As you know we are grand fans of vintage Fisher Price toys here are the Modern Kiddo HQ. Which is why I’m super duper thrilled to bring you this wonderful giveaway from Oak-Town artist extraordinaire Meredith Steele whohas kindly offered up one of her vintage Fisher Price Little People portraits that would add a delightful snap to any nursery or er–your own bedroom/office/bathroom/you name it place cuz it is that darn-tootin’ awesome!
Meredith’s mother saved all of the Fisher Price Little People toys that Meredith played with as a little girl which are now being put through the pretend play paces by her own little four-year old daughter, Amelia. It  reminded Meredith how adorable the toys are–and you know how those artists are–they’ll find inspiration in the darnest places.
Meredith’s favorite figure is the little blonde princess toy because it reminds her of her daughter. It is so button cute!
My favorite is the girl with the glasses! I also love the bully–I remember him as the carnie from the vintage Ferris Wheel!
She does all sorts of lovely stuff beyond Fisher Price–putting to good use her a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA from Winthrop University. She exhibited her work throughout the Carolinas before relocating to the Bay Area in 2009. Meredith’s work is primarily figurative and she utilizes a bold palette, descriptive brushwork, and the incorporation of recycled materials. Which is perfect for Cookie Monster portraits too…
And Meredith will begin a post teaching Art at Bentley School this fall. When she’s not working on her own paintings, she is often crafting princess castles and unicorn costumes with Miss Amelia, which is an excellent use of her time. More of Meredith’s work can be seen on her website, www.meredithsteele.com., which I highly recommend stopping by to check out when you have a chance.
And Meredith is parting with this jaunty gem–the vintage Fisher Price doggie–for our giveaway. Three cheers for Meredith!!!
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Good luck you all for this particularly yummy giveaway!
I love vintage Fisher Price … I have used them for lots of blogs. We were lucky to have a lot when we were young … my favourite …
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Adorable painting! When my three sisters and I played Little People (we called them Boys), we’d put all the people, furniture and buildings in a pile and take turns picking items for our houses. As usual, getting ready to play was more fun than the actual playing.
I just have to say that when Ingrid sees the bully kid she always says “this little boy is frustrated!” It totally cracks me up every time!!
I still have my brother’s original Fisher Price musical motion t.v. from 1964…it belongs to my little one now, so that is my favorite! These are great and would look perfect in my little ones vintage inspired bedroom!
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What a super giveaway. I have the collected alot of the fisherprice toys from my childhood. My little fisherprice house is my absolute favorite! I thought I would share a couple pics.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allmystitchesandbows/3665425259/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allmystitchesandbows/3666228814/in/photostream/
well there’s soo many toys from Fisher Price but the one that come to my mind right now is the Corn Popper
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my favorite childhood FP memory was building zoos and farms with the fences and animals in the barn playset with my sister. they were very elaborate and took up entire tables at a time! now my kiddos have my old barn to play with and my 4 year old does the same thing!
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I didn’t have any fisher price toys that I can remember, but I am loving seeing my boys play with my husband’s from when he was little! I think the retro camper set is my fave 🙂
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Wow! Love it. I remember playing King and Queen with all my fisher price people (as my loyal subjects, of course). What a great giveaway!
oh how I love her artwork!!!! My favorite toy was the fisher price little people house that was probably circa 1978. This summer we were up at my parents summer house and I found it! It had all of the pieces too! My kids had so much fun playing with it!
My favorite Fisher Price toy was our castle, even more so than the Sesame Street set, and trust me, I loved me some Sesame Street (the dump truck and the little brown table with the food decals, Gordon’s bald head and the green mailbox!).
But nothing beat the castle. Two thrones, a parapet, and wonder of wonders, a SECRET PASSAGEWAY. What little kid doesn’t love a good secret passage? Baby Jesus disappeared from our nativity one year and was found sleeping peacefully in his manger in the secret passage. I don’t specifically remember putting him in there, so I think I may have been framed.
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I always loved to play school with our FP playground set, bus, and desks. good times.
my favourite bath toys were these guys. my gramma had a secret stash she’d bring out just for bath time…these are so cute!
i still wish i kept my Roly poly dream ball……………..
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I love the school house with the magnetic letters and playground equipment and the Red Barn with all the farm animals. Oh, how I wish I had those today for my grandson. I did, however, keep the pull along telephone with the rotary dial and the googily eyes. Too cute!
I had the Fisher Price McDonalds and if memory serves me there was drive through window!
I LOVE these paintings! Little People have been the subject for many of my Christmas cards. My favorite is the Little People Sesame Street House.
i am dying about ingrid liddle saying that boy is frustrated!
my bro and i would also put things in a pile and choose. we would choose sets first and then the guys i think.
my new fave fisher price memories are watching my boys play with all of the stuff and having as much fun with them as i did! the old sets are the best!!!
these paintings are killer! i have been a fan for a while now and i believe truman needs a set of 4 for his room!! will be ordering even if i don’t win!
roosevelt franklin is my fave!!!
So cute! My brother had the airplane and I remember how the door would always fall open. My favorite was the barn because I loved how you could move the animals legs!
Oh, I love Little People so much! I had the playground set and the my cousins had the airplane. These paintings are fantastic.
Love them! I’m always buying for the Grands, it’s so much fun to see them play with them.
I adore little people… one of my good friends actually hunted down the school bus for me as a gag gift for a recent birthday. The sight of it on my grown-up bookshelf never fails to make me smile. 🙂
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I love the Little people, to this day, you can find these people, you can purchase them on
Ebay, they are so nice that parents, or any loved ones can get them for the air special
Children to play with, or they may go to adult lovers to sketch, put on shelf or make stories with
The little people. I am a grown lady, and I still love them. I bought 2 from ebay recently.
I still have a ton of little people stuff. The school, sesame Street apartment the A frame. My 2 year old loves them all.