Organizing Dress Up

Today is Thursday, BEDROOM DAY on my chore chart. So I got up this morning and headed into Grace's room to get to cleaning--next thing you know it is major organizing time, with a couple DIY projects thrown in. She has a toy box in her room that was crammed FULL of dress up stuff. So full in fact that it was impossible to use.

Here is the picture after I pulled most of the stuff out of the dress up box (I love that Jake is feeding his baby puppy a bottle and borrowing G's flipflops).

It has to get worse before it gets better. Right?



So out to the garage and down to the basement I went to see what I could dig up to help get this mess under control.

First up I found this coat hanger, given to me by my friend Buffy.


Perfect for purses.



Next up the dresses. Last summer I picked up a huge box of dress up stuff at a yard sale for $5, so the first thing I did was edit. A lot of the dresses were for WAY bigger kids. Then I made a dress hanger.





I hung it low enough for her to get them off, and hopefully put them back on.



I know it seems like it is in the corner, but this room is SMALL, 9' 5" x 9' 5" so I have to make the most of it. You can see the purse hanger is right by the door stopper and the dresses are in the corner, but at least now she can see what she has.


The toy box is now for hats, wands, and other random accessories. At some point I may paint the inside of the toy box, but not today.

None of the other bedrooms got cleaned, but at least dress up is organized. I can't wait to show you what I came up with to organize her jewelry. I should be done with it tomorrow.

Here is how I made the dress hanger.

I found a piece of scrap MDF in the garage. Cut it to size and then spray painted it white.

Next I spray painted some clothes pins with Krylon Ballet Slipper.



Next, I attached the clothespins to the MDF using Gorilla Glue. It says to clamp when gluing, but I just put a little weight on the clothespins with some glass spice jars (which are about to become something else)


Next I attached to the wall. I didn't have a stud where I wanted to attach it so I put a couple of drywall anchors in then screwed into those.