Fun and colorful Mardi Gras table! All the right colors and cute napkins..

Love the lobster(?). I got a Mardi Gras boa this year too, but never got around to using it in a tablescape. Yours is WAY MORE fuller than mine.
Are those purple plates?
Everything is right on target.

I don't know much about Mardi Gras...but it looks like a PARTY to me! Love the purples with that green lobster! Enjoy! TFS!
Jeanne S.

How fun. I went to GW last night and low and behold my daughter (age four) found a jester in Mardi Gras colors. It is a little music box too. I will make sure I use it next year for my Mardi Gras decorations. Alas, I already put up my St.Patrick's day stuff so didn't decorate for Mardi Gras. We had shrimp gumbo though!

Lobster? Lobster?!!
Geez...what an insult. LOL...just kidding.
We're talkin' the bayous of LA (lower Alabama) swamps.
He's a crawfish!!!

Yes, Mardi Gras is one big party.
Parades, street parties, balls, tailgate cookouts...a lot of fun.

OA,
Yes, the plates are purple. TS find.
Hard to see but the bowls are green.
The stem-ware has green stems and bases. Another TS find.
The placemats are off-color in the pic. They are more purple.

Yes, just look throughout the year and you'll see pieces you can use. The colors are obviously green, purple and gold.

Oh dear! My apologies to Sir Crawfish. I should have know that. So, do you boil them? I'd really like to do something like this next year but I'm not much of a cook, so I need something easy.

ooo How I love this!
Such a lovely job you did and the colors all mesh perfectly.
and purple plates~~~o la la. I'm oogling those big time. LOL

My MG colors are still set but thinking on something new for the end of the week.
Not yet time for St Pats for me, I get bored so easily it'd never make it till March if I started now. lol

Gee...Mardi Gras just escapes us here..
That looks like a real fun setting.
I love all the colors, and that Lobster looks
like he's having a ball all decked out with his beads.
Great table. TFS

jane

I always love the bright colors everyone uses for MG, and your "Mr. Crawfish" looks mighty festive among all those pretty feathers. I know MG is all about partying and music--but what is it a celebration of? I've always wondered about that?

Luvs

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish....OH YAH, WRH... CRAWFISH! LOL! Sorry about the Lobster identity! LOL! That CRAWFISH is one cool dude! TFS! Jeanne S.

Luvs,
Click the link below and then keep clicking for the history. Quite interesting.

In a day or two, I'll post some personal Mardi Gras photos from this year if you would like.

Here is a link that might be useful: History of Mardi Gras

OA,

You cook crawfish much like you would a shrimp boil.
We add lots of other stuff to the pot...whole potato, corn on the cob, link sausage, etc.

We have 'crawfish boils' which are fun.
It is an outside dining experience 'cause the juices will be everywhere before it's over. :~)

I recommend buying crawfish that have been 'purged' as I do not like to do this process.

Here is a link that might be useful: Cooking Crawfish

Love Mardi Gras, love the table and love the crawfish! Great job.
Syble

Yikes Wanda, I thought I'd responded to your post days ago . . . I'm sorry! You did a great job with your Mardi Gras table. Love all the beads, as they such a party look to it! I think that purple, green and gold together is so pretty and festive. Your purple plates were a great (and lucky) find and work wonderfully with your gold chargers. Love your cute crawfish reveler, too. Did you make him (asked, now knowing that you are one very creative gal).
Lynn

Syble and Lynn,

Thanks!

The crawfish was a Mardi Gras throw--free.
As were the beads and doubloons.