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

Posted at 09:32 AM in books, dinosaurs, dolls, fisher price, ghosts, gumby, halloween, houses, lost & found, old school, plush, raggedys, scholastic, science, sesame street | Permalink | Comments (0)

09/24/2022

the stars did wander darkling

so did everyone get their first edition signed copy of colin meloy's new book? ~

i pre-ordered my copy through my favorite bookstore ~

powell's books here in portland ~

the largest bookstore you've ever seen, i promise you! ~

so i'm a big decemberists fan of course ~

& i've collected the wildwood chronicles as well, illustrated by colin's wife carson ellis ~

based in pdx's wonderful forest park ~

by ordering this through powell's i received the special signed first edition ~

& will receive colin's special limited edition vinyl soundtrack to listen to around halloweentime while i read this kids' horror story :D ~

i subscribe to colin's substack where i've been able to comment back & forth with him & learned today that this book is already #2 on the indie bestseller list & has debuted at #7 on the ny times bestseller list as well! ~

be sure to click the links in this post <3

bren

Posted at 12:43 PM in autographs, books, ephemera, halloween, music, vinyl | Permalink | Comments (0)

09/23/2022

flashback friday favorite ~ portland rocks!

today's flashback friday favorite post is from 2017: this morning i was on a mission ~

ever since i found an awesome black cat 'vancouver rock' i've wanted to hide some of my own here around portland ~

i picked up this rock on one of our hikes because it seemed kinda heart shaped, with a few cracks, not unlike my own.. it seemed perfect for a little gumby ~

& i happened to be looking at monster high dolls at the store today, so... ~

i hope finding these will be as much fun for someone as it was for me hiding them :) ~

here are a few clues to where i hid mine ~
one is where i like to buy comic books..
one is in a park, shining in the summer sun in a knothole of a cool tree..
one is hiding where cool little girls buy dolls..
one is in the spooky section of the coolest bookstore there is..
& one is on the moon..