Karin Joyce

Karin Joyce is the creator of Embrace Happy, an inspirational and motivational website where the focus is on celebrating the good in our lives every day. The Embrace Happy tagline is: Not every day is good but there is good in every day.

Before starting Embrace Happy, Karin was one of the “old school” bloggers from the early days of what was then British Mummy Bloggers with her parenting blog Cafe Bebe. In between school runs, blogging and being a wife to Mark and Mum to Ella (6 1/2) and Sam (3), Karin also works as a freelance social media manager and consultant.

BritMums Blog Prompt of the Week: Thanks

Life is funny. It throws curve balls at you; keeps you on your toes; refuses to allow you to be complacent. This week, we’d like to give you an opportunity …

Love at First Sight

An advantage of being a part of a community is the support that we can give to each other in times of struggle, need and distress. One of the founding …

BritMums Blogger of the Week

Our BritMums Blogger of the Week is…Julia Boggio of I Carried a Watermelon! Here’s a bit more about Julia, in her own words… Julia Boggio is a professional photographer, writer …

Video Blog Challenge: Bad Weather Blues

The mornings are slightly brighter but that won’t last too much longer. The night starts closing in around 4:30pm at the moment which makes our evenings seem rather long. It’s …

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BritMums Blog Prompts: Changes

This year has been a year of a lot of changes for BritMums and for our members. BritMums membership is up over 3000, we’ve changed platforms (and changed back again), …

BritMums Blogger of the Week

I have been bringing you the BritMums Blogger of the Week for nearly a year now! How time flies when you’re recognising brilliant people. Thanks to the impending arrival of …

Good Reads: NaBloPoMoUK

On Monday, we featured a guest post from Fiona at NLP Mum about NaBloPoMoUK. The blogging social network, BlogHer, in the US runs National Blog Post Month and it’s been …

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BritMums Video Blog Challenge: Who would you roast?

Halloween will be a thing of the past after Monday but we have one more exciting seasonal event to come…Bonfire Night (aka Guy Fawkes Day). Many of us will be …

BritMums Blog Prompts- Defining Moments

The end of the month. The clocks have turned back an hour thus giving us more time to… sleep? dream? iron? stress? blog? We definitely hope that you won’t be …