Bøker av Leah Day

What happens when a mother and her 16-year-old son drop everything to bike across the country? On the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail, they struggle up hills in the pouring rain, they feel soreness in muscles they didn't know they had, and they learn more about each other than they ever knew before. When licensed clinical therapist and self-proclaimed "reluctant adventurer" Leah Day felt herself drifting from her son, Oakley, she decided to make a drastic play to reconnect. In this memoir chronicling the journey of a lifetime, Leah and Oakley find that if they can push themselves to accomplish physically exhausting and emotionally taxing milestones on a bike, they are capable of anything!

This is the story of Leah Day's goddess quilts.Leah's creative journey began with the birth of her son and the conception of her first goddess quilt in 2007. While making that quilt, she found the vehicle for change and self-discovery she'd been searching for her whole life.This is Leah's story of transformation and how each goddess quilt in this series pushed her to become a better woman, wife, mother, and quilter.This is not a book about any known goddesses from myth, legend, or religion. Leah's goddess quilts are fantasy self-portraits that represent who she wished she could be and how she wanted to feel.Exquisitely illustrated with dozens of detailed, full page photographs, quilters, artists, and anyone with an eye for bright color and gorgeous art quilts will find limitless inspiration inside this book.By focusing on these powerful images through the many months, sometimes multiple years, it took to create each quilt, Leah found the wisdom and courage to change her life, her habits and even her thoughts.Leah Day's Goddess Quilts is an artist's memoir that shows how you too can embrace courage and cultivate gratitude. Leah openly shares her personal struggles with self-criticism, the danger of dwelling on past pain, and how she overcame many obstacles blocking her path.This is the story of a creative entrepreneur following a childhood dream. A story of success and failure and the struggle to remain humble in an egotistical social media fueled world. This is the story of a wife and mother embracing her creativity and releasing it to the world.This is the story of Leah Day's goddess quilts.The goddess on the cover is called Release Your Light.This is the light of your creativity.It is not a spark or a flickering flame.It's an explosion of light more powerful than the sun.Are you ready to release YOUR light?~ LARGE PRINT EDITION ~

This is the story of Leah Day's goddess quilts.Leah's creative journey began with the birth of her son and the conception of her first goddess quilt in 2007. While making that quilt, she found the vehicle for change and self-discovery she'd been searching for her whole life.This is Leah's story of transformation and how each goddess quilt in this series pushed her to become a better woman, wife, mother, and quilter.This is not a book about any known goddesses from myth, legend, or religion. Leah's goddess quilts are fantasy self-portraits that represent who she wished she could be and how she wanted to feel. Exquisitely illustrated with dozens of detailed, full page photographs, quilters, artists, and anyone with an eye for bright color and gorgeous art quilts will find limitless inspiration inside this book.By focusing on these powerful images through the many months, sometimes multiple years, it took to create each quilt, Leah found the wisdom and courage to change her life, her habits and even her thoughts.Leah Day's Goddess Quilts is an artist's memoir that shows how you too can embrace courage and cultivate gratitude. Leah openly shares her personal struggles with self-criticism, the danger of dwelling on past pain, and how she overcame many obstacles blocking her path.This is the story of a creative entrepreneur following a childhood dream. A story of success and failure and the struggle to remain humble in an egotistical social media fueled world. This is the story of a wife and mother embracing her creativity and releasing it to the world.This is the story of Leah Day's goddess quilts.The goddess on the cover is called Release Your Light.This is the light of your creativity.It is not a spark or a flickering flame.It's an explosion of light more powerful than the sun.Are you ready to release YOUR light?

When Grandma disappears without a trace, Mally Spencer doesn't know what to think and certainly didn't expect to find her within a magical quilt.A chance discovery in Grandma's sewing room catapults Mally into the world of Quilst, where everything is made of fabric and stuffed animals can come to life. Is this where Grandma has been the whole time?Mally sets off to search, but is quickly caught by the powerful Queen of Quilst. In order to free herself, Mally must overcome her worst fears and learn how to stitch herself free. She'll have to become more than just a kid playing make-believe.She'll have to become a Maker. Mally the Maker is the first installment of a delightful quilting fantasy series created by Leah Day for quilters of all ages. Growing up in a small town in North Carolina, Leah mastered sewing, crochet, and knitting as a young girl and hopes to inspire a new generation of kids to pick up needles, thread, fabric and yarn and learn how to make beautiful things.Learn more about Mally the Maker and find fun projects to create from the book at MallytheMaker.com