Elf on the Shelf wants to be a Time Lord

This Christmas was our family's first year having an Elf on the Shelf. Up until this year my littles have said the elves were "creepy" (my daughter's word), and I was inclined to agree with them... really, if you think about it... they sit in your home and watch your behaviour, then fly back to Santa each night to report on you, and like the Weeping Angels, they only move when no one's looking at them! They're little quantum-locked Christmas spies, heheh.

While I've laughed at some of the elf antics other people have shared, I haven't minded my sproutlets not wanting an elf in our home. But this year my 5 year old said she wanted Santa to send us one. I'm fairly certain this change of heart was precipitated by her coming across a tiny pilot outfit in the "Elf Adoption Centre" area of the department store. She was Amelia Earhart for Hallowe'en this year, and she loves her aviator goggles:

   

So when she discovered the Claus Couture aviator jacket & goggles, she asked me to help her email Santa this request:

Dear Santa, 
If you would please send us an Elf on the Shelf this Christmas I promise I won't say he looks creepy, & I even got him a pilot jacket to keep warm & goggles to see in the clouds. And mummy & me will bake you gluten-free brownies too!
Love, Kate

So, we got a scout elf of our own, who my little girls named Cocoa Earhart. Our elf didn't get up to many shenanigans, mostly just moved from room to room, hiding just enough so that the kidlets had to look around for a few minutes, but some days he was found doing something funny, like swinging from the ceiling fan, and reading a story to the toy dinosaurs, and once, pretending to be the Eleventh Doctor:

He was sitting in front of a little TARDIS, wearing a felt fez instead of his usual elf hat, holding a tiny sonic screwdriver, with our copy of "When's The Doctor" open to the New Earth page, which has cats in pilot hats & goggles - I think one of them is Brannigan from "Gridlock" :)

Do you have a Whovian scout elf, or know of another one? Share in the comments!

Edible Geekery: Lunch for Twelve

There was so much to love about the Twelfth Doctor's first episode! So good ♥ I'm going to have to make a bento lunch about it :) The day before Deep Breath aired, I participated in a Doctor Who themed bento blog hop, with my lunch blog, BentOnBetterLunches, but since I didn't watch any of the leaked episodes, my bentos were not based on anything from Series 8. My bentos were inspired by one of the Eleventh Doctor's adventures, back in Series 5 ...

Want to see more of my Vincent and the Doctor lunches? They're packed in PlanetBoxes, in case you're wondering about those shiny lunchboxes :) Click the collage above or the TARDIS below to visit my bento blog, BentOnBetterLunches, or pin either for visiting later. You don't want to miss out on any of the edible geekery from the other 10 Whovians in the Lunch for Twelve blog hop...  there's Rose Tyler bacon, and an Ood made of food, need I say more?

Edible Geekery : Bento for Kidlet

I have some of the most amazingly talented & creative friends, some of whom also write blogs that entertain & inspire me. Let me tell you about one of them. Jenn is the super mama of a brilliant boy known on her blog as Kidlet. For the past 7 years, Jenn has packed bento lunches for Kidlet's eating pleasure & blogged them for our viewing pleasure. Kidlet & his mama are best buddies & are both nerdy in the awesomest way! Jenn's also a real artist who can draw things that look like the things they are meant to be - colour me jealous! Jenn rules. Here are only a few of the heaps of reasons why :)

Jenn made this collage for Fish Fingers & Custard Day last year, these are just some of her Doctor Who bentos! Visit Bento for Kidlet to see them all!

This image links to the Doctor Who posts at Bento for Kidlet.

 

Reason she's an awesome mom #137: She threw Kidlet a Doctor Who themed 13th birthday party & all the foods pertained to the program. Clever!  The pic only shows half of it, click it to go to her post. Then you can see the TARDIS cake :)

This image links to the party post at Bento for Kidlet.

Another reason I heart Jenn: she's also super kind & generous. She's never even met my little guys but she's sent them big boxes of Kidlet's hand-me-downs, and even decorated the packages with stuff I love :) This big box that my little pumpkinhead is trying to bring in the house was covered in Doctor Who stickers - Daleks & TARDISes & Eleven, such fun!

And check this one out. She covered it in drawings & quotes she knew I'd love. Seriously, who does this sort of thing?! Someone awesome, that's who :)

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So many edible geekery reasons! If I were to show only the best of Jenn's bentos I'd still basically be reposting her whole blog, because they're pretty much all my favourite :)  So I made myself pick just 4 more examples of her edible geekery inspired by other fandoms for which we share a love:  Game of Thrones, Star Trek, Sherlock, & Harry Potter.

 

 

These images links to their respective posts at Bento for Kidlet.

And it's not just lunch she excels at & posts on Bento For Kidlet. She also makes deliciously nerdy baked goods & treats :) Like Mr Flibble cupcakes inspired by another of our faves, Red Dwarf, and TARDIS mini banana bread loaves! And regular not so nerdy recipes full of delicious flavour. Visit Bento for Kidlet, you'll find your own reasons to love it!  :)

Party Like A Time Lord

♥♥ If you landed here while searching for timey-wimey party ideas, don't miss the link to my friend's awesome party post full of fantastic food & more, at the end of this post :)

When my Bella asked for a Doctor Who party for her 10th birthday I was thrilled!  Too bad she didn't want the whole party to be Who themed - she wanted a sleepover with a movie, manicures, & Wii Dance - but hey, she did want Whovian decorations & a TARDIS cake, yay!

Of course I wasted no time ordering TARDIS lights from ThinkGeek, several sets in fact - and we strung a set across our front porch right away :)

Doctor Who partyware was not to be found, so Mia Bella made the invitations herself:

We also made the loot bags, with blue bags, paper, a glue stick & silver Sharpie .

We strung another set of TARDIS lights across a cabinet in the living room, and arranged the goody bags on top of it. I ♥ those lights so much!

We covered the living room ceiling with 3 dozen helium-filled balloons in TARDIS blue, silver, & gold, and I found square party plates and arranged them like TARDIS window panes on the blue dining room tablecoth - Bella thought that was super cute :) 

 

So that's was it for decor, and as I don't have permission to put the guests photos online, I'll skip the party pics and get right to the cake! It's no secret that I am neither a baker nor a cake decorator, so Bella didn't have great expectations - but I did my best, and though the icing was messy, it didn't turn out too bad...

OK so it didn't turn out too good, either, ha!  But it did taste good - and most importantly, my birthday girl Bella loved it... just look at her smile ♥  

Notice her TARDIS blue nails with sparkly white tips - freshly painted by one of her girlfriends :) They had a great time, and my girl loved her birthday party. She said she wanted to have the same theme the next year...

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And she did!  We made the invitations ourselves again, but this time we added text to a picture and ordered prints online from a local 1 hour photo processing. We invited her whole class of 25 kids, and they were done in 15 minutes, for less than $3 - fantastic!

Since her 11th birthday party was at the local community pool, there was no decorating allowed, but we did make some Whovian cupcakes :)

Oops, looks like I exterminated the Daleks when I cropped the photo :)

OK, so a bakery baked & frosted those cupcakes. As if I could make such a perfect swirl of frosting! But I did make the chocolate Weeping Angels, K-9s, Sontarans, TARDISes, Daleks, & Cybermen they are topped with!

TARDIS shaped Doctor Who chocolate mold from Lakeland (UK)

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As promised, here's a party post full of Whovian awesomeness:  Robot Squirrel & the Monkeys' Timey Wimey 6th Birthday! I am in love with this idea: a tablecloth Cassandra for the kids to moisturize with spray bottles of water, absolutely brilliant!

Isn't that the greatest thing! Those are some lucky little Monkeys!