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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Nick’s Flower Baskets
Read the storyA 90-year-old working boat with a rather different cargo these days: hanging baskets, compost and flowers.
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Three seconds on TV. Considerably longer in real life.
Read the storyA routine turn at Tipton Canal Festival went rather wrong when Craftybird’s vintage Lister JP2 suddenly stalled.
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Somerton Deep
Read the storyMy very first single-handed trip on my very own boat was going beautifully — right up until one of the side hatch doors fell off and disappeared into the canal.
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.