Last week my friend Lauri gave birth to her second child, a beautiful baby girl named Kaley Taylor. Being a mother already to a sweet little boy, Lauri now gets to purchase pink clothes and big hair bows!
While still in the hospital she sent me a text asking me how I keep all of Lily’s bows organized and stored away. So today I bring you a great {cheap!} tip on how to store and organize toddler hair bows.
I keep all of Lily’s hair items in her closet. Sometimes I leave a few rubber bands on the shelf above her changing table for quick access. Early on Lily started to remove her headbands, so I only used rubber bands and clip bows to keep her hair out of her face. All of her headbands are stored in a pretty box given to me at my baby shower. Keeping the headbands in a box keeps that mess hidden!
If you ever do a search on the internet or Pinterest for ‘bow storage’ you will see oodles of images where people have purchase personalized letters that have ribbon hanging from them where you can clip the bows onto. I see that people have re-used those criss crossed ribbon boards for picture display to store their child’s boards. I just hated the idea of hanging those items on the wall in her room. Yes bows are pretty, but when you have tons of different colors, shapes and sizes the bow display/storage can look messy and this momma didn’t want the eye sore. So I hide Lily’s in the closet!
I took one spool of pink gingham ribbon and cut into four pieces. I tied each piece to the back of the closet’s wire shelf.
To make it pretty I fish tailed the ends of each ribbon. Then I clipped her bows down the hanging ribbons. I like that they are stored in the closest because 1) I can easily pick out the bow I want when choosing her outfit for the day and 2) when I want to hide the bows I can easily move her clothes in front and 3) when I run out of room I can just tie more ribbon onto the closet shelf!
