So I got those purse kits from Walmart for like $3 remember?
Well I finally made one. The directions were pretty worthless, but I did sew my first pleats! Just in time for pleat week in the sewing blogger world too!
I'm definitely going to made some modifications before I use it as a 'purse purse' so I'm not losing stuff as I walk, but for right now it makes a nice throw bag for all that random junk we always seem to be bringing.
Plus Pepper likes it cause of the Hello Kitty ribbon ties, but what's no to love?!

Measuring the rectangle.

Sewing leaving room to turn it.Pressed
Pressed ready to pleat

My first pleat! (I think so at least)Tying on the handles.
Silly Pepper likes it too! (She didn’t like going for a ride in it though…)    

Remember this? (See the post "I have a problem")


The purse storage solution search, turned into a "Pink Room" overhaul, which I love. This guest room is a mishmash of stuff from my dorm room and first apartment.

Home depot had skinny plastic shelving in pink in green, one of each mix-matched up created the perfect solution for most of my bags, each stuffed with tissue paper to maintain shape.  Clutches, my Bermuda bag and covers, and wallets stay neat in pretty Tory Burch shoe boxes.  (The "gun" is my pink Red Ryder BB Gun) Even better the shelves were $13 each.

My few hobo bags which store flat well are hanging, and my ridiculous tote bag collection lays flat and stacked on a low shelf.  (Computer cords and a Woot! monkey are hanging around in the back)

Cheapy event bags, shoe and purse dust bags find a home in a over the door shoe holder. 

Panorama view.

Cheap extra frames get new life by hot gluing ribbon to the backs and being hung in a grouping.

Pink wardrobe full of craft stuff and tote bags

Door mirror from Home Depot for $4.88 but no mounting hardware, so I hot glued ribbon (what else) and hung it from a over the door hook. This solution is good for a closet door but I wouldn't recommend it for a more active door.

My 8x10 collection gets out of the folder and on to the wall via blue painters tape. Use of a level is totally necessary.

I used the holiday weekend to tackle my our closet, which now looks great.
But in that process I determined there was no more room for my vast purse collection in our closet any longer, so now they are sitting in a mountain on the couch in the "Pink Room" crushing poor Maxine and Goldie (Pups lower left).  Don't you just love when organizing just creates a second mess?

I'm debating a few different storage ideas for these. What I really need are skinny shelves for the smaller bags, and deep shelves for the massive tote bags... How I wish and don't wish we had an Ikea.

Wish so I could go get this right now.

Leksvik

(They used to make it in white, but wouldn't it be cute painted hot pink?)

Why the 'don't wish' you wonder? Well because everyone else would have it too.

How about a purse room?
Or how about this...


Anyone else out there with a so many purses they warrant their own storage solution?