Confession: I am not the handiest person.  But sometimes I roll up my sleeves and go for it, such as I did today.  I had a small painting job to do--two strips of rusty metal around the frame of a circa-1950 medicine cabinet.  Off I went to the hardware store to pick up a tiny can of oil-based flat white paint and a sponge brush.  We are talking about a task that would require about ten swipes of the brush, and that's about what it took; when I was finished no more than twenty minutes after starting, I was pleased to see that the rust had been covered, and I hadn't dripped anything on the sink or tile.