Country Spinner Mark 2 Update

My CS2 and accompanying fluff arrived on Tuesday. I spent Tuesday-Thursday sanding and Friday-Sunday (this evening) waxing. And...

I FINALLY FINISHED WAXING IT!

That is, the first coat.

I’m so tired, and tomorrow I have the dentists AND an MRI. :-( Since it arrived on Tuesday all I’ve done in my free time is work on the wheel. I have to keep reminding myself that the effort I’m expending now will be worth it, and comparing the part I’m working on with my Traddy so that I think “Yup, still prefer the wax finish over the oil.”

I’ll take tomorrow off from the wheel. I’ll have my crochet with me for travelling and waiting-rooms. And when I get home I’ll just watch telly or read for a bit.

The ginormous bobbin is being left until after the wheel is assembled so I can have photos showing how the wax changes the raw wood, and will probably just get the one coat of beeswax for now.

The good news is that I can now judge that I’ll have enough beeswax in the tin to do the three coats I originally wanted. Whether or not I’ll have the spoons to do that remains to be seen.

Have some photos...

Processing Time

Today is my second day of breaking the day into hours. Yesterday really helped, I feel like I got a lot more done. Still not very aware of passing time beyond this hour and this task, but it's progress, right?

Today the "chores" continue. I want to get my room tidied. I want to list unwanted things on ebay so hopefully someone will buy them and they will vanish out into the ether. And I want to get jewellery listed on etsy. I'm also thinking about listing my handspun on etsy too, but I'm still kind of attached to it. And this fundraising needs to pay for renewal on my domain name and fees for the upcoming PF conference. Really, if I could even get as far as just photographing the jewellery I've got and posting proper photos on facebook with their prices, I would at least be getting somewhere. I could also post photos on facebook of the handspun under Dreamweaver Designs and see if there's interest? And of the stitchmarkers I've been making, to see if that generates any interest too. And getting any of that done when my mind feels like it's swaddled in cotton wool is nearly impossible. Spoon-theory can apply to many different things, but for me it's "headspace" - literally finding the space in my head to focus on something.