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DIY Barbie Doll Jewelry Holder

by Lindsay Ballard on April 16, 2014 9 Comments

DIY Barbie jewelry holder for little girls via MakelyHome.com

Before we had a daughter, Tom and I didn’t really believe in the whole nature vs. nurture thing.  I mean, we had a son, Zack, who enjoyed things like dump trucks and toy tools, but we just assumed that it was because we were DIYers who lived in a neighborhood that was under construction.  But when Emma arrived, she threw us for a loop.

As soon as she started walking, Emma would find just about anything to turn it into a purse to carry on her shoulder – a Target shopping bag being among her favorites.  It quickly progressed into shoes, tiaras, dresses and jewelry.  None of it was anything we encouraged in her, so the fact that she just seemingly knew about accessorizing blew our minds.

Now that Emma is a few years older, I needed to find a place to put all of her little necklaces.  My original plan was to paint a pegboard with different color stripes to match her bedroom.  But then, things went off the rail a bit.

DIY Barbie jewelry holder for little girls via MakelyHome.com

I honestly can’t say how the Barbie idea came into my head.  Like so many of the weird things that I come up with, I just woke up one morning and it was there.  I couldn’t find any Barbies at my local thrift store, so I put out a call on a local moms buy/sell/trade board on Facebook to see if anyone had some they wanted to part with.  Almost immediately, someone told me that I could have 10 of theirs for $10.  Score!

The Barbies came to me naked, so I needed to dress them.  I bought this no sew 6-in-1 Barbie dress tutorial on Etsy, and Emma picked out some gold lame fabric for them to wear.  I made them little dresses and styled their hair.

Then, I just tied them onto the pegboard by wrapping fishing line around their waists and through the pegboard holes a few times and tying it on the back of the board.  They are surprisingly stable!

DIY Barbie jewelry holder for little girls via MakelyHome.com

The Barbies’ arms easily hold the weight of a necklace or two.  A few of them weren’t as tight as the others, so I put a little dot of super glue on them.  That worked perfectly.

I ended up hanging the board over the chair rail molding on Emma’s wall, so I had to build a little frame of 1×2’s to extend it out of the wall a little bit.  I left a hole where it hits the molding, and it fits in that space really well.

DIY Barbie jewelry holder for little girls via MakelyHome.com

The whole thing is screwed into the studs behind her wall, so there’s no chance that it’s going to fall down.

DIY Barbie jewelry holder for little girls via MakelyHome.com

Emma loves her new little jewelry holder, as crazy as it may seem.  And no…the Barbies haven’t come to life yet.  I think it was my friend Heather who called them Golden Globe Barbie zombies.  Ha!

What do you think?  Crazy creative or crazy freaky?  Wait, don’t answer that.

About Lindsay Ballard

Lindsay Ballard is a former college mascot turned political geek turned roller derby playing, DIY fanatic.

Lindsay chronicles her projects, design ideas, and lifestyle tips here at Makely, where she shares tutorials and inspiration. Her DIY designs are bold and graphic, while her spirit is fun and full of color.

Lindsay lives outside of Austin, Texas with her husband (Tom), children (Zack and Emma), and dogs (Duke and Jill). She plays roller derby for the Rockin' City Rollergirls out of Round Rock, Texas.

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Comments

  1. danielle says

    April 16, 2014 at 8:59 am

    A little bit of both – but Im loving the idea. I just told my Emma that we needed to get her a pegboard for her jewelry – I need to show her this.

    Reply
    • Lindsay Ballard says

      April 23, 2014 at 8:29 pm

      It’s a little out there, but my Emma loves it. 🙂 There’s lots of fun things you can do with pegboard.

      Reply
  2. Kim G says

    April 16, 2014 at 3:38 pm

    Well that’s a new way to hold necklaces! I would have loved to have something like this when I was a little girl. I loved my Barbies (I still have one or two of them!). You are so creative. 🙂

    BTW… Kristin Duke wants to join us when we do our Austin/Round Rock get together. I’ve been bugging her too via her blog!!!

    Reply
    • Lindsay Ballard says

      April 23, 2014 at 8:31 pm

      Thanks, Kim! I need to figure out a time for us to all try to get together!

      Reply
  3. Elise says

    April 17, 2014 at 4:05 pm

    You are a GENIUS. Seriously. Twisted, but in the best possible way! I love these Golden-Globe-Zombie-Barbies so much.

    Reply
    • Lindsay Ballard says

      April 23, 2014 at 8:32 pm

      I’m totally twisted. 😉 Sometimes the output is awesome…sometimes not. But I keep at it just to see what comes out.

      Reply
  4. spencer says

    April 20, 2014 at 11:15 pm

    i agree

    Reply

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About Makely

Lindsay Ballard is a former college mascot turned political geek turned roller derby playing, DIY fanatic.

Lindsay chronicles her projects, design ideas, and lifestyle tips here at Makely, where she shares tutorials and inspiration. Her DIY designs are bold and graphic, while her spirit is fun and full of color.

Lindsay lives outside of Austin, Texas with her husband (Tom), children (Zack and Emma), and dogs (Duke and Jill). She plays roller derby for the Rockin' City Rollergirls out of Round Rock, Texas.


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