Redwood Retro

A collection of Vintage Toy ads Toy ads and retro catalogues are great resources for eBay /Amazon resellers and collectors to help identify years and original sets. I sometimes use them as a "checklist",  like the Sesame Street playset below to try to put together complete sets.  1972 Click here for more Fisher-Price ads Click here for more LEGO ads

We're very sad to hear that Jens Nygaard Knudsen, the creator of the LEGO Minifigure, has passed away. Thank you Jens, for your ideas, imagination, and inspiring generations of builders ❤️ pic.twitter.com/7YixYvHtRW — LEGO (@LEGO_Group) February 24, 2020 Link to the full story  

I want to share this awesome Junk Journal my mother is currently working on for a gift. The cover is a stretchy fabric and the embellishments are made from premade foam stickers ( the wee sea life creatures are made from polymer clay using a mold) The mermaid on this page is a rubber stamp. These pages are made from National Geographic type books and magazines

Newspaper advertisements from the 1920s These are mostly from Canadian newspapers

I love old maps and use them in so many different types of craft projects including junk journaling. I found these ones in an antique book and they are too nice not to share.  Perfect for a travel-themed junk journal or scrapbook. You could also print them for colouring sheets. Right click to save each photo. Click here for more FREE printables War Maps These maps are from old newspapers. Some of them didn't scan very well as they are fading but I think they would make good backgrounds. I've printed them and have used them as greeting card backgrounds for friends who are military buffs. Photos These maps are from 35mm slide photos