I've been feeling overwhelmed by my doll collection since they all have to stand either all crowded together in a tiny space in the family room, or on the dining room table. I've been trying to figure out how to best store/display them, so only a few are out at any one time.
After thinking about it for weeks, I finally decided to empty out the display cabinet in the family room of my old International doll and nutcracker collection that's been in there forever. One of the shelves was removed, the remaining one lowered to the middle, and all my shorter dolls from the dining room china cabinet moved in. The dining room china cabinet hasn't seen china for over thirty years either, and was used to display various dolls I've made over the years. It doesn't get sunlight, so seemed like the perfect spot to house some of my BJDs. Everything in the cabinet came out, was cleaned, and the lower glass shelf removed making the bottom shelf 78 cm high - perfect for all my taller dolls, and any shorter ones needing a rest. Even Tedros can come out of his box now. He'll have to wear one of his girlfriend's pink robes for now until I can get to making him something with the wonderful chain-mail glove I was given.
I also sorted through piles of fabrics that had been building on the dining room table, sorted them into boxes, and put those away. I also made seat cushions for the two garden chairs that have been sitting on the end of the table for months. Now they can go downstairs to the photo studio. It's great to finally be able to see the surface of my dining room table appear again. It needs a good polish and then I can start piling up new things on it!
Tomorrow it's back to sewing doll costumes....
After thinking about it for weeks, I finally decided to empty out the display cabinet in the family room of my old International doll and nutcracker collection that's been in there forever. One of the shelves was removed, the remaining one lowered to the middle, and all my shorter dolls from the dining room china cabinet moved in. The dining room china cabinet hasn't seen china for over thirty years either, and was used to display various dolls I've made over the years. It doesn't get sunlight, so seemed like the perfect spot to house some of my BJDs. Everything in the cabinet came out, was cleaned, and the lower glass shelf removed making the bottom shelf 78 cm high - perfect for all my taller dolls, and any shorter ones needing a rest. Even Tedros can come out of his box now. He'll have to wear one of his girlfriend's pink robes for now until I can get to making him something with the wonderful chain-mail glove I was given.
I also sorted through piles of fabrics that had been building on the dining room table, sorted them into boxes, and put those away. I also made seat cushions for the two garden chairs that have been sitting on the end of the table for months. Now they can go downstairs to the photo studio. It's great to finally be able to see the surface of my dining room table appear again. It needs a good polish and then I can start piling up new things on it!
Tomorrow it's back to sewing doll costumes....
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