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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composition books

do you keep a journal?~

i've asked the question before as i am an avid writer of hypergraphic journals ~

& i've found i like these composition book style versions best ~

perhaps because they're big enough to afford me space for stickers as well? ~

& mysterious drawings ;) ~

bats, frogs, suns & moons ~

i've been keeping journals for over 30 years now ~

as an infj personality type i have a particular need to write & reflect to process life ~

i also have a trunkful of my mom's diaries archived in a trunk as well ~

i especially like the spiral bound decomposition books which can fold all the way open for easy use ~

i hope to live long enough to fill the many cool blank journals i've now collected ;)

click the links in this post for more journal related posts & albums ~

bren

flashback friday favorite ~ st pat's day!

this is a flashback friday favorite post from years ago.. i thought i'd share this cool retro tin lunchbox today ~

from loungefly ~

i love tin ~

besides lucky the leprechaun, it has the trix rabbit on the reverse ~

trix are for kids ~

i use cool old cereal boxics to store comics in, like this lenticular lucky charms box ~

with magical unicorn marshmallows! ~

this box came with a mini comic inside :) ~

we especially like chocolate lucky charms at our house ~

these each have a leprechaun trap on the back so you can try to catch your own! ~

update: here's another leprechaun trap we picked up this year (2023) ~

the charm'inn ~

i caught this little wade figure myself ;) ~

bren