lost & found vintage toys

american girls ~ mini illumarooms

 

the american girls line made minis back in the early 2000s, including these fun illumarooms ~

lil's diner lunchcounter ~

this girl's bedroom set has a kitty with her own little house too of course ~

by 2003 they were discontinued due to product breakage & electrical lighting issues ~

i love the cool retro lil's diner set with lunch counter & accessories ~

& all the mini items that make this set look so realistic, like the tiny shakemaker ~

this reminds me of rainy afternoons spent having a grilled cheese & milkshake at toxic's old local woolworth's lunch counter ~

the light bars stick by magnet & plug into tiny outlets ~

the windows also stick by magnet & have changeable scenes you insert ~

originally these set boxes were made of wood like mine are ~

mattel took over from the pleasant company years ago ~

i still have many of the fun magnet/signs from lil's diner on my fridge ~

here's the bedroom box set before you arrange it with lights & furniture ~

see the tiny outlets ~

the wall pieces are reversible depending on which pattern you like & a dustcover sticks over the front also by magnet to protect the scene inside ~

i wish i'd gotten the horse stable set before these were discontinued, but there were only so many xmas's they were available ~

original brochures ~

for my own minis & houses just look down left in the sidebar for links ~

bren

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happy valentine's day!

we're having a very snowy valentine's day here in portland :) ~

& i'm baking mr dad a marionberry pie since that's the kind of valentine he likes best ;) ~

for this special day a special post ~

i'm sharing this my ghostgallery coloring book ~

some of my favorites from my own art gallery in coloring book page form ~

annie sparkleheart, the toyroom mouse & the autumn butterfly ~

the closet skeleton, freakshow dollies & many more ~

just click the images for the larger size ~

& indulge your inner kid while you're snowed inside ~

& be sure to visit the ghostgallery quarantine area here ~

to see all the rowsofneveropeneddoors complete with music/sound ~

hiding places ~

kaleidoscopes ~

lost toys ~

paintings, dollscapes, mini houses, installations & photo albums ~

the ghostgallery at gumbyland is now 20 years old ~

will you discover what is hidden in the rowsofneveropeneddoors? ~

lost transmissions ~

nightmare ~

doll life ~

click the links in this post for much more like this ~

ghostgallery coloring book ~

have a good one! ~

love, bren & toxic

flashback friday favorite ~ turn again

this book is both fun & kinda terrifying ~

a replica of the antique original ~

turn the wheel to change the pictures ~

turn again! ~

:D ~

:O ~

lol ~

:p ~

& there's a bunch more ~

uh-oh ~

transformation pictures to scare the children ~

these kinda disturb me ~

ok, that's enough ~

more antique books to come ~

this has been a flashback friday favorite post from november of 2018..

bren

flashback friday favorite ~ gilbert microscope

it's science days here at the lost & found ~

this is toxic's own vintage gilbert microscope from the early 70s ~

it's missing the corded light & accessories that came along with it ~

slides & protozoa, old spider legs, bug parts, butterfly wings & whatnot toxic collected to look at ~

& it's kinda dirty from being out in the field ~

but it was protected all these years in its metal case ~

her dad engraved her name into it & everything ~

in fact the only sticker that survived is her dad's auto shop one.. lol ~

toxic put stickers on everything (still does) ~

it has 3 different magnification strengths ~

gumby had a gilbert microscope in case in his adventures too ~

this has been a flashback friday favorite post from 2017..

bren