Make some shop furniture - no pressure - they just
have to serve their purpose. Get away from plywood
and face frames and have a go at solid wood stuff.
The joinery involved should keep things interesting
and challenging for as long as you want to stay in
woodworking.

An early shop furniture project was a wall hanging
tool cabinet. Started with routed dovetails for the
carcase/carcass and then started making modules
for various tools using finger joints, dovetails, sliding
dovetails, stopped dadoes ...

Kept finding space for more modules and finally quit
after making a 4x4x3" dovetailed little drawer.

http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/...olCabinet.html

If there are kids in the neighborhood then Kid Projects
might get the juices flowing.
http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/...Projects7.html

Know anyone who does water colors? Maybe they
might like an easel - that folds into three different
configuration AND will fit under the bed when not
in use
http://home.comcast.net/~charliebcz/Easel.html

Perhaps some books - Krenov's The Fine Art of
Cabinet Making or The Impractical Cabinet Maker,
any by Doug Stowe, ...

As for getting rid of a stationary machine - Buy
Once, Cry Once and Will It to a Woodworker.


This too will pass.

charlie b