Not sure how many folks here will resonate with this but my wife (and I) is a serious swifty and as she has been getting more into poker I want to design a set for her birthday later this year. Would love any collaboration from other fans. Definitely going to need a designer at some point so if you're interested or can recommend someone who is a good fit please chime in.
Initial design thoughts
Seating chips
For these I am thinking the obvious design choice is to do seats 1-10 using the 10 eras.
Bounty Chips
Current idea: "Look what you made me do." credit @buzzmonkey. Also perfect because wife (like most) loves Vigilante Shit
Several ideas here.
First, a lot of bounty chips follow a "death" theme. To that end, Taylor's discography has a bunch of grief-laden songs including Epiphany, Ronan, Marjorie, Breathe, My Tears Ricochet, Safe and Sound and Bigger Than the Whole Sky. From this last one, I like the pair of lines "You were bigger than the whole sky, You were more than just a short time" but I am not sure how I feel about using a song mourning miscarriage (a common theory) in this context. Need to think more here.
Second idea is to instead just make it a kind of fun thing, in which case "Best believe I'm still bejeweled" from Bejeweled feels like a great fit, especially if I go the diamond mold route.
Chips
Thinking 5 denoms, will give some thought to what values but probably lower end. T25, maybe T5.
Generally, pending a better idea, I like "TS The Eras Tour-nament" across all the chips. Current thinking is curved and repeated around the edge of the inlays, not sure.
This is where I am a bit more uncertain. 5 chips could have 10 different inlays and I could again represent the 10 eras but I think that might be a lot of visual noise and then each chip can't really have an identity. Instead, my thought is to use my wife's "favorite half" as she calls it which are Evermore, Folklore, Reputation, Lover, and Midnights. With that, I was thinking that on each chip one side could be her favorite concert outfit from that era and then the other side could highlight her favorite song from the album.
For instance, for Evermore
Here's one of the outfits. Could do this with denom and album name across the center and then the looped set name.
And Willow is one of my wife's favorite songs and there's a bunch of different imagery here. Could do this with denom and album name across the center and then the looped set name. Could also work a lyric in, "Like you were a trophy or a champion ring" is an obvious for a poker chip (or "I'm begging for you to take my hand" lol), but could also just be a key line like "Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind (oh)."
- MTT set
- Tina chips. Diamond mold seems fitting but need to get my hands on some. Otherwise no mold
Initial design thoughts
Seating chips
For these I am thinking the obvious design choice is to do seats 1-10 using the 10 eras.
Bounty Chips
Current idea: "Look what you made me do." credit @buzzmonkey. Also perfect because wife (like most) loves Vigilante Shit
Several ideas here.
First, a lot of bounty chips follow a "death" theme. To that end, Taylor's discography has a bunch of grief-laden songs including Epiphany, Ronan, Marjorie, Breathe, My Tears Ricochet, Safe and Sound and Bigger Than the Whole Sky. From this last one, I like the pair of lines "You were bigger than the whole sky, You were more than just a short time" but I am not sure how I feel about using a song mourning miscarriage (a common theory) in this context. Need to think more here.
Second idea is to instead just make it a kind of fun thing, in which case "Best believe I'm still bejeweled" from Bejeweled feels like a great fit, especially if I go the diamond mold route.
Chips
Thinking 5 denoms, will give some thought to what values but probably lower end. T25, maybe T5.
Generally, pending a better idea, I like "TS The Eras Tour-nament" across all the chips. Current thinking is curved and repeated around the edge of the inlays, not sure.
This is where I am a bit more uncertain. 5 chips could have 10 different inlays and I could again represent the 10 eras but I think that might be a lot of visual noise and then each chip can't really have an identity. Instead, my thought is to use my wife's "favorite half" as she calls it which are Evermore, Folklore, Reputation, Lover, and Midnights. With that, I was thinking that on each chip one side could be her favorite concert outfit from that era and then the other side could highlight her favorite song from the album.
For instance, for Evermore
Here's one of the outfits. Could do this with denom and album name across the center and then the looped set name.
And Willow is one of my wife's favorite songs and there's a bunch of different imagery here. Could do this with denom and album name across the center and then the looped set name. Could also work a lyric in, "Like you were a trophy or a champion ring" is an obvious for a poker chip (or "I'm begging for you to take my hand" lol), but could also just be a key line like "Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind (oh)."
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