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lost & found 10th birthday!

Hi & Welcome to the Lost & Found Vintage Toy Blog!

i'm bren & this is the lost & found's 10th birthday post! ~

i'm a collector of vintage toys, books & pop culture items, including holiday, retro or even contemporary toys that i particularly like. i host a website called gumbyland that i've maintained for more than 20 years, as my biggest collection is of the 50's character gumby! all the items i have up at gumbyland link back here to show off the collection in detail for my fellow gumby fans, but there's much more here to interest vintage kids & collectors, i've posted a toy, children's book or collectible every day since i started this site 10 years ago ~

my bucket list is to try to find all the toys & books i lost in childhood, & whenever i mention the nickname 'toxic' i am referring to my own inner child (yeah i am a little bit dysfunctional.) i've also been known on the web for years as 'ghost' in part because i like to photograph old cemeteries.. & i also paint & write & create art installations, dollscapes, miniature houses & digital art so i have a ghost gallery of my art up at gumbyland for anyone who's interested.. there are links in the sidebar & footer to all my different sites & pages ~

if you're looking for a particular toy or item please try the search box & the categories list in the sidebar, although i've found it doesn't always work to find all of the items i've posted, so if that doesn't work you might want to peruse through the archives.. each archived month has a page with 3 posts & you can click at the bottom to continue through all that month's posts.. there's even an inventory album in the sidebar with thousands of item thumbnails.. & you can ask a question anywhere using the comments, i am usually able to answer by the following day.. i try to go back & update old posts where appropriate so check back ~

vintage kids & nostalgia buffs please feel free to comment on any of the posts new or old & share your memories here.. from here on i won't be posting every day, but don't worry i still have lots of cool stuff to share, including highlights of fun old posts from the archives that i want to bring back ~

my toy room has changed since i first started posting, so this is an updated look (click on pix for the larger size) ~

my toy room is my happy place.. have fun!! here's your own ghostgallery library card :)

ghostgallery library card	2021
ATT: this official card allows carrier full access to the ghostgallery, gumbyland website & all affiliated blogs, links, albums & archives, including toxic vintage library. do not lose.
gumbyland the lost & found toy blog ghost blog the ghost gallery rows of never opened doors photo albums ___________________________________ your name here		all artwork & photography by ghost are copyright protected 2021 all rights reserved brenda roudebush
Note: gumbyland & the ghost gallery require laptop or pc for essential music, phones & tablets will disable this feature.

bren (ghost) & toxic

p.s. Hey! we were featured :)

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— Brenda Roudebush (@GhostAtTheGate) July 24, 2018

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07/18/2025

flashback friday - boredgame champion

for flashback friday a post from years ago.. so i'm bringing back this old post because the end makes me think of my grandma vira, who would've been 111 years old today! <3

we're all caught up on netflix & hoping for a break now from the heatwave as summer kindly fucks off, & once again thinking of pulling out some boardgames (boredgames) so i thought i'd share this old post from a couple years back..

so yesterday i mentioned in my post how since we've been stuck inside due to smoky bad air from the nearby wildfire plus the covid19 threat, we've been in our time machine alot, watching our cool old home movies, of which we have a glut of treasures.. in one episode from 2000 mr dad & i played a boardgame tournament to try to settle who would get to reign as game champion. looking back we realized we messed up some of the rules & made a few mistakes, also i helped out mr dad when i probably shouldn't have, it ended up so close as to be a draw ~

so i challenged mr dad to a rematch! ~

we would play some of the same games we did 20 years ago & whoever won 3 first would hold the title ~

we started with an old family favorite, sorry ~

& mr dad swiftly beat me thanks to my own homemade custom card which i drew at least 4 times like some karmic backlash!!!! ~

next we moved on to songburst the 70s & 80s edition ~

& i held my position, having never been beaten at this one ;) ~

(this youtube is from a family game night one xmas years back) ~

now tied 1 to 1 we went on to a 6 round game of another old family favorite, yahtzee ~

i beat him soundly because this time i resisted giving out helpful tips & advice.. lol ~

yahtzee score pages of old ~

now with me in the lead 2 to 1 we broke out our original trivial pursuit board & cards ~

mr dad's a tad older than me & knows more history & geography here, whereas i'm better with the art & literature or science & nature categories, this game was close... but he won it! & we were tied again at 2 to 2!! ~

we agreed on a game of scrabble for the tiebreaker ~

we like this deluxe edition.. & i waxed his buns as we like to say at our house ;) did you ever doubt i would? well, i might've had a little help.. the last tiles i had left on my tray right at the end of the game just happened to spell out the name of my grandma vira, who taught me how to play, i kid you not, it was her favorite game & i think she couldn't resist visiting from over my shoulder & saying hi :) ~