Papercut closet dividers

I don't know if other parents and parents-to-be have this problem, but I have a ridiculously difficult time gauging what size baby clothes are. And it's kind of annoying having to dig down into tiny shirts and dresses to look for a size tag. Not to mention having to do mental math half the time, since a lot of our baby clothes have European sizes, which are... weird. (They go by baby's length in centimeters, which makes sense, but in order to figure out the approximate age that corresponds to the length, you have to subtract 50 from the listed size, and divide the answer by three. Or six. Or something like that.)

I clearly need something to keep some semblance of sanity and order. Because if all of the above is kind of annoying now, I imagine it'll be pretty much impossible once baby arrives. Labels made with washi tape on the wardrobe shelves took care of the folded stuff, but I still needed something to keep the hanging stuff in order.

Since I wasn't keen on the idea of spending money on something I thought I could DIY quite easily, I decided to make some papercut dividers for the clothes rail.

I forgot to take pictures of the process, but it was pretty simple. First, I figured out the width of the clothes rail by measuring its circumference with a bit of twine, then using that to get the circle's diameter (guess my math teacher was right when she said we'd need to know about pi for real life). It came out to be a little over 1 inch in diameter.

I wanted the dividers to be quite a bit wider than the rail, so I drew up a template in PhotoShop Elements making then two inches wide, with the hole and text centered. I made one divider for each of the typical baby and toddler sizes (going all the way up to 3-4 years because, well, they fit on the sheet), using the font Andalus. I looked up a sneaky way to adjust kerning in PSE (kerning=the space between letters) so that they'd be pretty smushed together. I also faked small caps, which you can't do in PSE, by making the numbers (and NB) four points bigger than the abbreviations for "months" and "years." Here's how the template came out:

I flipped the template backwards (a printer function, not a PSE function, in case you're wondering) so that any ink that showed through would be on the back of the dividers. Then I just printed the template and went to town with a craft blade.

Here's where I really should have gotten some in-progress photos. I wanted the sizes to be visible at a glance, so instead of making them negative space, so to speak, I made them positive by cutting out the red bits around them, of course leaving them attached to the divider. To give each character more stability, I connected them whenever possible and didn't cut out any holes in them (as you can see in the 6 and the B).

I also cut out the circle for the rail, of course, and made a diagonal slit (which you can kinda see on the left of each divider) so that I could actually get them on the rail.

And here they are in the closet! I'm pretty pleased with how well these turned out. I want to see how well they'll stand up to the rigors of every-day life, and if they do okay you might just see these turn up in the shop. What do you think?