Meet Meg Bundy of Flushing

Today we’d like to introduce you to Meg Bundy.

Hi Meg, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
Native House started as a side project on Etsy to supplement my teaching income. I started making OOAK planters and listing them here and there. They became popular and I started making them to order pretty regularly. Soon it was taking over my house and life outside of teaching. I gained some pretty major wholesale accounts to start out with. Amber Interiors, Justina Blakely of Jungalow Style, and Sister Golden Shop were some of my larger wholesale accounts. Having my work available through these well known brands helped me gain some traction and drive traffic to my Etsy Store. Soon after than I started my own website and eventually gave up my teaching job to pursue ceramics full time.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It has been a learning curve for sure! I had no prior business experience. When I got my first wholesale order request I had to google what wholesale was. I quickly got burned out making so many of the same things over and over again. I came to the realization I wanted to be an artist and not a machine pumping the same things out over and over. So I decided to move towards original work and releasing it in small collections. I’m so grateful to have gathered a following for this original small batch style work.

Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Native House makes small batch ceramics inspired by the cycles of nature. Each collection has a theme, so each piece is handmade and one of a kind. I think it really brings one of the world’s oldest known arts, fire and clay into everyday life in the most sacred way.. Making the smallest most seemingly mundane daily rituals more magical.

We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?
I suppose I got lucky in the sense that I got back into ceramics when it was having a moment on Etsy and social media. Also the right people saw my work and helped to get my work out there and gain some traction with followers on social media. Also so lucky to have built a following of such an amazing and kind group of collectors. Some of them have become my dearest friends.

Pricing:

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Contact Info:

• Website: https://shopnativehouse.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nativehouseceramicco
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nativehouseceramicco/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@nativehousestudio4429