Shop Small with Stevie: Makers of Maryland

WHITE MARSH, Md. — A pop-up store is coming to Baltimore County to get you within the spirit for the vacation season.

Makers in Maryland will arrange their store at The Avenue at White Marsh this weekend. Almost 100 native artists might be there so that you can pattern their merchandise to buy from.

This pop-up store is concentrated on one of the best items in your vacation buying record. Throughout final 12 months’s store, proprietor Stephanie Atkinson says the store did $10,000 through the month of December.

“99 instances out of 100 in case you are part of the store you need to work the store,” Atkinson mentioned. “Purpose being, I by no means needed to personal a store. I needed to supply alternative to individuals, so to have the ability to provide neighborhood development, working with individuals, and studying tips on how to model your issues in a retail expertise and all of that, all of it encompasses issues we needed to do versus throwing your self in a retailer and calling it a day.”

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Makers of Maryland has had pop-up outlets for 4 years as of Thanksgiving day this 12 months. To be able to have your stuff featured within the store, you need to apply.

“I work actually onerous to verify we now have a extremely good combine of individuals, a extremely good mixture of product, particularly for purchasers who shopped with us final 12 months they’re at all times so excited to come back in and discover new stuff, so it’s essential for me to seek out the place are you going to go to seek out tie-dye child garments or painted crab shells that you’ll find all over the place,” Atkinson mentioned.

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They plan to serve extra makers with extra occasions in 2023.

“My mantra in the beginning of final 12 months once we got here into the house I don’t need to be only a retailer,” Atkinson mentioned. “I need to be committee house and expertise, so individuals are available in right here I do know what they’re getting they know they’re buying native, they’re supporting somebody.”

The vacation pop-up may have a particular shock as effectively. It is positioned within the former Pier 1 on The Avenue at White Marsh subsequent to Ulta.

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