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I'm Anne of All Trades. In NASHVILLE, I have a woodworking, blacksmithing and fabrication shop, a selection of furry friends, and an organic farm. Whether you've got the knowledge, tools, time or space to do the things you've always wanted to do, everything is "figureoutable."
I became "Anne of All Trades" out of necessity. With no background in farming or making things, I wanted to learn to raise my own food, fix things when they break and build the things I need.
12 years ago I got my first pet, planted my first seed and picked up my first tool.
My goal is to learn and share traditional techniques and skills while showing my peers how to get from where they are to where they want to go, how to do the things they are passionate about, and what can be done TODAY to engage their own community and grow deep roots.
Whether it's carving spoons, making my own hand tools, restoring my antique truck or growing heirloom tomatoes, the farm and workshop definitely keep me busy and support - whether financially through Patreon, through shopping my affiliate links, through buying merchandise, plans or project videos, or even just liking, commenting, and sharing my content with others helps me GREATLY to keep producing quality content to share.
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00:00Do you see that giant building behind me?
00:03When my husband and I moved here, that was an empty field, and the original plan was
00:07that it would be done in six months.
00:10It's been five years, and that thing is still just a shell.
00:14When my husband and I lived in Seattle, I had the incredible opportunity to try out
00:21the idea of a woodworking school when I managed a woodworking school.
00:26When my husband Adam and I started talking about our move to Tennessee and what we wanted
00:31to do with what would eventually become the School of All Trades, our community not only
00:35just massively supported it, but also wanted to take part.
00:39I'd been sharing educational content on YouTube and Instagram about traditional craft, woodworking,
00:45growing your own food for almost a decade at this point, and I had so many brands that
00:51wanted to invest in this project, knowing how important preserving lost skills actually was.
00:57When that first truck of materials arrived on site here, we had a plan for all of the
01:02supplies and materials that we would need for the whole project.
01:05And then two weeks after we broke ground, the world kind of fell apart.
01:09This is the day everything changed.
01:11Californians, New Yorkers, the populations of Illinois and Connecticut will all soon
01:16be under orders to stay home.
01:19People couldn't travel anymore.
01:21And then all of a sudden, one by one, all of the companies that had promised to support
01:24this project, from building materials to financial compensation to future tools or whatever else
01:30we're going to eventually come, backed out.
01:33And ultimately, we were then left with the reality that we were going to have to hire
01:38every single bit of labor ourselves, that we were going to have to purchase all of the
01:42rest of the materials outright.
01:44And even if those were the only obstacles we were about to face, we were in a good position
01:49to still be able to do it.
01:50I'd been putting money aside for this project for the last eight years, working multiple
01:54jobs, taking on so much extra work, dreaming of the day that I would have a place of my
02:00own to invite people into and to share a little bit of what the community had already given me.
02:05Unfortunately, those weren't the only obstacles we faced.
02:08We've run into issues with permits, with neighbors calling codes on us, with financial troubles,
02:14supply chain issues, also having some really stupid confidence in my own abilities to manage
02:20the project myself.
02:22I thought it was a good idea when I started it to forego the $60,000 I'd have to pay a
02:27contractor to do all of that contracting myself.
02:31Boy, howdy, was that a hard, painful, expensive lesson to learn.
02:35You wouldn't think that these two things would be super hard to get since they're on pretty
02:39much every building around, but in 2021, when we were trying to get electricity for
02:45our building, these were extremely hard to come by.
02:48There was a six to nine month waiting list, and even if you could find them, they cost
02:52six times more than they had cost in 2020.
02:55I had a friend of a friend call in a favor and we were able to find these a little faster
02:59and a little discounted, as in we paid $10,000 instead of $2,000, which is what they would
03:06have cost before, but at least we got the stuff that we needed to get the electricity
03:10hooked up.
03:11Or so we thought, because we then waited another six months to actually have a pole put up
03:17and the line run in.
03:18Hi, howdy.
03:21I have had so many opportunities to completely lose my faith in humanity after being taken
03:26advantage of, cheated, totally ripped off, had so many people I'd paid to show up completely
03:32flake.
03:33There have been times that I have honestly been so discouraged, I want to just say, forget
03:38it.
03:39But as many opportunities for heartbreak as there've been, there've been just as many
03:43things that absolutely reestablished my faith in humanity.
03:46When we were in one particular financial crunch and things just were going wrong left and
03:51right, my friends James and Rex got online and started talking about their dreams for
03:55what the school would one day become.
03:57So many people gave a few dollars here, a cup of coffee there.
04:01Some people gave a whole lot more than that because they believed in this project just
04:04as much as I do.
04:06And we were eventually able to get a roof on the whole building.
04:08I don't know how many of you believe in Christmas miracles, but this is definitely one of them.
04:13And let me just turn this around so I can show you how good this thing looks and just
04:18the evidence of community rallying around a project.
04:23Two years ago when my best friend decided she wanted to get married here, this place
04:27looked like an absolute disaster, but 50 people showed up and in 10 days we made more
04:35progress than we'd made in the last year and a half combined.
04:39And even though we were still a long way from done, it was beautiful.
04:44Her wedding was one of the best weddings I've ever been to.
04:47It was so fun to celebrate alongside all of our friends and family that had helped us
04:53get the venue ready.
04:54And then all of us got to see and feel the results of our sweat.
05:01That is exactly what I wanted to see happen with the school.
05:04And there it was already happening before we were even finished building it.
05:08So what's happened since then?
05:09Well, Brittany and Steven had a kid and a few things have happened with the school too.
05:14Let's go take a look and see.
05:16Johnny, you want to come with us?
05:18No goats allowed on this tour though.
05:22Right as we walk in, we can start to see some of the more egregious things that were pretty
05:28disheartening in the initial building process.
05:31I've already fixed the fact that there was no headers over the doors right after the
05:37contractors left.
05:39Having put no header over this six foot span here, this was sagging awfully, but we can
05:44just look only a few inches above it to see our 16 inch on center floor joists currently
05:53here at 19 inches, 11 inches, 15 inches.
06:01And this isn't even the worst of it, folks.
06:03We've already started fixing a lot of the actual truly structural problems that that
06:09contractor introduced.
06:11Like here, we had to put in a whole other beam, literally so that this floor wasn't
06:18just hanging over on a single nail like it was when they left.
06:24Over here, even despite our fix, you can see another not at all funny, but kind of humorous
06:29use of a board to span the fact that they cut these too short instead of actually taking
06:37ownership for the fact that they didn't put in all of the LVLs according to the structural
06:42design of the building, or the fact that they didn't cut their lumber to the proper sizes.
06:48Integrity at its finest.
06:50Also, they were kind enough to use the plywood that was intended for the siding of the building
06:57as the flooring for the upstairs instead of actually using the decking that was meant
07:03to be the flooring upstairs, which was yet another waste of materials and extreme added
07:09cost for me.
07:11Seeing entire lines of missed nails is not all that surprising, considering the fact
07:16that there is no rhyme or reason to the layout of the flooring joists upstairs, but that's
07:23just annoying, if nothing else.
07:25There's also just things everywhere you look, like massively important brackets that are
07:31supposed to be supporting a whole lot of weight and material, literally not even touching
07:37anything.
07:38Not great.
07:39And god forbid I get overly picky about anything at this point, but why we would put any sort
07:46of framing like this for an interior wall inside of the posts, making it harder to drywall
07:57Not to mention, yes, a negligible but very real loss of square footage, with this wall
08:03taking up even more space.
08:05Just why?
08:06Why?
08:07There's also little fun easter eggs everywhere, like this, where there's just inexplicably
08:14no hanger.
08:15If you look at any of the framing in here for longer than 3 seconds, it starts to look
08:19like the Jenga pile right before it topples over.
08:22Translation, it is not straight.
08:25Ignoring for a second the structural concerns, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 of the LVLs that
08:34were in the design for the building originally are still sitting here in a pile on the floor.
08:40I know how much each one of these costs, I paid for them individually, and it was super
08:46not great for me to find these in a pile behind the school, put there almost as if they were
08:51hoping I wouldn't realize that they didn't put them in.
08:54I mean, there's stuff like this literally everywhere you look, and honestly, I should
08:58have been here monitoring their progress, but unfortunately I was out of town that weekend.
09:03I should have had a contract laying out that they needed to follow the plans of the building,
09:11and that they needed to do their jobs to a standard, not even of excellence, but just
09:16of passability at the very least, but I didn't know that I needed to do that.
09:21I thought that hiring them and paying them an enormous amount of money was the guarantee
09:28I needed to be able to trust that they'd do their jobs, and unfortunately dealing with
09:34both the financial losses and the disappointment and the ultimate fallout of having now to
09:39go back and fix all of this just sucked.
09:45If you look around me in this room, you'll see a whole lot of wood stacked.
09:48Five years ago, I purchased all of these pieces of wood, expecting them to be siding
09:54for the exterior of this building.
09:56I designed it to look like a log cabin because it was a wood shop.
10:01I wanted it to be warm and inviting, but back when I was designing the building, I had never
10:05lived in Tennessee.
10:07I had never spent a summer here experiencing the bugs and the humidity.
10:13Six months after we moved here, I talked to my neighbor who does have a log cabin and
10:17found out that they have to refinish the wood siding on their house every two years
10:23to be able to protect it from the bugs and humidity that are everywhere here.
10:28This is a 6,500 square foot building.
10:31I got an estimate on what refinishing would cost, and that's $15,000 every two years,
10:38or if I were to do it myself, three months of sanding and painting misery that I really
10:44don't want to have to live on a biannual basis.
10:48I bit the bullet and bought synthetic siding material for the exterior of the building,
10:54literally because it cost less to buy the new siding than to finish it once.
11:00When I decided to make the switch from the wood siding look I had originally hoped for,
11:05I still needed to figure out how to make the building look cool.
11:12And that provided a beautiful opportunity to spend a week at the table saw cutting trim
11:17pieces to actually make this look good, but far more egregiously to spend three, four
11:24weeks caulking each and every single piece of that trim by hand.
11:29And after my finger was finished spreading 17 linear miles of caulk, it was a different
11:36shape than when I started.
11:37If you've been around this channel for a while, you know that a big part of our move to Tennessee
11:41was so that I could expand my farming endeavors.
11:44And in that, I have three chest freezers.
11:46One of them is dedicated entirely to butter and mozzarella cheese for our family pizza
11:51nights.
11:52But then you get into our freezer that's for pork, and then the freezer for beef.
11:57At some point, all of the stuff in our freezers is genuinely irreplaceable.
12:02And so the thought of losing that because of a day's or a week's long power outage is
12:07absolutely terrifying.
12:09And that is where this unit comes in.
12:10This is the Jackery Explorer 3000 Pro, which is the perfect battery backup system for almost
12:16any home application or off-grid solution you can imagine.
12:20It offers 3000 watts of power, which is available through, yes, this RV backup plug, but also
12:25just regular outlets for your general home electronics.
12:30And these 20 amp outlets can power almost any electronic that's in your home.
12:33You can run a microwave, an air fryer, an Instapot, and a water heater for your coffee
12:39all at the same time without overloading the system.
12:42It also has USB ports, USB-C ports.
12:46I've seen all kinds of battery backups, but this is actually powerful enough to be a backup
12:52home generator.
12:53We're not counting on an engine that we only have to use in emergency situations to actually
12:57start on command, and we're not having to listen to the noise of a diesel generator.
13:02Even if this unit is stored away from a charger for over a year, it will lose less than 10%
13:08of its battery charge.
13:09So all you have to do is just make sure that you've charged it once a year, and it's good
13:14to go whenever you need it.
13:16Far cooler than the plug, though, is that you can use auxiliary solar panels to charge
13:19it too, and those only take about three hours to charge it fully.
13:22The fact that this thing is on wheels makes it super handy to scooch it around to wherever
13:29you might need to use it.
13:31If you're looking for a battery backup or generator for your home, I highly encourage
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13:48But I really don't want to focus on the woe-is-me aspect of all of this.
13:53This is a huge project.
13:55It has taken a really long time, and as this project has stretched out and taken so long,
14:03one of the best ways I've found to stay motivated to eventually, hopefully, finally finish this
14:09dang thing is getting the chance to come inside this space and experience at least a piece
14:16of what it eventually will be to remind me why we're doing this in the first place.
14:22And so to that end, when we got things fixed enough that we could really set things up
14:27better in here, my buddy Pat came down and helped me set up some temporary lighting,
14:32my buddies Rob and Jimmy came down and helped me move all of my heavy tools in here, and
14:37it's pretty sweet to have a functional woodshop again, especially one that I don't have to
14:44push all my tools into the center of the room and dust off all the goat poop before I start
14:49a project.
14:51And so it may seem a lot less believable for me to say that the cavalry is arriving and
14:56we are actually looking towards getting past the finish line, finally, five years later,
15:03but I'll risk being wrong and say it again, because boy howdy, in a project like this,
15:08you need to hold on to hope more than anything else.
15:11Let me show you.
15:13Let me actually try not to die as I climb up this ladder.
15:17We are all about safety here, but let me just say that a polished concrete floor, slippery
15:23with sawdust, and a ladder that has the propensity to slip are not a good combination.
15:29I quite literally nearly died earlier this week, but as my mom always says, my guardian
15:35angel was working overtime.
15:38Remember all those piles of wood we were looking at downstairs and I was telling you how it
15:43was supposed to be siding?
15:45Well, this probably doesn't look like a lot, but in this grand scheme of the building,
15:52it was a lot.
15:54This past week, our best friends Austin and Rachel came down.
15:56They brought their other friend, Elijah, and we all worked together to fix all of the framing
16:01issues that were formerly causing structural issues with the building and laying this floor.
16:08That also involved moving hundreds and hundreds of boards and lots and lots of insulation.
16:16And unfortunately, this isn't the first time we've had to move any of this stuff, but that's
16:21what you get when projects take five years.
16:24This floor turned out so much cooler than I could ever have hoped.
16:28Yes, we do have to still sand it and finish it and do all those things, but let's not
16:32get ahead of ourselves as far as process.
16:35This is 1,900 square feet up here.
16:38This is going to end up being one of my very favorite spaces in the school when it's finished.
16:43And even as ridiculous as it was to be moving and removing all of that wood and all of this
16:50insulation, it felt so good to be back in this space, to be spending time with friends,
16:57to be building together, but also to be rebuilding hope.
17:01Because literally not having 500 boards that used to be in the middle of the floor downstairs
17:06still in the middle of the floor downstairs, now having them actually serving a purpose.
17:10And of course, also having the commitment from Austin and Rachel that they're going
17:13to be coming back as long and as often as it takes to get this building done.
17:18That's the closest we've been to a guarantee that this is actually going to end that we've
17:25had in two years.
17:27And that's a big deal.
17:30This project should not have taken five years.
17:32It would not have taken five years if I had hired a contractor.
17:36All of our delays and setbacks aside, there is one common theme that has been the biggest
17:42setback of them all, and that is lack of focus.
17:45Multitasking is a myth.
17:47That is a lesson that I, an eternal optimist, someone who loves productivity hacks and getting
17:55the absolute most out of my days and my time, has had to learn the hard way over and over
18:01and over.
18:02And this project was probably the best teacher my life has yet had to offer me.
18:07This is an enormous project.
18:09Even if things had gone completely according to plan, there were so many details and phone
18:15calls and hurdles that needed to be overcome that required an immense amount of focus
18:22that I, a person who still has a full-time job, who also has a farm and some other interests,
18:32could not give the project.
18:34Or better said, chose not to give this project because of the other sacrifices I would have
18:40to make to be able to do so.
18:42And that was a huge miss.
18:43That's why I've taken so much extra financial responsibility and made it my own problem
18:49to pivot every way that I've needed to throughout this project.
18:54It's not felt good a lot of the time.
18:56When Adam and I moved to Tennessee, a huge piece of our first two-year financial plan
19:02involved me being able to use this space to teach classes on a regular basis.
19:08Instead, it's basically just been a money pit and a really fancy-looking-on-the-outside
19:14storage facility for Howdy's hay.
19:17I think we can all laugh about how true this phrase has really become for all of us, but
19:22hindsight really is 20-20.
19:25Five years into this project, I can look at pretty much every single instance of a setback
19:32or a painful lesson and actually see so much good in it.
19:37The absolute terror that gripped me as we were losing sponsors left and right at the
19:42beginning of the shutdown has, five years in, actually turned into a lot of hidden blessings.
19:49A really great example of that is a sponsor that was initially going to provide us with
19:53a bunch of really cool window garage doors for the front of the building.
19:59And I love windows and I love walls that can open, and that would have been so cool to
20:04have had, but when they dropped out because of supply chain issues, I had to completely
20:10redesign the exterior of the building.
20:13And I absolutely love what we came up with.
20:17I went to a local window supply place and asked them if they had any overstock or accidental
20:23order windows, and because someone had ordered those custom windows and then never came to
20:29pick them up, they were heavily discounted.
20:32And I used the shape of those two windows to redesign the whole exterior of the building,
20:37and honestly, I think the way it ultimately turned out is way cooler than it was ever
20:43initially going to be.
20:45It doesn't look like a wood cabin anymore, but it does look like a turn-of-the-century
20:50colonial house, and I love the natural choice white paint we chose for the exterior.
20:58That's a joke, because the color is actually called natural choice.
21:02I love the way the cherry doors that I built by hand from a cherry tree that Greg Pennington
21:09and I cut down before I ever even knew I was moving to Tennessee looks against that white
21:14siding.
21:15I will never forget building those cherry doors with my woodworking mentor, Steve Dando.
21:20And the ultimate blessing of me not hiring a contractor like I should have and this project
21:25taking so much longer than it should have is that by the time this building is done,
21:30I will have touched, designed, worked on, and finessed every single piece of this building,
21:37and I will have more ownership and more pride in it than I ever could have otherwise.
21:43So many of my friends and family and even strangers have ultimately become involved
21:48in this project in a really meaningful way, and we will be connected because of what we've
21:53already done, and it's not even done yet.
21:57And when we actually get this thing done, which we will, we are going to have one heck
22:02of a party to celebrate, and then we're going to start teaching some really cool classes.
22:08People are going to come from all over the place to learn new skills, to build confidence,
22:13to build strength of character, but far more importantly, they're going to build friendships.
22:18The kinds of friendships that last.
22:20I cannot wait to shake your hand as you walk through the door of the School of All Trades.
22:25See you then.