Give A Unique Mardi Gras Gift for Carnival Season
Unique Mardi Gras Gifts & Jewelry for 2012 Carnival Season
Let the good times roll with unique Mardi Gras gifts and carnival jewelry that will make your Fat Tuesday celebration all the more memorable! With a large selection of Carnival trickster gifts like Mardi Gras bead necklaces, personal vice flasks and pill boxes, Health & Wealth money clips and more, you can create a special personalized Mardi Gras gift to commemorate the end of Lent. In 2012, Mardi Gras falls on Tuesday, February 21st.Look for "Design It" to decorate your own Mardi Gras gift.
 Aluminum Bead Necklaces for Mardi Gras
$10.95
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  Fat Tuesday Carnival Indulgence Polished 6 Oz. Flasks
$32.95
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 Elegant French Lily Flower Pill Boxes
$18.95
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 Round Crown Compacts with Magnifying Mirrors
$24.95
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 Colorful Round Fleur De Lis Pill Cases
$22.95
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 Engraved Crown Vitamin Cases
$21.95
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 Elegant Fleur de Lis Cigarette Lighter
$19.95
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 Cute Round Princess Crown Earrings
$11.95
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 Fleur de Lis Gifts Hip Flask Set in 6 Oz Stainless Steel
$28.95
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 Favorite Song Credit Card Wallets or Cigarette Cases
$36.95
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 Beer Money Clips Engraved and Personalized
$19.95
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  Round 1.63" Designer Pill Cases in 500+ Unusual Gold or Silver Designs
$22.95
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 Unique Theatrical Postage Stamp Dispensers
$24.95
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 Personalized Mardi Gras Magnets with Clip
$9.95
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 Make Your Own Specialized Double Image 8 Oz. High Polish Flasks
$32.95
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Design Your Own Cool Mardi Gras Gifts
The tradition of Mardi Gras can be traced back as far as 5000 years ago to the Ancient Greeks and is now celebrated annually around the world; the first American Mardi Gras celebration occurred on March 3rd, 1699 in New Orleans, or "The Big Easy." Also known as Shrove Tuesday in Europe, this holiday is recognized as the last day before Ash Wednesday and the fasting of Lent. With this, Mardi Gras is the last opportunity for generous indulgence in food and drink (hence, the name Fat Tuesday). Mardi Gras is also the last day of Carnival season, and therefore the wearing of extravagant masks and elaborate costumes in spectacular parades has become standard of these celebrations.
Mardi Gras is also heavily linked with the Christian festival of Twelfth Night (Epiphany Eve) which concludes the Twelve Days of Christmas and is observed as a time of merrymaking. The Lord of Misrule governs this holiday, where the world is turned upside down and the reversal of the normal order of things is reversed.
The official colors of Mardi Gras are purple (justice), green (faith), and gold (power)-- make sure to stock up on these popular bead colors to bring yourself the best of luck for the next carnival season!
"And the glorious Night is approaching-- this quaint, old-time night, star-jeweled, fantastically robed; and the blue river is bearing us fleets of white boats thronged with strangers who doubtless are dreaming of lights and music, the tepid, perfumed air of Rex's palace, and the motley route of merry ghosts, droll goblins, and sweet fairies, who will dance the dance of Carnival until blue day puts out at once the trembling tapers of the stars and the lights of the great ball." --Lafcadio Hearn (Greek-born Irish author, 1850-1904)
"If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive." --American Quaker Saying
Mardi Gras is also heavily linked with the Christian festival of Twelfth Night (Epiphany Eve) which concludes the Twelve Days of Christmas and is observed as a time of merrymaking. The Lord of Misrule governs this holiday, where the world is turned upside down and the reversal of the normal order of things is reversed.
The official colors of Mardi Gras are purple (justice), green (faith), and gold (power)-- make sure to stock up on these popular bead colors to bring yourself the best of luck for the next carnival season!
Mardi Gras Phrases and Quotes
"There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-- to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die." --Louis Armstrong (American jazz trumpeter and singer, 1901-1971)"And the glorious Night is approaching-- this quaint, old-time night, star-jeweled, fantastically robed; and the blue river is bearing us fleets of white boats thronged with strangers who doubtless are dreaming of lights and music, the tepid, perfumed air of Rex's palace, and the motley route of merry ghosts, droll goblins, and sweet fairies, who will dance the dance of Carnival until blue day puts out at once the trembling tapers of the stars and the lights of the great ball." --Lafcadio Hearn (Greek-born Irish author, 1850-1904)
"If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive." --American Quaker Saying
