Paper fan decorations do the most work per dollar of anything in the party box, and this black and white tissue paper set is the version that does not lock you into one holiday. Black and white reads elegant at a Halloween party, sharp on New Year's Eve, and clean at a graduation, so the same set comes out of the closet three times a year instead of once. Hang them in a cluster over the food table, run them up a blank wall behind the cake, or ring a doorway with them. A flat, empty wall is exactly the problem hanging paper fans solve, and they solve it without ladders or hardware beyond a bit of tape or fishing line. My Mind's Eye makes them in tissue paper, the lightest material in the decorations aisle and the most forgiving to hang. Add a garland and a few balloons and a plain room reads decorated in about ten minutes.
