The Incredible Shrinking Woman.....

I run with scissors, I make quite a mess with paints and I still love to play with toys.

there.

I feel better now.

...not just any toys, but ones that remind me of my childhood, growing up in the 70's...I love to go to the antiques shops and see the

little Dawn dolls, Chrissy dolls
(you know the one, where you grabbed her ponytial
& yanked it out of her head, only to push in her belly-button
and have the hair spring back in!)

Sea-Monkeys and Magic Sand...
...corny, carnival-like toys that rivaled my juvenile imagination!

I had a knack for displaying my toys and craft projects in my room
...where my Light-Bright flashed an incessant "OPEN !!" sign,
even then knowing one day I would have my own shop!

but by far, my favorite thing to 'play' with were my

SHRINKY DINKS !!!!

(that incredible melting plastic anomoly that we watched wriggle & squirm in our ovens!)

I would draw pictures of daisies & hearts
(my fav's back then)

and would color them in with my crayons...
they would take on a magical quality once they were shrunk...
so much tiny detail!!

I would glue magnets on the backs and sell them at school...
thus beginning my entrepreneurship at an early age.

So, once again, I've been regressing...
to a place that now uses Prisma Arteest Pencils
and Sterling Silver Jump Rings to create
teeny-tiny-little-masterpieces of one-of-a-kind wearable ART!

The charms pictured above, started out at approx. 4" x 3"
after baking, the end up an incredible 3/4" x 1" !!!!

(I'll be listing these and a couple more in my Etsy shop tomorrow!)

What toys were your favorite when you were a child?