I work as an aged care nurse and I am also the activities officer when she goes on holiday. I made this target shooting game for the residents in our aged care home. Last time I filled this position I took some targets and Nerf guns in and they loved the idea. The one issue I did have with the game was that the resident struggled to load the Nerf guns. For this target shooting game, I came up with an easy solution to shoot the balls.
Every Christmas we all get together for the day and one of the games we play is darts and every year we go through the same routine. No one can find the darts. So to stop all the drama of the missing darts I decided I would make a stand that would go onto the wall next to the dartboard. That way we would always be able to find them.
I was given this wooden stand, and I’m not too sure what it is. My guess is a plant stand, but I could be wrong. It was so solid and heavy that I wanted to try and make something useful out of it. Candlesticks were the only thing I could come up with. They would not be the same size and shape, but I think that would be half the charm. And who does not love candlesticks in their home?
If you look through my website you will see that nearly all my projects have been made using recycled materials. This has enabled me to keep my hobby going with very little cost to myself for materials. 5 Years ago I decided I wanted to start woodworking as a hobby. Between my husband and son, we had a shed full of tools that just sat there. Because I had no training or skills I was always stuck doing basic boring projects for fear of messing it up and the wood being wasted. And wood is not cheap.
Over the years I have made a few wine barrel tables and every now and then they come with 2 extra bands. I always removed them because it looked better with only a few. I then had a few lying around and wanted to try and recycle them into something useful for the house. I had seen many ideas on Pinterest and they were mainly used as garden decoration, but I wanted something different. A firewood stand was my first choice. I thought It would look great next to an indoor wood fire. I had some rope that I bought years ago when our local hardware store closed down, so finally found a use for it.
I am a big lover of pets, and nothing is too good for my two little Jack Russell’s and a cat called Ginger. My cat and dog lived in harmony until our new Jack Russell came along. He made it his mission to chase the cat on sight and she had nowhere to hide. So, I wanted to make her somewhere to hide where he could not get her. I wanted a pet bed where she could hide but I wanted it still to look good in the house. I ended up with a great looking footstool that blends in with my home decor, and a perfect hideaway for the cat inside. I put the footstool close to the wall with the hole towards the wall so the cat can sleep in peace without the dogs harassing her.
My husband is a computer gamer and spends a tidy penny on his gaming headsets. So when he runs over the cable with his office chair and destroys them he is none too happy. Being the kind and considerate wife that I am, my words not his. I thought I would make him a stand to store them when not in use.
I made my great niece a sand pit table so she could play in the sand without having to sit in the sand. As much as she likes playing with the sand the sand getting on her bottom seemed to upset her. I was going to try and make a chair to go with the table using the offcuts from the desk and old table legs that I had left over after stripping down a table that I repurposed. I worked out the height that I wanted by measuring the sandpit desk and the gap where the chair fits underneath it.
This was one of the first projects I had done so no step by step tutorial but still great to share and to give others ideas. I saw this prison coffee table on my local for sale site for $10.00 and loved the design and thought I could give it a makeover. It is called a prison table so the lady told me but someone must have broken out because so many of the bars were broken or missing. The photo above was taken 4 years after I first gave it a makeover and one of the bars broke again, thanks to the kids.
I got this old Television stand of my local facebook marketplace site and wanted to try and turn it into something unique that I could use in my house. There are so many of these around now with the introductions of flat screen that get mounted on the wall. So keep a look out if you are interested because you can pick them up for free now.
I work as an aged care nurse and recently I was asked to fill in as the activities officer which is the person responsible for entertaining our elderly residents. Having no experience and wanting to do something different I made them a game to play. I have made them a horseracing game in the past and it was a huge hit. It was one of the few games that got all our resident to join in. I was finding it hard to think of new activities so I made them a bean bag toss game.
