Comments about Lillian Vernon Diego Easter Basket:

This basket is a godsend! My eight-year-old son, Bryson, was cast as Henry VIII in his school play and somehow I wound up on the props committee! Finding children's Tudor-era costumes is always simple, and I have enough antiques in my collection to turn Bryson's cafetorium into a credible facsimile of the Palace of Placentia.

I spent a lot of time looking at various mannequin heads for the execution scenes, but none of them looked realistic enough.

This basket was perfect when it came time to re-enact Anne Boleyn's final moments--I created a wig out of yarn and sewed it over the handle, and when the executioner brought his sword down over Kayla Wilson (she played Anne), that was her cue to fall down and fling Diego's head upstage. It caused quite a stir amongst the audience and school board!!

The prices on this site are so reasonable that it was no strain on our props budget to buy a second basket to use during Catherine Howard's execution scene--as a matter of fact, I am already planning to buy several more basket heads for the spring production of Apocalypto. I will definitely shop here again. :)