aka Greer TaiTai (太太).
Where art design and parenting collide and spark, this blog captures the creative chaos of juggling both worlds.
Recent Posts
100 Days of School Kindergarten
I scrambled through pinterest for 100 days of school ideas. Seems like anything can work as long as it’s 100 items. Inspired by my son’s passion about dinosaurs, I’ve decided to make 100 dinosaur foot stamps.
We Celebrate Both New Years
Continue the party vibes from the end of last year to the beginning of this year. It's the year of rabbit 🐇.
Chinese New Year Flower Arrangement
This year I got a week ahead of CNY to Trader Joe’s and I bought three bunches of pussy willow & pom-pom craspedia flowers. Thought to bring gold and silver as a symbol of fortune to the family.
Make Playroom Even More Playful
Post Christmas, I moved the string-lit polaroid pictures from staircase wall to the playroom. Realized the tape is difficult to hold a string of pictures and I used the tiny command decorating clips to perform the perfect job!
Second Birthday (Real) Cake in 2022
Hmmmm….so delicious! No kidding! It doesn't look very trashy but you get my point. I also recycled the leaves from previous dinosaur cake for this time haha why not! Funny thing is kids just love those crunchy “trash” and like to add some to their sliced cake.
Second Birthday (Practice) Cake in 2022
Can't make an exception for my other son so we decided to make a cake for him too! Ideas always come from Pinterest. Now we are thinking where to collect those delicious “trash” for the dump truck.
Diamond Fence Trellis
Our project for the new house since 2021 March after Texas rare freeze. Star jasmine had been slowly climbing along the wires from six bases but seemed hibernating through this winter until now.
Building Blocks
My five year olds is allowed to opt for naps or not. So today he asked me to build blocks with him. He started with our house stairs and we gradually formed our house Floorplan.
My Logo Story
I was guided by an online course to create my own logo for my blog and I think this logo is very associated to what my blog wants to convey…
Sketch & Paint
My son’s birthday painting kit - He asked me to draw a dinosaur of his choice (back of the paper in the picture). I couldn’t stop and finished the water color painting. Last time I had a paint brush in my hand was more than ten years ago.
Birthday Cake
This is the actual birthday cake look following the cake design post. Really not a bad idea to make one of your own from your imagination and creativity.
Birthday Cake Design
They love dinosaurs so much that I decided to make a dino themed cake for my boy’s 5th birthday celebration!
Valentine's Boxes
Thought I had some leftover fabrics from 4-yr-old babyproofing cushions and Halloween costumes of recent years. Oh and the shoe boxes!
Snowman Project
Snowman - School Christmas project. I was thinking to let kids stick those flower pieces for hat decoration.
Halloween Costume 2020
They were so into Octonauts on Netflix at that time. Weili said he wanted to be Captain Barnacles and we decided Charlie as Shellington the sea otter (with a crossbody bag).
My Very First Artwork for You
I didn’t want to spend a dime buying a box just for storing Easter candies/toys. I decided to make one the night before school activity day.
My First-born’s Halloween Costume
My first time making my first-born’s Halloween costume and I’m still keeping that cool velvet vest.