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Treasures Kept — Vintage Toys, Nostalgia & Keepsakes

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Closeup of a collection of colorful marbles of varying sizes set on top of empty vintage clear bottles.
Closeup of a collection of 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.
Photo 1: Vintage game die featuring a blue pointing figure surrounded by small nostalgic plastic toys, including an orange jointed figure and colorful game pieces arranged on a dark surface. Photo 2: Vintage articulated skeleton toy standing on a black "Da de da." display base, surrounded by small novelty figures and collected curiosities arranged on a dark tabletop.
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.

Colorful vintage cassette tapes arranged on a dark red background, including an aqua tape hand-painted with Pac-Man, ghosts, dots and cherries, and an ivory tape with a hand-drawn rotary telephone and curly cord.
Left image close-up of a vintage VHS tape with a worn “Be Kind Please Rewind” label and old video store sticker. Right image vintage Fruit Hoops scratch-and-sniff sticker styled on lined notebook paper with a yellow pencil, pink eraser, and red heart doodle.
Vintage pin-back buttons arranged in a colorful flat lay, featuring retro slogans, characters, travel souvenirs and childhood keepsakes, including Sea World, I Love NY, Mickey Mouse, Smurf and Road Runner buttons.
Metal vintage kids lunch boxes lining two antique store shelves. In the front is a school bus Mickey Mouse lunch box and Mork & Mindy lunch box followed by Peanuts and other.
Found in an antique store.

Free Printable Keepsake Cards

A set of four cards to print and keep—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.
Colophon at the end of the Treasures Kept — Vintage Toys, Nostalgia & Keepsakes post of a studio illustration in pink of a coin pouch with a chain that says Icecream Money on it and stamped below it in orange type is C. Studio
Star divider used has two hand drawn lines with a star in the center, used as a content break and signals new or different content below. This doodle style illustration is in a medium charcoal gray.

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