lost & found vintage toys

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

03/23/2023

a secret film

once upon a time way back in 1996 i made a secret film, with a borrowed videocamera & the assistance of my then young son i went about trying to put some of my art to music & other media.. here's a private youtube if you are interested, i'm afraid like much of our videos youtube drops the quality down substantially :( but it's also downloadable here as a wmv file as well.. (commentary at end) ~

update: ok so i see youtube has blocked it due to copyright issues (music etc) so if you're interested just click & download the wmv file ;)

bren

Posted at 08:16 AM in lost & found, movies, music | Permalink | Comments (0)

03/22/2023

weird wednesday

ok so i just needed a weird wednesday post today ~

so i'm sharing these latest card & sticker sets i purchased from an old favorite, the unemployed philosophers guild, like these others i've posted before ~

here's carl sagan ;) ~

with Billions of stickers! (well kinda..) ~

& then there's franz kafka ~

reminds me of my latest comment over at colin meloy's substack this morning, he liked it! :D ~

click on the links in this post for more weird & wonderful posts like this ~

bren

Posted at 11:23 AM in cards, ephemera, novelty, science, space & robots | Permalink | Comments (0)

03/19/2023

blue q cat

just a short post today, once upon a time during kitty month i posted this picture of mr dad working in his office, with a fun cardboard kitty up over him on the shelf, i'd found him at an estate sale & knew nothing about him. well, only now did i find out he is the original blue q cat that helped start that fun company that i love! (they sell the best 'no boring socks' around, for one thing, & snarky cool kitchen tea towels etc..)

you too can have a blue q kitty of your own, just download the pdf here! :D

bren

Posted at 10:46 AM in cats, ephemera, novelty | Permalink | Comments (0)

March 2023