About Us
Owners
Shawna Marshall
Sweet Thing is Shawna’s brainchild. Her passion for baked goods has enabled her to develop a repertoire of “home-style” pastries and desserts which have directed Sweet Thing’s evolution to its current place of comfortable perfection. She has baked for weddings, birthday parties, winery open houses, and many other catered events for the past few years. Her wares have elicited everything from simple oohs and ahhs to marriage proposals.
Shawna has degrees in Business Management—with emphasis on psychology of business—and Accounting. She has worked with private entities of all sizes and within various industries, analyzing business processes and procedures, and advising and directing accounting and operational adjustments according to the analysis findings. Her vast knowledge of business, combined with her passion and experience in baking allow Sweet Thing to be the efficient, enjoyable business that it is.
Kindra Davison
As co-owner, Kindra has been given the task of overseeing perfection in each cup of Sweet Thing’s coffee. Her initial experience as a barista came at the hands of the scourge of the coffee industry: Starbucks. She does not resent her coffee upbringing, though, for the experience taught her many things that assure Sweet Thing’s coffee is far superior to a cup of Charbucks crud. She also has official barista training from a non-Starbucks entity which, combined with her Starbucks training, allows her to have a unique vision for Sweet Thing’s coffee division.
Kindra currently pursues a degree in Criminal Psychology from Portland State University. We have no doubt her future knowledge of the human psyche will be invaluable in the training of customer service and public relations. Coffee and pastries can comfort, but people find more comfort when they feel cared for. Sweet Thing desires that everything about it would comfort the customer.