Rainbow Brite and others

June 16, 2010

I was never a huge Rainbow Brite fan but now that i look at her she is pretty darn cute. Toy makers have figured out that we will buy stuff for our kids from our childhood.  Man oh man!  I wished I saved all those darn smurfs!  Those suckers are pretty expensive at Target right now!  Here are some patterns I found at the thrift store the other day.  You rainbow brite fans would know who Twink is but I don't remember him at all.  Pretty cool though!   These are listed in my Gingercake shop.

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