3rd December

This is my Christmas favourite! It's a tiny little candlestick that's been with me for as long as I can remember. I even used to play with it when I was growing up in the 1960s. (Not a good idea, I think).

The candlestick is old and worn. A friend of mine broke it accidently one Christmas in the 1980s. But since I can't picture a Christmas without it I glued it together and repainted it. But now the paint is chipped again... Still, it's one of my favorite Christmas decorations.  Of course, I took it with me when I moved to Italy 3 years ago and I guess this will remain with me for the rest of my life... 

Paper dolls

I found these paper dolls when I was spring cleaning and started thinking about life in the old days... When I was a little girl, paper dolls often came enclosed in the glossy magazines. 

Where we lived there was one of those shops that sold "everything" you needed for the house and they also sold sheets with different paper dolls. I can still remember how the shop smelled of everything from paint to detergents and perfume...  I remember that when we bought the detergent we brought a bottle from home to be filled with the detergent from the shop....

Me and my girl friends spent hours cutting out pictures of furnitures from the magazines and this we used to making a "home" for the paper dolls. I don't know if the children today are still playing with paper dolls?

It's possible that these particular paper dolls are from the time when my daughter grew up in the 1970s, but paper dolls hasn't changed at all since the 1950s, I think. Anyway, it was nice finding them after all these years..

Regards

Storesøster

Popular songs

Here's a list of songs that were popular during the early 1960s (not necessarily no 1 hits) - 5 songs from each year. You can click on the links to hear (and watch) the songs... Enjoy!

Stuck on you - Elvis Presley - 4/1960
Cathy’s clown - Everly Brothers - 4/1960
He’ll have to go - Jim Reeves - 6/1960
Apache - Shadows - 8/1960
Only the lonely - Roy Orbison - 9/1960

F.B.I - Shadows - 2/1961
Hello Mary Lou - Ricky Nelson - 6/1961
Kontiki - Shadows - 9/1961
Big bad John - Jimmy Dean - 11/1961
Happy birthday, sweet sixteen - Neil Sedaka - 12/1961

The young ones - Cliff Richard - 1/1962
The twist - Chubby Checker - 1/1962
Cryin’ in the rain - Everly Brothers - 1/1962
Can’t help falling in love - Elvis Presley - 2/1962
I can’t stop loving you - Ray Charles - 6/1962

Please please me - Beatles - 2/1963
Brown eyed handsome man - Buddy Holly - 3/1963
Lucky lips - Cliff Richard - 5/1963
She loves you - Beatles - 8/1963
I wanna be your man - The Rolling Stones - 12/1963

Kiss me quick - Elvis Presley - 1/1964
Stay - Hollies - 1/1964
No particular place to go - Chuck Berry - 6/1964
It’s all over now - The Rolling Stones - 7/1964
Oh pretty woman - Roy Orbison - 9/1964

Baby please don’t go - Them - 1/1965
It’s not unusual - Tom Jones - 3/1965
Times they are a-changin’ - Bob Dylan - 4/1965
Help - Beatles - 8/1965
(I can’t get no) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones - 9/1965