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
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!
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!?
First Trunk-or-Treat 2023
Again just like school's cultural event, I signed up to host a trunk the last minute! I made sure I could get all I needed from Amazon (bedside the inflatable dinosaur we already have) within next three days: lighting spiderweb, lighting hats and magnets for sticking the decorations to the car.
My First Custom Tailored Halloween Costumes 2023
Sewing machine on sale! That’s what triggered the following two weeks of pressure catching up sewing progress. Started with zero experience operating a sewing machine even though I'm a bespoke tailor’s daughter🫣. I went through the manual and started picking up the basic operation skills through practice on old fabrics. After a big shopping at Joann’s (costume patterns, fabrics and accessories), here we go! First policeman jacket and then dragon scale shirt.
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.
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!