About

Hola! As you can guess by the name of my blog I’m Joy, a Chilean girl living in the gorgeous California mountains with my amazing (not just because I say so) husband Ken, and our adorable little fur-baby Poodle Curly.

I am an Industrial Designer from the Universidad de Chile, and I am in love with design. I’ve always loved expressing myself creatively. When I was a little girl my dream was to be a Fashion Designer and even now I am always dreaming about starting my own clothing/fashion line =]

• My native language is Spanish
• I am self taught English speaker and started blogging as a way to improve
• I am not a big fan of make up
• I am a to-do list making freak
• I absolutely love lemon pie
• I am almost 6 feet tall
• I am scared of spiders
• My favorite fruits are tunas (the green prickly pears not purple)
• I love bright colors, especially purple, magenta and turquoise

My goal for this blog is very simple: INSPIRE – to me inspiration is the base of any creative process, I love pretty things and I am always inspired by others, in order to CREATE we all need inspiration, so I started this blog as my personal contribution to try to inspire others like me to explore their creative self and hopefully try/make something new =] I love to teach and SHARE the things I make, know and learn, that’s why I love to make tutorials and share my inspiration and life in this little Joyful space.

I first Designed this blog in February 2010, sadly it stayed empty until after our April 2010 Wedding. I love to change the design and make little improvements all the time, so here a few posts I’ve done about the design aspects of this blog.

• A new face for HowJoyful
• HowJoyful Drafts
• First Blogoversary

In late 2010 I started my Design Business “HowJoyful Design Studio” and launched my site hjdstudio.com, a few months after that I added a blog, and after that I also added a section for pre-made templates as well as free templates, my design blog is where I share color inspiration, resources and tutorials on how to make your blog more Joyful =] I don’t update it as much as I want to, but it’s fun to have a place to share those kinds of things in a more organized way =]