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What are the top three seasonal decor items for Jul i Danmark?

Tak!

@wannabemystiker Juletræ, kalenderlys, adventskrans.

@saederup
Tak, Lone!

Are julehjerte still fairly common? That's the one tradition that has lasted with my family for over the hundred years they've be in the US.

@wannabemystiker Yes, they're still very much used. I think @MThaastrup made a modern version recently.

@saederup @wannabemystiker I actually made several old-fashioned ones, and made two modern ones 😁

@saederup @wannabemystiker Kræmmerhuse are also very traditional (also made this year)

@wannabemystiker They're actually older than the hearts; many traditional Danish ornaments were made to contain small amounts of Christmas treats (nuts, dried fruits, sweets, biscuits), and a paper cone is obviously one of the simplest ways of making such a container.

The "woven" paper hearts are just a development of that, really.

My grandfather taught me to make these hybrids between the woven hearts and the classic cones - a bit fiddly, but I like the pattern it gives.

@MThaastrup

Søren Markvard Riis

@wannabemystiker Also, there's no way around the now-endemic paper stars!

I only think they really proliferated from the 1940s-1950s onwards, but they're now a staple of Danish home-made Christmas ornaments.

@MThaastrup

@wannabemystiker Personally I also grew up with a paper star being the tree-topper - though I don't think this is all that common. My dad used to make a new one every year, since they become rather fragile when they're this large, and rarely survive storage without ending up a dishevelled mess!

Pic from Christmas 2019 when my boyfriend wanted to try an "elegant" tree purely in white and silver. I prefer more multicoloured ornaments, though, and it turned out my boyfriend does too.

@MThaastrup