[Woodcarver] help needed

[Diane Reed]

I just did some recarving on a bark piece and had to refinish the new parts. 
I used a coat of polyurethane on just the newly carved areas and it was fine 
except it needed another coat to match it up with the rest. Instead of using 
the polyurethane again, I decided to give the whole piece a good spraying of 
satin lacquer. I sprayed it outside - it is very humid here today and the 
cement walk where I laid out my work was damp. The finish, when dry, had a 
white chalky coating on parts of the whole piece - not just the new part. I 
thought maybe it had picked up moisture from the sidewalk so just brought it 
in to dry out: no change after 3 or 4 hours. Next I brushed the white spots 
with a wire brush and most of the white stuff came off leaving those parts 
with out any finish. Now I need to put something on it to cover the rest of 
the white and finish the whole piece.

Any suggestions on how to fix this mess I've caused?

Diane

You can see my wood carvings at: http://www.picturetrail.com/diane531