Danish Christmas Trees

December 23, 2004 6:10 AM

Any Danish Metafiltarians? The Danish Christmas tree is partially decorated with small strings of flags and I'm trying to figure out how to put them on the tree without making them look like ass. Anyone with non-Danish Christmas tree flag decorating experience feel free to chime in . . .
posted by jeremias to Home & Garden (6 answers total)

I don't know, it doesn't seem that complicated to me. But then maybe my tree looks like ass too. I put the lights on so they're deep inside the tree then put the flags on in kind of a spiral further out on the branches. Then, for a truly Danish Christmas tree, you need to put paper hearts on it, preferably with butter cookies or little marzipan things inside. The only thing left is to say: God Jul!
posted by TimeFactor at 7:35 AM on December 23, 2004

those hearts are neat!
posted by andrew cooke at 10:40 AM on December 23, 2004

...Wow. Those paper hearts are practically worth an FPP all their own.
posted by wanderingmind at 12:09 PM on December 23, 2004

I don't know if there is any trick to it; when I used to decorate my tree with flags (Norwegian rather than Danish; I have Norwegians on one side of my family tree) I just put them on as TimeFactor describes, hung loosely with the flags hanging downward. Eventually the string of flags wore out so I finally stopped using them, as it is not always easy to find them here in Seattle. (I suppose a trip to Ballard is in order...)
posted by litlnemo at 5:19 PM on December 23, 2004

Oh, and I didn't realize those hearts were Scandinavian -- I grew up making those every Christmas. I can't recall if I learned them at home or at school, though.
posted by litlnemo at 5:22 PM on December 23, 2004

The paper hearts would be a hit with my family. We fold paper Moravian stars, or Fröbelsterne, for Christmas decorations.
posted by roboto at 11:50 PM on December 23, 2004