One of the machines I refurbished and listed on CL sold. That is not the exciting part although the money for the machine after all of my hard work put into it was nice too. The exciting part is a grandfather bought it for his 12 year old granddaughter that wants to learn how to sew. It is her birthday present.
They bought her one of the newer cutesie plastic teen machines and it fell apart and then another one that broke down so granddaddy called me about the Singer 223. He said he wanted a good machine this time.
I was so excited and thrilled that one of my machines adopted out to a young sewist in the making. He said she wants to sew clothes so I gave him a buttonholer and I also let him choose one of the three small sewing tables I had available as my birthday gift to her. It was such a feel good day for me yesterday. This is what it is all about, giving and inspiring young people to know the value of vintage.
He looked at several more of my machines and said he had a lot of granddaughters that will probably want machines too with a wonderful twinkle in his eye.
I am still doing the happy dance.. I just had to share the joy.