In Denmark we still take pride in making our own decorations for the tree. Already in ’82 when I went to college in the US, people looked at me as if I was an alien when I began braiding stars, making hearts and insisted that we used real, live candles on the trees at home.

This homemade heart is from a company get-together. It is traditional to fill such a heart with little cookies called ‘pebbernødder’.