Primed to Paint!

My weekend project thus far is to get this little spinning wheel in tip-top-shape for spinning in no time. It's my labor of love and I will admit, I've made several trips to Home Depot and gotten the advice of one of the boys in the paint department on this one. I have to admit, it's an utter delight to tell someone I'm spinning wool and not get an odd response from because this guy was utterly non-chalant on about giving me advice which I greatly appreciated.

Everyone down here in Florida that I've told seems to think I'm batty even down to a yoga instructor who up to fifteen minutes before I told her was gloating up and down about how she stood on her head while 8 months pregnant covered in sweat doing Ashtanga yoga in a hot heat room! Oooh....not to be mean but lordy...I'd like to think my hobby is less extreme!

Still, I sanded down the whole shebang and sprayed it with primer between Friday and Saturday morning. Afterwards I spent the rest of the day painting, waiting, and repainting. I used oil-based paint from the Home Depot painter's advice that despite the the length of time in drying and the initial smell of oil-based paint, in the end it is the most durable and long lasting of all the types of paints. All in all I settled on a glossy black. I perhaps should have sanded the prime a bit before the first coat but my eagerness caused me to to skip it so the paint job isn't that slick. Looking at other folk's self-painted wheels online though has reassured me though that it may not be the most perfect but the beauty is in what in spins and after a while all its tiny perfections will go away in my mind as I work with it. After all, if you stop and stare and squint and nitpick, every hand painted wheel has its flaws so I mustn't be harsh on this one before I've even finished painting the final coat none the less started spinning it!

I've decided on a name for my wheel. I'll name it Minzy after the 2NE1's group member. She knits, she dances, and she's the toughest mamma-jammer in the Korean pop/hip-hop world. Also, she is the most adorable gal with the cutest name to impart upon a spinning wheel ever. That's how I want to keep my spinning wheel, tough as nails but still adorably sweet at heart.

There is still the matter if I plan on doing any acrylic stencils or gold painted trimmed edges on it or if I'll put on a clear poly coat over everything just to 100% guarantee that the paint will last forever without need of a touch-up for *just in case* but it may just be an unnecessary step. We shall see and think on it awhile.