lost & found vintage toys

lost & found birthday!

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 losing our folks over this last year :( ~

lost & found, it now hangs in our toyroom :) ~

those red eyes!!  & an early blep!!!~

now i don't even remember that kitty! but when i turned it over & saw this geometric colored star on the back i knew it was by toxic, she drew stars like this.. & my son made an  interesting observation, it's almost like an early version of my 'dreamcatcher' style signature i use on all my artwork :D ~

if i could go back in time i'd tell toxic one day we'd have our own toyroom & gumbyland & sleep at night with all our kitties, she'd think she died & went to heaven ~

click to visit our toxic was here album (sound up) ~

& you can check out the ghost toy catalogue here (sound up) ~

bren & toxic ;)

flashback friday favorite ~ fisher price movie camera

one of my favorite vintage fisher price musical toys is this movie camera ~

inside it stores discs, each with 8 different scenes ~

when you insert a disc, look through the viewer & hold the button it plays this old man as it advances through the pictures ~

musical movement made in switzerland.. toxic always used to extricate these tiny musical mechanisms from her toys to see how they worked, but fortunately this one is viewable through clear plastic ~

we take tons of home movies & photos in our family ~

the discs include goldilocks & the 3 bears, animals & their babies, a visit to the city & learning about color & counting ~

this mama kitty & her kittens look much better through the camera ~

i've found it helps to point the camera toward a light too ~

there's also a little color viewer to change the seasons ~

you turn the knob to wind it up just like regular fisher price music boxes ~

from 1968.. for more vintage fisher price music boxes just click on fisher price in the categories, there are also a bunch more of these to come ~

this has been a flashback friday favorite post from summer 2013 :)

ghost & toxic

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here's another homemade card for mr dad ~

from way back in the day ~

for this one dan & i used stickers from some old dukes of hazzard book?? ~

it's ridiculous ~

sorta like 'the giant claw' ~

but big birdier ~

i'm kinda cheering for the bird here ;) ~

oh dear. ~

this must be pre 90s? ~

 

you won't find that old show on anymore (no great loss) ~

poor mr dad, we subjected him to so much weirdness over the years ~

bren