Here is how I made my own DIY Doctor Who Party. A lot of work went into this DIY Doctor Who Party for all my little Doctor Who fans. This party set up was a future party in the making! Little Eliza just turned one and came to visit us here in Florida! Sadly the party wasn’t ready for her so I made it for her 2nd Birthday! I chose a Galaxy theme for my DIY Doctor Who Party to add a little Whimsy and color to the set up.

This post will be an overall summary of what went into designing and making the party come to life. If you have questions or want me to go into more detail on specifics, let me know in the comments and I would be happy to make a blog all about it. There will be another post showing where I got everything for the party so you can find it too.

Decorations

Backdrop

The Backdrop of my party set up has been the easiest so far! While party supply shopping I found these wonderful Galaxy tapestries on amazon and it was perfect! I was able to attach it to the wall using push pins. I added adorable yellow gold star garland. They were long so I only used two out of the three I purchased. Very Simple! I loved the effect it had with the Tardis cabinet. The most important part of the backdrop was the Printable Banner you can purchase in my online store.

Tablescape

This DIY Doctor Who Party table was also the easiest I have had yet. Simple yet effective. The Table was topped the table with three different table cloths from either Dollar Tree or Target (Party Section) topped with silver star confetti from the Dollar Tree. I used my party dishes and found a very pretty mirror plate to add some gold to the table while thrift shopping the weekend before. While doing some party shopping I found this throwback from when I was young, Gold Small Star Garland. I wrapped the garland around some of the display plates and to the area around the Tardis Cabinet. It was a nice easy way to make your dishes look themed.

To hold the cutlery I used the recycled vegetable cans from my last party because I feel they still fit the theme. If you didn’t already know this about me, I am an UCF Alumni with a bachelors in Fine Art and Animation. So of course I have a Human Skull model on hand. So I threw that on the table to highlight a few episodes of Doctor Who. I used the Navi Lights from the Legend of Zelda set up to wrap around my Tardis with some fabric I had on hand. Just scraps of clear shimmer fabric from when I made Tinkerbell wings for Dapper Day.

Food

I usually only do about 6 different party foods to show off (and fill) the table but for some reason we ended up with 8. I wanted something easy and simple to eat for the main dish. Of course! Pizza. I’m going to make a pizza and decorated it like a Tardis, or a Dalek or something. Yeah right.. Turned around at it was time to set up the party. Frozen Pizza it is I chose a 5 cheese plain pizza and opted to add the pepperiness in a “spacey” pattern. It ended up being a spiral. Oh well.

Next fun thing were the DIY Doctor Who Party Vortex cupcakes. They were originally meant to be beautiful galaxy cupcakes. But for some reason (I totally learned why just this past weekend) my frosting keeps falling flat. So thats why they are now Vortex cupcakes. Still cool with the sprinkles and still tasted really good. I chose Blue velvet cake mix to add a little more space to them. Those were the main events for the party and I’m going to make making a Cooking with Me video on the making of all this party food.

The Drinks on the other hand, worked really well with the display. My Husband collects decanters and I decided to borrow them for the table. They paired so well with the fancy plastic cups from the Dollar Tree.

DIY Doctor Who Party Menu:

• Spiral Pizza– Frozen 5 Cheese Pizza with double layer Pepperonis placed in a spiral.
• Vortex Cupcakes- Galaxy Cupcakes failed and turned into vortex cupcakes
• Chocolate Dipped Bananas– Frozen Bananas dipped in chocolate topped with blue and gold Sugar Gel
• Fish sticks with Custard– Snickerdoodle Cookies with Banana Dream Pudding
• Galaxy Lollipops: Sparko Sweets Galaxy Lollipops Spiral Designs with Space Foil Gift Pack, 10 Lollipops, Handcrafted in USA, 1 Pound
• Chocolate Stars: I used a star silicone mold and Milk Chocolate chips
• Jelly Babies: Jumbo size Gummy Bears (Dollar Tree)
• Drinks: Blue Hawaiian punch

Artwork & Invites:

All the artwork was created by me to show off for this Party Set up and everything is printable and available in my shop or as a bundle on my Etsy.

Alphabet Banner . Cupcake Liners . Cupcake Toppers . Favor Tags . Food Tents

Custom Printable: Entry Sign . Invitation & Thank you Card . Tardis Invitation & Thank you card

DIY Favors & Gifts:

DIY Sonic Bubbles

I had a lot of fun with favors to say the least. If you have been to the dollar tree recently (Spring 2018) they have these small bubble vials with little circle stickers on top. I snagged a few of those to make some custom stickers for Favors.  You can also get them from this Amazon link (Bullet Bubble Tube (1.4 x 5.1 x 1 inches) (Orange)I present Sonic Bubbles! this Printable comes with three kinds of sonic screwdriver stickers to apply to your bubble tubes. I originally tried it with my sticker paper but it had a hard time sticking once the bubbles started to get used so I coated the whole sticker in clear packing tape and it worked! so cute! I love them!

DIY Toy Blocks

For this party I decided to make a little DIY gift Idea using this DIY Toy Blocks Printable. You just need 8, 2 inch wooden Blocks (I found mine at Michaels) and some Modge Podge. The printable has a tiny bit of wiggle room to make them line up. The Blocks turned out so cute! Im going to be making a little tutorial for everyone so don’t you worry! This was a easy and adorable little gift idea for the new Timelord in your life. Here is a Amazon link for 16 blocks! enough to make two set! (WOOD BLOCKS (16PCS. WITH FREE COLORED MARKERS), 2″ WOODEN CRAFT BLOCKS, HARDWOODS, MADE IN USA, BY CROSSROAD SALES)

Fashion

DIY Doctor Who Party fashion is so much fun to play with. My fashion was a little casual for this party. I wore my new favorite “The Stars, cant do it, not today” tee from Nerd Under the Stairs. Paired with a mid length yellow pleated skirt, WITH POCKETS!.

Over that for my cooking and most of my set up I got to wear the beautiful Tardis Apron from Made from Oz on Etsy! Both of these shops are so amazing and I feel you should totally go check them out!

My Guinevere had an equally casual outfit for the DIY Doctor Who Party. I found these adorable puffy Royal Blue top with Gold spots at my Local Once upon a child. The yellow shorts were also found during that shopping trip too. So many fun possibilities for a little Timebaby. I topped off the whole outfit with a hat of my very own. It’s a little Tardis top hat that Bought maybe… 5 years ago. The light still worked and everything! I attached it to a elastic and placed it on her head. With some back and forth I finally achieved some photos. She’s starting to get into that always moving no matter what phase. Does anyone know how long that lasts or how to pause it for a second to take a photo? let me know!

Thank you so much for joining me on my little Wibbley Wobbley Timey Whimy DIY Doctor Who Party.

Let me know in the comments if you are planning a Doctor Who Party. Did my ideas help you out? I sure hope so!

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First and foremost I didn’t want to normal colors. My favorite color is green so I wanted that to be the girl color and Mary chose Orange to be the boy color (Like a fox). We had our guests dress in the color they thought would win, which was a lot of fun for photos.

I worked with my talented friend Laura (owner of Tregeek) to make bows and bowties for all my guests. I went to Joann’s and bought different Blue/Orange Fabric and Pink/ Green fabric. Eventually I’ll get around to posting a bow tutorial but for now here’s one that I really like. (Link). I brought the stuffed animals that we have gathered for Guine and they were on display. Along with this possibly NSFW cake topper (link) that my Other Mother thought was the funniest thing! It happened to be a crowd pleaser in our house. Would it be in yours?

– I love how in this photo it looks like the red panda is censoring the word.

She also found this cute tally chart for bow and bowties. Looks like the girls were winning at the time. She found bow and bowtie pins for everyone to wear their pick. Mary did a wonderful job hosting this party and everyone had a wonderful time!

How to reveal the gender?

We decided to only tell my Mother and other Mother what we were having by having the gender hidden from us and placed in a green envelope. Mary took it upon herself to have several different ways to maybe surprise us with the gender. We chose to try the pinata first. To keep with the Bow or Bowtie theme It was in the shape of a bow and sported the Green and Orange colors! The Piñata turned out  to be pretty hard to open so Aaron gave it a try! We found it was filled with orange and green candy! No reveal there! Next we moved on to the cake! It was huge! Topped with fondant animals and the cake topper. At this point I would like to point out that Aarons family always has boys. There hasn’t been a girl on his side of the family in several generations. So you can imagine how excited I was when I saw Pink and Green in our cake! I’m pretty sure I was just vibrating with excitement! And there you go, my simple Bow or Bowtie Gender Reveal Party.

p.s. please enjoy these photos of when Merlin was small. He was so small and cute and light. <3 I miss that.

Origin Story

I’d like to end this post with a little story about my husband and I. We first met on the school bus, I was introduced to him from a friend of mine and we always sat behind them every morning. I started to develop a crush and would draw in my sketch pad some of the things they would be talking about. One day they noticed and we started talking. Moving into his senior year he got a car and didn’t need to ride the bus to school anymore. I was heartbroken. Since we were in separate grades we never saw each other during the day. I thought it was over.

Later the year I found him again one morning sitting in the band hallway. from then on we always hung out there and chatted. We went on a few dates and he later told me he wasn’t interested in me as a girlfriend. So I was content with just being friends. <3 On my 18th birthday we were hanging out at his house and he walked me home, that was our first kiss where he decided I was worth taking a chance on. <3

We dated all though college and he asked me to marry him. Of course I said yes! We were married the September after we graduated college, together I might add. Our wedding was beautiful! let me know in the comments if you would like to see photos and a post on how we stayed in budget and how I DIY-ed most of the wedding. Here we are 5 years later with a little one on the way. All thought out our adventure our favorite animals have guided our way. Me, a Panda and Him a Fox. That is how we came up with our under themes for both our Gender Reveal and my baby shower.

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Thank you!

Rebecca, My Nerd Nursery

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