lost & found vintage toys

2 stories about chap & chirpy ~ today's vintage whitman tellatale book ~ that cat ~ toxic remembers having this sweet little book of chipmunk stories ~ lost & found again :) ~ from 1965, a good year for vintage :) ~ a feisty kitty gives them trouble ~ but...

this is a flashback friday favorite post from xmas of 2015.. time for me to share my lost & found xmas gift ~ back in july of 1977 on toxic's 12th birthday we got to pick our own birthday gift & it was this original jungle doodle art & pen...

a selection from the cd rack today ~ there's the one i was looking for ~ beat poet allen ginsberg's holy soul jelly roll poems & songs ~ including my favorite ~ back in the early 80s when everyone was making & trading mixtapes, toxic was creating her own versions...

let's peek into the ghost closet today ~ there's my sadly neglected guitar hiding back amongst my skeletons ~ i've owned a few guitars in my lifetime, acoustic & electric ~ now might be a good time to pull out my guitar books & practice ~ this old platinum '78...

toxic remembers there were always some of these best in children's books series around her house growing up ~ here's a vintage 1960 issue ~ a cat story 'the lovely time' ~ as we are staying inside these days waiting out the covid19 pandemic i've been watching old home movies...

looking for a fun retro recipe to make for the 4th of july? please enjoy this flashback friday favorite post from summer 2012, my second post here: remember jello 1 2 3? it had a short run & was mysteriously taken off the shelves in the late 60's. i think...

so today is the lost & found toy blog's 8th birthday! ~ in the spirit of things lost & found i'm sharing this kitty toxic drew when she was 6 ~ sent to me by my younger brother who is going through old things at our old family home after...

so i'm having a gumby day today thanks to one of my gumby friends! ~ not long ago i sold one of my gumbyland items, (i usually don't do this but in this very special case i made an exception..) it was this skateboarder gumby keychain. my gumby friend, sally,...

this is the fisher price house that toxic had in the late 60's ~ it still had a wooden base, ringing doorbell & wooden little people ~ toxic spent a lot of hours playing in this little yellow house ~ & baking stuff in this kitchen ~ fp toys copyright...

for flashback friday i thought i'd post about one of my favorite lost childhood toys ~ vintage raggedy ann ~ dolls, books or tin toys ~ raggedy ann & her brother andy have always been at home in my toyroom ~ my favorites are the johnny gruelle illustrated versions ~...

i'm someone with a very active inner child ~ once upon a time i nicknamed her toxic after reading several books by john bradshaw (i'm a psychology junkie) ~ ok, so she is mute & kinda feral, but she's mine & i wouldn't have it any other way ~ our...

i'm still thinking about my mom ~ she loved cats just like i do ~ here's a whitman giant tell-a-tale book that toxic had ~ from 1965 by ellen fisher (a good year for vintage ;) ~ with cool stitchery by virginia tiffany ~ lost & found again ~ toxic...

see this old family photo from the early 70s? this is the way i remember my family, my mom & dad & brother & older sisters, i'm the quirky one down there on the left ;) ~ i'm departing from the toy & book routine for today because yesterday i...

this flashback friday favorite post is from valentine's day week 2013 & we're remembering our sweet little miss pickles.. yesterday we lost our sweet little miss pickles. she was 11 years old & died of a rare disorder. we are all broken hearted here at our house.. this week leading...

i was excited to see this vintage ad when it came up on ebay because it shows a lost playset of toxic's that i've been looking for forever ~ one xmas around 1971-1973 toxic got the smokey the bear camping playset shown in the ad & she thoroughly used it...

long post ~ toys that remain Lost today ~ this was toxic's favorite lunchbox ~ tin aladin early 70's era dr seuss ~ with the grinch, horton the elephant, the sneeches & the cat in the hat ~ i see it on ebay here & there but it's pretty pricey...

a flashback friday favorite post today from an old christmas, this time a sweet little vintage xmas assortment of gift trims just in time for last minute xmas eve presents ~ this gift label assortment by kaycrest originally cost only 10 cents ~ for 50 seals, cards & tags just...

leading up to xmas i wanted to devote a few posts to my favorite xmas toys (this is toxic with baby brother way back in 1970..) ~ for xmas 1969 santa came through with this awesome vintage plastic mod rod kiddie pedal car for toxic ~ i loved my modrod...

classic oldschool tv from the 70's ~ back in elementary school toxic used to like when the teacher would roll in the tv on it's metal cart & turn off the lights so we could watch electric company or other public television shows like self incorporated & inside/out ~ dvds...

welcome to upsy downsy land! ~ this book features characters made by mattel toys in the 60's.. childhood in 1969, it was a beautiful fuzzy world ~ toxic had this very psychedelic book ~ in fact for some reason she & her friends used to write all the bad words...