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44 Local Mom-Owned Businesses to Support in Honor of Mother's Day

Annapolis | Edgewater

By Nicole Donnelly, Macaroni Kid Annapolis May 9, 2019

Did you know women's entrepreneurship accounts for tens of millions of businesses and trillions of dollars in revenue? Even more impressive is when the women behind these businesses are moms. 

There are so many mom-owned businesses in our own community and when we support them, we invest in our community and our community's future. So in honor of Mother's Day, here are some mom-owned businesses in our community to support!

🌷About Kitchens offers full-service complete bathroom and kitchen remodeling services.

🌷Airbrush Tanning Artist - Ashley Franz offers airbrush tanning for all occasions, even an everyday glow.

🌷Annapolis Area Doulas ensures you can be confident you are choosing the absolute best for your pregnancy, birth, and life with your baby.

🌷Artworks Studio offers a variety of after-school art classes, homeschool art,  birthday pARTies, summer art camps, parent-child art classes, workshops, Kids Night Out, 'No School' art camps, edibleArt & more!

🌷Basil, Garlic & Rosemary provides professional led, interactive, in-home cooking parties designed to be the exact event that you want to host.

🌷Bay Blooms Floral Design is just a couple-a friends with a passion for beautiful wedding flowers. They design floral arrangements for weddings in the area.

🌷Bean Rush Cafe's business plan was and always will be, keeping things local, keeping things simple and delivering the best coffee house experience possible.

🌷Botanas Fajardo specializes in gourmet salsas and dips using fresh quality ingredients. Never fillers or preservatives.


🌷Bridget Slack Photography specializes in on-location newborn, maternity, and family photography, weddings, and Navy events.

🌷Budding Voices is a pediatric speech-language therapy center that helps children find their voices.

🌷Brooke Moore Aquatics makes confident swimmers out of children just starting out, many with special needs and adults, including business leaders, celebrities and professional athletes that were convinced they couldn’t learn yet.


🌷Cara Harmelin Designs offers an exceptional sense of style that will help create a look you will love at a price you can afford.

🌷Chanel Photography is a Maryland and destination based photographer for all important memories in your life. Budget-friendly. Passport ready.


🌷Change Your Pace, LLC specializes in correcting soft tissue dysfunction resulting from stress, physical exertion, injury, congenital disease, or surgery.

🌷Clean Team Cleaning Services makes your life a little easier and cleaner with their fabulous cleaning teams. 

🌷DANIE Photography offers modern lifestyle photography and covers weddings in MD, VA, DC, RI, MA & CT.

🌷Dress Boutique is one of the premier women’s fashion boutiques online, our aim is to serve you in putting together a collection that makes it easy to shape your style and look for all occasions.


🌷Elysian Coaching + Consulting specializes in coaching and consulting for working mothers and women-owned businesses. Elysian will guide you in creating extraordinary, sustainable transformation at work and at home.

🌷Fit4Mom Annapolis keep moms fit and healthy while providing a supportive community. They offer classes for every mom whether you're expecting, have little ones in strollers or not.

🌷Freshly Pic’edPhotography is a local farm to family natural light photographer specializing in family, maternity, children, and lifestyle newborn photography. 
 
🌷Golden Moments - Natural Light Photography specializes in wedding photography, portrait sessions, engagement photography, and family sessions.

🌷Hawk Marketing Services delivers websites that convert over 15% of your website's visitors into leads for your company.

🌷HERE. a pop-up shop pops up at various events and local businesses. Each pop-up has a new inspired theme with products mostly from LOCAL designers. 


🌷Holly Gue is part of the Bob Lucido Team of Keller Williams. They are a full-service real estate company offering clients the ultimate real estate experience.

🌷Kate Liscinsky - Diane & Crew of Taylor Properties has a passion for all things home, design, and real estate. She is a Real Estate Agent specializing in the Annapolis, MD area.

🌷Kleynimals are metal key toys for babies. They have been safety tested to ASTM/CPSIA and CE standards. They are welded together, meaning there is no chance they will come apart. These are arguably my personal most favorite baby shower gift for friends and family!

🌷Leeward Market Cafe & Pizzeria offers local favorites and several new menu items with a Greek flair.

🌷Lil Lamb Boutique is an adorable downtown business offering unique parties and events for children.


🌷Media to Memories organizes, preserves and protects photos and stories for families and organizations.

🌷Mo Coelho Designs is a local monogram shop offering monogramming services to a wide variety of products.

🌷My Gym Annapolis is an amazing award-winning facility that allows kids to have loads of fun as they gain strength, balance, coordination, agility, and flexibility while developing social skills, confidence, and self-esteem. 

🌷Naptown Nannies is your local connection for childcare needs. Their mission is to ensure the peace of mind that your children have the best quality childcare possible.

🌷Naptown Sings
 takes a modern approach to music education, offering exciting educational programs for toddlers, kids and pre-teens right in the heard of the Annapolis Arts District.

🌷Nina's Flying Needle specializes in fun, bright colored items that are environmentally friendly, practical, reusable, and washable. All of their items meet CPSC safety regulations.

🌷PALS Playgroup will get your kids playing and learning strategically. Meeting outdoors weekly,  PALS is an outdoor play-based learning group for preschool-aged children to engage in STEM-based activities that stimulate social, emotional, and developmental growth.


🌷Pic-N-Paint Pottery is an art studio where you can paint your own pottery, creating the most special original gifts for your loved ones.

🌷Sit Means Sit Annapolis Dog Training customizes dog training programs specific to the needs of each dog and goals of each individual family.

🌷The Green Phoenix works with collectives of people (artisans) in many different countries to fairly purchase decorative and functional artwork.

🌷The Painted Cottage offers upscale affordable gifts, clothing, jewelry, and home décor.


🌷The Petal Pusher offers stunning floral arrangements at any price point for any event.

🌷Thrive Gymnastics provides children, from toddlers to teens, with all the equipment they will need to learn and grown to achieve their goals.  Soft matting, a bouncy tumble track and a variety of apparatus sizes make learning safe and fun!


🌷Tribe Indoor Cycling is a boutique cycling studio dedicated to inspiring and encouraging individuals to come together to transform their mind and body. The studio has a 40 Bike Theater, state of the art sound and lighting, private bathrooms, showers with spa amenities and lockers.

🌷Windermere Farms provides fresh specialty mushrooms and herbs to Anne Arundel County and the surrounding community. Their products are available at the Anne Arundel Farmers Market on Sundays.

🌷Wren Bridal offers a tailor-made experience for the thoughtful bride.

Know of any others we should highlight? Email nicoledonnelly@macaronikid.com.