Ponyo Gets a Make Over!

The past week has been completely crazy here, between work and getting ready for college I feel like the last little but of summer has flown by. We moved my sister into her dorm room yesterday and being there made me realize how much I still need to do. I move in on the 23 so only ten more days! It feels surreal and sometimes I have these moments where I can't believe I am even old enough to be going to college. I am of course so nervous I can't stand it and in the same breath so excited. I am not sure how much blogging I will be doing in the next two weeks between moving down to college and starting classes.

On a less stressful note I finally stained Ponyo! So I love my spinning wheel even when it makes me mad and squeaks. I feel like I am constantly oiling it. Which poses a whole new problem. So I bought an unfinished wheel because it was like 200 dollars less and then I started noticing something...

 Yup those right there are oil stains. No matter how careful I was being with the oil on the joints it just dripped everywhere. Those stains were what finally made me stain it. I loved the original color of the wood but I needed something to protect the wood from the oil and sometimes even the dye from fiber.

So a can of wood finish later Ponyo had a whole new look. (Note: If you do this you can get one of the tiny cans because I barely used any of this.)

Its just a little darker in real life and has this nice hint of like a redish color. It is just so gorgeous and it hides all of those oil spots! And now the oil just wipes off!

  Before                                                  After                                                           Look no more oil!

So now I am finally back to spinning which is great! I really missed it. I am working on one of my braids I bought before the Tour. I have named it Berty Botts Ever Flavor Beans. I finished the first 2 ounces already and just started spinning the next half. I hope you guys are having a great week!