Making and mending things. Celebrating curious and meaningful connections
Craftybird is my floating workshop and home. I travel the waterways making things, collecting stories and exploring lives and the meaningful matter behind them, alongside two small companions and a vintage JP2 Lister that steals the limelight wherever we go!
Stuff to Buy
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Essentially essential
We welcome special commissions! Items listed in this section only exist in...
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Useful boaty bits
We called this section useful boaty bits but to be honest they...
Field Notes & Stories
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The Grit of Life (a true story)
Read the storyFrom carrying grit to carrying a theatre company - Widgeon has seen a lot of life.
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Bobs leather donation
Read the storyIn my head, I was imagining a carrier bag. Perhaps a few decent-sized offcuts. Something I could tuck under the counter and have a rummage through later.
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How Not to Reverse a Narrowboat
Read the storyA true story about taking a narrowboat backwards - and the trouble that followed.
The Wandering Workbench
This is where things get made, mended and experimented with. Mistakes are made, imperfections embraced, old materials find new purposes and ideas come to life.