lost & found vintage toys

happy birthday lost & found!!

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

i'm bren & this is the lost & found's 7th 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!!

bren (ghost) & toxic

p.s. Hey! we were featured :)

welcome to #gumbyland & the #lostandfoundtoys #blog ~ https://t.co/NdZFUiVvY9 #gumby #vintage #toys #blogs #books #retro #blogger #collector #tv #animation #art #gallery #children #kids #artist #paintings #collectibles #fun ?? pic.twitter.com/OXltJUnrHT
— Brenda Roudebush (@GhostAtTheGate) July 24, 2018

Posted at 07:09 AM in books, dolls, gumby, halloween, houses, kid's meal prizes, little golden books, lost & found, old school | Permalink | Comments (0)

07/21/2019

how & why ~ the human body

i haven't posted a vintage how & why book in a while ~

here's the human body ~

from 1961 ~

i've always enjoyed vintage anatomy & physiology ~

& of course, skeletons ~

& brains ~

i even still have our mom's old 50s biology notebook full of her drawings & notes ~

i have a small library of how & why books that i've collected over the years ~

including one of toxic's original editions ~

if you like this you should check out some of my art albums in the ghost gallery: (sound up & be sure to use firefox or google chrome browsers, phones steal the music!)

bren

Posted at 08:52 AM in books, how & why, old school, science | Permalink | Comments (0)

07/20/2019

barbie mad hatter doll

a special doll on this my birthday ~

a very strange barbie collector silver label mad hatter doll ~

is it a him? or a her? i'm not sure ~

but i've carefully slipped him/her out of her plastic shell for the occasion ~

comes with tea set ~

snazzy outfit & tophat with roses ~

& let me take this opportunity to wish you a very merry unbirthday! ~

a mattel keepsake doll from 2007 ~

bren

Posted at 09:39 AM in barbie, dolls, fantasy | Permalink | Comments (0)

07/19/2019

flashback friday favorite ~ talking pj

for flashback friday, an old post from 2014.. another lost & found toy today ~

this is a vintage 1969 talking pj doll ~

she was introduced as barbie's 'new best friend' around the same time that midge faded away ~

toxic had this doll but left her out in the backyard in summer, which fried her talking mechanism ~

she has a pulltab in back that you pull to make her talk ~

she said things like:

'wow, you're the grooviest!'
'help me get ready for my date'
'college parties are superfun!'
'let's invite the gang over'
'let's have a party with barbie & ken!'