Founder & Product Sourcing

Hope lives by the mantra that anything worth doing is worth overdoing! Always one to jump in with both feet (her office even includes a photo of a pig jumping into a lake!), she enjoys finding new supplies and creating unique handmade items.

Her newest retirement project is The Funky Robot, where she creates quirky characters from antique, vintage and recycled items!

Shipping and Logistics

Glen has never run into a problem he couldn't solve with duct tape and an x-acto knife. Always the calm presence in a storm, Glen makes sure both incoming supplies and outgoing orders arrive quickly and smoothly.

His newest retirement project is EtchedWalletArt, where he engraves personalized wallets.

Owner & IT and Website Development

Andy is the driving force that keeps the wheels turning - a jack of all trades who is happy to help out in all sides of the business. His favorite parts of the business are helping clients, tinkering with the laser machines, and improving the website.

In his spare time, Andy loves teaching his dogs new tricks and working on cars!

Graphic Design & Marketing

Andrea is never walking... she's always running! Known as the energizer bunny, Andrea is always on the move working on a new design or a new project. She works directly with clients to make their custom charm designs come to life, and doubles as a hand model for all of our charms and other smaller supplies!

In her spare time, Andrea loves going on adventures with her dogs and doing Crossfit classes!

Security & Shenanigans

A few years after our previous mascotts Sparky and Sassy passed away we decided our lives were lacking some craziness. In came Charlie and Maggie, who are Irish Doodle littermates. Always happy to bark at squirrels and chase rabbits, they keep us on our toes and can be found at the front doors to the office, keeping a watch!

Hope had retired and was spending time doing what she loved - making jewelry! When her and her husband Glen started planning their move from the city to the beach to retire, Hope realized she had far too many jewelry supplies… so she began selling them on Etsy!

It turns out, there were plenty of other jewelry makers looking for quality supplies at good prices, and the idea of liquidating excess jewelry supplies turned into a business!

Picture: Sparky our mascot, and Sassy, his sister, enjoying time on the beach!

With Glen on board to help, they moved the business to the basement of their beachside home in Prince Edward Island, a small province off the east coast of Canada. They like to say more than half of the moving truck was jewelry making supplies!

Picture: Glen unloading boxes and setting up inventory in the basement.

Before long, orders started pouring in, and the basement got a bit too tight. The next move took them to an old elementary school, which had been repurposed as a business complex, in the local town of St. Peters Bay with a population of only 300 people.

Picture: Hope unloading supplies and equipment at the St Peters Bay Complex.

Bohemian Findings continued to grow and had 6 full time employees… Funny enough, some of the employees had actually gone to school at the complex years before!

Picture: Employees Bonnie and April picking the first orders once the move was completed.

Four years into the business, Hope and Glen found their retirement years were being spent working instead of relaxing, so their son Andy and his wife Andrea came on board to help. By then, Bohemian Findings had grown into the largest Etsy shop in the world and was the first to hit 1,000,000 sales. 

Picture: Andrea holding up the order that included the 1 millionth item sold on Etsy!

As the business continued to grow it got more and more difficult to operate from rural PEI… winter storms would knock out the power every Black Friday weekend without fail. To make matters worse, the only bridge that connects PEI to the mainland would close during bad storms, creating huge shipping delays. With a heavy heart, we began preparing to move the business.

Picture: The view of from the St Peters Business Complex during a "Nor'Easter", a particularly bad snow storm that made roads impassable.

In mid-2023 we completed the move, which included moving our warehouse from PEI to Montreal, QC. We also set up another warehouse in upstate New York to cut down on shipping times for our US clients. 

Picture: Glen driving a rented truck filled with supplies, leaving PEI bound for Montreal.

Hope and Glen are enjoying retirement splitting their time between working in Montreal, relaxing on the beach in PEI, and spending time with their grandchildren in Calgary.

Andy and Andrea live in Montreal and operate the day-to-day of the business. They keep their hands full with the new Bohemian Findings mascots - Charlie and Maggie.