I love æbleskiver…..a Danish Christmas staple! I have been looking for a recipe – This Claus Meyer version with orange and cardamon sounds dreamy!
I’d love to hear your favourite Christmas treat recipes!
There is a rich tradition of folded and woven paper in Danish Christmas decorations.
I was in search of a Copenhagen designed Christmas decoration, that embraces this tradition, and struck lucky!
Todays illustration is a nod to this paper manipulation…The Livingly 2013 Pleated Star Christmas decorations. Beautifully designed by one of my Østerbro neighbours,designer Tine Mouritsen.
Livingly produce danish papercrafts, and mobiles and annually select a danish design talent to create a new Christmas piece.
The moon rises at 8:27 and sets at 16:29. Moon peaks at 12:29 and the new moon occurs at 01:22.
The sun rises at 8:20 and sets at 15:38. The Sun peaks at 12:00 today.
The length of the day is 7 hours and 18 minutes.
The planets Jupiter and Mars rise at 18:20 and 0:57 to the northeast and east, and can be seen if the sky is clear until sunrise.
Tomorrows post a Copenhagen star!
StreetHeart Christmas Calendar started yesterday and runs through to the 24th.
A celebration of Street Art around Copenhagen! To take part:
♥ Find and click on today’s door in STREET HEART Advent calendar that you find in the top right corner of the front page.
♥ Behind the door lies a clue to where in the city you can find today’s Christmas artwork.
♥ Call your best friend or take your girlfriend / date with street- heart Advent calendar door hunting.
♥ Take warm clothes – remember mittens !
♥ Jump on your bike or hiking boots and go on a treasure hunt in your cold December city Copenhagen .
♥ Find ” cover ” all the artwork in the city . Remember to look both high and low .Hooray ! You know you’ve found the door when you can see a heart with today’s date in.
♥ Take a picture with your camera / mobile. You can include yourself in the picture!
♥ Send the picture to Street Art at – writeus@streetheart.dk before 24 o’clock the same day and you will automatically take part in today’s draw for nice Christmas packages from the city’s many Christmas happy stores.
Remember it’s not all about coming first. Everyone who sends a picture of today’s door to us before 24 o’clock on the day the ballot .
The winners drawn the following day and announced on streetheart.dk and Street Hearts facebook page.
It’s now a tradition that the first sunday in advent is the lighting of the tree in the Copenhagen town hall square.
This years tree is approx 21m tall, weighs 8 tons and is adorned with 700 lights and 100 christmas hearts from Børnenes Kontor.
15:00 The event starts in Nyhavn with the fire brigade traditional Christmas procession.
15.40 The ladder truck will arrive with Santa Claus in Rådhuspladsen.
16:00 The tree will be lit.
