New Role As Owner Of A Bakery Is A Fulfilling One

Catonsville Times:

Faith ‘n Me, a bakery owned by Catonsville residents Paula and Adam Reed, opened Sept. 9, in the building formerly housing Paradise in a Teacup on Bloomsbury Avenue.

The couple chose to open on the same day as the Catonsville Arts and Crafts Festival to take advantage of the crowds drawn to the annual event.

It proved a good choice.

Reed said she was so busy baking for the steady stream of customers that she never left the store’s kitchen the entire day.

Reed said she and her husband decided to open the bakery after hearing about the tea shop’s closing.

“I fell in love with this building when a friend brought me here years ago (and) we had tea together,” said the Catonsville native, who had been a homemaker before taking over the bakery.

She said she and her husband Adam, a teacher at the Catonsville Center for Alternative Studies, worked on renovating the building all summer.

They had hoped to open the shop, named after their 10-year- old daughter Faith, earlier in the summer, but turning a tea room into a bakery took longer than anticipated.