This beautiful journal is filled with Nikki McClure’s signature images and ideas for embracing beauty, joy, and courage in the journey toward motherhood. Embrace is an aid to help women celebrate the growing life inside them and embrace the transformation of their body and mind. Women can develop their capacity to desire, discover, embrace, grow, dream, prepare, transform, welcome, and nurture. Filled with new gorgeous paper-cut artwork, the journal’s colorful pages and thoughtful directives encourage women to record their pregnancy from the first month through the welcoming of their little one into the world.
In 1996, NIKKI McCLURE made her first papercut for the book Apple. She has been creating papercut artwork ever since. She splits her time between making a yearly calendar and making children's books. In the summer, she sails north to explore islands, watch birds, hang out with moss, pick berries, and swim in the Salish Sea. McClure shows her artwork at Land Gallery in Portland every November. She lives in Olympia, Washington, with her husband and son under cedar trees along the eastern shore of the southern Salish Sea. She is also the author of The First 1000 Days, The Next 1000 Days, and Embrace.
Praise for All in a Day, illustrated by Nikki McClure "McClure's illustrations draw most of the attention here. Using an X-Acto knife and black paper, McClure suggests textures as varied as pea-plant tendrils, falling rain and the softness of a mother