Well, learned before spray painting I need to seal with lacquer or shellac...

Ended up having to fix this with some acrylic paint pens. It was just a piece of pine to practice on and see how it would turn out. In the future, I'll seal with lacquer or shellac and then paint them. It responds a world of better to paint after sealing. But the spray paint just wouldn't dry tonight, so it messed up the base layer.

To me, it looks horrible, but my wife was happy with it. I'm ordering some eyelet screws as I'll be making some better ones to give as gifts this year.

I have loads of yellow pine cutoffs from shop builds, so I'll just glue those up to get decent enough sized blanks to work on. I think the weight of pine will be better for ornaments. I've got a few ideas for figures. I watched a birdhouse ornament video the other day, so that spiralled me into trying out painting a turned ornament. Mistakes were made; some lessons learned. We'll see how many more lessons I need to learn on this one. LOL.