Welcome to Emma G.’s Inspiring Space
Where art design and parenting collide and spark, this blog captures the creative chaos of juggling both worlds.
Recent Posts
Simple Home Baked Cake with Policecar
We just came back from Taiwan for a month of vacation. Mick says we have to be fair () and we decided to make a cake in just a week of notice. Same Chantilly flavor but I need to come out with his favorite policecar decorated idea.
Photoshop Skills II
Such an excitement to see the full rainbow right after the rain. The original picture can't really express that excitement but I’ve practiced some tricks to quickly restore that WoW moment!
2nd Year Still Dinosaur Cake but with Lego
Following my 6-year-old-to-be boy's wish, looks like I needed to continue on the dinosaur path but maybe came up with different ideas and tried not to duplicate the cake from last year. As he grows more interests in Lego, adding some “edible” Lego blocks plus Lego dinosaurs to the cake seems like a good idea. Btw a two tier cake sounds more representable for the birthday party.
Festival of Cultures - Welcome to Taiwan 🇹🇼
Success for our debut 🇹🇼 at Meridian School Festival of Cultures. Special thanks to my Taiwanese friends' support for the flags, snacks, souvenirs and the interactive games to make our booth one of the most popular ones. Taiwan is small but our heart is big! I'm glad to have the opportunity to showcase my country.
Happy Lantern Festival (Year of Rabbit)
For the year of the rabbit, I went to the craft store knowing I would at least get plastic cups/holders for the LED candles and some decoration materials. With a vague rabbit lantern image in my mind, I had these selections to begin with.
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.
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.