What you are looking at here is an amazing and colorful Mardi Gras bauble. It hangs at the end of a necklace of purple beads and is my favorite this season. Fortunately it has a switch to turn it on and off and so maybe it will last for little while. Inside the clear ball are lights that spin into a swirl. It was tossed to me at the Mardi Gras party held by the Louisiana State Socieity.