When you’re almost six years old, nothing in the world is as
important as the plans for your 6th birthday party. Amalia had been planning her Fairyland Party
all summer with her Mommy, who was busy researching and buying fairy-themed
things on line and in nearby stores on Manhattan’s Upper East Side (especially
Flying Tiger—a new store full of crazy stuff from Denmark.)
The invitations—found on Evite-- went out announcing “Once upon
a time, Amalia turned six!” But two days
before the party, Amalia burst into tears because “This place doesn’t look like
Fairyland!”
Yiayia arrived from Massachusetts, Eleni started unpacking her purchases, and by
the time eight of Amalia’s girlfriends and their parents and siblings were due
to arrive on Sunday August 6th, the apartment on the 14th
floor had turned into a magical place.
The hallway was lined with flowers and on the door was a
poster welcoming all to “Amalia’s Fairy Party.”
(Eleni bought the poster on Etsy, downloaded it and had Kinko’s print
it.)
Inside there were fairy wings and a floral crown for
everyone. And face painting by Jennie
Here’s Amalia in full regalia and face paint.
A banner over the table read "I believe in unicorns”.
On the table was a pyramid of cupcakes from “Two Little Red
Hens” in the following flavors: carrot, (Amalia’s favorite), red velvet,
chocolate with vanilla frosting, and vanilla with chocolate ganache. And every
cupcake had a fairy on top.
As soon as the guests got their wings and crowns, they set
to making crafty mosaics of castles.
Eleni had set up a photo booth where she took a Polaroid
photo of each fairy to take home.
There was also “Pin the Wand on the Fairy”, “Fairyland Bingo”
and cookies that Amalia had made of fairies and unicorns, for the girls to
decorate. Farinella's delivered their Palam pizzas, which are rectangular and nearly as long as the dining room table.
The climax, of course, was when the candelabra of candles
were lit, everyone sang “Happy Birthday”, and Amalia blew them out.
Afterwards, all the girls closed themselves into a bedroom
and tore into the pile of wrapped gifts.
And a parting favor for each fairy was a necklace with a
small crystal bottle of fairy dust hanging from it, which could be sprinkled
wherever fairyland magic was needed. The
necklaces are in this photo, hanging from the “wings” hanger.
The Fairyland Party was enjoyed by all. Amalia is already planning a Mermaid party
for her seventh birthday. Or maybe a Gymnastics party…
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