please…that would be helpful and sustainable. The prices are not kind, but the worst part is testing out the new settings…just trying to capture the correct colours. I am most terrible particular about colours and sizes. And, why not? Painting in the desired colours and scope means something. If you’ve ever seen the work of an old master sold as art prints, with your pick of five different lights and shades, cropped until confusing, then you’ll know that those sellers have not visited the original, assessed what the faded level of colour is, and configured their senseless printers to best represent this aging. Every detail the artist includes matters, and as a whole this makes up the symbolic story of the composition.
This weekend, we had a quick bite…a fresh hot tortilla and roasted pepper hummus. It was comforting after a nice long walk. Oxygen health breathes new ideas, stories, and leaves space to work on aging ones before they are lost to the stacks of notebooks in the bookcases.
There is much to do on this calming cleaning day, so I’m off now, riding the tickly bristles of my golden brush across the page. All things bewitching, coming soon. Love, ~Amor Milagre
With a clean home and a simmering weekly soup, complete with warm biscuits and savoury crackers, we’re all set to begin a fresh set of days. Our goal is to make everything ourselves. Mustard has been checked off the list, and tortillas are next… Baking is good for the senses.
I use a special mix of herbs and spices that is simply delicious in most dishes, and I’ve dedicated an entire page to this subject in my upcoming cookbook. These lovelies are included in our regular recipe section.
My recipes are short and sweet. We keep a brief card for each one in a little book tin. No need for pages and pages of fluff. This helps us to focus and enjoy the baking and cooking.
P.S. My husband first made these during my pregnancy, which was severely difficult, and these helped a lot, as they were one of the few things I could eat. Also, I wish we had known about papaya enzymes earlier. They seemed to help a little. Pineapple juice, cold shredded carrot salad…all of his favourites…just kidding, but he figured it out anyways. It would have been less stressful for both of us if he had known how to cook more types of foods beforehand. Luckily, engineers are good at following directions. My intuitive ‘just some’ doesn’t work for him, so for my cookbook, I indicated the usual set amounts to use as a guide, while still encouraging a sense-feel style of cooking so that one can improvise easily and confidently with any available ingredients.
This is why I always write in helpful supporting book characters for my mothers-to-be, to inspire our world to do so. I sincerely recommend that every person in the universe learns how to cook and bake as many healthy things as they can. It’s not only enjoyable, but it helps everyone. It’s a peaceful action. For partners of pregnant mothers, it is not just loving, but it can save lives. Plural. Nutritional education is vital. We learn about food every day, especially in our homeschool lessons, and eat mostly fresh organic plants.
Today, I made these crackers even smaller…to fit on the soup spoon…and I like it! They last longer this way, too. The wavy pasta tool worked well, making crispy edges. Customize the flavours to match your soup!
Amor Milagre Cosy Tarts & Yoga in the Library, Strawberry Chocolate, Garlic Shallot
Transitions are interesting times, but extra comforts help with any uneasiness while we navigate. On this cosy rainy day, we read and draw, bake and cook, paint up some pantry cabinets, and stretch…
We need these quiet moments…every day. Happy growing season, Love ~ Amor Milagre
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Music of the Moment: Close Your Eyes, Salvatore Licitra & Kronos Quartet
Amor Milagre Organic Broccoli Ravioli Handmade Pasta
Dinner tonight is a dish of baby’s handmade pillowy broccoli ravioli. So good! Our school lessons also include cooking, baking, laundry, budgeting, and cleaning. One needs to know how to take healthy care of hearth & home.
We’re also looking to summer, ready to build up skills with plans for a few new adventures. It’s the weekend already? Time for audiobooks, libraries, science projects, book editing, and delicious bakes. Hope you have a lovely one. It’s pretty and raining here. Love it! Everything is green.
