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 and recent mother. In 2007, she and her husband James put their Dirty Dancing first dance up on You Tube to share with friends back in America (18 months after they actually married in 2005). Two days later, they were featured in the Metro, followed closely by appearances on ITV news, Richard & Judy, and BBC News as well as articles in newspapers across the world. They were also flown out to Chicago to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where Julia realised every woman’s dream and danced with Patrick Swayze himself. This blog is the story of what happened next.

Sigh…you’ve simply GOT to read her remembrance of the BIG day when she got to dance on-stage with Patrick Swayze at The Oprah Winfrey Show. Sigh…

Julia is taking part, with over 70 BritMums bloggers in NaBloPoMo, the National Blog Posting Month challenge where bloggers are publishing posts EVERY DAY for the month of November. Support Julia in this endeavour as she’s got some wonderful stories to tell. In addition to being a Dirty Dancing YouTube phenomenon, Julia is a professional photographer with a wealth of knowledge on the subject. She will be contributing a monthly column on this blog in the very near future and will be presenting at the BritMums Live! conference in June 2012. Aren’t we lucky?!

Be sure to add Julia’s I Carried a Watermelon (wonder where she got that title??) to your reading rota and follow Julia on Twitter (@juliaboggio). Now sit back and enjoy THE video…

About 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.