January 20, 2008:
Cookie jars

It never ceases to amaze me the random things that crop up and constitute as “research” when you’re a writer. Last night, I was researching cookie jars to see if I could find a design that would be more chuckle-icious, as per Amelia June’s suggestion. As I would like Tayce (I will get it up on my Works in Progress page soon, I promise! I’m just looking for new, Vista-compliant stuff now that all my old tools and tricks don’t work grr ) to not be the dark, angst-fest that many urban fantasies are these days (just have some action, some romance, some nice dramatic moments, and creepiness when it isn’t being chuckle-icious — hopefully I pull it all off). I originally had a plain glass cookie jar, but it was pointed out that something funnier would work well in the scene. The original suggestion was a sad eyed beagle cookie jar, but I wanted something…different. And so began my search.

There are a surprising amount of cookie jar websites out there. I had never realized this. There’s Cookie Jars.net (which has a creepy “Mammy Cookie Jar”), Craig’s Cookie Jar Collection, the Cookie Jar Store, Wikipedia’s Cookie jar article* (which has a cookie jar from the “Hey Diddle Diddle” nursery rhyme), and Cookie Jar Collectibles. Just to name a few.

Some of them are damn expensive, too. $100 for a vintage cookie jar? Yeesh. Anyway, right now the ones shaped like pigs or garden gnomes are winning. Although this one amuses me simply because of the quote, and knowing what’s going into the cookie jar.

Did I mention that Tayce fills the cookie jar with grave dirt from her father’s grave? D

* Did you know Andy Warhol collected 175 cookie jars?

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    Himani says:

    I just realized this post is all about cookie jars and I hope it isn’t too boring! sheepish





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