How do you store your doll's clothes and shoes?

animemom -- A ROOM JUST FOR DOLLS... *cue heavenly choir*

That's incredible and beautiful! Love it!

I forgot to add one little thing I do that has just been such a boon. We have over the years accumulated a LOT of spare eyes, some nice, some junk, but all needing storage. I found a compartment bin for beads that works SO well. ... (except that I need another one, really)...

 

I also have son's old room for sewing and crafts, but also guest room so has be kept neat.

 

There's really no order to the way my girlfriend and I store our doll clothes and wigs. Most of our wigs are claimed by one doll or another, so storing the wigs isn't too big of a deal, and those we do need to store are generally fur, short, or we just braid to keep from tangling.

As far as clothing... We once tried separating the clothes into who had what, but as we tend to put whomever in whatever, that system failed. Now it's generally a pile of "are we keeping this?" and "never letting it go."

 

I use ziploc baggies for wigs, and I put all the eyes in a small box in small separate baggies.

 

I divide them by gender and size, and then put the tops and bottoms for each of those catagories into larger-sized zip bags... So, for instance, I have a bag for "SD Girl Bottoms" and another for "MiniFee Boy Tops" and so on. It makes finding any given item a whole lot easier than just tossing everything into a bin.

 

I keep the wigs in a hairnet and seperate bag like everyone eyes, and have a little plastic box for spare eyes. I keep those bits and all the extra clothes and shoes tucked away in a nice wooden box.

Once doll #3 gets here with her mass wordrobe (Thank you, Shin-zo!!), I think one of the first thing's I'll be buying is a bigger box, though.

 

well i have found that the best thing for me to do with my girl's wigs is to brush them and then place them in their own plastic baggy, and then i place that in a box. for the clothes i kind of have them all thrown in a plastic box. but i do have a wooden wardrobe my mom made for me when i was little. i think she found it at an art supplies store like michaels. also you could look on the internet for one. i have found though, that it isn't deep enough or tall enough for my girls' clothes.

 

so cool!!!!! i love the photoshoot space too, great photos!

 

It's not perfect, but here's our system:

One big storage box per doll
Inside the box: clothes stored in ziplock bags, sorted in chategories (tees, blouses, skirts, stockings...), larger outifts stored in individual ziplock bags

In smaller storage boxes
Shoes (in their bags/boxes)
Wigs (in their hairnets and bags/boxes)

We could do whith much more space, but it keeps things in reasonable order.

 

I place each complete outfit in separate plastic baggies, or keem them in their Dollheart boxes, and keep them all in a large doll box. I keep my wigs neat by using a paper ball in the headcap & wrapping them in hairnets before putting them in individual plastic baggies, then keeping them all in another large doll box. I keep their shoes lined up by size & color on a bookshelf devoted to shoes & accessories.

If I kept my life as organized as my doll stuff, wow. It would solve so many problems, lol!

 

@Animemom, to have so much space to command for your hobby-- that rocks! We city-dwellers who have 2 rooms & 3 closets to our name, salute you [enviously]!

But we make do in small spaces. We just have to go vertical. A few trips to IKEA, et voila: High-rise condominiums.



It's a one-bedroom apartment with 27 dolls. The bins full of clothes, wigs & eyes have to live with the dolls, AND live with my books, AND my music collection, AND my stereo, AND my other tchotchkes.... But between Ikea and the Container Store, everything has its place. Shown: Bin of Eyeballs, Bin of Accessories, Bin of 60-70cm Shirts. (In the bookcase, the Shelf of Vonnegut is also showing. ^^)

Between just these two pics, the Bins of Everything are showing:
- Bins of Long Wigs #1 & 2; Bin of Short Wigs; Bin of Fur Wigs; Bin of 60-70cm Pants; Bin of Coats; Bin of Fullset Outfits; Bin of Sweaters, Hoodies and Robes; Bin of Accessories; Bin of Legwear and Neckwear; Bin of Many Eyeballs.
- Bin of MSD Wigs; Bin of MSD Clothes; Bin of 70-80cm Clothes; Bin of Tinies' Clothes; Boxes of Shoes and Very Tall Boots #1, 2 & 3; Bin of Random Heads and Hands.

And, just for fun, here's how I keep the dust & sunlight off everybody: Drapes come down over the whole high-rise.

Everybody's got a different "filing system" for their bins.... Since I only have boys, that saves me from having to separate clothes by gender, so that helps! =D

Wigs: kept in their nets & bags. Eyes: kept in their orignal packaging. Jewelry: kept in tiny boxes within bins. "Set" or fullset outfits: maintained together in their individual envelopes/boxes, so the pieces don't get misplaced... But, sometimes, I split the outfits up between the Shirts, Pants, Jackets & Accessories bins, and I have to just remember what pieces go where. Terribly unscientific method! But that's how we roll here. I know where everything is.

 

At first it wasn't a problem for me because I only had two dolls. But that jumped to eleven. All my dolls have on wig each. But there outfits are starting to get out of control. I do have a large bin in my room that I could mostly likely empty out and my doll items could go in there.

Right now I'm looking to a bookcase that's big enought for my dolls to sit on so they are out of the way.

 

I went and bought a briefcase (made for laptops and stuff) from a thrift store, and then sectioned it off for my 27cm bobobie, it has pockets for shirts, skirts, dresses and space for furniture plus the doll (in her own protective pocket) not to mention my camera and extra space for future accessories/furniture.
I use the front pocket for batteries.

 

Oh wow! Looks like it's time for a trip to Ikea to get my stuff sorted... Everything is haphazardly thrown in some tote bags right now.

 

I have a pretty little chest of drawers that used to be a box of chocolates (Lily O'Briens...yummy!). Once I'd pulled the inserts out (and eaten all the chocolates, obviously :p ) it makes perfect dolly-sized furnature for clothes. Shoes and wigs are a bit of a pain...I keep the wigs in their bags and put them all in Sophia's carry bag, since I can't think of anywhere else to put them!

 

JennyNemesis: these pictures continue to amaze me. But what I absolutely love is that you have a Name for each Bin and Box!!!

Too bad they weren't all Bins of Holding; we'd all have more space that way, huh.

 

Hello peeps

I was looking at the messy little shoebox on my floor that holds all of my Chiiko's clothes, and I wondered how all of you store your doll's clothes.

Do you just throw them in a box? Do you fold them/lay them out? Or maybe you have a mini closet with hangers... (cute! )

Since all of Chiiko's clothes are handmade, I don't pay them much attention, but I think that if I bought any clothes they would be better taken care of :S

 

All lumped/folded in one small drawer now w/ all/most of my BJD supplies. (lol said drawer is filling up) I'm thinking of buying a sewing or tackle box as an upgrade- gotta love dividable sections. After that- ha- not sure yet. =3

 

I have one of those 5-drawer stacked plastic storage towers and I keep eyes, shoes, accessories in the top two shallow drawers and use the bottom 3 deep drawers for clothes (Yo-MSD-SD). But the fancier Dollheart dresses that might wrinkle I keep in the big girl's SD size doll box in a closet. There is also a messy pile of clothes that came in the mail that haven't been put away yet

 

I made a pretty shoebox, haha