What is Old is New Again

When I was a kid, my mother had a sewing machine. I was in awe of it but also a little scared of it. The needle seemed a wild and uncontrollable thing, something that would go right through your fingernail given half the chance. I remembered it was a pale green with a light green and dark green case. I can still hear the snap of the locks on the sides clicking into place. To be honest, I hadn't thought of that old machine in a good 20 years. My boyfriend offered to buy me whatever I wanted for Christmas. I had my eye on a Ruby Red 1950's Singer Featherweight like the one my roommate had in college (hers was the standard black). I was cruising Ebay looking at what was available and had a bid in for $400 on the Featherweight (since I wasn't paying for it, it seemed reasonable). I let it go at $405, though because I just can't justify spending that much for the color and that was truly what had me hooked. Than I came across this machine with the color called Jadite. That sounds like a group of troublemakers who might have hung with the Soddomites and citizens of Gomorrah(I probably misspelled that. It's been a long time since bible school.) When I opened the page, low and behold it was the exact same machine that my mama had. I got all sentimental and nostalgic and bought it, thus saving my boyfriend about $300. I have a little Viking, but I wanted something heavy duty to sew tough stuff on. It was the color and the light that got me going though. That light is just too cute. I'd be quite content to strap it on my forehead and wear it around like a miner's light. Anyway, that's the picture from ebay that the seller put up. Once I get it, I'll put up my own photo (seeing as I might be illegally using his/her image. This kind of thing gets so confusing.) Don't they say you marry one parent and turn into the other? Well, I'm definitely turning into my mother.
This is the little sewing machine I bought for Sadie. Or rather that we asked Santa to bring to Sadie. I got it off e-bay because I wasn't too crazy about all the cheap plastic kids' sewing machines I was seeing in the stores, but I didn't want to spend $300 for the nicer ones. So, hopefully, it will be in working order. Otherwise, I'll have to use that story about Santa dropping it while he was coming down the chimney and we'll have to take it to be fixed.