lost & found vintage toys

fall library sale

besides being halloween comicfest, saturday was the friends of the library book sale downtown ~

i was in line bright & early to check out the vintage kids' books like these readers & little golden books ~

alice pop-up books & more beatrix potter ~

favorites i found include this golden book of human biology & kids' version of the ha rey book i posted here before ~

more art for children & raggedy ann ~

oz & mr rogers ~

of note: this lost & now found book is the very book toxic's mom used to explain the facts of life to her back in the day :D ~

costumes, Stickers & dover coloring books ~

favorite vintage stories & illustrators like arnold lobel ~

wonderful, fun & sometimes terrifying victorian reproductions ~

mad & madlibs, & of course pride & prejudice & kitties :) ~

this is my xmas! my toxic library is burgeoning.. i'll be sharing these & more through the winter, but for now just click on the categories in the sidebar for much more ~

thanks for the help, mr dad ~

bren

vintage kid stuff to watch

it's our birthday today & toxic is taking over the blog for the day! ~

toxic is the nickname i've used forever for my own inner child, she's here & wants to share all her favorite vintage kid dvds to binge watch in the ac this weekend, flashback friday style ~

obviously we've already posted about some of these rather extensively, so let's just get down to the obvious right off:

gumby
davey & goliath
wizard of oz

click the links to visit entire categories devoted to these toxic favorites ~

i've also posted the original addams family & the munsters tv shows here before ~

classic toxic favorites ~

toxic still loves the little rascals & our gang comedies ~

we found this mega pack collector's edition bootleg that has a bunch of the originals ~

another favorite was the 70s tv show family ~

toxic liked kristy mcnichol's character, buddy ~

she also liked the pippi longstocking book & movies ~

because, let's face it, she is weird & badass ~

long before the peter jackson films our son loves were these animated versions that toxic watched on tv over & over & over every year ~

tolkien is another author i've devoted an entire category to here at the lost & found ~

another favorite book & animated film, watership down ~

toxic always liked to watch the family film festival on channel 5 down in socal every weekend ~

it was hosted by tom hatten, who would often show comedy favorites like the road movies with bob hope & bing crosby, with little rascals shorts before or after ~

he showed the best movies like the time machine or fantastic voyage, & he'd tell all kinds of information like hosts do on TCM, plus often show popeye cartoons ~

i'm sure that's where toxic would've seen the original willy wonka movie with gene wilder ~

a special favorite is the 1969 film called my side of the mountain ~

toxic was always scheming to run away from home & live up in the snow ~

she felt like an orphan with parents ~

speaking of orphans, the artful dodger from oliver is our favorite ~

jack wilde, who starred in the cool psychedelic old sid & marty krofft show, hr pufnstuf ~

such 60s fun ~

i always say, witchiepoo was my earliest fashion influence ~

this dvd set of the complete series includes the best coloring book & the music from the show ~

some examples from the book ~

toxic would've loved to have had these in her day when she could've played them on their family hammond organ with her other favorite songs ~

how lucky i am ~

the theme song for the show, someone who cares, which is a ridiculously powerful earworm (caution!) ~

witchiepoo again ~

sid & marty krofft also gave us the bizarre lidsville & land of the lost ~

such melodrama in this show! ~

toxic also wanted to be holly ~

she's also seen every episode of little house on the prairie more times than i can count ~

toxic tv :D click me!

more like this next flashback friday..

bren (& toxic)

little golden books ~ return to oz

a little golden book today ~

a return to oz story ~

dorothy saves the emerald city ~

if you haven't seen the return to oz, i thought it was really interesting ~

with jack pumpkinhead ~

the emerald city of oz ~

billina the talking hen ~

from 1985 ~

click on wizard of oz in the category list in the sidebar anytime for more ~

bren