lost & found vintage toys

flashback friday favorite ~ mini houses

you may notice the prevalence of miniature houses in the sidebar & in my toyroom photos, that's because mr dad & i like to create dollhouses together :) ~

this yellow dollhouse was our first ~

found at a yardsale down in socal, it had obviously had a mouse living in it :)
it just needed a refurbishing job ~

i used it in this powerpoint show called gumby's christmas crisis ~

today is mr dad's birthday ~

just last october i posted this post with some of the houses we've done in the past ~

including our halloween house, lilac house, charlotte house & raven's rest ~

here's a vintage dollhouse we found at a grange sale here locally ~

bringing it home in the car i discovered a nice big ladybug living in the attic,
so i released her out the window & decided to call it the ladybug house.. hoping it wouldn't catch fire, 
'cause, you know, the song? ~

we kept the vintage feel of this one but cleaned it up so it can be played with someday by grandkids ~

used here in my autumn butterfly installation ~

morning glories are my favorite flower ~

ladybugs still live here ~

here's the house we're started on now, i refer to it as the mystery house ~

we pick up furniture we find at sales, sometimes they just need a little repair, but it saves cost on these projects ~

this greenleaf kit sits on the shelf for someday, it's slated to be a vampire school for girls :D 
greenleaf minis has a good forum for mini house enthusiasts, i used to post here under the username mad hatter ~

i like miniature houses so i've created many different kinds for my gallery out of all different things ~

blackbird's outpost & floorsleeper/blue house ~

annie's saturday house & the patchwork playhouse ~

some i think of as dollscapes or installations, & some are photography albums like in a ghost house ~

i guess tomorrow's the first day of summer? i'm already thinking about halloween.. 
happy birthday mr dad, loveya!

bren

p.s ~ you can click houses in the category list here anytime or visit the houses i have up at my gallery by clicking on the pix in the sidebar, but just know, only those with firefox or google chrome browsers will hear essential music that plays on these pages, & apple devices also steal away the sound.. :(

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

flashback friday favorite ~ august odd dolls

this is a flashback friday favorite post from august odd-dolls month 2014 ~

this one is another of my favorites ~

it's a vintage automaton-like metal walking doll ~

his legs & body are all made of metal ~

with celluloid head & arms ~

he's key-wound but the key is lost ~

a little more than a foot tall, his side is split open a bit perhaps from being overwound? ~

i believe he is a sonsco mechanical walking doll from the 30's ~

like good vintage robots, he's made in japan ~

bren

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remember teddy ruxpin? ~

today's plush toy is the classic talking bear ~

insert a cartridge in his back & he'll tell you a story or sing you a song ~

this is a 2006 version ~

i remember one of my first ebay sales many years ago was a more elaborate original teddy ruxpin store display model that mr dad brought home from work ~

welcome back to the toyroom ~

bren