The Pearled Rose

08/30/2026

A crown for a very important yes. 🌸

This sweet flower girl proposal option featured our Blush Pearl flower crown and wildflower seed hearts, little pieces of love meant to bloom long after the wedding day.

And a bit of happy news: the wildflower seed hearts will be returning by the end of September. 🤍

08/29/2026

Thinking of you tonight, Jada Star. ❤️ What an incredibly beautiful and heartbreaking way to honor your Aunt Granny, Dolly. Your song "The Orchard" is absolutely perfect. Sending you so much love as you step onto that stage tonight with your light. 🦋

I have been asked to sing my song “The Orchard” tonight as part of the Grand Ole Opry ’s tribute to my incredible aunt, Dolly Parton . I am walking around in a fog of sadness, like all of you have.💔 I do not take this honor lightly. I will stand on that stage tonight, the stage she loved so much, and share my song I wrote for her and for my whole family. Know that we appreciate every single tribute, message, and kind word you have all shared the past few days. We appreciate all of you. Please tune in to see some beautiful tributes and performers. Link to stream in bio❤️
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08/26/2026

Go google Dolly Parton right now I’ll wait 🦋🦋🦋

08/26/2026

“The only way I knew to show my respect for Dolly was to go to Dollywood this morning. I wanted to see how people in the park were doing, check on the park itself, see what memorial items they were doing and more.
All money from this video will be donated to imagination library.” - Jonny Amusement

Today, I visited Dollywood on a day I never imagined would come—the...

08/26/2026

Love this message. 🦋

08/25/2026

Today, Tennessee feels a little different🕊

Parton was more than an icon. She was more than the music, the rhinestones, the mountains, or even the extraordinary life she built.

She represented possibility.

The belief that you could come from humble beginnings and still dream beyond what anyone expected of you. That you could transform again and again without losing the heart of who you were.

Dolly made people believe that becoming more was possible without having to become less kind.

Maybe that is why butterflies always seemed to fit so naturally into her world. 🦋 A butterfly does not become something entirely different. It becomes what it was always capable of becoming.

Dolly carried that kind of hope with her.

She reminded people that where you begin does not have to determine how far your story can travel and that success means even more when you use it to help others along the way.

For The Pearled Rose, having had the opportunity to see our flower crowns carried at Dollywood has always held extra magic for us because of the world Dolly created there. A place rooted in imagination, storytelling, beauty, family, and the mountains she never stopped loving.

To her family, friends, and everyone who loved the woman behind the legend, our hearts are with you.

Thank you, Dolly, for showing us how powerful it can be to dream boldly, remain soft, stay generous, and keep BECOMING.

The world is gentler, brighter, and more courageous because you were here. 🦋

Rest peacefully, Dolly. 🤍

08/25/2026

Check out family_dough_tn in Knoxville for delicious mini donuts and cannolis! They are a NEW small business location. The donuts were *chefs kiss* and had many options to choose from.

08/23/2026

There are bookstores… and then there are places that feel like you’ve stepped inside a story. 📚

Today I finally visited Fable Hollow Bookshoppe after having so many friends tell me I needed to go and now I completely understand why.

Every little corner feels intentional, whimsical, and made for people who still believe books can be doorways to somewhere else. 🤎

If you’re in Knoxville and love books, beautiful spaces, and a little bit of magic, add Fable Hollow to your list.

08/23/2026

This summer, I’ve been spending a lot of time with my daughters and husband, slowing down wee bit, and working on the small things.
But behind the scenes, I've also been thinking deeply about the future and the things I want to create next.

And there is one idea that has stayed with me since I first dreamed up Crown Your Story in 2023.

What if Crown Your Story became a book?🌹

I'm imagining a beautiful, heirloom style hardcover book filled with women's stories, golden hour photography, and portraits of each woman wearing a flower crown created for her story.

Something beautiful enough to leave on your coffee table and meaningful enough to keep.

Each woman would have several pages dedicated to her story. If this becomes what I think it could become, I don't see it as just ONE book.

I see different volumes of Crown Your Story, each exploring a different part of the human experience.

BUT I need your insight before I decide where we begin.

The three themes I'm considering for the first book are:

🕊GRIEF
Stories of love, loss and what we continue carrying with us. Not only death, but the many ways grief enters our lives.

🌸 GRANDMA'S GIRLS
Stories about grandmothers and the women whose love, lessons, traditions, gardens, recipes, objects and memories continue living through us.

✨ RESILIENCE
Stories about the moments that could have broken us, the lives we rebuilt, the unexpected roads we've walked and the women we've become along the way.

So please tell me!
Which book would you want to pick up? Which one would you want to give someone you love?

And maybe most importantly…

Which one makes you immediately think, “I have a story for that”?

Comment GRIEF, GRANDMA'S GIRLS or RESILIENCE below and I'd genuinely love to know *why*. This is a work in progress.

And if reading this makes you think you might someday want to share your own story as part of Crown Your Story, leave me a 🌹 or send me a message. I'm not collecting stories quite yet, but when that chapter begins, I'd love to know who wants to hear about it.