It's the Australia Day holiday today, and it's stinking hot like it has been for days and days AND DAYS now. I don't think I can stand it anymore. Holiday or no holiday, I just want to hibernate in the fridge until summer goes away.
Onto more pleasant things...
Remember my free oil painting and wooden frame story?
If not, read here;
and here;
I've finally made some progress since then. All I need to do now is paint the fancy edge gold, then hang in up. Yay for me!
The wood stain ended up being a little darker than I wanted, but I still like it. And as you can see, the stain seeped through to the fancy edge even though I prepped like mad before hand! It matters not, because it is going to be painted gold anyway.
After staining the frame...
