Ladies renovate, reopen Wagga Women's Shed

The shed's secretary Helen Bell said it had been a mammoth undertaking, and that after weeks of decluttering they had filled two whole skips worth of rubbish.

Mrs Bell and her two-year-old grandson helped paint the shed, and after several weeks she managed to make "order from chaos" by sorting their assorted knick-knacks into labelled boxes.

"I think the OCD got the better of me," Ms Bell said.

Shortly after their grand reopening the the shed celebrated its third birthday on Wednesday, during which the ladies stood back to appreciate their hard renovation work.

The shed's president Keriane Rowley said she was relieved to see the shed reopen from lockdown, especially since many of the shed's members were socially isolated at the best of times.

"A lot of us face social isolation at home - widows, divorcees, single women," Ms Rowley said.

"This is somewhere for them to be comfortable, be themselves, and have other women to talk to."

The members did continue their friendships online during lockdown, however, and some of them kept themselves busy by knitting and crafting to help stock up the shed once it reopened.

Others came down in rotating teams to help renovate the shed and dig up a little garden, which now sits out the front of their newly refurbished front area.

Now that the shed is open for real the ladies are returning to the shed and are beginning to phase in their regular classes in their new and improved shed.