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Treasures Kept — Vintage Toys, Nostalgia & Keepsakes

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A collection of nine colorful marbles of varying sizes set on top of empty vintage clear bottles.
A collection of nine colorful marbles of varying sizes set on top of empty vintage clear bottles.

A visual study of treasures kept—small objects from childhood and things held onto along the way.

A few of ours…

Vintage toys arranged in a flatlay on an old slate chalkboard. There is a rubber squeeker hors, a wind up sock monkey jumping rope, a homemade toy rocket ship, car wars game cassette, hotdog magnet, toy cars and more.
typography poster - In my era. In dusty dark pink with blue accent phrases like AVcart. The list: In my era, rectangle pizza, sticker books, banana seats, leg warmers, streetlights, see-saw, shop class, music videos, bubbler, cassette tapes, lunch money, roller rink, pay phone, AV cart, push-up pops, jump rope, photo booth, cone cups, card catalog, chalk dust, metal bands 4-eva

I’d love to know what you remember.

Closeup of a large white dice that has a blue man outline pointing.
Closeup of a Da da da. skeleton toy held up by elastic and colapses when you push button at the bottom of the base.

Keepsake Cards

A small piece you can take with you—download the printable here.

Overhead shot of a que ball in dusty blue on a white cardstock with a smiling sun juice illustration in orange behind it. Next to the cards is a tin with a jack card and green dice, button below. This are free printable keepsake cards with four different illustrations.
Collected — essays and visual studies gathered over time.

– FROM THE STUDIO –

Memories Kept In A Vintage Album + Vintage Tart Tin Organizer + Hanging Mobile DIY

Closing an old album found at an antique store in Pennsylvania USA. It contains travel photos and postcards collected abroad. The cover is brown and it holds six postcards/photos per inside plastic sleeve pages.
Memories Kept In A Vintage Album
Square Feature image of a DIY three tiered organizer made with scrap wood and 12 vintage round and scalloped tart tins. There are four on each tier and they hold beads, small jewelry and bracelets with tags for sale in a vintage antique booth.
Vintage Tart Tin Organizer
Square closeup of three small toys, dinosaur, army man with flag and skateboard used to make a kids room toy mobile.
Hanging Mobile DIY

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