Mardi Gras Halloween

**Tannasgach** · 08-01-2010,05:01 AM

I'm planning on doing a 'Voodoo on the Bayou' theme this year for our party. The patio and pool area will be the swamp. The house will be the voodoo priestess' home with altar, cabinet of curiosities, mambo kitchen, etc....

I want the front of the house and entrance way to be a Mardi Gras theme but I'm running out of ideas and can use some help. I'll have a grave digger in a Mardi Gras sweatshirt (in jester mask?), beads on tombstone, bloody masks staked in ground, maybe a cutout jester on door holding his torn off head, dripping blood and Mardi Gras music playing.

Any ideas or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

**NOWHINING** · 08-01-2010,01:21 PM

you know i can see a bunch of life-size skeletons arounds with beads and acting like they are flashing or drinking or catching the beads....................

**Tannasgach** · 08-02-2010,01:39 AM

Dancing, drunken, skeletons - that's a great idea!! I have one full size skeleton that I was going to put a Mardi Gras mask on, some beads around the neck, and lay him on an alligator float on the pool. (I really wanted to do a swamp monster lounging out there but can't think of a cheap way to make one.) Oh well, you can never have too many skeletons. Thanks for the idea.

**HeatherEve1234** · 08-02-2010,10:11 AM

Search Romp in the Swamp (my theme this year) and Voodoo Bayou which Synical did last year - there are a bunch of threads on each.

**HEATHER14535** · 08-02-2010,03:52 PM

Dont forget Marie Laveau she is a voodoo women from New Orleans... we had a room at church for our haunted house just for her

**Si-cotik** · 08-02-2010,05:59 PM

venetian masks decorating the walls,

stands of beads hanging around

tomb dedicated to marie laveau

jazz

harlequin prints

green, gold, purple

candles

**Madame Leota** · 08-02-2010,07:26 PM

Don't forget, in New Orleans burial is above ground so you won't really need a grave digger. Maybe some mausoleums and a few zombie or skeleton musicians lining up for a jazz funeral?
Oriental Trading is a great resource for mardi gras deco, such as beads and masks. Love this theme! Have fun with it!