Ok, I’ll admit that I am so jealous of my sister. In fact, I am jealous of both of my sisters. They have sewing machines that do so much. The panel on their machines that displays the type of stitches available is so vast that you would never run out of pretty designs to make purses unique. Both of their machines also do embroidery. Since I just bought my machine less than two years ago, I don’t feel like I have the money to put into a brand new machine so I have been looking around to see who deals in reconditioned and used machines.

While I didn’t find a site that deals in sewing machines, I did find a great site to find out the fair market value of items like computers, cameras, guns and more. UsedPrice.com is the easiest and most complete online used pricing service for finding the used value of your item. Many auctioneers, pawn brokers, appraisers, and collectors use this service. I hope they add sewing machines and long arm quilting machines to their service. I need to know the fair market value of those items before I am ready to buy. UsedPrice.com data is so useful to reliably determine the value of an item whether you are selling, trading, buying, leasing, insuring or paying taxes on that item.

Woo hoo! I finished another bag! I decided that most of the bags I have been making are, while very pretty, very basic and that I need to make some bags that say wow.

I used very bright material for this bag but had not bought enough of one color. Darn. Mom, Greg and I had to visit the fabric store. What a shame.