This blog is about +20 years old (and even older) toys that have managed to escape the bin for decades and made it to the 2020s. Well done, toys! I will begin with presenting some items from my own childhood - from the 1980s and 1990s. We will see if we can go even further... Continue Reading →
Do you know what Steiner dolls are? Or maybe you are accustomed to call them Waldorf dolls? I used to have these wooly, homemade-looking toys when I was a child. My family called them Steiner dolls back in the days - as far as I know, this is the most common way to call them... Continue Reading →
This Teeny Weeny Families teapot was given to me by Santa Claus at Christmas 1996. It has even deserved a mention in my diary. I remember that at that particular time, I still liked toys but I was getting a bit too old to actually play with them. So, I didn’t quite know what to... Continue Reading →
Domestic and wild animals are a popular theme among children's toys today, and they definitely were so during the past decades, too. I still have quite a lot of small plastic animal toys in my home that date to the 1980s and 1990s. I can even remember how my family was choosing and buying some... Continue Reading →
When I look back to my childhood and try to remember the toys that I played with before school age, one of the toys that comes to mind instantly is Polly Pocket. To my readers outside Finland, by saying before my school age, I mean before the age of seven. That will place us to... Continue Reading →
These tiny dolls and their brightly coloured houses found their way to Finland in the last years of the 1980s or in the very beginning of the 1990s. They are called So Small Babies. My memories about their arrival are vague, as I was quite small myself back then. Apparently, these toys were not in... Continue Reading →
Old Toy Cabinet 