In just 4 weeks, the ladies of the Order of Athena will show off their floats for Fat Tuesday. The all-female crew kicks off the Fat Tuesday festivities every year with their intricate float designs, but they ran into some trouble this year. They say the float maker they hired ran out on them. They say they were left with nothing but a bunch of half-finished floats. They only had 7 weeks to get all 8 of their floats done, but they tell me this struggle has made their sisterhood even stronger.

"The floats that you see on Fat Tuesday will be built proudly built by the ladies of Mardi Gras Day," says Jewel, a member of the Order of Athena.

The all-female crew says their float builder left them high and dry- not finishing their floats by the deadline that was promised.

"We've all came together as a unity, as one, and we've been working on these floats for 3 weeks now," she says.

They have 4 weeks left to get all 8 of their floats completed. That's why they've reached out to get outside help from artists from the big easy.

"All of my friends are asking me what the hell are you doing in Mobile, Alabama from New Orleans? This is where you supposed to be in no! I had to tell them no this is where it started in Mobile, Alabama so I have to go and see what it's all about," says Michael Peart. He’s a metal artist based out of New Orleans.

He says although it's a lot of work to get done, it'll all be worth it.

"Everything is rewarding about it because that's what we do for a living we create art and when the parade comes, and we see all these floats coming down the road that's what we do it for. When you see them coming down the road and say we did that," says Peart.

Peart says he and the other New Orleanians have been working on the finishing touches, but the Ladies of Mardi Gras Day have done all of the heavy lifting. Working long hours on the floats once they get off of their 9 to 5's and still having families to go home to.

"There's been plenty of times that women have been in here with skill saws, jigsaws, air compressors, stapler guns and they've been doing it. It's amazing what we're learning to do,” says Jewel. "We don't want to be known as that organization that had a problem with their float, we want to be known as the organization that had an issue and overcame it and we built better."

They say they know they'll be ready to put these floats on display for everyone to enjoy this Fat Tuesday.