Simply Made Here is a great shop and "maker space" a bit west of downtown Catonsville, on the north side of Frederick at Hillside (not Hilltop). They have cute and wonderful creations of at least 35 local artisans, and they host many many artistic workshops.
We stopped by in mid-September 2025 and found locally-designed ceramics among a wide variety of other items. We got a pretty chip-and-dip dish with colorful flowers all around the edges. Our visiting 1.5-year-old niece loved discovering a pair of cute fuzzy bees!
We saw some workshops were coming up where we could make things with the artists, so we looked for more and they've had wood flower-book making and wood-art painting and other woodshop, clay pet sculpting and clay earring making, stained-glass art making, leather crafting, journaling, crochet, coir matt making, ... and occasional multi-artisan events with kids' activities and food trucks! How have we been missing this???
They are open Wed-Sun, weekends mid-day to early evening, and Wed-Thu 3-7pm. (as of Sep 2025). Plenty of on-site parking. Got to find their upcoming events schedule! read more