Eric just surprised me with a Doctor Who TARDIS cookie jar (excuse me, biscuit jar, if you’re British) and a Doctor Who mug. A friend and colleague of mine in my department has been walking around showing off her Doctor Who mug for at least the past year or so, and every time I see it I’m completely in awe of its greatness (and her good fortune in having one) and I’m also practically green with envy! So you can imagine my delight when a package arrived on Tuesday containing both the cookie jar and the mug.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Doctor Who, I would highly recommend it–fun for the whole family! It’s a British sci-fi television show dating back to the 1960s, but with a renewed series starting in 2005. Even if sci-fi’s not your thing (I, for one, have turned into quite the sci-fi nerd under Eric’s influence), it’s got a little something for everyone… humour, drama, adventure, action, romance, fantasy… It’s definitely in my top 5, if not top 2 television shows of all time. Doctor Who is a time-lord–the last of his kind–travelling through time and space in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) with companions (usually from Earth).
The TARDIS cookie jar is an exact replica of the TARDIS and if you press down on the lantern on top, it lights up and makes the unmistakable noise that the TARDIS makes when it takes off and lands:
The mug is pretty magical. It starts out looking like this on one side:
And like this on the other:
When you pour hot water for tea, or coffee into the mug the TARDIS disappears from the one side. Awesome:
Then it reappears on the other:
When I got the cookie jar, I immediately wanted to make cookies and so I was excited when Emily at Daily Garnish posted a recipe for vegan chocolate chip cookies yesterday. I followed her recipe exactly, except I added 1/2 cup of applesauce instead of the banana (we were out of bananas). They were delicious and I would highly recommend trying out the recipe. Easy to make and they don’t require unusual ingredients. Thanks, Emily!
With our cookies and some peppermint tea in my new mug, we settled into the couch last night to watch the latest episode of Doctor Who. Perfection!
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Looks delicious! Love the jar. 🙂
Thanks for the awesome recipe! Definitely going to be my go-to choc. chip cookie. 🙂
hooray hooray! as i gazed enviously upon your cookie jar, i totally made the tardis sound in my head. because i’m only human.
🙂 I do the same thing whenever I think about the tardis! But whenever I try to make the sound out loud, it comes out as a pitiful, sorry excuse for that very special noise.
hooray hooray! as i gazed enviously upon your cookie jar, i totally made the tardis sound in my head. because i’m only human.
🙂 I do the same thing whenever I think about the tardis! But whenever I try to make the sound out loud, it comes out as a pitiful, sorry excuse for that very special noise.
It says on the box that the container is for biscuits only.
It says on the box that the container is for biscuits only.
I now following you after “talking” with you on the Daily Garnish. I figure anyone as nutty as I am about Doctor Who and vegan baking has to be cool. (Like bow ties. Bow ties are cool.)
Awesome! 🙂 Good to “meet” you. And yes, bow ties are so cool. Much cooler than fezes, even. 😉
I now following you after “talking” with you on the Daily Garnish. I figure anyone as nutty as I am about Doctor Who and vegan baking has to be cool. (Like bow ties. Bow ties are cool.)
Awesome! 🙂 Good to “meet” you. And yes, bow ties are so cool. Much cooler than fezes, even. 😉
WOW!!!!!! What a lovely mug! Way to go Eric!
WOW!!!!!! What a lovely mug! Way to go Eric!
Somehow I found the Official Doctor Who BBC Collector Item BOX© for these items in the recycling…not sure how they got there…luckily I saved them in time.
Merlin was a Time Lord who posed as a magician in a parallel universe.
Source: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Merlin