Here at pinwhirls, I whirl printable whimsical party pretties including our most popular party pinwheels. I'm Shana - mother, wife, and party supply shop owner. In that order. I have three sons - yes 3! Gabriel Cooper (6), Finley Baxter (4), and Sawyer Tannen (1). I'm married to Roger. So, I'm constantly surrounded by everything boy - cars, video games and potty words. This is my creative outlet for all things girly (since I don't get much of that at home).
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Our history:
Crossroads Cottage, an online home décor shop, was launched in October of 2007 by Shana Dreher. Spurred by a love for and background in event, meeting, and party planning, Shana began adding custom party accessories to CrossroadsCottage.biz and opened her Etsy shop in January of 2008. One of the first party items added were mini cupcake topper pinwheels, later named pinwhirls. Within months clients were requesting other custom pinwheel items including handheld, yard, and pinwheel party hats and place cards. These items were initially assembled with commercial scrapbook papers, but by early fall she learned that she could better serve the custom needs of clients by altering digital papers and printing them in house. By late fall the personalized party pinwhirls began taking up too much space on her existing website so pinwhirls.com {a divison of crossroads cottage, llc} was launched in December of 2008. Along the way diy pinwheel items and kits were also added to the site, for those clients on a budget. In addition to pinwheels, personalized party hats, banners, pennants, tags, labels, cupcake wrappers, invites, and more were also added to the shops. With 1,000 exclusive papers available, plus the ability to alter or create custom papers, I could whirl my papers into personalized products for anything from intimate birthday parties, to upscale weddings, to large corporate events and trade shows. In November 2012 my second son was born and I decided to take 3 months off to truly stay home with him. That 3 months turned into over 4 years. Here it is early 2017. Another little boy was added to our home in late 2015. He's a little over one and finally sleeping through the night (yay!) and also naps on schedule. I now have (some) time to slowly start-up the business. This time around, I'm keeping it small and manageable (hopefully).