Everything around her grows.
Bloom where
you're planted
Our mom grew up in Kansas with her nose in a book — reading about far-off places and grand adventures. Deeply reflective, quietly in her own head. She still goes through the world that way. She spent her professional life as a social worker, showing up for people who needed someone steady in their corner. It was never just a job. It was simply who she is.
She isn't someone who chases things or makes grand plans. She adapts, goes with the flow, doesn't sweat the small stuff. What she values is solid and dependable — a good book, a dog at her feet, a cat in the window, a garden coming into bloom, a sunset, family close by. The simple pleasures. She blooms wherever she's planted, and she's been planted in some beautiful places.
Music has always been part of the picture too — festivals with us, the kind with stages in fields and handmade things hanging from tent poles. She'd stop at every jewelry maker's table. Not just to buy — to really look. To understand what went into it. She saw what makers were creating with stone and silver and wanted to be part of that chain — not in a big planned way, just in her way. Finding beautiful things and getting them to the people who'd use them.
"She'd stop at every jewelry maker's table. Not just to buy — to really look. To understand what went into it."
She started collecting because she wanted to feel connected to those makers — finding beautiful stones and strands from artisans across India and other countries and making them accessible to people creating with their hands. It was never about reselling. It was about getting the right materials to the right people.
Moonflower Cottage was her sanctuary. She planted gardens there, started things growing, set the whole vision in motion. Animals found their way to her and stayed. Family gathered there and felt held. Our sister lives there now, tending what our mom began — a loving continuation of everything she started.
From the cottage she made her way to Asheville — the mountains, the music, the makers. It suited her. And then further south still, to the quiet countryside of rural Georgia, still going to shows, still finding beautiful things, still sending them out into the world with the same quiet, steady love she always has.
This shop is the three of us together — a mom and her two grown daughters, giving back and living life the way she taught us. She's still out there finding beautiful things. We're just helping her get them to you.
