I’m a year late, but couldn’t agree more. I have worked in Mental Health settings for more than 20 years. I have multiple hobbies (including spoon carving) that I rotate to keep myself busy.

I have a desk job in front of a computer - when the weekend comes, I get doing things with my hands. It clears the head, is good for the mental health and gives you personal purpose. Great video!

@plw7408

2 жыл бұрын

I also have a desk job. I have a need to go out and do something craft like this

Yes...I do indeed remember my grandmother's wooden spoon...

I want to thank you (and Josh!) so so MUCH for what you’ve done during the past year especially! I struggle with learning at any given time and having all of my uni classes moved to online platforms has been incredibly difficult. I can’t concentrate at all like that, not to even mention the fact that I can’t meet anyone outside my bubble or keep up with any of my hobbies. But your videos and classes have helped me keep my head cool and have given me endless ideas for what I CAN do, even at home, to feel like I have used my time well. You’re both such inspiring people, and I don’t really have the words to express the extent of my gratefulness! But thank you!

Although I'm not able to tool up for woodworking, my main job is basically customer support/development/mentoring both inside our team and with customers. So I'm stuck in front of my computer screen way too much. To reset my brain, I do network/electrical wiring, DIY on the house, stuff like that. Not much opportunity to actually get outside beyond that, as in Quito where I currently live, the restrictions are pretty tight still and vaccines are a long way away. Stay safe, keep your mental health where it needs to be, and enjoy!

The posters around your home and shop are pretty radical 😀

Such a wonderful story and video, Anne, always love hearing the back story also, thanks so much for sharing

Thank you for being so open in your videos. Woodworking helps me deal with my depression and anxiety. I hope I get to try spoon carving in the future.

Great work, Anne! And congratulations in making 200K subscribers!

Hi Anne, getting outside to make anything or even better into the woods helps me re connect with nature and clears my head, thanks for all your doing, great video as always

For me, this would be less about off-setting time in front of a computer but getting something done. I have so many projects in the air at all times that I feel I do not get anything done at all. This would probably help a lot! Thanks for sharing!

You are my most favorite maker. Keep up the great work, you are an incredible woman.

timely video. I've been WFH for 14 months and just finished carving my third spoon two nights ago. I'm so hooked because it is blissful therapy. I can use spoons and everyone I know would love one as a gift. But more than anything I like to take chunks of wood and spend a few hours in my shop away from a remote job that involves a computer. Thank you Anne.....new subscriber and instant fan! Looking at my first spoon that I was so proud of.....wow I've improved a lot in just a few spoons! ;-)

I admire your courage to try so many new things!

Thank you so much for sharing this nugget of personal info!

Keep up the good work Anne, thanks for sharing!👍

All the love and respect for you guys! 😊❤👍 I will definitely look up your courses when I'm in a position to start carving.

Your last two videos haven’t popped up in my feed, thanks a heap KZread. Happy now to catch up with your fantastic content. Thanks and keep it going.

I agree , seeing something you created at the end of the day ,is an awesome feeling , keep up the good work

Your familiarity with wooden spoons sounds exactly like mine. I am so glad that my mother didn't understand wood grain or I would have been in a world of hurt, lol. Thank you Anne for making my Saturday evening.

Helps me keep a floor and ceiling on my bipolar disorder. Cracker Jack job as always Annie!

Thanks Anne. II think you are spot on about spoon carving. love my day job. However, the timeframes we are often working on take a decade given the nature of what we do. And now, I am middle management so no longer hand on. As such, it's hard to see daily progress. I think you are spot on that spoon carving is a great way to keep sane. I've been busy toiling away in my workshop in the evenings. Making some spoons is on my short list as I want to replace much of my kitchenware with woodware that I hand make. When I visit my father in law's cabin in the Sierra Mountain foothills, I feel restless, as I haven't been able to woodwork. Spoon carving is something I can easily do there and sill be sociable. Plus, I can toss the chips into the BBQ grill to help smoke the food we are cooking.

Every now and then, we should remind ourselves of a natural source of good mental health. It is brilliantly presented in the poem by Kentuckian, Wendell Berry. The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives might be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

My mom's favorite weapon of choice when I was misbehaving was a wooden spoon! Brings back memories. I need to give spoon carving a try. Computers definitely create a lot of stress in my life. On the the other hand, they give me access to great content like this!

My mother's favorite disciplinary tool was a wooden spoon too. Luckily I was spared from it but my older cousins all have memories of it when they would spend the summers at our house. I've been making wooden utensils for myself, friends and family lately myself, but using more machines instead of hand tools. I've made spoons, spatulas, butter spreaders and even a rocking pizza cutter that has become my go to for cutting pizzas.

I feel ya Anne, spoon carving is very meditative and thought provoking.

Anne your an inspiration to us all.

I made my first spoon about six weeks ago. I don't have any spoon making equipment and you do NOT want to know how I did it. At one stage I had a ragged chunk of wood that might have classified as a Weapon Of Mass Destruction. But it somehow came out EXACTLY as I wanted - a teaspoon with a longer handle to fit in my travel mug and shaped just like my favourite metal teaspoon. I want now to kolrose it but not until I've practiced a bit.

Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep making. Keep farming. Keep growing. God Bless.

Once again Anne, thank you for being so real with us. It helps to know that even someone as successful and put together as you seem to be, can struggle with the same things we struggle with.

So great!

Awesome work Anne! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

Funny how our relatives just a few generation ago would sit and whittle and make small pieces for the home for hours every night. And now today through the use of tech we are learning what they knew and we forgot. There is a lot to say for working with your hands and mind to working with just your mind. There is a balance to it. When you do one or the other and not both you loose balance in your life. Thanks Anne and well done.

Doing the same on my apartment terrace in lockdown... Incredible feeling of wellness at least for a few minutes every day.

Thanks for sharing those tips and the make!

@AnneofAllTrades

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Beautiful work

Nice video Anne! Thank you for always sharing with us!💖👌👍😎JP

Yay for you!!

Very nice video!

Thanks for the video.

@AnneofAllTrades

2 жыл бұрын

You bet! If you haven't seen this one, you may like it too. kzread.info/dash/bejne/foaum9Z7p5mqh6g.html

Aloha and Congrats on your Skillshare course :)

Anne Enjoy your channel immensely. Your theme - having physically work and tangible products is very important and resonates with many people. You may want to consider expanding on that theme. Maybe it’s the lack of physical work and tangible outcomes that leads to anxiety. Not the other way around. Even though I have 4 master degrees and run a $4 billion dollar company, I use the skills learned in 7 and 8 grade shop every weekend. Woodworking, mechanical drawing, plastics and metal were half year classes. I remember and use what I learned there compared to other classes like sentence diagraming, and foreign languages. Maybe you can reach out to public schools and teach young people. Ian

Great video anna

Great Video . Since I seen You on Tennessee Crossroads show ,I have be a Fan of yours. Any plans to do Metal working classes?

Love youuuuu

I love it 👍, Anne, one of your best behind the scene videos . you get an Oscar for best Performance, editing & scenery😊😊😊

@AnneofAllTrades

3 жыл бұрын

Haha I’m glad you enjoyed it :)

@ThinkB4UAct

3 жыл бұрын

I've always enjoy your videos

You seem to be directed and thoughtful, one who sets her goals and works to achieve what you set out to do, even if you have to make a few changes in the plan you will always be able to get there.

@AnneofAllTrades

3 жыл бұрын

That is an incredibly generous thought, and one I strive to live up to ❤️❤️

@denbarris783

3 жыл бұрын

I think its obvious watching your videos, that you are definitely in charge of your plan. Your videos are great.

I gotta start spoon carving....seems like I could do it anywhere

I love you so much ❤

wheyy, a wet turned bowl - did you boil it or condition it another way?

This is so motivating! Keep up the great work 👍🏼

Looks like you have a fave pair of jeans ... what brand are they?

Do you burn/brand your trade mark on your spoons that you make?

Feel and move within the energy of your materials and tools, let that energy expand within you. Fully allow the wood , metal and mind to create that energetic synergy. If you have time look into Reiki. These words are given with the utmost respect.

Annie, have you ever tried doing kolrosing on you finished spoons?

@AnneofAllTrades

2 жыл бұрын

I haven’t, I really like making functional items, and haven’t ventured into much of the “fancying” efforts, not because I don’t see value there, more because I’ve realized that the fancier something looks, the less people actually use it. I want the items I make to be USED.

👍👍👍

I'm so glad to see you adapting to our new life changes! I know that many have had to adapt and often times change life entirely, but your ability to share what life has been like for you is a HUGE inspiration to all of us! THANK YOU for sharing!!

Can you recommend a more affordable axe and Hatchet for someone just starting out?? !.

@AnneofAllTrades

3 жыл бұрын

You can probably get away with just a hatchet, and honestly just about any one will work. I think even Home Depot has one that does pretty good when it’s tuned up

I started trying to carve spoons years ago but I have lots of trouble with the bowl of the spoon. What is the tool you use for it called and how do I get one?

@AnneofAllTrades

3 жыл бұрын

Check out my spoon carving playlist. Lots of suggestions on techniques and links for tools in the descriptions

I'm an IT guy so I get way way way more computer time than I want. And I also lived in apartments for most of my life and didn't have much of an outlet for that create/make urge. kick butt yall.

@NiHaoMike64

3 жыл бұрын

There is such thing as too much time at the computer? I would probably agree if it was Windows, so I use Linux on all my personal machines. :)

Spoon carving is now on my to do list, thank you anne for your motivating and inspiring channel!

But I’m watching this on a screen while you record with a screen and teach on a screen, they’re everywhere 🤪

What were your job at corporate america?

How much money do you need for the school to open? If I may ask. Cheers from Arkansas!!

@AnneofAllTrades

3 жыл бұрын

Hey John! It’s a little tough to estimate with materials prices being so high right now, but to get the interior finishes and electrical and everything I think we are probably about $120k from the finish line. We’ll get there slowly but surely.

I think you solved the problem of "running out of spoons" for a given day. Just make more spoons.

@AnneofAllTrades

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha yes. It really makes doing dishes less of a daily (or yearly) necessity 🤣🤣

一切反動派都是紙老虎 歡歡喜喜過大年

7:56 really curious about that fan-like thing on your stove...

@NiHaoMike64

3 жыл бұрын

It directs the heat across the room instead of just a small area around the stove. I recall she mentioned it uses a Stirling engine, so no batteries needed and probably OK for the Amish to use. :)

@pqrstsma2011

3 жыл бұрын

@@NiHaoMike64 oh cool! i learnt something new today! thanx!

👍❤👍❤👍❤👍❤👍❤👍❤👍❤👍❤👍❤👍

😉

I totally understand the mixed feelings about wooden spoons as an adult. When I see my mom holding one I get memories of pain in my butt...or my hands because I was dumb enough to stick my hands back there to stop from getting wacked...which of course let to my hands getting wacked. Haha Keep up the good work fellow Nashvillian.

I grew up with a leather worker. Wooden spoons weren't the tool of choice. lol

Your intimate familiarity with wooden spoons made me chuckle out loud! 🤣

@AnneofAllTrades

3 жыл бұрын

Everyone deserves a good chuckle every now and again

I spent the past two weeks intensely writing my PhD thesis; the reason why I didn't turn into a complete computer gremlin was I could get up, walk around my apartment, and putter around looking after my plants and small planter on the balcony. Anne and others was a huge inspiration to get this going, and even taking a 5 minute break to watch things grow was a big help.

Grandchildren Does that mean children in the future Another good video Still wish I could help you finish your school

@AnneofAllTrades

3 жыл бұрын

I would love nothing more than for the Lord to bless me with children. Stay tuned on the school build! I think we’re planning a work party in June!

Ah glad to hear she want's kid's. She's gonna make a great one. You can just tell she has so much love to give.

Grandkids?

8 min video 8 ads. crazy days.

@AnneofAllTrades

3 жыл бұрын

Oh are you serious? That is horrible I can’t believe KZread did that. I’m turning off ads now. Thanks for letting me know.

👍👍👍