The Beautiful Garden Boutique offers six different collections, including this elegant piece from the “Make A Difference” Collection which donates a percentage of the proceeds to fighting ovarian cancer!

When you first visit The Beautiful Garden Boutique website you’re immediately impressed by the dazzling and professional looking jewelry, the wide selection of styles and colors jewelry artist and owner Trisha Fay uses and the impressive look and feel of her online store!

Trisha’s mostly sterling silver and beaded jewelry is both intricate and approachable and often filled with colorful quality crystal (even Swarovski) and semi-precious gemstones. She offers SIX different jewelry collections, including the wonderful Baby Addison Collection for little girls and the Make A Difference Collection which donates a portion of the proceeds to fighting ovarian cancer. And if her collections aren’t enough, she will gladly create custom wedding jewelry both for the bride and for the entire wedding party!

Her jewelry is a joy to browse through and she takes great pride in her packaging, with each piece arriving in a gift box and some pieces even having decorative information cards and ribbons. Trisha has a number of years of experience in the fashion industry and her experience and pride in her work clearly shows in both her jewelry and her presentation!

Trisha Fay: Mother, Wife, Artist, Bead Jewelry Entrepreneur!

Just like many of the “big” jewelry stores, her website offers different ways of browsing through all her jewelry, including by price, and even had a search function. Her site is filled with information about her jewelry, including stores and other locations where you can find her pieces, her services, including custom jewelry creation and even herself!

What really fascinated me about Trisha and her jewelry business is that she’s a proud mother of two who has built her hobby of beading and creating jewelry up while juggling a growing family and working out of her home. Most of her pieces are sold in stores and shops, but she’s moving towards selling more at private parties, craft shows and specialized boutiques. Ultimately she’d like her business to do well enough to afford her more time with her children and family.

She really started to consider creating jewelry as a business when she was pregnant with her first child. Trisha says balancing both a family and business is difficult at the moment and offers some wise words for other mothers and jewelry artists who are struggling with the same issues:

I communicate with my husband what my work load is sometimes on a daily basis so he knows I need time during the evening. I pretty much try to fit things in when I have a chance and many late nights. I take my son to classes and activities during the week. On the weekends you will usually find me at the computer until wee hours in to the morning! But, I would never give it up. It’s very rewarding to have my business, especially a business that started from a hobby! My advice to other women would be to have a family calendar/daily schedule so everyone knows what is going on and you know when you are taking on too much.

She’s proof that persistence and a little hard work can go a long way! As if that wasn’t enough, she also has a Beautiful Garden Boutique blog where she’s been branching out into scrapbooking and photo frames, she has an Etsy jewelry store and she even has a Press Page listing websites and news features where Trisha and her Beautiful Garden Boutique jewelry have been featured! And keep an eye on that page because some of her work will soon be featured in a new beading magazine!

If you’re looking for unique and beautiful jewelry for the bride, the mother-to-be or even the young daughter, look no further than the Beautiful Garden Boutique. And if you ever wondered if all the hard work of trying to grow your bead jewelry business is worth it, just look to Trisha Fay for the answer: it is!