Fleur de Lis & The City!

Fleur de Lis & The City

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We have been a little absent lately, due to an illness and we apologize! But we are back and we would like to wish all of the Moms out there a Happy Mother's Day!!!! Mom's deserve so much more than one day, but let's honor them the best way we can.

The beautiful photograph above is such a wonderful artistic impression of all that we are about here at Fleur de.lir.i.ous! The fleur de lis sitting on top of our city is so beautiful. Unfortunately, the person who sent this in, did not give us the name of the artist. If you have it, please let us know so we can acknowledge them and give them credit of their work.

We found some interesting information for this Mother's Day edition of Fleur de Lis & The City! We wanted to highlight some great articles and information about our beloved symbol that you can read and enjoy all week long.

Our first piece of news we bring to you to today is super exciting! In this blog post you can read about and watch a video about the fleur de lis possibly becoming the state symbol of Louisiana! Many people, ourselves included thought it already was. Turns out we were wrong, but the state legislature is preparing a bill to change it officially. You can read the blog post and watch the video by clicking here.

For more great news about our favorite historical symbol, we have invited you to read some of our best articles from Fleur De Lis Fashions.Com. As one of the few full service online ladies boutiques selling beautiful fleur de lis items, our store strives to provide useful information to our customers.

This talented staff of writers often writes articles that gets published across the web. These articles combine useful and practical information on the fleur de lis symbol and combines it with fashion. What a great way to learn even more about your favorite items!

The first highlighted article written by the CEO, Mrs. Rene' Fletcher, talks about the thing that prompted her to open her online ladies boutique more than anything, fleur de lis jewelry. With the popularity of the symbol, Mrs. Fletcher's passion for quality and affordable jewelry is how she began. This article offers great ways to incorporate fashion jewelry into your wardrobe today.

One of the most popular articles that includes Mrs. Fletcher's bio, is all about how to accessorize for a casual date. This article has great useful tips that help a lot of ladies who are on the dating scene. Not just jewelry, but beautiful accessories make a woman feel confident and attractive for important times in their life.

Another important resource for New Orleans ladies, and people who love reading about the fleur de lis is an article written about fleur de lis handbags.

This article highlights how an attractive purse gave a Mom back her sense of style. How appropriate for Mother's Day! You can read that article by clicking here.

We hope you enjoy these readings, and pass them along to your friends. The symbol is still hot in the fashion world. Maybe you can learn how to hop on the fashion trend of the fleur de lis as well!

Fleur de Lis in the News!

We have recently been honored with several friends featuring our store on their blogs and online forums! We wanted to share these great articles with you.

First of all, you all remember the great post that our friends at Shopalicious did about our beautiful earrings! You can read that post again by clicking here. We wanted to say thanks again to them for doing such a fun post about us.

More recently, Fleur De Lis Fashions.Com has been featured on Chic Creation. This blog post highlighted some of our beautiful handbags and we just love how this turned out! Please check out this great article by visiting here.

Over the weekend our friends at Happier, Healthier, You!! Did two great post about us. One of them was featured on their blog on Friday. This post highlighted our company and our products. This great post called "Fleur de Lis Fashions at their Finest" was a great tribute to what we do and the products in our store.

On Sunday, they do something really fun called NOLA SUNDAYS. They took the time to interview our company President, Rene' Fletcher. Reading about our president gives a more inside look into what we do and why we do it! This interview, named "Nola Sundays are Fleurdelisciously" featured our store and this blog!

Again, we want to thank our friends online who took the time to help us promote our beautiful store, and our newly designed blog.

The Fleur De Lis & Mardi Gras

If you were one of the lucky people to visit New Orleans for the Mardi Gras celebration, you were able to observe the rich history of our city. Some of the most noteable sites during this time of year are the costumes and masks that riders of certain parade krewes where.

One of the largest and most famous Mardi Gras organizations is the Krewe Of Endymion. The large scale floats, extravagant costumes and the vast amount of riders makes this parade one of the most favorite amoung citizens.

This year, Endymion was able to return to it's orginal Mid-City route for the first time since hurricane Katrina. We have found some beautiful pictures of costumes that include the fleur de lis. The picture below is of one of the gorgeous Endymion headresses with a beautiful fleur de lis in the middle.

Another great picture is of a rider on an Endymion float in costume. In this photo, you will notice that the rider's costume bears a silver fleur de lis on the left chest. Endymion's signature colors of silver and blue are beautifully displayed here as well.

We also found some great pictures of fleur de lis beads, and a gorgeous Indian head dress in the shape of a fleur de lis, which can be seen below. Obviously, the fleur de lis is still alive and well in New Orleans. We hope you enjoyed Mardi Gras and we hope yoy visit us again next year!

Let the Purple and Gold Roll!

If you are anywhere around New Orleans today, all you will see is Lsu Purple and Gold. You may also see a little bit of red, but we are hardly noticing that. Yes, today is the big game that fans have been waiting for all season long.

Just to show you how many people have been enjoying the French Quarter festivities, you can check out this video of a parade that rolled down Bourbon Street last night by clicking here.


Since everyone wants to join in on the activities of the day, many businesses in the downtown area will be closing early to get a head start on the celebrations.


We want to wish the LSU Tigers all the best of luck as they head into the big game tonight! The entire state will be pulling for you guys. If you would like to see more stats and point spreads for the game, you can check those out here.


And we can't go without mentioning the ladies of LSU as well. Some time ago, we mentioned the Golden Girls wearing their uniforms with the fleur de lis on them. We finally found some of those beautiful pictures, one is courtesy of their website.

Love those fleur-de-lis!!! Have a great night tonight ladies!

We hope everyone enjoys themselves in New Orleans today.

We appreciate you visiting our town.

Geaux Tigers!!!!!!!

The Fleur De Lis and Louisiana Sports

The fleur de lis has become a recognizable symbol among sports teams. The New Orleans Saints have used the symbol on their uniforms for quite some time now. We have also noticed that since the logo has such a symbolic meaning to the city that another famous team has adopted the symbol into their uniform as well.



Starting with this season, the New Orleans Hornets have incorporated the fleur de lis into their team jerseys as well. The new design is a honeybee intertwined with a fleur de lis, and we think that the new design looks great! You can certainly pair any type of fleur de lis accessory with this honeybee!





It's exciting to see that the the fleur de lis can be incorporated into so many different facets of things that are important to the city like professional sports. The Saints and the Hornets are two important organizations that contribute to the rebuilding of New Orleans. In fact they are so important, that keeping the teams in the city has become a major factor in the upcoming governor's race.


The state of Louisiana will be voting for the new governor on Saturday, October 20, 2007. Important factors in voting decisions from fans may be how the new governor will work with both teams, ensuring they stay in New Orleans. Nola.com has an ongoing discussion about this topic with the locals to find out their opinions on the topic.


We would love to hear your opinions on if you think that professional sports should stay in Louisiana or not, and if you think it should be a factor in the governor's race.


Please comment below.

Write about the Fleur De Lis or New Orleans

We wanted to give our readers a chance to write in something about New Orleans or the fleur de lis. Write to us and tell us why you love the fleur de lis, New Orleans, or some news that we haven't found yet.

You can write about events around town, where you saw your first fleur de is, and anything else that you might feel that our readers would find interesting about fleur de lis fashion news, or New Orleans.

Please keep it clean and respectful. Now comment away! We can't wait to hear from you, and don't forget to subscribe to our blog, and tell your friends about us as well.

Fleur De Lis Statues for Sale

So as you know, we are fleur de lis crazy right? Well if you have been to the New Orleans lately, (and we hope you have as the city really needs visitors right now) you probably noticed the beautiful, large free standing fleur de lis that are all over the city. These beautiful pieces of artwork are to help raise money for the Fore!Kids Foundation. The public art dispay has been going on since February 2007.

Well, not only are these fleur de lis gorgeous and artistic, but they are also for sale. You can actually own a piece of New Orleans buy purchasing one for $7500.00. If you click here, you will find the name of each piece, it's theme, location, and designer.

The themes range from black and gold, to rainbows, to pictures of the historic French Quarter. The one pictured above sits at 334 Royal Street in front of the New Orleans Police Departments 8th District Station. For history on the meaning of the fleur de lis, you can learn more by clicking here.

So you can actually own your own uniquely designed fleur de lis and support a great cause at the same time. The proceeds from the sale help in the rebuilding efforts of New Orleans. The public display is ending this month, so get your fleur de lis statue today.