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
Graphic Design - The Pretty Banans (Poster)
My first graphic design poster - The pretty bananas (Inside & Out) by assembling previous four weeks of practice and assignments in a new combination.
Graphic Design - Contrasts
Contrast combination of doubles and triples of below arrangement just by simple shapes:
scale
weight
direction
space
form
texture
Graphic Design - Complimentary & Contrast
It’s like an experiment playing with sorts of graphic forms. I’m making graphic design by building blocks to best learn graphic design.
My Free Version of Creativity
Inspired by some random Lego post and thanks to boys' leftover blocks, here comes my free version of creativity😉
Graphic Design - The Character of Characters
The character of characters - Typeset the name of an object (e.g. "apple", "shoe", or "glasses" etc.) in a typeface that relates to (or represents) each of the adjectives (e.g. “plump”, “old”, “vintage” etc).
The top strokes looks like the stems where you grab the bananas and there are a bunch of them. Just an objective text name in different forms creates imagination and possibilities!?
Graphic Design - Monogram & Business Card
Create a design of interlocking typographic forms by using different typefaces, and look at the range of shapes that occur within the same letters.
This is a fun practice and I realized how much fun just texts can produce. Designing business card by inserting the art of name initials (monograms) is definitely eye catching.
Graphic Design - Connotative Image Making
And then some optional challenges - three connotative image makings which tell stories.
Graphic Design - Denotative Image Making
My first Graphic Design assignment is Done! My ten denotative image makings of different techniques. Finally I decided to take the advantage of limited offer $199/yr signing up Google’s Couresera and enrolled my first designer course in a hope to prepare myself for my next dream career.
Pokemon Cookbook Practice
All this hassle began from the library book I happened to see and suggested we could try it for fun!? The results are not bad but I'm still not doing school lunchbox this way lol
Halloween Inflatable Brightness Enhancement
I was stunned by seeing these two-year-old inflatables being so dimmed this year (before the one hour transformation - Viola in the video) so I quickly searched YouTube for solutions. Didn’t think it’s actually quite manageable to replace the LED lights inside the tree and the dinosaur. I don’t mind spending a little on the new lights ($1/ea) moving forward for having our front yard Halloween party keep going!
Pokemon the Ultimate Pumpkin Carving
Not sure how I had that courage taking the three-pumpkin-at-a-time challenge AND Pokemon per request. All the chaos began with Mick’s purchase of three pumpkins…
Moon Cake Birthday Cake Tower
This year I took the advantage celebrating my birthday with Moon festival (lunar calendar) because they are just two days apart. Can't be more proud of my cake tower design with the actual "Moon" by reusing my son's cupcake illuminating stand.
Guest Bedroom Upgrade
I’ve been tackling this window in our guest bedroom for it's unique size and bright lighting for being on the second floor. Issues such as:
Too small for custom made shades, like our other cordless pull-up/down shades.
Dark window film still reveals bright lines around it and the lines from cut are just NOT straight!
Hanging Plants Restyle
Started with the idea of self-watering device/pot and then realized how tough it was to untangle and rearrange the plants!
Generative AI Perfect Memories
Discovered the new Generative AI feature of Lightroom to remove the unwanted background so cleverly! Only in a few minutes, I'm pretty happy with the results despite some manual efforts defining the area.
Emma’s Kitchen - Beef Noodles
My best recipe to keep my family’s belly warm and healthy!
Year of the Dragon 2024
Started with school's Festival of Cultures, we made together this harder-than-I-thought paper dragon craft. Turned out it’s a really good investment because later on I used them to decorate the house for Lunar New Year and added on some string lights for Lantern Festival! For the years to come, they can be hand-held dragon dance for new year celebrations Woo-hoo!
Emma's Kitchen - Lunar New Year Must-eat Pig’s Feet
Best and unique dish for celebrating Lunar New Year! Truth is my genuine childhood memories for my late grandmother.
My Taiwan Sticker Design
For the second year of school Festival of Cultures, I wanted to improve passport stamp format by using customized stickers! I found some designs I liked online but I ended up designing my own for trying to avoid the intellectual property issue. It took me a while to figure out how to use the cutout sticker and manipulate the image adjustment. Finally I uploaded to Amazon to make 120 pieces of 1.5 inch stickers for $24 dollars. Can’t wait to see the results!
Halloween Pumpkin Carving
Mick secretly bought a craft rotary tool kit for pumpkin carving this year. Of course it’s for me to try different techniques and advance my skills!?