Keypers - Swan - Princess

My mom was so awesome and found the adult Swan from the Keypers toyline at a local fleamarket for only 50 cent last month (or was it two months ago?) :)

It's missing the finder, the key, the brush and the little crown but I won't complain considering the price and the age.

 This is the adult swan from the second series. The colours are the same, but it has more hair. :)

Keypers - Ladybird Baby Series 2 - Taps

I love the keypers designs and colors especially the small ones. I should step back at buying stuff but I just couldn't resist bidding on this little ladybird on ebay. It's really in a perfect condition :)

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Flea market haul #17

I forgot to post about my finds from Friday...well, I didn't really forgot, I just wasn't in the mood for postin :P

A Keypers horse, that has seen better days, but for 1€ noone would be able to leave it behind :P It's an original by Tonka, but a color and pose variant. Then a cool looking Spiderman figure for 50cent. A little playset with cute little baby figures and Barbie shoes for 1,50€ and last two smaller Nô-Masks for 5€ The Tengu one is carved out of wood and has a signature. Sadly I couldn't find anything out about it.

Sadly I left behind two My Scene Barbies with beautiful outfits. The lady asked 4€ for each of them. Normaly I don't pay more than 2€ for a Barbie...but now I regret a bit not having pocked up one of them.

Keypers snail 'Fancy' cleaned up!

Yesterday I cleaned the Keypers snail I found at the flea market and I thought it would be nice to show some before and after photos.

Before : You can see how dirty she was. The hair was also very tangled, but it still felt nice and wasn't all that frizzy.





After some cleaning she looks so much better and has nice hair again :)






For cleaning I used a normal washing cloth and water. A bit soap makes the cleaning a bit easier. Just don't use any colored soap. You can also use an old toothbrush to scrub the most dirty parts. Just be carefull not to scrub off any paint. If there are little dots of dirt or paint that does not belong there you might carefully scratch it off with something sharp.
But simply with water and a cloth is often enough :)

Haircare : I washed them with shampoo to get rid of the dirt and smell. Try not to get the hair wet right at the head because the water will soak inside the plastic body. Then I put some conditioner on. Of course it won't repair the syntetic hair or of the toy, but it makes the hair much easier to brush. Carefully comb the hair beginning at the tips. You might wash the conditoner out a bit if you used too much. As a last step I put hot water on the hair. Not boiling water (that will maybe just melt them off and make them frizzy), hot water. I just boiled some water, put it in a cup and let it cool off for one or two minutes. Now use a towel and let the hair air dry in any position you want it.

On the last pic you can see the discoloration of the snail house. Sadly there is nothing you can do about it. Plastic will get this yellow tint if it gets old and was put into sunlight for long (most super nintendo consoles look like this, too).

Well...as you can see you can still make a lot to make an old toy look nice again. You don't need any special products, is easy to do and doesn't take much time :)

Flea market haul #3

Somehow my health isn't the best, especially the last week. I still didn't want the flea market today. Now I very tired but found a few nice random things!



This is all I got...everything together was 4,50€. So not too bad I think. My Mom who went with me also got a few nice books for my dad.

- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I have my Harry Potter book in really random editions. Some in German some in English. This one I only have in German, so now I finally have the original version. I also really like this edition with the pictures. At first I did not want to buy it because it isn't in the best condition and was a bit overprized for a book on the flea market. Well...my mom made me get it anyway and we got it a bit cheaper because she was buying some other books, too.

- The picture and the rabbit where from the same person, a nice old lady who sold everything for 1 €. The picture is just a print, not even a good one, but I dunno...I just liked it. And the postman rabbit is so damn kitschy...but you know...it's easter and stuff. ^^;

- Keypers snail!!! The best find today. It was from one of those seller who have boxes and boxes of random stuff that most people would just throw away. I'm so glad my mom saw it in one of the boxes. It was only 50cent. Yay~ I actually already have the same from my childhood, but has discoloring and there was something broken and my dad fixed it very crudely ^^;
This one from the flea market is sadly discolored, too. The hair is tangled and the body dirty but it can be fixed. For that prize it's absolutely okay

- The figurine...actually a pity buy ^^; I doubt it's worth anything, but I like its look and for 50cent *shrugs*