So many things seem to have been better, back then.
I have always been a little suspicious of the reality of ‘progress’. In many ways, it seems we don’t progress so much as we ‘trade-off’.
Back in those land-line days, a telephone call was an EVENT; and the phone didn’t ring very often. Now, I can carry my phone around with me - but that seems like a noisy way to live, and so far I’ve only used my first smartphone to listen to Art Bell at night ;-)
Back then, you had to plan to watch your favorite TV show, and it was a family event. Now everyone is huddled in a room apart, doing their own thing on their own electronics.
My first car, a used 1963 Impala, was simple enough that even I could do minor repairs on it - my sewing machine, too - which gave a certain confidence, a feeling of control of some essentials. Now I wouldn’t open either one up, or understand them if I did.
On the other hand, to someone like me the advent of WordPerfect was tantamount to the discovery of penicillin or the invention of the light bulb ;-)
I guess I wouldn’t give up the modern things; I just wish we were wiser in how we allow them to affect us and impact our priorities. And I often wonder if people today truly ENJOY life as much as we did...
-JT
Dont throw out that coffee can.
FROSTY THE SNOWMAN TOP HAT CENTERPIECE
Paint tall-type coffee can black. Cutout black felt circle--circumference a little less than the height of can---glue to a cardboard circle cut to brim size.
FINAL---dab glue here and there on brim; invert can onto felt. Let dry.
Tie wide red/check homespun ribbon around can--add bow; glue on asst of Christmas holly, acorns, flowers, candle.
CANDLE Make a candle w/ tea light set in toilet paper roll painted white, sprinkled w/ glitter.
FINISHING TOUCHES To ice the hat: make a paste w/ flour/water. Drop it on the hat as pictured--then add glitter. Dry.
OR sprinkle hat w/ Epsom salts to get that pillowy, just-snowed look.
NOTE: to make a larger centerpiec---ask your local restaurant or pizza shop for one of the large commercial cans they use.