Our Founders
“Paula is the easiest person to work with—willing to do anything, smart, funny and always the first to share a NY TIMES recipe that I will never make. With an art history minor and a love of literature, she’s always tasked with determining the art medium and writing its copy to perfection. I love our business partnership and treasure the friendship that has developed with it.”
“Kate has the best ideas - big and small - of anyone I know and she is a born entrepreneur. She conjured GoneGirl into existence in 2017 and has led the charge ever since. Kate is a problem-solver, a brilliant writer, knows just what to say in every situation (except when hangry and the gloves come off). Icing on the cake, she has a song for any topic in fifth grade history (honed in her previous life teaching at GDS). She no longer frosts cupcakes and I’d advise you not to suggest it. There is no better business partner.”
Our Team of Curators
Kate
Kate is a mom to three college/post-college no-longer-kids and a wife to Alex. She has a well-behaved dog (an achievement) and cat with personality. She professes not to cook dinner but really does.
Founder | DC
Paula
Founder | DCPaula is a mom to two “adult children” wife to Will, and dog mom to Louie, a darling shitzu who always needs green beans when it is time to sit down and work.
DCJessie
Jessie is a mom to two lovely adult daughters, dog mom to a personality-filled Havanese named Alfie and wife to Howie. She is a fabulous cook and baker and always has the best snacks at her house. She’s usually adorned with fringe, hearts or leopard…sometimes all three!
Sarah
I’m Sarah, your Richmond GoneGirl and pro treasure-hunter. I’m a Mathews County girl, which means I've never met a river day I didn’t love—or a neighbor I wasn’t excited to meet. After graduating from the University of Georgia (Go Dawgs!), teaching, getting married and becoming a mom of three, I turned my hobby of “spotting the good stuff” into a full-time passion. I’m married to Stanley, who occasionally puts on his “GoneGirl Hat” and jumps in to help the team.
I’ll happily meet you wherever your pieces live: your home, your storage unit, your garage, or your MILs mysterious attic you’ve been avoiding. I love discovering great pieces and the stories that come with them. I’m your girl in RVA!
Richmond
Collins
NashvilleAbout Collins—Collins as a GoneGirl has been written in the stars since birth! She can tell stories about playing with her siblings on the antique shoe cobblers bench that was in her house growing up or where a beautiful inlaid commode was in her parent's house. Her grandmother, Donner, would take her and her cousins to the furniture auction in Chattanooga on the weekends for "fun." Then she met Kate Wassiliew in middle school and her fate was sealed— 4 years of high school friendship and living together all 4 years of college. She’s had a a career as a Public Defender (therefore our in house counsel), raised her three, beautiful daughters with her husband Tom, and regularly comes home to "finds" her mom has discovered and moved into Collins’ house unannounced.
Collins loves tennis and exercising; her family and friends, traveling the world, seeing live music and now helping neighbors find new homes for their beautiful furniture. She's even walked into some houses and seen some of the pieces Donner found at auction for her friends many, many years ago.
Of note, she can identify perfect pitch and NEVER forgets a name, so her future is bright should she ever need a change from GoneGirl scenery.
NashvilleCarlisle
Carlisle loves walking her dog Lefty, eating Chicken Mamacita salads from Little Rad, and attending an occasional beach party at the retirement home. She thinks that Smart Water is better than Core (she’s wrong), loves making her famous egg nog, and knows how to fold a fitted sheet. In her free time, Carlisle does the books for her husband’s advertising business and spends time at her newly renovated condo in Amelia Island.