Nesting Project - Cosette's Clothes

Since I stopped working a few weeks ago, I have had a lot of energy to clean and organize and get things ready for Cosette's arrival. Everyone I've talked to calls this "nesting." I have been working on a series of projects and tasks each week, prioritizing those that I think are most important (because you never know - Cosette could be early!).

Lately, one of my projects was organizing Cosette's clothes. I first went through everything and made sure my sister's clothes were labeled (she's just lending them to me). I also removed the tags on my new clothes and labeled them, too. Then I washed everything in the baby detergent I bought (5 loads). Here is a picture of the laundry dumped on our queen size bed.

Next, I sorted everything into piles by type of clothing - onesies, pants, shirts, dresses, hats, jackets, bibs, burp rags, socks, bloomers, tights.... I then went through each of these piles and further sorted them by size.

Last, I put everything away in Cosette's dresser. I knew that I didn't want all of this sorting to go to waste, so I decided to use dividers. I bought some for my sock drawer when Jeff and I got married and have loved using them. But with 4 dresser drawers to organize for Cosette, I didn't want to spend a ton of money to buy all of those dividers and organizers. So I looked around the house and used a combination of shoe boxes, scraps of Plexiglas, and pieces of a Wii box I cut up. I am very pleased with the result and have included pictures below.

It felt so good to get all of that put away! Not everything fit in the dresser. A few larger items of clothing went in a bin under her crib, and I'm hanging up her dresses and jackets in the closet. By the way - the hangers I've gotten with the 2 and 3 piece outfits, the ones that have a pant clip attached, are perfect for hanging up the dresses that have a matching bloomer or bonnet.

We are going to have one stylish little girl! Thank you to everyone who has gifted us with clothing. It is such a blessing not having to spend money on her clothing for the first few months.