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 Blogger of the Week: Bringing Up Charlie

I sit in my lounge typing and I only have one child in need of my mothering today. My daughter Ella is off to school. Well, not quite Reception as …

Back to school in a new country

This week as many of us are preparing to send our children back to school (or maybe to school for the first time), a lovely family will be starting school …

BritMums Blogging Prompts: School Days

It’s here! It’s here! It’s finally here! Back to school week! Or, just another week for our Scottish bloggers…sorry. This week is the week where uniforms will be carefully put …

Join our daily photo challenge for September: #SnapHappyBritMums

Here we are, another month further into 2012 and another month closer to 2013! We’ve been running the #SnapHappyBritMums challenge since May and have had a small but very loyal …

BritMums Blogger of the Week: Domestic Goddesque

So here we are…the last week of the Summer Holiday for many of us while the Scottish bloggers amongst us are sticking out their tongues at us as they’ve been …

BritMums Blogging Prompts – Lessons learned and Summer highlights

Summer holiday is drawing to a close. School uniform shopping is in high swing and thoughts are turning to lunchboxes, play dates and after school sporting activities. So much to …

BritMums Blogger of the Week: Mummy’s Little Monkey

The blogging world can be a lovely place. You meet new people, form friendships, support each other and always have a shoulder to cry on. Social media allows you to …

BritMums Live! Reporters: Blogger’s Studio- The path to getting published

The Path to Getting Published Presenters: Toni Hargis, Emily Carlisle, Erin Niumata, Cari Rosen and Kate Morris Reporter: Cat Dean I was particularly looking forward to this session – clearly not …

Julia Boggio at BritMums Live

BritMums Live! Reporters: Advanced Photography with Julia Boggio

Even before Julia Boggio‘s session on Advanced Blogging Photography had started there was a great buzz in the room. It was definitely the session I had been looking forward to …