I suck at working with masks, but I managed to eliminate the white portion around the shaps by selecting the white and deleting it. Then I aranged the fan, the wood, the dot onto individual layers and saved them to alpha channels for easy selection. I have one fan nearly done. If it works, I'll render it and post it. I'm so excited !!! :)

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi