Getting Organized: Doll Clothes

We have an embarrassing amount of doll clothes around here.

We have American Girl Doll-sized and Baby Doll outfits

from various places, including several 

beautifully handmade outfits 

sewn by my very talented Grandmother. 

But they were out of control,

tangled and jumbled in heaps in two bins in the 

bottom of cabinets in both of my daughter's rooms. 

It isn't much fun to play when you can't find 

what you have (and you don't know what you have)

(Kind of like getting dressed in the morning

with a closet full of wrong season/wrong size/wrong style clothes...

Not that I would know anything about that!)

So, part of our "Housewide-January-Get-er-Organized Project"

involved tackling the doll clothes situation. 

Step one:

Lay out all of the various outfits, accessories, and components

on your daughter's bed then take a photo to publicly shame yourself 

and realize you should never buy your daughter another doll outfit ever again. 

Step Two:

Gather up some Colored Scrapbook Paper (from a discount/sale pack)

trimmed down on my handy-dandy paper cutter to fit inside

1 Gallon Zip Lock Bags.

Step Three:

Enlist your daughter to help you

insert outfits (with accessories like shoes, barettes, purses)

in each bag. 

Two outfits per bag/one for each side of the colored paper divider.

Step Four:

Stack the Outfits (upright) in a storage bin

you already have lying around your house! 

Like a filing cabinet for Doll Clothes.

(If you're like me, you have lots of various

baskets and bins stashed in closets and the garage, 

purchased with wonderful intentions

of finally getting organized!)

Step Five:

Create Designated areas for 

Dolls, Accesories, and the Gigantic Doll Wheel Chair 

in a cabinet

with a shelf for the clothing baskets. 

 Enjoy the satisfaction of an organization job well done

with your daughter!

Ahh.... that's better.

Now, wait till you see what we did with our Barbie Doll clothes!

Fondly,

pink and green mama,