Classically Abby - CLASSIC HOBBIES FOR YOU TO TRY ｜｜ Knitting, gardening, and more!

In this episode, I talk about how to take your hobby game from "okay" to "classic" and talk about some of the things you can incorporate into your life to make it a little more fun. I think that everyone should have some sort of hobby that they really enjoy, and it doesn't necessarily have to be creative, but I think there are a lot of different things that can be incorporated into their life that will just kind of give you a little extra burst of happiness when things are a little bit slow or boring.

00:00:00.040 Hello beautiful ladies and welcome to today's video where we're going to be 1.00

00:00:03.720 talking about how to take your hobby game from okay to classic.

00:00:10.760 I love hobbies. I love making things, I love creating things, I love writing, I

00:00:15.940 love all of the above and so for me hobbies are a really good way for me to

00:00:20.240 express myself and I think that everybody should have some sort of hobby

00:00:25.240 that they really enjoy. It doesn't necessarily have to be creative, the ones

00:00:28.600 that I like to do are but I think there are a lot of different things that you

00:00:32.140 can incorporate into your life that will just kind of give you a little extra

00:00:35.320 burst of happiness when things are a little bit slow or boring or whatever it

00:00:40.000 is. So the first hobby I want to talk about is knitting. When I was growing up my

00:00:44.000 grandmother stayed with us for a few days after she had gotten surgery and while

00:00:47.540 she was at our house she decided to teach us all, me and my sisters, how to knit. I

00:00:52.660 have used that ever since. Now I will say I am NOT very good at knitting so I

00:00:58.420 stick with like two different stitches, the knit and the purl, and I pretty much

00:01:01.960 only make scarves. But I find knitting so relaxing and it really kind of helps me

00:01:07.420 focus as well when I'm watching TV or if I'm talking to my husband. It's something

00:01:13.180 for me to do with my hands and I just love it because at the end of, I don't know,

00:01:16.840 three, four weeks I have a beautiful scarf to show for my fidgety hands. Now if

00:01:21.860 you're somebody who actually could take knitting to a whole other level where

00:01:26.420 you're making more than just scarves, you're making sweaters, you're making

00:01:28.980 ponchos, that is even better. But of course I'm just somebody who likes to knit

00:01:33.800 scarves because I love having something to do and if you're somebody who likes

00:01:38.420 having something to do and having something to show for it while you're

00:01:41.720 just watching TV or in a conversation with someone then you should definitely

00:01:45.860 consider taking up knitting. You end up with so many pretty scarves around the

00:01:50.060 house or whatever it is that you make and it's all handmade with love by you. And that is a

00:01:54.680 really classic thing. Next up is cooking. Now you guys know how I feel about cooking.

00:02:01.400 I think it's a really important skill to have for anyone, male or female, but I

00:02:06.020 think it's also something you can make into a hobby. If you turn it into something

00:02:09.860 where you're kind of trying to discover new recipes, then you'll end up really

00:02:13.820 enjoying the whole process of cooking. Now there are some weeks where you're just

00:02:17.720 trying to get food on the table, so on those weeks cooking might not be a hobby. But

00:02:22.240 the times where you have a little bit of extra time or you decide you want to do a

00:02:25.780 little bit of research and maybe buy the right ingredients, that can make cooking

00:02:29.440 so much more fun and it's just such a classic way to keep your house ship shape

00:02:34.240 and really delicious. Now my next hobby is actually my job, but it's also my hobby,

00:02:40.480 which is singing. I think that singing is a lovely hobby to have and maybe taking a

00:02:44.560 few singing lessons or learning some new songs and just singing around the house or

00:02:49.060 taking time to really sing for yourself is just a really nice thing to do and

00:02:53.440 it's a really feminine classic thing to do. I love singing, as you guys know, but I

00:02:58.240 sing not operatically all the time around the house. Sometimes I'm just kind of

00:03:01.720 humming or whatever it is and singing is such a nice hobby. It's just a way for you

00:03:07.420 to express yourself and it's not something you have to put down on paper.

00:03:10.840 It's sometimes just something that you get to do and it's ephemeral and it just

00:03:14.920 makes people happy to hear. If you have a partner, I think that if you're not singing

00:03:19.300 all the time and being really loud, they might really enjoy having a little

00:03:23.440 songbird around the house and if you're alone, it's something that kind of can

00:03:27.340 break up the quiet. So I love singing and I think it's a really nice hobby to have.

00:03:32.200 My next recommendation is gardening. Now I haven't gardened in a really long time, but

00:03:36.860 I'm hoping to garden a little bit once the weather gets nicer because actually a

00:03:40.840 good friend of mine and my husband's for our wedding, he gave us some seeds to

00:03:45.640 plant for flowers and I just love the idea of that, but I think I've never felt

00:03:49.780 rooted down enough to kind of start a garden. So taking the time to plant

00:03:54.940 yourself a garden, whether that be fruits or vegetables or just flowers, I think is

00:03:59.140 so nice and it really puts you in touch with nature and I would really like to

00:04:03.880 kind of reinvest my time in that and I think it's also just a very classic

00:04:07.360 beautiful hobby. The next hobby that I have is jewelry making. Now when I was

00:04:11.980 living at home a while ago, I did learn how to make jewelry. If you use wire and

00:04:17.800 you use certain tools, it's actually not that difficult and you can make jewelry

00:04:21.100 that you really enjoy. I don't do it so much anymore, but I think it's a really

00:04:25.120 nice thing to do for yourself if it's an easy way for you to express yourself

00:04:29.080 creatively and maybe you end up making things for your friends as gifts and

00:04:33.280 that's super nice too. So having the skill to make your own jewelry ends up

00:04:38.020 being really handy. Actually for my wedding I used those tools and I used

00:04:42.760 that experience that I had picked up when I was younger and living at home and I

00:04:47.380 actually made the belt that I wore for my wedding and it was made of pearls and

00:04:52.000 Swarovski crystals and I put on a little clasp at the end because I had that

00:04:55.420 experience. So just knowing how to work with jewelry and make jewelry is a really

00:05:00.020 nice hobby to have. My last classic hobby is creative writing. Now you guys know

00:05:05.460 that I write for my blog. I also write for Evie magazine and you can write

00:05:09.680 whatever you like. It can be a blog post, it can be a story, it can be your thoughts,

00:05:14.540 it can be in a journal, but any kind of writing I think is just a really nice

00:05:18.500 hobby to have. Sitting down with a physical pen and paper is so important I

00:05:24.200 think. I hate keeping my calendar on my phone. I actually don't do it so all of my

00:05:29.780 stuff is in a handwritten calendar for example and that translates over to just

00:05:34.100 writing in a journal or writing in a notebook and having that expressive

00:05:39.440 creative writing part of yourself. I think exploring that and figuring out

00:05:44.120 exactly what you love writing about will add to you and who you are and really

00:05:49.580 contribute to you in a very classic way. Do you guys do any of these hobbies?

00:05:55.460 What other hobbies would you consider classic? Let me know in the comments down

00:05:59.720 below. Thank you guys so much for watching today's video. Please subscribe to

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Classically Abby - March 06, 2020

CLASSIC HOBBIES FOR YOU TO TRY ｜｜ Knitting, gardening, and more!

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