Yesterday was a very exciting day - the premiere of the seventh series of
Doctor Who. It's my favorite show, so I was really excited to be able to have some friends over and have a fun premiere party. In case you want to have a party of your own I thought I'd share what I did for the party and how everything turned out!
Decor
My decorations ended up being mostly TARDIS themed for some reason. I wanted more Dalek decorations but maybe I can save some ideas for that for next year.
On the front door I hung a TARDIS sign:
This was very simple to make. I just bought some balsa wood from Michael's and spray painted it with Rust-Oleum brand spray paint in Deep Blue. After the paint dried I added vinyl letters from Hobby Lobby. Scotty sealed it for me and added two hooks and some wire so that I could hang it to the front door. Total cost was under $10.
I don't have a picture, but I strung
these TARDIS String Lights ($20 from FYE) in our entranceway.
I also made a TARDIS banner:
For this project I used blue and white felt from Michael's along with sticky letters and silver ribbon. The white felt was the kind with the adhesive back. I cut out the shapes (each TARDIS is half a rectangle of felt) and used fabric glue to stick everything on that wasn't already sticky.
The TARDISes each say different things: "Doctor Who," "Timey Wimey" or "Police Box." This was so that I didn't have to buy multiple packs of sticky letters. I just came up with what I could say that was reasonably Whovian with one pack of letters.
I also printed out some signs that will be familiar to Whovians out there. Click each link for a printable.
For the table, I used a blue tablecloth and bought white and blue utensils/paper plates/napkins. My brother made me the awesome TARDIS you see below. I already had the scarf and sonic screwdriver, and I picked up the red Dalek for $10 at FYE.
Food and Drink
My menu for the party was as follows:
- TARDIS Coral (rock candy)
- Fish fingers (fishsticks, marshmallows or cinnamon sticks) and custard (I bought a big tub of custard from my local Fry's Food & Drug bakery)
- Cupcakes with ball bearings
- Banana chips
- Apples (not pictured)
- Jammie Dodgers
- Apple grass (I found this product in a candy store. It's called Galerie Edible Easter Grass, but I think apple licorice would have worked equally well)
- Pizza (not pictured)
- Celery with garden vegetable cream cheese (not pictured)
I had little markers saying what each food was along with a tidbit of information about how it related to
Doctor Who. I will upload the markers to Google Docs when I get a chance - the file isn't on this computer.
For drinks we had soda, beer, antiplastic (blue punch) and mixed drinks. We followed these recipes for various Sonic Screwdrivers:
Sonic Screwdriver
1.5 oz vanilla vodka
1.5 oz blue curacao
6 oz lemon lime soda
10th Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver (blue)
1 oz blue curacao
1 oz citrus vodka
6 oz Ginger Ale
11th Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver (green)
1 oz blue curacao
1 oz vodka
6 oz orange juice
BBC America was showing a
Doctor Who marathon so we put that on for some visual entertainment. We all enjoyed watching the premiere of the seventh series and I had a lot of fun putting this party together! :)
