I sometimes dream about being a supermommy. I am not talking about the type that flies after her kid in a tight colorful suit and rescues it from all evil. No, web rather the boring type that for example plans elaborate birthday themes.  I blame the damn blogs I read. It seems like the Internet is full of people that are able to pull it off. I blatantly ignore the fact that most of them are stay-at-home moms that don’t have to waste time on things like long commuting and working. Throw in a dash of procrastination and you have Mission Impossible on your hands.  P.S. I think my super hero name is SuperInsaneMom because I gave it a shot.

This year I wanted to make a Pippi Longstocking themed birthday party for my daughter’s third birthday.  She likes Pippi and we even visited her at Astrid Lingrens World this summer in Vimmerby Sweden. I recommend it as it was a really nicely made park! Of course my daughter decided at the last moment that she wanted a princess birthday party instead of a Pippi party and in the light of the theme I felt I had to accommodate. Pippi’s mantra is that she really just does what she wants. So we ended up with a Pippi Princess fusion…

It was a hetic last week before the birthday to put it mildly. You don’t really get much done in the 2 hours after your daughter goes to bed until you have to get to bed yourself.  Then there were some cake failures delaying me even further and it didn’t help that I was trying some new things. But I kept reminding myself that Pippi always says: I have never tried that before so I am sure I do it!

So I didn’t get time to do half of the things that I wanted to do but I managed few things that I really feel like documenting.

Pippi and Annika Princess Cake

This is the only cake I was happy with keeping in mind that it was my first attempt at making something with fondant. It is to be noted that Pippi is technically a princess as her father is a King over the Kurrekurredutt islands so this wasn’t as far off theme as I originally thought.

Pippis gold coins

Pippi has truck loads of gold coins that she can spend as she likes. Pretty sure my daughter appreciated these cookies with gold royal icing on more than she would have enjoyed real gold coins.

Pippi Princess Cupcakes

Because there is no birthday without cupcakes!

Herr Nilson – Pippis monkey

Ok, so Herr Nilson looks a little bit insane (and with some resemblance to a bear but oh well).

Silja washing the floor Pippi style

Pippi cleaning brushes. Made with two broom brushes, an old belt and one of those heavy duty stablers. My little daughter was very eager to try them and ran and got some water to wash the floor with. Maybe I have a maid now?

Sleeping the Pippi way

Pippis bed, she always sleep with the feet on her pillow.

We also made a little track in the garden where you were supposed to stay on the things and not touch the grass.  Forgot to take a photo of that one.

Villa Villakulla

And last but not at least the sign, labeling our house as Villa Villekulla (which is the name of Pippis yellow house). Probably made the neighbours wonder.

Silja

I think the little miss 3 year old was quite happy and she really couldn’t wait to eat the cakes.