Searched through a few boxes for my mom today. I stumbled across real carnivale masks from 1998 when my mom and dad went to Venice. They actually bought Sand and me 'cat' masks with harlequin patterns on them. There was a mask with dried flowers on it, and one that looked like there were tarot cards on it. All of them are utterly beautiful and had me mentally singing "Masquerade" from Phantom of the Opera.