help me darlings, my bike is woeful.

lovelies:

miraculous geoff (my sibling) is coming to brooklyn in 2 weeks to resurrect the mixte-fantastic from its current woeful state in terms of new wheels and effectively new everything, but that leaves me with the frame.

as this is the bike by which i have reclaimed my 2 wheel freedom, and rediscovered the joy of ambling about aglide, i want to make IT rad, even though at some point along the line i will get a legitimately wonderful thing and not have to do what i'm about to ask help with-- my poor frame is rusty (slightly) in parts due to New England, battered, and chipping of paint.

surely one of you (i KNOW you carlos) has experience repainting and/or resurfacing a bike frame....would someone give me a tutorial? maybe?