However, I started having two problems with this. The first problem is that the number of Pinkys keeps expanding, and I can't really fit anymore onto the shelves. So they have been expanding to other random areas in my room, but even that is starting to max out. The second problem - which has actually been bothering me more, since the pace of new Pinky releases has been pretty slow - is that a lot of them were starting to have a really annoying backwards 'lean'. All these big headed dolls eventually do a number on their bodies, so Pinkys have a tendency to slooooowly bend the plastic. It's not a problem if you change the combos around a lot, but I haven't been doing that. So I thought if I disassembled them it would be better for avoiding the leaning, and might actually encourage me to make new combos. We'll see!
So here's the storage system I decided to buy:
I got it at JoAnn Fabrics. It's supposed to be about $25, but all those craft stores are always giving you coupons, so I got it for half of that. It's about 10" tall, 11" wide and 7"ish inches deep. I'm not sure where in my room I'm going to stash it yet, but it's not too big so it should be able to go somewhere. I wish it were more attractive (ugly colors) but oh well.
Inside it has 4 trays and a big box up at the top. I bought a 5th tray and put it inside the top part because I didn't have quite enough trays. By themselves, the trays cost like $3. There's a bigger system from this company, but then that's a *really* big ugly thing that will be in my room. >.< I may eventually have to buy a second one, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Here's the way I put it all together:
In the big section I started by putting all of my large (don't fit in the trays) but flat items - I'm putting that extra tray on top of this stuff.
In the top tray, I put odd colors of hair and a few heads with hair. I left the hair on these couple because I tend to have favorite head/hair combos. Most of those I left assembled, but I didn't really like the combos on these (or the combos were leaning too much) so I decided to disassemble them for now.
On top of that tray I piled 'oversize' pieces. This is not so convenient tho, because of course I have to pull all that stuff out to get at the tray, and it doesn't fit in easily. But it will do for now.
In the four inner trays I put heads, accessories, and hair pieces.
I started by trying to put heads with similar color eyes together, but that attempt at organization didn't really last. So this try had 'grey-eyed' Pinkys and red hair pieces.
This tray has brown and black hair pieces. As you can see, there's an awful lot of hair pieces that color. That's what forced me to buy the additional tray!
Then we have some more heads plus hats, hairpieces and glasses. As you can see here and with the extra tray, I still have a couple of spaces in my system, so I have a little bit of room for new Pinkys.
The accessories tray is the most fun to look at! XD
So that's the complete box. Now, of course, Pinkys are more than heads and accessories. The body pieces are stored elsewhere. I already had a system going for that since there was (until recently... <.<) always extra body parts. This is the little cabinet I've been storing those pieces in:
It's a cd cabinet, so each of those drawers is cd size. I got it a while back on clearance at Target, I think.
The top drawer has shirt pieces. I put each piece in a little plastic baggy to prevent rubbing. I have a couple of pieces that have paint rubs on them from having them in my bag for photo shoots. >.<
The bottom drawer has legs and skirts. The skirts are all in a little box.
I have to pile more leg pieces on top of the little box. As you can see, this drawer is about full, which is a problem. Storage problems never end unless you stop buying stuff!! ^^;
Because I have an insane number of Pinkys (almost all of them), I still left a bunch assembled and in the case, but I tried to keep them to the top and one shelf. The other shelf is going to my mini Pullips.
I have a few more Pinkys assembled, they are in my shadow boxes and on a bookshelf. I also have a few more mini Pullips that will need to go into that top shelf, I actually haven't taken them all out of their packages.
This is what the cabinet looks like closed. It's kind of a lousy photo because I took all these pictures at night, and the flash reflected too much. I'll try again for a better photo later.
And that's it! Now if only my whole room were this organized. *sigh*
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