lost & found vintage toys

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...

a classic vintage children's book today ~ where the wild things are ~ from maurice sendak ~ max the wild thing ~ finds himself in a secret world ~ where the wild things are ~ this is a toxic favorite ~ see that one wild thing lurking in the back?...

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...

a vintage book of brain games ~ from 1979 by will shortz ~ this book belonged to toxic as a teenager ~ keeping sharp ~ :D ~ nerd. ~ bren

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...

a flashback friday favorite post from october 2013.. this is all i have left of my ideal visible head model from the 80's, it's the picture from the box.. sadly mine broke apart after being used as a hatstand for many years & i regrettably sold it at one of...

a flashback friday favorite book post today from the first days here at the lost & found.. from the 1968 bowmar early childhood series, written by marion w. crume, photos by harvey mandlin ~ toxic checked this book out from her elementary school library when she was little, now we...

a short flashback friday post today from one of the first days here at the lost & found, since we are dealing with possible end of life care for the last of our beloved kitty family.. everyone knows snug is my special kitty, my cheshire cat, my unofficial therapy cat...