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happy birthday lost & found!

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

i'm bren & this is the lost & found's 9th 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 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 ~

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 may or may not be posting every day, but don't worry i still have lots of cool stuff to share (lol i said that last year :D) 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

Posted at 08:59 AM in books, dolls, gumby, houses, lost & found, miniatures, novelty, old school, raggedys, scholastic, videogames | Permalink | Comments (0)

09/16/2021

postcards

i've picked up quite a few postcards over my years of collecting ~

some vintage that i've posted before ~

& some new, often postcard style ads for vintage collectible shows or other events here in pdx ~

here are some cool vintage kitties too, along with one of mr dad's old b&w photos ~

from the darling company ~

these van gogh ones were bought at the exhibit i visited with my guys at lacma ~

& some vintage disneyland ~

classic scenes from the haunted mansion & pirates of the caribbean attractions ~

e ticket dark rides ~

some music themed including the beatles, elliott smith, andrew bird, rem & of course radiohead ~

another favorite musician that i've actually had the pleasure of corresponding with several times over the years is ben cooper of radical face ~

if you haven't heard his music you can sample it at several of my ghost gallery albums:

never open your eyes dollscape

floorsleeper/blue house dollscape

as well as my old photo album here..

bren

Posted at 09:06 AM in cards, cats, disney, ephemera, music, theme park | Permalink | Comments (0)

09/15/2021

rabbit makes a monkey of lion

another lion story today ~

a puffin pied piper book from 1989 ~

it starts out with a bird & a bunny ~

cool illustrations by jerry pinkney ~

rabbit makes a monkey of lion ~

story by verna aardema ~

there's also a bushrat & a turtle ~

clever rabbit ~

gotcha! ~

nope ~

poor lion ~

an american booksellers pick of the lists parents choice award book ~

more puffin pied piper books ~

bren

Posted at 07:34 AM in birds, books, cats | Permalink | Comments (0)

09/14/2021

fun new things

fun new things i've picked up recently ~

including these mental health awareness pins that i relate to as an ocd ruminator ~

so, halloween is coming! ~

& i'm always in need of new not boring socks! ~

i always love blue q & shutterfly ~

best tabbies ever.. i also picked up some milkweed seeds to plant once i can to help attract & assist endangered monarch butterflies ~

i've been camping out downstairs in our dark playroom where i usually paint or work on mini houses (while my room is recarpeted) & this new nitelite from shutterfly i made has my special kitty, snug, taken from the end of one of my old halloween youtubes ~

psyche, my sweet sister, we are soul sisters & although she may be invisible, my cheshire kitty is still smiling down at me, helping me through difficult nights <3 ~