lost & found vintage toys

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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flashback friday - lies of p

this flashback friday post is from 2023.. welcome, october ~

starting off this halloween month with a cool new game i want to play ~

lies of p (based on the classic pinocchio story by carlo collodi) ~

i'll be heading into this game come wintertime ;) ~

but for now let's check out some of raven's screenshots ~

this game has the look & feel of a from software game ~

very bloodbornesque ~

& if it also has the feel of an american mcgee's alice game that's because some of the artists who created those games worked on this game too ~

you play as geppetto's puppet ~

as with all souls games finding checkpoints is important (in this game they're called stargazers) ~

our first goal is to get to hotel krat which is one of the few safe places in the city ~

we were called there by a mysterious person named sophia ~

one really cool mechanic in this game is that you collect music to make yourself more human.. (& spoiler! there's a kitty!!!) ~

now let's check out raven's playthrough :) & please subscribe! ~

p.s. this game also makes me think of one of my favorite rare oldies that i played all the way to the end, the city of lost children ;)

bren

throwback thursday - pinocchio

for this throwback thursday a look back at the classic character pinocchio.. ok so more pinocchio as promised ~

this is a nice big hardback version from classic press 1968 ~

what i like about it is that it is annotated ~

with all kinds of interesting relevant facts in the margins ~

my favorite character is the blue fairy ~

if you've ever seen the steven spielberg movie AI you'll never forget this character ~

& this book ends with complete instructions on how to make your own puppet & cardboard theater, not unlike one toxic remembers making for an elementary school book report project ~

more pinocchio tomorrow ~

now updated with related links!

bren

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happy weird wednesday! a wayback? wednesday post with an update at the end.. ok so yesterday i posted all about portland, but did i mention it's also known as the rose city? ~

roses love it here too ;) ~

i love seeing all green out my frenchdoor windows ~

i beg your pardon ~

i never promised you a rose garden ;) ~

we've added a new rose plot in our backyard ~

complete with kitties for this happy caturday :) ~

like this black cat & butterfly to welcome any stray or feral kitties in need (we've cared for backyard ferals for 20 years here supplying tnr, safe winter shelters & food!) ~

& including some fun metal sculpture kitties made by one of mr dad's friends :D (they'll hold more plant pots later..) ~

update! ~

it's been a few weeks and the roses are doing nicely :) ~

including some new additions.. mini roses!! :D ~

bren

black cat stickers

i'm wrapping up this weekend of black cat appreciation with these cool stickers ~

as a kid i adopted a beautiful black cat i named delilah ~

& my little brother brought home her tortie sister deedee ~

lilah lived long enough to get to know my son ;) ~

some kitty iron-ons too, they're really just another kind of sticker, right? click on cats in the category list in the left sidebar for more like this anytime ~

bren