Charmkins!

FYI, there’s just a few hours left on this Charmkins lot we’ve listed on eBay.

For posterity, and future identification, here’s what’s all included:

The 1980’s sensation, Hasbro’s Charmkins – the “scented jewelry playmates”.

This lot includes the plastic Charmkins Jewelry Carrying Case and the following charms / dolls and accessory items:

Dragonweed Mail Order Charmkin
Brown-Eyed Susan (the first one) & her Ribbon Choker
Flower Godmother ChrysantheMum
Blossom Petal Pusher
Half-An-Inchworm (no ID tag, but wears the pink keychain from Petal Pusher)
Sweet Bea and Honey Bee Train
Petal Pink Puppy & Ring Morning Glory & her Bowtie Barrette
Lily Belle
2 Lady Slippers
My Pixie Pony (who looks too much like Hasbro’s My Little Pony to be accidental)

plus a pink picnic table (likely from the Whippoorwill Flower Mill playset) and a pink chord/necklace

Eat Your Strawberry Shortcake & Keep It Too

There are a lot of Wilton Strawberry Shortcake cake pans or molds on eBay, many are even authentic retro items. But we’re the only one with the Strawberry Shortcake Cake Decorating Kit by Wilton.

Included in the box is the heavy aluminum foil Strawberry Shortcake pan and the complete instructions for baking and decorating, which has three variations for decorating: Strawberry Shortcake with a letter, with a greeting card (likely for Valentine’s Day), and with a gift.

Box measures roughly 15 x 12 inches; foil pan is about 14 inches tall (outside edges). Copyright date is 1982, American Greeting Corp.

Dress-Up Dolls Fit To Be Knit

Photographs of vintage fashion dolls wearing homemade knit fashions scanned from Virginia Lakin’s Petite Bazaar Knitting Book Three (1963).

If you live in the US or Canada and love it, you can buy this vintage booklet from me; or you can check eBay.

SOLD

PS Keep an eye on Craft Scan Fridays for one or two of the patterns to be posted.

I’m Pretty Sure This Heralded The End Of American Fitness & Coordination

With the FlipIt, kids just threw stuff down on the ground, ending games of catch.

Ad found inside The New Krofft Supershow comic #2 (1978).

The New Krofft Supershow Comic #2

Fan of The New Krofft Supershow? Here’s the Whitman comic, #2. Front cover with photos is copyrighted 1977; but the title page is dated May 1978.

Inside, the comic stories feature Magic Mongo, Kaptain Kool & The Kongs, Bigfoot & Wildboy, and Wonderbug. Tons of retro ads.

If you live in the US or Canada, you can buy it from me for $9.99 (plus shipping) — or take your chances at eBay