KIMBERLY SHEARIN has always been a high achiever who looks for ways to be a blessing to others. Although originally from Smyrna, she moved to Tullahoma in 1998 to live with her dad and to attend Motlow State Community College. While earning a degree, she became the president of Phi Theta Kappa and, in 2006, was crowned Miss Motlow. Shearin was also awarded the regional and the international President Award. She married her husband, Chris, who is a native of Tullahoma, in 2000, and they have two daughters. In 2018, when their oldest enrolled in middle school, Shearin made the decision to leave the corporate world and start her own business, EnV Embroidery n Vinyl.
“I’ve always been an artistic person, and I noticed we didn’t have a business where locals could order custom or professional apparel. I took a few classes, watched some tutorials, and bought myself a machine,” said Shearin. “I have always been kindhearted. When my girls became active in the Tullahoma High School band, I wanted to figure out a way that I could help out. I embroidered hats for every student in the band for them to wear for their annual March-A-Thon. I did them for free so the funds they raised could stay with the band. Since that year, I have made the shirts they wear for the March-A-Thon at no charge to the band.”
Even though Shearin donates approximately 200 shirts each year, her kindness doesn’t stop there as she also embroiders the band logo on the students’ backpacks free of charge. In the last year, she has personally given over $500 in donations to other local sports teams, and she donates her time to embroider the backpacks of every basketball player from Winchester Christian Academy. She also gives steep discounts to local sports teams who are in need of jerseys, including those playing in Little League.
In 2020, when COVID-19 temporarily shuttered the doors of her business, she set to work embroidering masks. For every mask she sold, she planned to donate another to a first responder in her beloved community. What began as a way to keep her hands busy and her creativity flowing turned into Shearin delivering hundreds of masks to Coffee County EMTs, the Tullahoma Fire Department, and the emergency room at Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital.
Each year, as students return to the classrooms, their teachers reach out to Shearin to help provide school supplies and gifts for those in need at Christmas. But Shearin isn’t one to brag about these accomplishments. She wholeheartedly believes that if her community is going to support her, she must, in turn, support her community.
When news stations across Nashville began showing images of the shooting at Covenant School in March 2023, Shearin wiped her tears, set her chin, and determined in her heart that she was going to help those left behind. After designing a shirt by hand, she wrote the words “TN STRONG” and then listed the names of the six victims inside the word “STRONG.”
“We sold shirts with my artwork on them for $20 and donated all the proceeds to the Covenant victims. We raised $600. The money allowed the families to make final arrangements for their loved ones.”
Later in May 2024, when social media posts began trickling out of Christiana regarding the director of Rutherford County Schools, Jimmy Sullivan’s son, Asher, being washed into a storm drain following a heavy downpour, Shearin did more than pause to pray for his healing. She designed a shirt in his honor. As the news of Asher’s passing came a few days later, her dedication to sharing his story and raising funds for his medical bills and funeral expenses never wavered.
“The Sullivan family was very grateful and appreciative. They even gave me an artificial floral arrangement so that when I look at it, I will remember Asher.”
Shearin lives daily by the motto, “Kindness is free AND priceless.”
“I love coming to work because I love what I do, and I love exceeding everyone’s expectations and delivering on the promises I make. My customers say that I can create anything. Whatever their vision, they know that if they come to me, I can make it a reality. I pride myself in providing high-quality work with reasonable price points.” GN
