lost & found vintage toys

pins & buttons

heyyy! it's the fonz! remember when this was cool? was it mork from ork with his rainbow suspenders with buttons that started the button craze in the 70's? i know it's what started toxic on her first collection, pins & buttons, & she also wore them on rainbow suspenders ~

toxic herself with a friend in the swimming pool ~

one of the first items i posted here at the lost & found was toxic's first button.. i'll be posting a glut of vintage pins & buttons all through august ~

then there were school spirit buttons, these are from toxic's jr high ~

i was friends with the kid who designed this tumbleweeds themed button for our school, he got permission from the artist, tk ryan.. back when native americans were still mascots & referred to as indians ~

vintage snoopy pin ~

as kids we all lined up & waited for hours to see 'the hulk' at a local mall, thinking it'd be lou ferigno himself.. they said he was giving out signed pictures.. i still remember how disappointed my little brother was to find out it was only a guy in a hulk costume handing out these pins! ~

now this vintage rainbow happy face pin has a different significance ~

vintage peace sign ~

toxic's high school ~

high school camp button ~

possibly toxic's favorite old happy face button, non-conformist happy face ~

vintage little rascals, alfalfa & butch ~

bren

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i've been thinking how much i would love a new radiohead album just about now, so this flashback friday favorite post is all radiohead, from mother's day 2016..

ok, so today the new & possibly last radiohead album is supposed to drop & i can't think of anything that would make me happier for mother's day! so my focus is all radiohead today, as i've been obsessed with them from the very beginning.. i even have a radiohead themed playroom for goodness sake ~

of course i have all the cds & dvds & i used to get all the rares from a little shop in belmont shore called fingerprints back in socal ~

the king of limbs, in rainbows vinyl & the universal sigh ~

stanley donwood's kid a & amnesiac books ~

vhs, ephemera & promo items ~

pins, badges & buttons ~

my test specimens page ~

i've just listened to the new album, a moon shaped pool, & i really love the ending of the video for daydreaming ~

 
by the way, have you been to my art gallery? ~

p.s. happy mom's day to all moms.. here is my card :( :) ~

update: thought i'd use more radiohead up at my latest art album at the ghost gallery here:

(thom yorke is apparently my muse..)

bren

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flashback friday favorite ~ birthday bear

this is a flashback friday favorite post from one of my very first posts here at the lost & found in the summer of 2012, my birthday to be exact, & features one of my most loved toys ~

it's our birthday today, so we chose this little vintage birthday bear. i don't know too much about him, except that he's segmented & seems to be mohair, he's 7 1/2" tall, & his only marking is a felt tag on the back with 'JM 03' on it.

the reason i call him a birthday bear though, is because he has a ribbon around his neck with a tiny vintage pinback button on it..

the button is 3/4" across & has a candle on it, & reads 'in remembrance of your birthday'..

the reverse of the pinback reads ~

David C. Cook Publishing Co.
Elgin New York Boston

assuming the ribbon & button are original to the bear, it seems the maker is someone who made sunday school supplies starting back in the late 1800's & eventually also made games & toys as well..

he is a sweet little guy & one of our favorite toys..

update: have you ever had your birthday forgotten? see this birthday bear featured in one of my dollscapes up at the ghost gallery here called lost toys.. (go oldschool with a pc or laptop & firefox or google chrome browser so the music will play.. phones & tablets steal it away)

ghost & toxic

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