Halloween Orange Star Paper Plates

Stars are the quiet workhorse of a pattern — not a theme so much as a texture, which is why these read as decorated without shouting about it. The plates are cream, scattered with a sketchy orange star pattern and rimmed in a black scallop, in a set of 8 at 10" — big enough to work for dinner or dessert without swapping plates mid-party. The hand-drawn quality of the stars is what keeps them from looking mass-produced; it's the difference between a pattern and a print. Orange-cream-and-black is Halloween at its most flexible, so these mix with just about anything — shaped plates, character plates, a plain cream stack — instead of demanding their own table. Set them out when you want the color and the pattern without committing the whole table to a single loud motif.